Talk:Hiroshima

Not Toyama, Either (Superfluous Information)
This is supposed to be an article about Hiroshima. Therefore, while it's fine to say, "The bombing of Tokyo and other cities in Japan during World War II caused widespread destruction and hundreds of thousands of deaths.[13]," is it really necessary to provide the following: "For example, Toyama, an urban area of 128,000, was almost completely destroyed, and incendiary attacks on Tokyo claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people."

What does this have to do with Hiroshima? Toyama? Toyama AND Tokyo? The first sentence more than makes the point. I think it would be good to leave such superfluous "examples" out of a discussion of "Hiroshima" (especially when "The bombing of Tokyo" hardly needs "incendiary attacks on Tokyo" as its own example!") Thanks!114.158.149.78 (talk) 11:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Three years on, but a valid point... Chaheel Riens (talk) 12:24, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

What about light rail?
How come there's no mention of the Hiroshima Electric Railway in the article? 69.142.222.250 (talk) 15:02, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Timeline of Hiroshima
What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 12:52, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Keep introduction clean
It's a city after all. What ever tragedy happened in the past should not be mentioned in the introduction. This is not how something or someone wants to be remembered. It's like putting the most recent gossip in an article about some celebrity. --2.245.107.125 (talk) 00:41, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Worthless suggestion - the dropping of the bomb is without doubt the most notable item about Hiroshima.98.67.178.139 (talk) 10:11, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Climate section reads impossible temperatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth lists the highest temperature recorded as 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) and the climate table here shows record temperatures of 171F as records in Hiroshima from 1981 onwards. I think the table needs to be adjusted to the Japanese version which seems far more accurate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dddfx (talk • contribs) 02:31, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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The story about my great grandfather cleaning up the nuke
While my great grandfather was cleaning up the nuke that dropped on Hiroshima, he found a samurai sword and has kept it with our family since then! My great grandfather passed away when my mother was just like six! Till this day I wonder about how it managed to withstand that explosion and destruction from the bomb and did its owner parish just like the millions of other people that died in the nuked cities? I wish that I could've met my great grandfather and ask about that stuff! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bubba2018 (talk • contribs) 04:33, 27 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Why are you telling us all this? Wikipedia is not a family nostalgia website. The talk section is supposed to be in relation to relevant content within the article proper, not quaint trips down your family's memory lane, just because you feel like talking about it. That's not what "talk page" means! Your little snippet of irrelevance (no offense, but it really is just that) could hardly have been posted to a less appropriate place. Seriously... the talk page is to talk about the article to which it relates, it is not a page to talk about any old nonsense just because it has a barely passing relationship to the actual article. I move that this whole section be deleted (including my bit) lest it encourage others to wander off into irrelevant nostalgia and use up valuable Wikipedia server space. -- M R G WIKI999 (talk) 16:56, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Neither is it a space to verbally thrash someone because they posted something that isn't appropriate. Overkill much?
 * 2603:6080:EF05:973B:74F6:CF22:9BD3:1D8F (talk) 01:56, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

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Timezone Specification Confirmation
The Timezone associated with Japan is 'Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)'. I assume that when the article mentions the atomic bombing at 8:15 a.m., that this is 'Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)'. I assume that this is correct, given the below site:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-is-dropped-on-hiroshima

Which states "On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima."

ASavantDude (talk) 16:31, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

If Japan is on the other side of the dateline, wouldn’t it be August 7, Japan time for the bomb drop? Stevnim (talk) 00:14, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, it was 8:15 AM on August 6 in Hiroshima, so it still would have been August 5 in the U.S. Larry Hockett (Talk) 00:39, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

witness documentation
Kyogikai's two volume work on the bombing is on Internet Archive. http://ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/weapons/pdf/the_witness_of_those_two_days_Vol1_all.pdf http://ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/weapons/pdf/the_witness_of_those_two_days_Vol2_all.pdf 100.15.127.199 (talk) 12:24, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm getting 404's on both of those links. Netherzone (talk) 13:34, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Source for the Number of People as of 2019.
Hello, The number of people in 2019 is listed as 1,199,391 people. This is unsourced, and also seems too accurate. Has anyone confirmed it's validity? 103.55.58.4 (talk) 04:28, 11 August 2023 (UTC)