nagasaki-shi (japan)

Collection of essays that examine the controversy over the Smithsonian Institution's aborted 1995 exhibit which was to have featured the Enola Gay, the World War II plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, as the focus of an examination of the destructive use of atomic energy.

Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing.

Collection of photographs from the bombing of Nagasaki on August 10, 1945 taken by then unknown Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata.

On the final night of World War II with Japan, Emperor Hirohito had already finished the Imperial Rescript of surrender when a band of Japanese rebels burst into the Imperial Palace, commanded by War Minister Anami's elite staff. They had plotted a massive coup that aimed to destroy the surrender papers and issue orders to continue the war. If this rebellion had succeeded, the military would have proceeded with large-scale kamikaze attacks on allied forces. Meanwhile B-29B crewmen had received urgent orders to begin a bombing mission over Japan's sole remaining oil refinery north of Tokyo. The mission was successfully completed. A few hours later the emperor announced Japan's surrender over Japanese airwaves.

Profusely illustrated text recounts the events leading to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the capitulation of Japan in W.W. II.

A narrative describing the events surrounding the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945, the devastation and deaths that resulted from it, and the surrender that ended World War II.

Describes the events surrounding the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the devastating destruction of these cities, and the eventual Japanese surrender and end of World War II. Uses photographs to detail the events recorded in the book.

Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.