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A Trip To Japan Aids
Our Remembrances
GABRIEL LEVENSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
his is the year of golden an-
niversaries, the 50 years
since the occurrence of per-
haps the most significant
events of the 20th century — not
least of which was the atomic de-
struction of Hiroshima on Aug.
6, 1945, on a day which follows
the observance of Tisha B'Av on
Aug. 5.
Such are the vagaries of the lu-
nar calendar that the fixed date
of Aug. 6, Hiroshima Day, always
hovers within a week or 10 days
of the 9th of Av, when Tisha B'Av
is observed. It requires no great
stretch of the imagination to note
that both dates share the com-
monality of mourning — for
Jews, over the destruction of the
First and Second Temples; for the
Japanese, of Hiroshima, one of
their major cities.
On the same date every year,
I think of the tip I made to Japan
a decade ago to gather gather ma-
terial for a report on the tiny but
energetic Jewish community
there, a droplet of 200 or 300 per-
sons in an ocean of 125 million
Japanese.
That mission completed, I felt
it my responsibility, a part of my
American Jewish heritage, to
make the pilgrimage to Hiroshi-
ma, whose atomic incineration,
wrought in part by the research
of Jewish scientists, was an ac-
complishment about which they,
particularly, had agonized for the
remainder of their lives.
Years later, it was learned that
there had been hundreds of Jews
in Hiroshima until days before
the blast. They had been evacu-
ated, along with thousands of oth-
er refugees from combat zones in
mainland China because Hi-
roshima was then the site of an
important military installation,
"vulnerable," Japanese army in-
telligence felt, to sabotage by
"dangerous" foreigners.
The countryside between
Tokyo and Hiroshima, appears
to be organized with the same
discipline and frugality Hills and
meadows loom occasionally
through our windows, but for the
most part there is an unending,
flat landscape of houses and
apartment projects, factories and
refineries, playgrounds and junk-
yards. There are no unused
spaces: at the very edge of every
electronics plant, used-car lot or
shopping mall is the flooded area
of a rice paddy. If that grain is the
staple of Japan, there is not an
acre of land where it is not culti-
vated.
Just as the countryside bursts
with this sense of productivity,
Hiroshima itself vibrates with
seemingly unlimited energy. The
bomb that leveled a metropolis of
400,000 has left no visible blight.
You walk out of the bustling train
station (serving today's popula-
tion of close to 1 million) into an
enormous square. It teems with
pedestrians crossing over the
pavement on elevated foot-
bridges, with autos and trolley-
cars, fish and vegetable stalls,
pachinko (pinball) parlors and
tall office-buildings.
The Number 2 trolley goes
from the railroad terminal for the
15-minute ride to Peace Memor-
ial Park, epicenter of the 1945
bombing. Alighting at the park,