A Blank in the Weather Map
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 A Blank in the Weather Map |
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| Author | Kunio Yanagida |
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| Original title | 空白の天気図 |
| Translator | A Blank in the Weather Map |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction Novel |
| Publisher |  Shinchosha |
| Released | January 1975, (July, 1981), <October 28, 2004> |
| Media type | Print (Paperback),<e-book> |
| Pages | 273 pp,(443 pp) |
| ISBN | ISBN-10: 4103223014, ISBN-13: 978-4103223016 (ISBN-10: 4101249016, ISBN-13: 978-4101249018) |
A Blank in the Weather Map (空白の天気図 Kuhaku-no Tenki-zu?) is a non-fiction book written by Japanese author Kunio Yanagida, it was published in Japan in 1975.
The storiy is about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945.
Hiroshima was fully destroied in the Atomic Bombing on August 6, 1945.
And one month later, the phenomenal and powerful typhoon called Makurazaki Typhoon hit Hiroshima and 1229 dead, 1054 injured, 783 missing in Hiroshima Prefecture.
This book investigated what really happened there, why the Meteorological Observatory couldn't help the people..
At that time in Hiroshima, administration systems was destroyed.. The survivors have lost their houses and they were living in barracks or hospitals.. And the observatory, they have also lost the way to flash the news about the typhoon..
[edit] Contents
- Introduction - Enigma of the 2,000 deaths
- Chapter 1 - The Flash
- Chapter 2 - No Lack of the Observation
- Chapter 3 - The 17th of September, 1945
- Chapter 4 - The Disaster of the Research Group on Atomic Bomb from Kyoto University
- Chapter 5 - The Black Rain
- Last chapter - The Record of the Sandglass
[edit] See also
- Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory
- Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
- Makurazaki Typhoon - September 17, 1945
- one of the three largest Typhoons in Shōwa period
- 1229 dead, 1054 injured, 783 missing in Hiroshima Prefecture
