Hiroshima Bank

Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan (about 380 meters from the hypocenter)

The interior of this building was severely destroyed by the intense blast of the atomic bomb’s explosion at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, and forty-two persons inside were killed, while the external structure was spared from collapse.

Since most banking facilities throughout the city were wiped out, limited banking service was resumed on August 8 by converting the interior of this bank into partitioned makeshift service centers for each bank.

(Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan seen from the southwest.  Photograph taken in November 1945 by Toshio Kawamoto)

Submitted by

Bryan Arnold

@nanowhiskers