TSS Broadcast Special
The dome speaks out - Commemorating the Preservation of the A-Bomb Dome -
[First broadcast] Tuesday, August 6, 2019 9:50-10:45 a.m.
[Re-run] Wednesday, August 7, 2019 4:00-4:55 a.m.
When did they start calling it the Genbaku Dome?
Regarding the name of this ruin that tells the disaster of HIROSHIMA, the City of Hiroshima says that citizens naturally started calling it Genbaku (A-Bomb) Dome and that it didn’t come from any particular person or time. In other words, nobody knows where the name came from. We have been calling this world-renowned ruin by its nickname.
Many of the facilities in the Peace Memorial Park where the A-Bomb Dome stands have “Peace” in their name - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Memorial Monument for Hiroshima City of Peace, Flame of Peace, and Pond of Peace, among others. The A-Bomb Dome too, used to be called the Peace Memorial Dome at one time.
After World War II, the GHQ was very thorough with their propaganda. Speech control and information manipulation made the word genbaku (atomic bomb) taboo. The purpose of this was to contain the reality of the effects of using an inhumane weapon. This transformed Hiroshima into a “City of Peace”.
However, Genbaku remained as part of the name for the A-Bomb Dome. In order to trace the history of how genbaku and dome came to be used in the nickname, we collected clues from old memoires and journals. We also sent out a questionnaire to 500 hibakusha and conducted interviews.
What emerged is a new fact that had never been revealed before. What feelings of the atomic bombed city HIROSHIMA does the name Genbaku Dome carry?
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