The Hiroshima Museum

We had a long rest on Saturday, and today we have been exploring the best Japanese museum in all of Japan, plus the Hiroshima museum is right across the street from the Shelpen Hotel.Surprisingly enough, theHiroshima museum is actually a very popular landmark in Japan. Karli and I went to the 

 museum an learnt a lot of interesting information about Japan. When we first got there we went to an exhibit where the two of us learnt all about Japan's location in the world. We found out that this Country is i

n the Continent of Asia, west of South Korea. Japan 

is a country made up of hundreds of Islands, with four main islands called: Hokkaido, Honshu`, Kyushu, and Shikoku shown to the left. . We also learned

 that Japan is surrounded by the Pacific ocean and the Sea of Japan. Japan is on the northern side of the 

Hemisphere. At the very end of the exhibit was a huge painting of a map of the world, it showed Japan's neighbouring Countries: Russia, North Korea, and South Korea. Next, We started to explore a new exhibit which I have never seen before. We were in a really strange, dark room with black and white 

pictures all over the walls. I wasn't sure what they were of, until I read an article about the dropping of the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this article

was laying on the wall right bellow many historical pictures of th

e dropping of

 the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The article read that the bomb was dropped by an American named Enola Gay. This terrible event happened in

early August of 1945. Three days later of the dropping of the bomb in Hiroshima. If there wasn't already enough damage, the Americans dropped another bomb in Nagasaki. According to the U.S, they had many good reasons for dropping the two bombs. First of all, Russia wanted to take over the island of Japan, which would be very embarrassing for the Americans because the U.S.A had been fighting in the war, against Japan, for the longest time, and Russia had only just begun a battle against Japan. Second, the bomb may have turned the Russians against challenging America for the island. Another reason for this dreadful experience was because the American scientists wanted to test the bomb in an actual war. Last, but not least the U.S. had spent over 2 billion dollars on this project and the leaders of the government wanted to see the results. Wow, that is pretty amazing how bad the war was back then! In Canada now nothing like that has happened for the longest time. Before we left the museum both Karli and I grabbed  something to eat at the food court. Surprisingly they had excellent food! After the museum, we just hung out at or hotel pool for the rest of the day!