12 Aug Museum of grief and sorrow
Japan, the land of the rising sun, where the usual pleasant morning was waking up, and the city of Hiroshima was also receiving the glow of life from the same sun.
Citizens were busy with their daily routine. The students had to get to school on time, the office workers were on their way to their destination, some were walking, some were on bicycles, some decided to cover their distance by motorbike and some by train. , Cars and buses were also running on the roads. Everywhere life was smiling like an innocent child.
There were many houses in this oppressed city, whose kitchens still had a delicious breakfast activity and smoke rising from the chimneys. The waves of the river flowing in the middle of the city were also flowing roughly.
One of the city's most famous buildings was the commercial center for the promotion of provincial industrial affairs, with the janitor preparing to open the main entrance to the domed building. Outside a bank, the person concerned was waiting for the bank to open, whose financial need may have brought him there prematurely.
All the set scenes of the city were active in their being. In such a situation, the clocks all over the city were ringing at 8:14 and then exactly one minute later, that doomsday fell on the city on which humanity is still suffering. The pages of history are black with ashes rising from there.
The 37-year-old local journalist, Nakamura, was cycling out of the city at lightning speed as usual. He did this almost daily in order to get the regional news of the surroundings. For the same purpose he came out of the city on August 6, 1945 at his appointed time, but when he returned, everything was back. In his city there was a senate of death, life was kept in the coffin of brutality and he was the first person from outside to see the full face of this resurrection.
There is hardly a greater shock to a human being on the planet than to see an entire city full of human beings reduced to ashes in front of his eyes. The Japanese journalist was impressed despite being several kilometers away from the city. When it exploded, it shook and fell to the ground, injuring his face. He first broke the news at his newspaper's headquarters in another city, but no official was ready to believe it. Then, in the next few seconds, when the US President was informed, the Japanese army was not ready to accept this, although a Japanese military plane flew from Tokyo and did not see the doomsday scene of the destruction of Hiroshima. A city where all bodies and souls were wounded.
We all know why and how this explosion happened in World War II. I don't even go into his journalistic statement, I just shudder to think that a bomb was used in the world, in which a conservative estimate of 1.5 million people were killed in retaliation, more injured and affected. Happened Then a series of similar nuclear explosions took place in Nagasaki, another city in Japan, where millions of people were killed. Seventy-five years have passed since the tragedy, but the pain is still there.
Today Hiroshima has emerged from this pile of ashes into a new and developed city, when the bullet train stops at its station and you get out of it and enter the city, it is unthinkable that it It is the world's first atomic bomb city.
Even today, people are busy with their own affairs, traffic is flowing on the streets, happy gossip is going on in the tea houses, but in this city, the 'Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum' as a memorial to the passing of this Hour. The building is where history is still sobbing. According to John Elia
Which could not be passed on to us
We have lived that life
The city's various mayors wrote letters of protest and called on the world to stop all atomic bombs from becoming nuclear weapons. To see the 'Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum' as a reference to the burnt clothes of innocent children of Hiroshima, human skin slipping from the body, only holes instead of eyes on the face, molten bodies of millions of people and Invited to learn from the horrific destruction of this nuclear frenzy and stay some. It is the only museum in the world that should never, ever, ever be built again in any country.
The majority of ordinary Japanese also think that everything is permissible in love and war. If they had not surrendered in this war, there would have been more casualties and if they had an atomic bomb, they would probably have used it in response, but now The war is over, so he says we should forget all hatred and work for peace.
If this war did not stop, there would be more rivers of blood. The amazing thing is that modern Japan was born from this nuclear ash. Japan, the world's number one economy, has the world's most secure and valuable passport, according to a survey this year. Winning Nobel Prizes in science, technology, culture and literature and other fields, the country, where even today, primary and high school children visit the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum to learn about the modern world. Also get to know their history and national tragedy.
The Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum displays images of the city before and after the atomic bombing. Just like outside a bank, a man waiting for the bank to open was blown away like smoke after the bomb blast, only the image of the man sitting on the stone in front of the bank door remains, that stone is also present in this museum. Torn school uniforms and other items, as well as countless pictures, are heartbreaking.
The voices of those who bear witness to this Hour tremble with pain. Scenes from the atomic bombing are still standing in the museum. Letters to the heads of other nuclear powers, including Pakistan and India, are also on display in the museum.
Museums can be found in a few selected languages of the world. In this regard, Urdu is also one of the few languages, due to the Japanese friends, who love Pakistan and are associated with the teaching of Urdu in Japan. Thanks to their efforts, Urdu has become one of the few languages in the museum.
This is a topic on which there is less to be written, read and spoken about. There is a thirst and a vacuum, which cannot be fully expressed. To understand this situation, read the novel "Black Rain" by a Japanese writer, Masoji Ibuse, and get a chance to know in detail the scenes before and after this tragedy.
The Urdu translation of this novel was done by Ajmal Kamal, a well known translator in Pakistan and published by Mashal Box. Check out an excerpt from this novel, which gives a comprehensive picture of this resurrection. The Japanese writer used a diary written by an affected elderly person to write this novel. Therefore, the text is closer to reality and farther from fiction. Read the quote There is a scene immediately after the atomic bombing that
"Once Yasuko stumbled on something and fell forward, shouting at me. When the smoke cleared, we found that the object that hit her feet was the body of a woman with a dead baby in her arms. From then on, I started to walk forward and tore my eyes to see if anything dark was coming my way. Despite this, many times we stumbled upon corpses. The force of the wind gradually subsided and the smoke subsided, making it more and more difficult to breathe. Maybe it was foolish of me to go out with my wife and niece. I wasn't sure we would be able to get out alive. "
The last scene in my written record is of June 2019, when I was drinking coffee with my two Japanese hosts at a well-known American coffee shop near the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum, and from the past and present of the city. Trying to reconcile, but I failed, because I was asking myself, after such a big resurrection, after forgetting everything, life can be restarted in the same way and that too Exactly from the place where this Hour was broken? I get the answer to my question whether or not, but when I see the satisfied faces of the kind Japanese hosts sitting opposite me, I think that maybe ...
But it seems to me that the Japanese have turned their anger, they, as a nation, have become so engrossed in work, work and work, instead of revenge, that they do not want to remember anything. That is why they have changed the map of the whole country except this one museum. Waves of grief rising from this museum can be seen floating in the eyes of the Japanese, especially when they are present at the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum, and who would be a person who is present in this museum and is not shocked? No robot can escape this effect, man will be drunk in this state. "War only hurts," I wrote in a museum commentary.
The scenes I saw at the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum made me feel overwhelmed by all the glamor of modern Japan, as Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib put it in the deadly aftermath of the death of all his children. What was
As you go, you will meet on the Day of Resurrection
What a wonderful day of resurrection!
references:
- Official website. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- BBC English. BBC Urdu
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Elijah of the Word of God
- Japan Times English edition
- Kyodo News English edition
- CNN Travel Web Edition
