sister cities:[40]
Honolulu, United States (1959)
Volgograd, Russia (1972)[41]
Hannover, Germany (1983)[42]
Chongqing, People's Republic of China (1986)
Daegu, South Korea (1997)
Montreal, Canada (1998)
Within Japan, Hiroshima has a similar relationship with Nagasaki.
[edit] Further reading
Pacific War Research Society, Japan's Longest Day (Kodansha, 2002, ISBN 4-7700-2887-3), the internal Japanese account of the surrender and how it was almost thwarted by fanatic soldiers who attempted a coup against the Emperor.
Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Penguin, 2001 ISBN 0-14-100146-1)
Robert Jungk, Children of the Ashes, 1st Eng. ed. 1961[43]
Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, ISBN 0-679-76285-X
John Hersey, Hiroshima, ISBN 0-679-72103-7
Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6 - September 30, 1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955), since reprinted.
Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain, ISBN 0-87011-364-X
Hara Tamiki, Summer Flowers ISBN 0-691-00837-X
Robert Jay Lifton Death in life: The survivors of Hiroshima, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1st edition (1968) ISBN 0297764667
[edit] See also
Japan portal
Barefoot Gen
Kokura
Masaharu Morimoto, celebrity chef born and raised in Hiroshima and perhaps the city's most famous former resident by way of the popular show Iron Chef
Nagasaki
Yōko Ōta, author of several works of Atomic Bomb Literature
Perfume, a J-pop group from Hiroshima
Sadako Kurihara
Sadako Sasaki (1943–1955)
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Yoshito Matsushige
[edit] Notes
^ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
^ "The Origin of Hiroshima". Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-01-30.
http://web.archive.org/we...toukei/History-E/c01.html . Retrieved 2007-08-17.
^ Scott O'Bryan (2009). "Hiroshima: History, City, Event". About Japan: A Teacher's Resource.
http://aboutjapan.japanso...oshima_history_city_event . Retrieved 2010-03-14.
^ a b Kosaikai, Yoshiteru (2007). "History of Hiroshima". Hiroshima Peace Reader. Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
^ a b Terry, Thomas Philip (1914). Terry's Japanese Empire. Houghton Mifflin Co. p. 640.
^ Bingham (US Legation in Tokyo) to Fish (US Department of State), September 20, 1876, in Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to congress, with the annual message of the president, December 4, 1876, p. 384
^ a b Kosakai, Hiroshima Peace Reader
^ Dun (US Legation in Tokyo) to Gresham, February 4, 1895, in Foreign relations of United States, 1894, Appendix I, p. 97
^ Jacobs, Norman (1958). The Origin of Modern Capitalism and Eastern Asia. Hong Kong University. p. 51.
^ Sanko (1998). Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome). The City of Hiroshima and the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation.
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^ Diocese of Hiroshima
^ United States Strategic Bombing Survey (June 1946). "U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki". nuclearfiles.org. Archived from the original on 2004-10-11.
http://web.archive.org/we...0619-bombing-survey1.html . Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ Pape, Robert (1996). Bombing to Win: Airpower and Coercion in War. Cornell University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0801483110.
^ "Firebombing Japan". darkchilde@bookmice.net.
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/fire.html . Retrieved 2008-04-16.
^ "Japan in the Modern Age and Hiroshima as a Military City". The Chugoku Shimbun.
http://www.chugoku-np.co....97e/peace/e/03/omoide.htm . Retrieved 2007-08-19.
^ The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources.
^ Radiation Effects Research Foundation
^ Ishikawa and Swain (1981), p. 5
^ Makurazaki Typhoon
^ Ishikawa and Swain (1981), p. 6
^ "Peace Memorial City, Hiroshima". Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-02-06.
http://web.archive.org/we...toukei/History-E/c05.html . Retrieved 2007-08-14.
^ "Fifty Years for the Peace Memorial Museum". Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
http://www.pcf.city.hiros...xh0507_e/exh050701_e.html . Retrieved 2007-08-17.
^ "Surviving the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima, 1945". Eyewitnesstohistory.com. 1945-08-06.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hiroshima.htm . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ "Library: Media Gallery: Video Files: Rare film documents devastation at Hiroshima". Nuclear Files.
http://www.nuclearfiles.o...video/hiroshima-aftermath . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ "気象庁 / 平年値（年・月ごとの値）". Japan Meteorological Agency.
http://www.data.jma.go.jp...=&elm=normal&view =. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
^ "Population of Japan, Table 92". Statistics Bureau.
http://www.stat.go.jp/Eng.../2000/final/hyodai.htm#21 . Retrieved 2007-08-14.
^ a b c "2006 Statistical Profile". The City of Hiroshima. Archived from the original on 2008-02-06.
http://web.archive.org/we...kei/12_pro/profile-e.html . Retrieved 2007-08-14.
^ de Rham-Azimi, Nassrine, Matt Fuller, and Hiroko Nakayama (2003). Post-conflict Reconstruction in Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor. United Nations Publications. p. 69.
^ Parker, J. (2004). "In Praise of Japanese Engineering; In Praise of Hiroshima". Circuits and Systems. 1. 47th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
^ "Hiroshima Vehicle Engineering Company". HIVEC.
http://www.hivec.com . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ "広島市：ひろしま西風新都". Seifu-shinto.jp.
http://www.seifu-shinto.jp/index_f.html . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ Wel City Hiroshima
^ "Carp owner dies". The Japan Times. July 12, 2002.
http://search.japantimes....cgi-bin/sb20020712a2.html . Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ Graczyk, Wayne (March 4, 2007). "New stadium in Hiroshima looking good for 2009 season". The Japan Times.
http://search.japantimes....cgi-bin/sb20070304wg.html . Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ "History of Hiroshima University". Hiroshima University.
http://www.hiroshima-u.ac...emplate_id=14&lang=en . Retrieved 2007-06-25.
^ "Astram Line". Design Soken Hiroshima Inc.
http://www.gk-design.co.jp/dsh/English/TP/TP_01.html . Retrieved 2007-08-14.
^ "Shinkansen". japan-guide.com.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2018.html . Retrieved 2007-08-17.
^ "Access-Sea Transport". Chugoku Bureau of Economy,Trade and Industry. Archived from the original on 2006-01-06.
http://web.archive.org/we...egion/access/access4.html . Retrieved 2007-08-14.
^ "Introduction to our Sister and Friendship Cities". City.hiroshima.jp.
http://www.city.hiroshima...kokusai/shimai/top-e.html . Retrieved 2010-05-10.
^ Friendly relationship at Official website of Volgograd
^ "Hanover - Twin Towns" (in German). © 2007-2009 Hanover.de - Offizielles Portal der Landeshauptstadt und der Region Hannover in Zusammenarbeit mit hier.de.
http://www.hannover.de/de...artnerschaften/index.html . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ Gyanpedia.in
[edit] References
Ishikawa, Eisei, David L. Swain (1981). Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings. Basic Books.
Kowner, Rotem (2002). "Hiroshima". in M. Ember & C. Ember (eds.). Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures (Vol. II). Grolier. pp. 341–348. ISBN 0717256987.
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hiroshima
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hiroshima in ruins
Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article Hiroshima.
Official website in English
Peter Rance's 1951 Hiroshima Photographs
City Mayors article
CBC Digital Archives - Shadows of Hiroshima
Hiroshima Map - interactive with points of interest
Hiroshima travel guide from Wikitravel
BBC World Service BBC Witness programme interviews a schoolgirl who survived the bomb
