'Mokusatsu' and the Atomic Bomb
Japan, Potsdam and Hiroshima: Part I
This week’s post explores Japan’s disastrous response to the Potsdam Declaration, eighty years ago this week.
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It’s on my mind at the moment both because of the anniversary and because I was filming a few days ago at Hiroshima’s ‘Genbaku Dome’: the only building in the area to survive the blast when the atomic bomb exploded 600 metres above on the morning of 6th August 1945.
Above and below: Hiroshima’s Genbaku Dome, in 1945 and earlier this week.
The peace museum nearby was packed with tourists, stunned into a collective silence by what they saw there.
I’ll share some images from inside the museum next week, alongside Part II of this two-part essay. My thanks to
for hosting both.