Like 'the tolling of a distant temple bell', Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain remembers the horrors of Hiroshima and warns of the inhumanity of war
- Written by: Jindan Ni, Lecturer, Global and Language Studies, RMIT University
Two people walking through the destruction from the August 6 detonation of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, September 8, 1945US Air Force/APIn May 2023, almost 80 years after its devastation by an atomic bomb, Hiroshima again became the focus of world attention as the host city for the 49th G7 Summit.
On the summit’s official...
