I went up to the back hill, leaving the museum. I looked northward down on the pier from the top of the hill. You will know the positional relationship between the pier and me in the first picture. The 2nd and 3rd pictures show the rebuilt pier.
You can see a monument on the hill in the 4th picture, saying "Oh, my mother country!". I saw several other monuments there and all of them implied the nostalgia and the cruelty of the war. Along the path to the top nearly 100 trees were planted by people who had something to do with the war. The pile in the next picture says, "The 470th group of the embedded nurses from Japan Red Cross."
Incidentally, I dropped in at the pier. According to the sign by the pier, as the pier was rebuilt, small stones collected from a variety of places where Japanese people who had not been able to come back used to live or victims of sexual assaults who killed themselves in despair were placed in the base of the monument by the pier.
It is water under the bridge. Exactly, but I believe we human beings never forget the war, especially World War Two, when human beings got huge power and became arrogant enough to kill more than 100,000 in only one night, or at least 140,000 with a single bomb in Hiroshima.
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