Real-time images of A-bomb Dome can be viewed around the clock at Hiroshima Peace Media Center site
Aug. 4, 2014
Another feature has been added to the Chugoku Shimbun’s multilingual website, maintained by the Hiroshima Peace Media Center, which conveys reporting from Hiroshima based on the experience of the atomic bombing. On July 29, the website began transmitting real-time images of the Atomic Bomb Dome located in downtown Hiroshima. The images of this UNESCO World Heritage site are also accessible through smartphones.
Images of the A-bomb Dome can be viewed 24 hours a day. During the day, the dome stands among the green leaves of trees against the backdrop of high-rise buildings. At night, it is softly illuminated in the darkness. Now the A-bomb Dome, the symbol of Hiroshima, can be seen live from around the world at all hours.
This is the second recent addition to the website, which specializes in news involving the atomic bombings, nuclear weapons, and peace, and part of the newspaper’s efforts to strengthen its capacity to disseminate information from Hiroshima to the world in anticipation of next year, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing. This past April, the website began providing a selection of articles in Chinese and French, in addition to Japanese and English. More information on Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was added, too, to assist those visiting the park from other parts of the world.
The translation work from Japanese into Chinese and French is supported by Hiroshima University and the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, a non-profit foundation. Translation costs are covered by donations through the foundation’s “Peace Supporter System.”
The Hiroshima Peace Media Center website was launched in January 2008. People from 160 countries and regions around the world have visited the website to date, located at https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/blog/.
(Originally published on July 30, 2014)
Images of the A-bomb Dome can be viewed 24 hours a day. During the day, the dome stands among the green leaves of trees against the backdrop of high-rise buildings. At night, it is softly illuminated in the darkness. Now the A-bomb Dome, the symbol of Hiroshima, can be seen live from around the world at all hours.
This is the second recent addition to the website, which specializes in news involving the atomic bombings, nuclear weapons, and peace, and part of the newspaper’s efforts to strengthen its capacity to disseminate information from Hiroshima to the world in anticipation of next year, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing. This past April, the website began providing a selection of articles in Chinese and French, in addition to Japanese and English. More information on Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was added, too, to assist those visiting the park from other parts of the world.
The translation work from Japanese into Chinese and French is supported by Hiroshima University and the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, a non-profit foundation. Translation costs are covered by donations through the foundation’s “Peace Supporter System.”
The Hiroshima Peace Media Center website was launched in January 2008. People from 160 countries and regions around the world have visited the website to date, located at https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/blog/.
(Originally published on July 30, 2014)
