Hiroshima高英课件
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Hiroshima —the “Liveliest” City in Japan広島市Hiroshima, a city on southwestern Honshū Island, Japan, is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, at the head of Hiroshima Bay. The city was founded in 1594 on six islands in the Ōta River delta. Hiroshi ma grew rapidly as a castle town and commercial city, and after 1868 it was developed as a military center. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-1945), the first atomic bomb to be used against an enemy position was dropped on the city by the United States Army Air Forces. According to U.S. estimates, 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed or missing as a result of the initial bomb blast and many more were made homeless. (In 1940 the population of Hiroshima had been 343,698.) The blast also destroyed more than 10 sq km (4 sq mi) of the city, completely destroying 68 percent of Hiroshima's buildings; another 24 percent were damaged. Every August 6 since 1947, thousands participate in interfaith services in the Peace Memorial Park built on the site where the bomb exploded. In 1949 the Japanese government dedicated Hiroshima as an international shrine of peace. The memorial park was named a World Heritage Site in 1996.After the war, the city was largely rebuilt, and commercial activities were resumed. Machinery, automobiles, food processing, and the brewing of sake (日本米酒) are the main industries. The surrounding area, although mountainous, has fertile valleys where silk, rice, and wheat are produced. Population (2008) 1,149,478.The Hiroshima BombThe fir st atomic bomb, which was made of uranium and was nicknamed “Little Boy,” was dropped onHiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945 by the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay. It killed 70,000 peopleinstantly. Another 130,000 people later died from wounds or radiation sickness.An aerial photograph reveals the devastation inflicted on Hiroshima, Japan, by an atomic bomb that was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945. Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and 68 percent of the city was destroyed in the blast. The death toll eventually climbed to 200,000 due to radiation sickness.The Genbaku Dome, eerie wreckage of Hiroshima’s Industrial Promotion Hall, looms behind observers of an annual war memorial service at the Peace Memorial Park. The dome and the park memorialize the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on August 6, 1945, during World War II.1“Hiroshima! Everybody off!”That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster's uniform shouted, as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station. I did not understand what he was saying. First of all, because he was shouting in Japanese. And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say. The very act of stepping on this soil, in breathing this air of Hiroshima, was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I'd previously taken. Was I not at the scene of the crime?日本人称自己的国家为”Nippon”或”Nihon”。