Brief Updates from Japan and South Korea

"The Nagasaki Peace Park. It was almost directly above this spot in 1945 that the world?s second atomic bomb was dropped."

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Japan Picture by Rob Lilwall
Travel story: Brief Updates from Japan and South Korea

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Current Location: Busan (formerly Pusan), South Korea

With increasingly pleasant weather, I headed south west through Japan, finally arriving in Nagasaki. It is hard to imagine how on one day, 60 years ago, "a noiseless flash? left seventy five thousand people instantly dead, with tens of thousands more dying in the aftermath. A moving place.

Yesterday, a six hour ferry ride carried me to the bustling port of Busan. There is a... More