Talk:Hiroshima/Archive 1

message: I found that documentation of Nuclear strike of the 2 cities is incredibly insufficient. Would anyone please add more infomation of Nuclear strike? Or provide some link of that.
Personally I found it strange that Hiroshima is rebuild on the old position and the environment is not that critical as area that attacked by nuclear weapons as people suspect. --Mea Culpa 09:22, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)
: I think you'll find that most of the information on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been moved to the article - Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as stated in the text.
:Regarding the decision to rebuild the city of Hiroshima on the same site, the answer is that the radiation dissipated very rapidly. The bombs exploded several hundred metres above the ground in both cases, so although some of the radioactive material settled on the ground eventually, most was dispersed widely throughout the atmosphere. At Chernobyl, by contrast, most of the radioactive material remained at ground level.
:Also, most of the radiation received by victims of the bombing was due to gamma rays sent out at the time of the blast, and the longest-lasting radionucleotide to remain following the bombing was Caesium-134, which has a half-life of just 2 years. So, the quick answer is that it wasn't a long time before the radioactivity due to the bombing reduced to a level below background radiation levels. - MykReeve 11:33, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Mea Culpa query

message: The city of Hiroshima calls them streetcars rather than trams, in the English language signage, therefore shouldn't this be the word used in the article? - MykReeve 19:15, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Streetcar vs Tram 

message: The article states that Hiroshima was founded in 1548, yet hte Japanese-language version says that Hiroshima Castle was built in 1589 and the town developed around it.  I'm going to change that to 1589, unless someone can prove that the town actually was founded in 1548. - Nik42 03:32, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  1548? 

message: It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. violet/riga (t) 17:58, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decision

message: I removed the old way to write Hiroshima from the intro paragraph ... the likelihood for confusion seemed too great and the information seemed too trivial to be included in the introduction.  More discussion can be found [here].  CES 00:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good to me. In the three years I lived there I never once saw the old way of writing it, and I walked all over the city all the time. --nihon 08:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless you walked the streets of Hiroshima before 1950 or so, you probably wouldn't have.  I could see how the kyūjitai might be of marginal interest to history buffs ... but otherwise I'm not sure what value they are. CES 14:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kyūjitai 

message: Just a suggestion, any thought on adding an "aftermath" or more suitable, "after effects" from the Atomic Bomb? I think a small amount of people, including those who want to do a history report on their school papers, would like to know more about the "after effects" and the radiation. Examples such as birth defects, structure erosion, poisoning of any kind, environment changes and so on. Also a paragraph on how the government of Japan (with other countries support if any) is dealing with these problems/obstacles (if any) HighEnergyProtons 06:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We've got some of that at hibakusha, though it could stand expansion. —wwoods 09:47, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We could mention Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine at Hiroshima University. Fg2 10:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aftermath/After Effects from Atomic 

message: The whole section Doing Business in Hiroshima looks like a Vanity section to me. Especially the links to companies througout the section, and the Economic Affairs Bureau (I haven't checked the history, but I guess it's written by them). It should be rewritten by a NPOV person, or deleted. There is a section called Industry which makes this section obsolete.
Ninja neko 08:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doing non-NPOV business in Hiroshima 

message: Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). --Polaron | Talk 08:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese city article naming debate 

message: Just a minor thing that I don't know how to do..
The picture of folded paper cranes seems to be pushing the Attractions heading over to the centre, 
I think that the attractions heading needs to be aligned left.
This would increase the readability of the article.
Thankyou
Omega Archdoom 03:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Formatting's difficult, because results are different according to how wide your screen is and maybe the browser you use. Try moving some things to the right. For example, the photo of the cranes. See if that helps. (Just erase "left|" from the Image line.) I think the A-bomb Dome photo looks best on the left, and probably the table of contents; all the other photos, boxes and things might be best on the right. Or maybe you can come up with a better arrangement? Feel free to play around in the sandbox all you like, and when something looks good, save the genuine article. Best of luck! Fg2 10:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture and Attractions heading

message: It seems to me that the mon should be included in the infobox. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do templates. BilabialBoxing 07:48, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved it by imitating the infobox in Kyoto. However, the resolution is too low. Do you know if a larger version or a scalable vector graphic (svg) file is available? Fg2 08:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: (content moved from article to talk page)  	 
- 	Well, actually, I am a victim in the Hiroshima attack. At that time, I am only 7 years old and while I am going to school, there is a great explosion, with a great shocking sound. My school was collapsed, I mean the whole building, and I was really frightened at that time. The roof started to shake and I quickly hide under my desk. The roof fell down within 1 minute time. Many of my classmates did different actions, some ran out of the school, and some hide under their desks like me. However, after the roof fell down, our desks had broken and I was seriously injured. I didn’t know what happened to my classmates that time, but I thought that we had chosen the wrong choice to avoid the disaster. What I saw that time was just darkness, and I thought that I was fainted that time. 	 
- 	I woke up. Some men were in front of me and they were looking at me. They were firemen and I thought that they rescued me in the calamity. 	 
- 	This is an incident long time ago. Sixty years later, that means today, I am an old man now. Actually at that time, I was really angry with the Americans and I really wanted to revenge, however, bow I think that I could forgive them, but I don’t know why and what I am thinking. 	 
- 	In Spite of killing a lot of innocent citizens, I lost my parents and many relatives, and also my friends, but still, I will forgive them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fg2 (talk • contribs) 05:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments(by Akira Kaji) 

message: I notice this article says that Hiroshima has six sister cities, but this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sister_cities_in_the_United_States#Pennsylvania says that Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is a sister city as well. Anyone know any info on this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Azslande (talk • contribs) 17:54, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed Harrisburg (and another city) from the list in accordance with Hiroshima's Web page on the topic. (See this edit.) Editors occasionally add cities to these lists without citing sources. Sometimes the additions are vandalism, and other times they're well-meaning but the relationships turn out to be less formal than sister relationships. If appropriate documentation of a sister relationship is provided, we're of course happy to list it. Do you need more information? Fg2 21:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope that was all, was just checking, I didn't want two different articles to have conflicting information. I figured someone here would have a better idea of what was going on than I would.--Azslande 00:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister Cities? 

message: How can this article go from the Edo period straight to august 6th, 1945? I'm sure some important things happened in those roughly 90 years. Parsecboy 12:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the city 

message: I've heard all manner of pronunciation by Americans — Heero-sheema, Heroshim-a, etc. How is it really pronounced? --24.147.86.187 13:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

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message: The Education section is just a paragraph. Shouldn't it be larger to have its own section? We could include it in the Culture section, with sports and other things like that. Ohsoh 01:27, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Culture + Education