MIT image database of 400 A-bomb paintings completed+
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[March 29, 2006]

MIT image database of 400 A-bomb paintings completed+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)HIROSHIMA, March 29_(Kyodo) _ An image database of about 400 paintings depicting suffering and damage to survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima was completed on a Massachusetts Institute of Technology website Wednesday.



The pictures, most of which had been drawn by atomic bomb survivors by the mid-1970s, are part of 3,500 items kept in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

The database, accessible on the MIT website http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/, was compiled by a group of academics led by John Dower, an MIT professor of Japanese history.



Shigeru Miyagawa, a Japanese professor of linguistics at MIT who helped Dower's project, told a press conference in Hiroshima, "We can share painful experiences as human beings through images which have been imprinted on A-bomb survivors' mind. I hope people all over the world will see the paintings."

Some of the paintings were posted on the website beginning April last year.

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