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Looking east-south-east from the northwest(the east side of the theater Kabuki-za in Hatchobori). All the big windows of the new building of the Chugoku Shimbun in the foreground were shattered and the inside was completely destroyed by fire. The exterior of the Chugoku Shimbun’s main building (in the shadow of the new building facing the direction of the hypocenter) did not receive as much damage as the new building, but the inside of the main building was completely destroyed by fire. For two days after the atomic bombing, the Chugoku Shimbun had to suspend publication of its newspaper. However, the company started printing a newspaper with cooperation from the Asahi Shimbun in Osaka and Mainichi Newspapers in the Kyushu area as well as Shimane Newspaper. On August 31, 1945, the Chugoku Shimbun restored its operation, printing its newspaper in its plant relocated to the Nukushina area. The boarded-up windows on the fourth floor of the new building indicate the Chugoku Shimbun had resumed its operation. On the far left is the Hiroshima branch of Japan Kangyo Bank. The wreckage of a train car in the lower right is that of a Hiroshima Electric Railway Company 430-model streetcar that was completely destroyed. Burned ruins in the foreground are Hatchobori, Teppo-cho, and Kaminagarekawa-cho from the right. |
