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August 04, 2005
Hiroshima
It's the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 this year, and we wanted to share with you a story Josh wrote about our visit there a few years ago, in our very first issue, here.
If you're curious about why paper cranes are so important to the peace movement in Japan, check it out.
An excerpt:
We sat next to the dome and waited for sunrise. A drunken Japanese woman wearing a miniskirt and black schoolgirl socks stumbled up to us and told us in confusing Japanese that peace is something we should do, not something to come and look at. She told us to look for it in our hearts, not in books or monuments.
Then, she asked us to take a picture of her and smiled in front of the dome. "Real Japanese girl!" she told us.
Posted by insideoutmag at August 4, 2005 10:24 PM