GIS?, The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive on Google Earth

Even though this subject is a sad one, it can show how the many Internet services and sources can be creatively combined here.
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From: hidenori watanave <hwtnv ATsd.tmu.ac.jp>
The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive on Google Earth
 
"Hiroshima Archive" that is a digital archive about the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb. http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/ 
 
"Hiroshima Archive" is a pluralistic digital archive using the digital
 virtual globe "Google Earth" to display on it in a multilayered way
 all the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima Peace
 Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Jogakuin Gaines Association, and the
 Hachioji Hibakusha (A-bomb Survivors) Association. Beyond time and
 space, the user can get a panoramic view over Hiroshima to browse
 survivors' accounts, photos, maps, and other materials as of 1945,
 together with aerial photos, 3D topographical data, and building
 models as of 2010. The archive aims to promote multifaceted and
 comprehensive understanding of the reality of atomic bombing.
 
- You can also view a capture movie on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-q00isamvs
- A description in English / Japanese, http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/concept.html
- Interface in English, http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/ge_en.html  (About 50 victim's stories are translated）
 
See also our other archives.
- The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Archive, http://e.nagasaki.mapping.jp/ 
- The Japan Earthquake Archive, http://e.nagasaki.mapping.jp/p/japan-earthquake.html 
 
Best regards, Hidenori Watanave
Supervisor of Photon,Inc. and Associate professor, Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University
 
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video Japan appeal -A message from the residents of Fukushima

H-JAPAN (E) July 17, 2011

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zYjYtVrOro&feature=youtu.be  Here is a short YouTube appeal for help from a few of the residents about
 the safety of their children, with English subtitles. They are not panicking or sentimental, but they are afraid. (Also, see the related videos on the same page.)
 
Through the summer heat, while some pundits debate the relative severity of  the disaster and the politicos are still trying to make a plan, the residents of Fukushima are living with the threat of radiation that they do  not understand any better than the rest of us. And like a whole line of other residents, from Mayor Sakurai of Minami-Souma in the weeks after 3.11  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a78lgT6qavY), they are frustrated at the  lack of governmental support.

 

David H. Slater, Ph.D.   Faculty of Liberal Arts   Sophia University, Tokyo

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