![]() They were first-year students who had just entered Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Daiichi Junior High School. In the streets of Hiroshima early in the morning of August 6, 1945, there were children engaged in labor service under a blazing sky. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima deprived many children of their precious lives. In this special exhibition, portraits of victims and related materials will be displayed focusing on memoirs appearing in Lantern Floating, conveying the tragedy of the war and the atomic bombing, as well as wishes for peace. This collection is a detailed record of the processes from student mobilization to the end of the war, and includes memoirs of bereaved families and posthumous writings of the deceased students. In August 1957, which marks the 12th anniversary of their deaths, Lantern Floating, a collection of essays in memory of A-bomb victims, was issued by bereaved families. Especially, with most of its first- and second-year students having been mobilized, and 666 students having passed away, Hiroshima Municipal Daiichi Girls High School (commonly known as Ichijo, and today called Hiroshima Municipal Funairi High School) became the school which suffered the greatest sacrifice. Approximately 7,200 children fell victim to the bombing in Hiroshima: above all, students who were engaged in building demolition work outdoors near the hypocenter suffered serious damage. The students were mobilized for food production and munitions factories throughout the year. ![]() This exhibition will explore the reality of the atomic bombing from the perspective of the observatory staff through their personal accounts of the bombing.Īs the war situation worsened, classes for students, whose ages were the same as or older than present-day junior high school students, were canceled from April 1945. In order to pass on the lessons of this double disaster to future generations, the meteorological observatory staff members visited the area to conduct detailed interviews with survivors and compiled their findings into a valuable research report. In addition, Typhoon Makurazaki swept through Hiroshima just one month later, making the damage from the atomic bombing even more serious. At the Hiroshima Regional Meteorological Observatory, located approximately 3.7 km south of the hypocenter, the windows facing the hypocenter were shattered, and many of the staff members were seriously injured.Įven under such circumstances, three young staff members went to the center of the city to telegram the latest meteorological data to the Central Meteorological Observatory, believing that "those in charge of meteorological observations must continuously keep track of changes in weather events over time." What they found there, however, was a veritable hellscape. On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb inflicted enormous damage on the city of Hiroshima. ![]()
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