A Blank in the Weather Map

A Blank in the Weather Map

First edition
Author	Kunio Yanagida
Original title	空白の天気図
Translator	A Blank in the Weather Map
Language	Japanese
Genre	Non-fiction
Published	1975 (Shinchosha, JP)
Publication place	Japan
Media type	Print (Paperback), e-book
Pages	273 pp (JP),(443 pp)
ISBN	978-4-10-322301-6

A Blank in the Weather Map (空白の天気図, Kuhaku-no Tenki-zu) is a non-fiction book written by Japanese author Kunio Yanagida and published in Japan in 1975. The book is about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945. Hiroshima was fully destroyed in the Atomic Bombing on August 6, 1945.

One month later, the phenomenal and powerful typhoon called Makurazaki Typhoon hit Hiroshima and resulted in 1,229 dead, 1,054 injured, and 783 missing in Hiroshima Prefecture. This book investigated what really happened there, why the Meteorological Observatory was ineffective. At that time, Hiroshima's administration systems were destroyed and was unable to inform the public about the typhoon. The survivors lost their houses from the bomb and were living in barracks or hospitals.

Contents

• Introduction - Enigma of the 2,000 deaths
• Chapter 1 - The Flash
• Chapter 2 - No Lack of the Observation
• Chapter 3 - The 17th of September, 1945
• Chapter 4 - The Disaster of the Research Group on Atomic Bomb from Kyoto University
• Chapter 5 - The Black Rain
• Last chapter - The Record of the Sandglass

See also

• Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory
• Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
• Makurazaki Typhoon - September 17, 1945
  • one of the three largest Typhoons in Shōwa period
  • 1229 dead, 1054 injured, 783 missing in Hiroshima Prefecture

External links

• A Blank in the Weather Map
• Makurazaki Typhoon Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Ebayama Museum of Meteorology