"God has never said you have to perform great deeds for your country and humanity to have lived well Where would that leave all the sick people in the world? Look at me, for instance, needing assistance all the time. You wouldn't say that we sick and bedridden of the world are 'useful'! But usefulness is not the point. Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in and go on living lovingly....Our talents and handicaps may differ greatly, but we are all equal in this: each of us is born to manifest God's glory; to know, love and serve him here below and share in his eternal life after death...if you make the vital decision to live humbly and lovingly, you will live fruitful lives and be happy."

~Takashi Nagai

(Image taken in 1946 while mourning for his wife - Public domain)

Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops (1990) Location: Nagasaki, Japan

Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops (1990) Location: Nagasaki, Japan

Watch This Perfect Landing At Nagasaki Airport - Japan | ANA All Nippon ...

First image above:The beautiful Miyajima island,it’s Cute and Pleasant.

Second:Fireflies in Kagoshima.

Third:The equaly elegant Nagasaki.This rubs me:Cause this place can’t be a place being hit by a nuke.*The usual books of so called history are so off.They can’t properly explaine the japanese wonder.

The bus stop in Nagasaki is too cute 🍈

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Hashima Island, Nagasaki, Japan,

Image Courtesy: Media Drum World

"First picture of results of atomic bomb." From the front page for the Gainesville Daily Register, Texas, August 13, 1945.

One of the earliest known images of Hiroshima after the detonation of the bomb, with the ensuing firestorm captured in this photo, August 6th, 1945

I don't really know what to say about Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan's newest glorification of white violence, I truly don't have a strong opinion either way nor do I have much to say on the film other than I hope the movie itself is less about glorifying Oppenheimer as some American folk hero and more about the massacre and devestation caused by the bombs

And on a personal note, the Japanese side of my family literally came from a suburb of Hiroshima. Of course, my great grandfather left Hiroshima with his brother long before WWII started and he settled in Hawai'i while his brother settled in Salinas Valley CA, when the war broke out the Salinas Valley branch of our family was all sent to the internment camps and two of my great uncles who left Hawai'i for the mainland were also interned along with their spouses and children, the only reason my grandmother and her family weren't interned is because there were just too many Japanese in Hawai'i to intern them, they were 60% of the population, interning Hawaiian Japanese would have meant capsizing Hawai'i's economy, (it didn't stop them from making a few internment camps for influential Japanese community leaders in Hawai'i though). Before the bombs were dropped, a distant relative of mine, a second cousin twice removed or something like that, went back to Japan, they went back to Hiroshima, back to where my family first came from. They went home to family

And then the bombs dropped.

And for months upon months, my family thought they were dead. They were finally able to contact our family and say they were still alive. They got lucky and didn't die in the bombing, but their story is an outlier, and my family got really really lucky in that regard. Of course, I have no idea about the family we still had in Hiroshima before my great grandfather left, but there's no doubt in my mind that I lost family when those bombs dropped, there's no doubt in my mind that a piece of my family history was destroyed, there is not doubt in my mind that there is forever an indelible mark on my family for the rest of time all because the US wanted to test out their fancy new toy that they made their pet scientist Oppenheimer build

I don't care about Oppenheimer, I care about the family I will never get to know

Distant View of Papenberg, at the Entrance of Nagasaki Harbour, 1865

千綿駅, 長崎県

(via 目の前に海が広がる長崎・千綿駅！駅舎内で味わえる本格派カレーと絶景が最高だ - ニッポンごはん旅)

今回の旅で最大の目的となっていた軍艦島上陸ツアーに参加するため、長崎港へ。

港内にある南蛮亭で朝ごはん。

五島うどんもおでんも美味い。

where i made new friends, japan, august 2023 <3

film: kodak gold 200

camera: olympus xa (1979)