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I am confronted immediately
with the bare, steel skeleton and
the shattered dome of a building
\ i) that declare starkly that here is
the actual bomb site. Of the acres
upon acres of rubble which once
lined both sides of the Ota River,
the municipal authorities have
left standing only this structure,
formerly Hiroshima's industrial
promotion hall.
The rest of the city — 92 per-
cent had been totally destroyed
or seriously damaged — has been
rebuilt, and the area around the
A-Dome (as the skeletal structure
has been renamed) has been cul-
tivated and landscaped with
lawns and flower-beds, walks and
terraces, and an extraordinary
display of modem sculpture de-
picting aspects of the bombing.
Most striking is the Memorial
Cenotaph designed by Kenzo
Tange, architect of Tokyo hotels,
in the very center of the peace
park. It has the saddle shape of
the prehistoric clay figure, hani-
wa, denoting the traditional
Japanese house of antiquity.
Within the cenotaph is a stone
chest containing the Books of the
Past, a registry of the names of
all the victims. On the chest is an
inscription: "Let all the souls here
rest in peace. For we shall not re-
peat this evil."
At the far end of the park is a
complex of buildings containing
displays and photographs of the
tragic events about which we
viewers need to be reminded, and
There are films
made almost
immediately after
the horror.
about which one or another group
of schoolchildren from all parts
of Japan will learn by personal
visits. There are thousands of
children in the park every day,
clusters of chubby, neatly
formed schoolkids, each group ac-
companied by a teacher holding
aloft a flag as a kind of rallying
point for those who might oth-
erwise stray or get lost in the
crowds.
The pictures are now familiar
to us: the shadow of a man for-
ever printed on a stone step,
charred lunchboxes, shards of a
flower vase. There are films, too,
made almost immediately after
the horror: improvised hospitals,
open woods, peeling skin, melted
fingers.
Some critics of the peace park
exhibits have called them "too
self-pitying," too much oriented
towards the sufferings of the
Japanese themselves, with no in-
dication of the historical context
within which the mass annihila-
tion occured. But here in the
darkened screening room, one is
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