Hiroshima A-bomb museum logs record 2 million visitors in FY 2024

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 has welcomed 2 million visitors in the current fiscal year that started April, a record high since it was founded in 1955, the museum operator said Sunday.The number of visitors reached 2,003,718 as of Saturday, reflecting an increase in overseas tourists due to the weak yen and growing public interest in the museum amid Russia's war against Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East, according to the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, which released the preliminary data.By around mid-Marc…READ FULL ARTICLE