{"id":11419,"date":"2013-08-06T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2023-02-11T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T21:51:30","slug":"august-6-peace-memorial-ceremony-day-in-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/august-6-peace-memorial-ceremony-day-in-hiroshima\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6 &#8211; Peace Memorial Ceremony Day in Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11420\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_9408-RAW-the-monument-in-memory-of-korean-victims-of-a-bomb-hiroshima-japan.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11420\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/136_9408-RAW-the-monument-in-memory-of-korean-victims-of-a-bomb-hiroshima-japan.jpg\" alt=\"the monument in memory of korean victims of a bomb hiroshima japan\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The monument in memory of Korean victims of A bomb &#8211; Hiroshima, Japan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/category\/korea\/>Korea<\/a> for the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I thought I&#8217;d share a photo of the memorial you can find in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park of the Korean victims. Nobody knows exactly how many Koreans were killed or injured by the bomb, but estimates put the total between 20,000 and 40,000 people. The monument features a pillar on a large turtle. The top is a crown of sorts with two dragons listing the names of over 2,500 Koreans who are known to have been killed when the A Bomb exploded. The inscription on the monument reads, &#8220;Souls of the dead ride to heaven on the backs of turtles.&#8221; I have seen several <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/turtles-and-korean-temples\/>similar turtle monuments in Korea<\/a> so this must be a somewhat common tombstone or memorial of some kind in Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m in Korea for the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I thought I&#8217;d share a photo of the memorial you can find in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park of the Korean victims. Nobody knows exactly how many Koreans were killed or injured by the bomb, but estimates put the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,436],"tags":[455,447,429,739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26934,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions\/26934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}