Today's Writing （６８）

Even a journalist used to embrace the mistaken perception and say,
"It must have been lucky that there was a park on the opposite side of the epicenter
of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. If not, the damage would have been much huge."

In fact, the opposite side of the epicenter used to be one of the biggest downtown areas
in Hiroshima. Even now, more than 5,000 remains are sleeping under the ground of the park.

Mr. Masaaki Tanabe in his lecture or Hiroshima-gaku Kouza exclaimed,
"I really want everyone around the world to know the truth
that there was no choice but to adjust the land into a park because the damage was too huge."