As politics is polarized and more fragmented, BBC faces difficulty.
And now they face changes.
Tony Hall will leave the position of director general at BBC “in summer”[1].
Also, BBC News announced they will cut 450 jobs in the near future[2].
In the polarized world, the way that a news organization raise fund by collecting license fee from the public isn’t applicable. The role of media as watchdog should be kept in society, but the divided society causes harsher backlash or hostility in the case like the current politics in UK.
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Atomic bomb “Little Boy”[0.5] was dropped by B29 Enola Gay in Hiroshima[0.6] “at 8:15 am on 6 August” 1945[1] — “43 seconds later”[1.1] exploded — after the Trinity test succeeded on 16 July the same year[2].
Shima clinic for internal medicine. About 600 meters above, the a-bomb exploded. This photo is taken by myself in February 2020.
The a-bomb exploded about 600 meters above[2.1] of the present (as of February 2020) Shima clinic for internal medicine which had been originally serving as Shima hospital since 1933[2.2].
3 days later from the bomb in Hiroshima, on 9 August, Fatman was dropped in Nagasaki[2.5].
Because of Little Boy in Hiroshima, it is estimated that about 140,000 people died until the end of 1945 according to Hiroshima city[3].
The atomic bomb’s tremendous energy comes from nuclear fission.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial, or the Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome). This photo is taken by myself in February 2020.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial, or the Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome)[3.5] was Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall[3.6] which had been a building for local industry[4][4.5]. It was designed by Jan Letzel[5], architect who was “born in Náchod”[6] of “the present Czech Republic”[7]. He was asked by the then governor of Hiroshima prefecture Sukeyuki Terada in July 1913[8].
“In May 2016,”[9] Barack Obama, who was then in office as the 44th US president[10], visited Hiroshima.
The visit I went in February 2020 gave me opportunity to think about not just 1945 atomic bomb but also more broadly nuclear related issues. I think that preserving buildings and creating this sort of place to the world is important to convey history to people including the future generations. Because Hiroshima now preserves the history, I got an opportunity to look at the history after the visiting was planned, and I will try to think about more on these matters.
[2.2] Based on the description on a webpage of Shima clinic for internal medicine, available at http://www.shimagekanaika.jp/access.html accessed 16 February 2020.
[3.6] The English translation of Hiroshimaken-sangyo-syourei-kan (広島県産業奨励館) as Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall is based on the description on the website of UNESCO. Available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775/. Accessed 13 February 2020.
[4.5] The name of the building when constructed in 1915 was Hiroshimaken-bussan-chinretsukan (広島県物産陳列館) in Japanese, changed in [Source: p.10 of 頴原 澄子. 原爆ドーム: 物産陳列館から広島平和記念碑へ. 吉川弘文館. ISBN978-4-642-05831-5.]
What I wrote this time is not consistent with the one published before as I have been thinking about related issues since the last publishing.
1. Withdrawal of the public fund
1. Withdrawal of the public fund
The fund had been adopted on 4 April[d]. The Agency for Cultural Affairs published the press release on 26 September that they do not provide the public funding with the Aichi Triennale 2019[a] — the fund was 78,290,000 yen[e], about 711,727 USD (1$=110JPY), about 652,417 EUR (1€=120JPY). This was “unprecedented”[i] that the decision which had been decided through the original process was withdrawn[j]. The decision was made “without consulting”[f] the members including Kunihiro Noda[g]. On 2 October[h], Kunihiro Noda, professor at Tottori University, left his position of the committee involved in deciding the adoption of the fund[c].
It became to public that there’s no minutes of the process of deciding to withdraw it[b].
I think that for many it looked like an ideological confrontation and I cannot deny that aspect. One of the tasks of the organizers is to create a space that the works are exhibited safely during the whole period as scheduled.
Society doesn’t become enriched at least in terms of culture if expression is restricted.
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Would be better to aware that one cannot move to the past. One goes forward in one’s own life, One changes as surroundings change and cannot be the same as the moment which anyone imagine. Essentials may look like unchanged, but even if it seems so, the it’s not completely the same as before since some are added to oneself.
Time proceeds without stopping. When one made a mistake, and wants to redo it isn’t redo in a sense that time has passed. Redo isn’t actually redo of the time it should have been succeeded.
Doing close to the first time is difficult.
Because time is limited, what are achieved have value.
L'histoire de mes pensées 