We visited Hiroshima with Rod's folks.  My most striking realization was that the city is about so much more
than just the Nuclear bomb and its enduring legacy.  As a kid, I would have imagined the land of Hiroshima
as poisoned for all eternity.  Hiroshima as a once-was, tragic loss.  When in fact, just months after the bomb
was dropped (killing over 200,000 people), the rebuilding had begun.  Just days after the levelling of
the entire city centre, the injured were walking "back" (a more powerful testament to the concept of "home"
than we could ever recreate on this site).  They were ashen and in a trance, at first, but apparently the sight
of the tram (passing on desert streets), gave them hope.

In the museum, Nanjing was mentioned, a tiny parenthesis for a massacre as large as the dropping of
the A-Bomb.  Some placards also advised that Japanese people should consult the textbooks of other
Asian countries (though it didn't really explain what they should be consulted for).  On the Peace Museum
grounds, there was an out-of-the-way monument (fairly recent) honouring the Korean war slaves killed in
the bombing (in fact, they made up 1/3 of the victims-- that wasn't mentioned).  Too little, too sidelined. 
But that is the cruel game of history.