Off topic - I remember a friend of mine telling me about when he went to Japan he met a man who was in World War II. He was in a submarine heading for an American ship. He was a suicide bomber. He was a mile away from the American ship when he received a radio call, telling him to turn back because the war was over.
Off topic again - my friend also went to Hiroshima. He told me that there is a branch office of the Osaka Bank with the silhouette of a man on the wall and steps of the building. He was sitting with an elbow on one knee and a hand on his chin, when the bomb went off only 500 yards away. He was vapourised in the explosion, but the radiation left his outline burned onto the stone wall and steps.
http://nikki.sundark.com/photos/hiro...-04/shadow.jpg
http://www.uchiyama.nl/fotogalerij/p...hiroshima8.jpg
