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Posted on 12 May 2008

Viewed from the Peace Memorial Park,
the Atomic Bomb Dome was beautifully reflected on the peaceful River Motoyasu.

I couldn't imagine that tens of thousands of innocent lives were killed
along this river during the bombing on 6 August 1945.

After going back to Hong Kong, I searched the Internet for the information about the river and
accidentally found the following picture that was taken, before the bombing, in 1933.

I was really surprised at the striking similarity between the old picture and mine.
They were taken almost at the same place and the same angle but 75 years apart.

A friend of mine kidded that I'm the reincarnation of that Japanese photographer :)


Source of the picture: http://besankosyashin.blog56.fc2.com/blog-date-200603.html