Today Hiroshima is an ultra-modern city with few battle scars, except for those in the memories of the hibakusha bomb survivors. 今日的广岛已是一座高度现代化的城市,除了那些存在于原子弹爆炸幸存者脑海中旧日战争的伤痕。
Hiroshima(広岛市,Hiroshima-shi) (listen) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The city's name, 広岛, means "Wide Island" in Japanese. Hiroshima gained city status on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1980, Hiroshima became a designated city. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 1,154,391. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011.
a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area