HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum focuses on the effects the atomic bomb had on the people of Hiroshima. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum also has a reconstruction of the Atomic Peace Dome.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is located within the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documents the bomb and its aftermath, complete with scale models of "before" and "after", melted children's tricycles and a  recreation of a post-blast Hiroshima street. Some people may find these displays disturbing, upsetting or depressing.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - Biased View

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum presents a very biased view of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It very much presents the people of Hiroshima as the great victims of World War II. The museum excludes almost all relevant parts of what the Imperial Japanese Army did during and prior to World War II. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum provides a very minimalist view of World War II with little or no information on their role in the war. It conveys "Pearl Harbor attacked" and then the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. You are left with the thought that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was an unbalanced response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

This lack of historical prospective means it not possible to understand the context of the bombing. There is no recognition of the thousands of Korean slave labors that were also killed by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The museum even fails to recognize the great losses that were inflicted upon the Japanese people of other cities including Tokyo where more people died as a result of one convention bombing raid than died from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum goes into great detail to document their view of the decision the USA Government took to drop the bomb and how Hiroshima was specifically targeted. There is no context provided into the reasons for the chosen strategy nor what possible alternatives there were. It overlooks the far greater Japanese casualties that would have occurred had the Allied forces made an invasion of main land Japan. Based on the losses that occurred in Okinawa where 20,000 Japanese soldiers died, it has been estimated that the Japanese deaths would have been in the millions.

The lack of balance and the great bias of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum really did degrade the value of the museum. The Nagasaki