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diana-andraste · 2 months

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Kaneto Shindō's Children of Hiroshima, 1952

#movies #film #kaneto shindo #shindo kaneto #children of hiroshima #1950s #black and white #photomontage #history #genbaku no ko #docudrama #quasi documentary #ww ii #hiroshima #japan #art #atomic bomb #horrors of war

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mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves · 3 months

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Children of Hiroshima (1952, Kaneto Shindo, Japan)

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omnivorouscinephilia · 6 months

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The Little Girl of Hanoi: The American War Through Vietnamese Eyes

Films about Vietnam have been on my mind lately, and I wanted to track down a film from a Vietnamese perspective. Here is an incredible one I found, filmed during the last years of the war. Watch the film then read my review!

Since the end of the Vietnam War, American cinema has tried to make sense of the conflict, by and large from the perspective of the American soldier that either implicitly or explicitly other the Vietnamese. Even well-intentioned works attempting to deconstruct this gaze like Gareth Edwards’ The Creator fall into this trap. While not as monolithic as one might imagine, Oliver Stone offered up a…

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#Children of Hiroshima #Classic Releases #Coming of Age #Drama #Film Reviews #Gareth Edwards #Hải Ninh #Heaven and Earth #Lan Hương #Mikhail Kalatozov #Oliver Stone #Sergei Urusevsky #The Creator #The Last Stage #The Little Girl of Hanoi #Wanda Jakubowska #War

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sonimage1965 · 9 months

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Children of Hiroshima

dir. Kaneto Shindo

1952

German Poster

#kaneto shindo #children of hiroshima #原爆の子 #german poster

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drsonnet · 1 month

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When I was a boy in Palestine by Mousa J. Kaleel | Open Library

An edition of When I was a boy in Palestine (1914)

When I was a boy in Palestine

by Mousa J. Kaleel

When I was a boy in Palestine : Kaleel, Mousa J., 1892- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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agentfascinateur · 5 months

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(...) Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the Gaza Strip since October 7, equivalent to two nuclear bombs.

In comparison, the Little Boy nuclear bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima during World War II yielded 15,000 tonnes of high explosives and destroyed everything within a one-mile (1.6km) radius.

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vintagelibraries · 2 years

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1955年の広島児童図書館。(Hiroshima Children's Library in 1955), Japan.

#Vintage #Retro #Library #Libraries #1955 #1950s #50s #Hiroshima #Children's Library #Japan #photography #black and white #architecture #wikimedia commons

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fabiansociety · 11 months

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yakuza 6 is a much smaller game than yakuza 5, without the pervasive melancholy and the sprawling cast, and i'm not quite sure what i make of it at this point. i appreciate the tighter focus (even if i loved y5's picaresque), and particularly the ways the game is willing to really drill into the way kiryu is flailing as he settles into middle age, and how he's making the wrong choices as a result of it. the sidelining of haruka sucks; she's a character that is frequently ushered out into the wings for the endless second act of these games, but the way her agency is taken away in this game in particular feels faintly rancid. the fact that you learn that she's been the victim of some horrific violence in the same instant you learn that she's become sexually active is… not great. the series as a whole isn't terribly judgmental about women having sex—or, rather, it doesn't punish its women for being sexually active the way a lot of stories do—but it does have a bad habit of killing or harming its plot-bearing women, and the game using haruka's sexual activity as a proxy for her adulthood, and that adulthood meaning she's now available to be a victim of violence sucks. haruka's relationship with kiryu, separate from kiryu's relationship with haruka, has always been one of the series' strongest suits. haruka as a character is able to question him in a way other characters can't, because kiryu can't simply walk away from her, the way he does with adult women he gets close to, and he can't simply punch her into agreement, the way he does with the men in his life, and to have all that narrative tension resolved before the story even properly starts? it's a weaker story for it.

and the especially frustrating part is that haruka being awake and participating in the story doesn't do anything except improve things. the game can't function if kiryu is constantly saddled with haruto, so it has him hand his grandchild off to complete strangers repeatedly when he's in onomichi, and if haruka were awake, she could simply care for her own child while he goes off to try to find the father. she could be in onomichi with him, which would both streamline the bizarro logistical hoops the game hops through to park haruto somewhere and allow her to actively argue with kiryu about his fucked up decision to go back to jail. that decision—to functionally abandon his children for the sake of his own pride—is the real question at the heart of the story, and the game can only approach in obliquely, because it's silenced the only character who could make it more than subtext.

all that being said, though, the game itself is delightful? the substory writing remains world class, and the game's mood and tone and virtual tourism remain second to none. it's just frustrating that I'm something like 500 hours into this series and they still haven't figured out how to structure their A plots.

#yakuza 6 #rgg6 #haruka sawamura #kiryu's relationship with haruka is sweet but it's also fucked up #not just his daughter #but also his co-parent #he treats her how he wanted to be treated by kazama #but that's a very juvenile understanding of how adults should treat children #the key to how well he gets along with kids in general sure #but also destabilizing and harmful for the kids he CARES FOR longterm #a parent isn't just an adult friend #she threw away her career because she lost both of her parental figures #and then rather than embracing her and supporting her transition out of fame he runs off back to jail #because he would have had to deal with how abandoning her and the rest of the family so she could pursue her career was the wrong decision #which was the exact same mulish self-sacrificing martyrdom that ruined her birth mother's life!#just infuriating that he doesn't have to actually get yelled at by someone who can make him actually LISTEN TO HER #sure run off to hiroshima and go spearfishing like you're a 20 year old with no responsibilities #kiryu you jag

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lesbiangummybearmafia · 9 months

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What you won't see on Oppenheimer. Is the true horrors of what dropping two atomic bombs one on Hiroshima than one Nagasaki, Japan truly means. Read these words, study the map. Come to understand the unleashed horror of horrors. See if doesn't leave you in tears like it did me.

'Each of the numbers on this map represents the location of a group of school children on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima. By looking at the fates of groups in known locations, and their distances from ground zero (at the center of the map), the Joint Commission was able to construct a mortality-casualty curve that shows how distance affected outcomes. Because of the groups’ distribution throughout the city, and the well-ordered nature of school recordkeeping, data on school children. Some of the numbered locations are for “work parties” of school children, and others are for schools. For example, location #1 is the Motokawa Primary School, located only 0.5 kilometer from ground zero, where 100% of the 192 children at the school were killed. At location #3, all of the 134 students from two schools who were assigned to clearing firebreaks were killed.'

#what Oppenheimer truly did #us government #ww2 history #atomic bomb #hiroshima #nagasaki #japan #the truth was must face #murdered school children #this just Hiroshima #the horrors the US government can never be forgiven for #blood on our hands #creating the atomic bomb is not something to celebrate #we opened one kind of pandora's box #oppenheimer

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halfdeadshadow · 3 months

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murasakikagekitsune · 1 year

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New Hetalia Child OC Profile

Affiliated Country - Japan

Local Personification - Hiroshima

Human Name - Kurosawa Reo/Reo Kurosawa Kanji - 怜緒黒澤 (written in the Western order of forename first).

Human age - 8-13 years old (or rather, he appears as such; given his short height, it’s hard to tell).

Vitality Status - Historical Fragment, Former Personification of Hiroshima

Personal History - Much like HRE or Prussia, Reo used to be the general personification of Hiroshima, but the atomic bombing of the city caused his temporary death, since the land had been poisoned and no one was living there. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki's personifications actually died during this time, meaning that their respective prefectures had to take on their duties. By the time Reo came back into existence (he was still slightly sick from the radiation - think something like juvenile arthritis) the prefectures decided that Reo was too vulnerable to carry on his civic tasks (not to mention that they noticed that he was still ill - cities, prefectures and states heal even quicker than Nations because they cover less area) and demoted him for his own safety.

Another anomaly the prefectures took note of is that a newer, different personification materialised shortly after Reo was downgraded; the prefectures knew that the cultures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in particular were irrevocably changed after 1945, and so someone new was needed to rebirth, but the odd thing about this occasion was that Reo still existed after this. Usually, when a Nation is reborn and gains a new title (like HRE becoming Germany) the original personification dies in order to make way for the new one. Clearly, that was not the case with Reo - once again, the prefectures knew that the people of Hiroshima had, whether subconsciously or not, chosen him to represent the memory of their city's atomic bombing.

As long as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima exists as an event in public memory, so too does Reo.

#hetalia oc #hetalia original character #original child character #no pun intended #hetalia hiroshima #hws hiroshima #aph hiroshima #reo kurosawa #kurosawa reo #historical hetalia #apocalypse for breakfast and brunch [hiroshima & nagasaki]#hws japan #honda kiku #the prefectures are japan's grown up children #like america and the states #so reo is technically a grandchild #the atomic bomb is its own tw #tw child death #chronic illness #juvenile arthritis #nationkind can reproduce without sex because they are birthed by the land #like monotagari no kaguya-hime [the tale of princess kaguya]#or momotaro #so they may not physically give birth or get pregnant #but they can recognise when a nationchild is theirs #or they want to become a caregiver for a particular nationchild #for example america gave birth to the states #[excluding hawaii of course]#but england france scotland and norway were drawn to canada when he was the human equivalent of a child #fanchild

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bopinion · 11 months

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2023 / 20

Aperçu of the Week:

"Music is a language in which you can't lie."

(Hubert von Goisern, Austrian singer-songwriter and founder of alpine rock)

Bad News of the Week:

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is upon us again. This weather phenomenon of the equatorial Pacific happens at irregular intervals of two to eight years and refers to the occurrence of unusual, non-cyclical, altered ocean currents in the oceanographic-meteorological system. Without going into detail about Walker cells, trade winds and surface waters, let's just say that the weather between South America and Southeast Asia is tipping. With worldwide effects.

Plankton dies en masse and leads to the collapse of entire food chains, e.g. there are no more fish off Peru, seabirds die in the entire Pacific. Unnaturally heavy rainfall on the western side of the Andes causes landslides and flooding. In Southeast Asia and Australia, the lack of rain causes huge bush and forest fires, and the Amazon region and southern Africa dry out. Huge hurricanes develop in Mexico, the monsoon intensifies in India, and coral bleaching increases significantly worldwide. Everywhere it becomes noticeably warmer.

El Niño has already been documented by the pre-Columbian Incas and is even believed to have led to the extinction of the Moche civilization. It is therefore a natural phenomenon for which, for once, humans are not to blame. However, since man-made climate disasters such as floods, hurricanes and forest fires have increased dramatically in recent years, more than a few experts expect a reciprocal amplification that could be devastating due to its cascading effect. In the best case, humanity gets a temporary taste of circumstances to come, hopefully leading to more immediate action to mitigate climate change impacts. At worst, this heated combination pushes climatic tipping points past their very tipping point. Which, as we know, is irreversible.

Good News of the Week:

The annual G7 summit is over. This time under Japanese leadership in Hiroshima. This cooperation format of the seven economically strongest Western nations (Japan, USA, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany) with the participation of the European Union originally saw itself as a forum for discussing issues of the global economy. And in recent years, it has evolved into a hub that also has security and sociopolitical relevance. Therefore, an unsurprising item on the program this year was the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenski to promote fighter jets.

Just as predictable as the condemnation of Russia's war of aggression was the theme of economic cooperation with China while distancing oneself from its geopolitical and human rights positions. The same applies to concerns about climate change, declining biodiversity and the too-slow expansion of renewable energies - albeit without any significant breakthroughs. Also, security of supply in globalized trade and cooperation with emerging economic powers. So no surprises at all?

Yes, in my opinion there are. After the delivery chain issues at the time of the Corona pandemic, the grain exports from Ukraine and fertilizers from Russia, which have been stopped in the meantime, have thrown another spotlight on the global food situation. Which is shitty to say the least. Among other things, because it is precisely the poorest countries that are most affected by the effects of climate change that are already being felt today.

Last year, under German auspices, the G7 and the World Bank founded the Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS). According to its statutes, the alliance is committed to an agile, targeted and rapid response to food crises, which at the same time takes the right path toward sustainable agricultural systems. And pools the corresponding resources of its members: Germany, for example, has already been giving 2 billion euros annually for years to fight hunger in needy countries.

Now, according to a communiqué, the G7 have decided to provide a further 21 billion U.S. dollars in emergency aid. German Development Minister Svenja Schulze, initiator of the GAFS, commented: "The fact that the G7 are now united in their commitment to a further and holistic commitment one year later is a strong sign of solidarity with the Global South."

Of course, this is not enough. Oxfam, for example, points out that the UN has put the financial requirement in this regard at 55 billion. The G7 would have therefore failed in terms of development policy. But if you take a look at the bare figures, you will see that the G7 are contributing their fair share according to their economic performance. I am not aware of any corresponding initiative by China, India, Russia, Brazil or the Arab world. So we are on track so far. At least we are. And at least on a topic that too rarely makes it into the headlines.

Personal happy moment of the week:

My two children are getting older - and on their own feet. First, my daughter, who just turned 20, was in Budapest with the political science department of her university. Although only in her first year of study already as a group leader. And then my son, who just turned 15, was at the partner school in Paris. As the only one from the 8th grade and the youngest participant of the student exchange. Both not only completed their trip with aplomb, but also took the opportunity to present themselves as cosmopolitan, curious, self-confident young people. And made their dad proud.

I couldn't care less...

...about the voting behavior of Turks in Germany. Because they are allowed to vote in their home country, even if they are resident abroad. And they do. In large numbers. Unfortunately, two-thirds for Recep Erdogan. That was the case in the regular presidential election a week ago and that will be the case in the runoff election a week from now. I do not understand that. People who live in a well developed prosperous democracy should actually appreciate its canon of values - and not keep an autocrat in power.

As I write this...

...I am sitting on the train to Cologne. As I or my employer had booked it. Which is no longer a matter of course in view of the frequent strikes lately. The next round of negotiations between the union and Deutsche Bahn is scheduled for the day after tomorrow, so my return trip should also work out that day. On schedule. Which is tantamount to being late. Right now, we've been theoretically on the move for 12 minutes - but we're still standing on the platform in Munich. So everything is completely normal.

Post Scriptum

The Arab League has welcomed Syria's ruler Bashar al-Assad back into its midst - with a brotherly kiss. Those who were still waiting for proof that human rights do not always feel at home in the Arab cultural area (to put it mildly) now have it. The greeting "Salam alaikum" means "(May) peace be upon you". Yeah - but some terms and conditions apply.

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waywordsstudio · 7 months

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A necessary but challenging take for children on the effects of the atomic bomb told mostly through the eyes of a young survivor.

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#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #hiroshimanopika #toshimaruki #ww2 #hiroshima #childrensbook #nuclearnonproliferation #atombomb

#bookworm #book reviews #literature #books #read read read #childrens books #ww2 #hiroshima #atom bomb #hiroshima no pika #toshi maruki

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omnivorouscinephilia · 8 months

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Children of Hiroshima: The Foundation for Hibakusha Cinema

A criticism Oppenheimer faces is it fails to showcase a Japanese perspective on the bomb. We as critics should take it upon ourselves to highlight such works. With that, here is a review of Children of Hisoshima, an early work from Kaneto Shindō. Enjoy!

There’s a popular misconception that Gojira, Ishiro Honda’s kaiju masterpiece, was the first Japanese film meant to be an aesthetic reaction and articulation of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and therefore nuclear anxieties. While true that it was one of the first films made by Japanese filmmakers after the post-war American occupation which forbade depictions of the bombings, it would be…

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l101216l · 6 months

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Since October 7, 2023, Israel has dropped 18,000 tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip. This is roughly twice the explosive force of the bomb used in World War II to destroy Hiroshima, Japan. Over 32,000 individuals have been injured, and at least 9,061 Palestinians have been killed; men, women, and children who are innocent. We cannot stay silent because these are actual numbers and actual people who, despite 75 years of resistance to injustice, are still being violently removed from their homes, subjected to ethnic cleansing, and colonized. Continue talking about it.

#free palestine #palestine #genocide #creasefire #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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ic4design · 8 months

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Butt Detective x Pierre the Maze Detective

おしりたんてい x 迷路探偵ピエールコラボ大迷路

コオロギッセオ遺跡に迷い込んだおしりたんてい、ダンディ、ブラウンと町のひとびと。迷路探偵ピエールが謎解きを助けるというコラボレーションが実現。イラスト内には双方のシリーズからのキャラクターが数多く登場し、謎解きを助けてくれる。このポスターが1104名の当選者にプレゼントされた。（1104 = 日本語で”良いおしり”と読める。おしりたんていの誕生日。）（おしりたんてい © トロル・ポプラ社／おしりたんてい製作委員会）

Oshiri Tantei (BUTT DETECTIVE ⒸTroll / Poplar, Toei Animation, NEP) is a big hit children's book series that has sold more than 9 million copies. The story is about "Oshiri Tantei," a detective whose face looks like an "oshiri" (butt), who solves many difficult cases. The key line of the story is, "Hmm... I smell a case."

In this collaboration, "Pierre the maze detective” (by IC4DESIGN) helps solve the mystery of the maze at the ruins. Many characters from both series appear in the illustrations to help solve the mystery. This poster was given away to 1104 winners. (1104 = "good Butt" in Japanese. Butt Detective's birthday.)

#ic4design #illustration #japan #design #hiroshima #ancient #animation #book #childrenbook #children #landscape #maze #poster #underground #oshiri

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