A Blank in the Weather Map
- A Blank in the Weather Map
Infobox Book
name = A Blank in the Weather Map
title_orig = 空白の天気図
translator = A Blank in the Weather Map
image_caption = A Blank in the Weather Map
author = Kunio Yanagida
illustrator =
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country = Japan
language = Japanese
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genre = Non-fiction
publisher = flagicon|Japan Shinchosha
release_date = flagicon|Japan January 1975,
(July, 1981),
<October 28, 2004>
media_type = Print (Paperback),<e-book>
pages = flagicon|Japan 273 pp,(443 pp)
isbn = flagicon|Japan ISBN-10: 4103223014, ISBN-13: 978-4103223016
(ISBN-10: 4101249016, ISBN-13: 978-4101249018)
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nihongo|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 book is about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945. Hiroshima was fully destroyed in the Atomic Bombing on August 6, 1945.
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, Hiroshima's administration systems were destroyed and was unable to inform the public about the typhoon. The survivors lost their houses from the bomb and were living in barracks or hospitals.
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
ee 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
External links
* [http://www.katsuji.com/book/yanagida_kunio.shtml#tenkizu A Blank in the Weather Map]
* [http://www.bioweather.net/column/weather/contents/mame068.htm Makurazaki Typhoon]
* [http://www.hcvb.city.hiroshima.jp/e_navigator/main/1_05.html Ebayama Museum of Meteorology]
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