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Hiroshima---the “liveliest” City in Japan Outline Part One Lead-in Part Two Background Information Part Three Writing Workshop Part Four Structural Analysis Part Five Questions for Detailed Studies of the Text Part Six Assignment Part One Lead-in Warming-up exercise: A. The following are pictures related to our text, please point out the words or phrases in the text that best describes them. B.Pre-reading Questions 1.Can you guess the writer’s occupation and his nationality? 2.What do you think was the aim of his visit? Part II Background Information 1)Hiroshima, city on southwestern Honsh? Island（本州）, Japan, capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, at the head of Hiroshima Bay. The city was founded in 1594 on six islands in the ?ta River delta. Hiroshima grew rapidly as a castle town and commercial city, and after 1868 it was developed into a military center. By the beginning of world war II, it was the 7th largest city inJapan, with a population of 350,000. During World War II, the Second Army and Chugoku Regional Army were headquartered in Hiroshima. The city also had large depots of military supplies, and was a key center for shipping.[7] The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, followed by an ultimatum which was ignored by the Shōwa regime, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday,[1] August 6, 1945, [2] followed on August 9 by the detonation of the Fat Man nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.[3] The Bombing of Hiroshima At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, by order of President Truman, the first Atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy was exploded over a point near the centre of