Here’s an interesting landmark in Japan, the Atom Bomb Dome!
At the beginning of the Hiroshima
area economically, Hiroshima responded to the need for a central facility
through which to expand trade routes. Plans were drawn up for a commercial
exhibition hall on the banks of the Motoyasu River. Construction was completed
in April 1915, and the new building was named the Hiroshima Prefectural
Commercial Exhibition HMI. It was formally opened to the public in August that
year. In 1921 the name was changed to the Hiroshima Prefectural Products
Exhibition Hall, and again in 1933 to the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial
Promotion Hall. During the war, as Japan’s economic fortunes worsened, the hall
was commandeered for such governmental, quasi-governmental and rationing offices
as the Chugoku-Shikoku Public Works Office, the Hiroshima District Lumber
Control Corporation and others. |
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