By HAYASHI YANAGAWA/ Staff Writer
August 1, 2024 at 15:27 JST
The website “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” is now live and has been nominated for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program.
An English version is also available.
The archive contains 1,526 photographs and two videos. Photos were shot by 27 people and one Japanese organization between Aug. 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people, and December of the same year.
The images depict the aftermath of the bombings, showing damage dealt to cities and survivors hit with the blast, its rays and radiation.
The city government of Hiroshima, along with five media companies—The Asahi Shimbun, The Chugoku Shimbun, The Mainichi Newspapers, RCC Broadcasting Co. and Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK)—jointly applied for the UNESCO nomination.
Kyodo News, which owns and worked to preserve some of the materials, also participated in the website’s construction.
Last November, the central government decided to seek the Memory of the World designation for the digital time capsule.
Along with a search function, materials are categorized by region, photographer and when photos were taken.
The website can be viewed here:
(https://www.visual-archives-hiroshima.jp)
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