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Amergin

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Found this curious bit of news on the Boing Boing website:

“Hiroshima police are on the lookout for the person who threw a paper airplane into its atomic bomb monument”

“The paper airplane, which was taped shut carried a message on the outside that read, "Great Hiroshima Earthquake 10.28 5:18." As SoraNews24 points out, "This is especially cryptic since there is no record of a 'Great Hiroshima Earthquake' and if that was meant to be a prediction, one did not occur at 5:18 a.m. or p.m. on that day either."
Hiroshima city council member Taichi Mukugi wrote about the incident on his blog and added that there was writing on the inside of the plane too, but it was difficult to read and made little sense. Parts referred to "165 countries as of [illegible date]" and "14 including Hiroshima [illegible] Nagasaki." “

An odd occurrence in its own right, but then this was pointed out in the comments:

“Something similar happened in June 2021.
Someone taped a sheet of paper to the cenotaph reading, “Today 18:27 Meteor on Yoshiura” and below that “8/8 8:15 Sapporo.” They caught the guy who did it then. It was an unemployed 44 year old from the Hiroshima suburb of Kure (which has a district called Yoshiura).”

See:

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/09/h...4.1264368144.1667859014-1013019901.1652144840
 
Found this curious bit of news on the Boing Boing website:

“Hiroshima police are on the lookout for the person who threw a paper airplane into its atomic bomb monument”

“The paper airplane, which was taped shut carried a message on the outside that read, "Great Hiroshima Earthquake 10.28 5:18." As SoraNews24 points out, "This is especially cryptic since there is no record of a 'Great Hiroshima Earthquake' and if that was meant to be a prediction, one did not occur at 5:18 a.m. or p.m. on that day either."
Hiroshima city council member Taichi Mukugi wrote about the incident on his blog and added that there was writing on the inside of the plane too, but it was difficult to read and made little sense. Parts referred to "165 countries as of [illegible date]" and "14 including Hiroshima [illegible] Nagasaki." “

An odd occurrence in its own right, but then this was pointed out in the comments:

“Something similar happened in June 2021.
Someone taped a sheet of paper to the cenotaph reading, “Today 18:27 Meteor on Yoshiura” and below that “8/8 8:15 Sapporo.” They caught the guy who did it then. It was an unemployed 44 year old from the Hiroshima suburb of Kure (which has a district called Yoshiura).”

See:

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/09/h...4.1264368144.1667859014-1013019901.1652144840
The similarity of the messages makes.me wonder if they have roots in elements of Japanese culture that are not easily understood by gaijin like me. Anyone out there have a clue if I'm on to something with that thought?
 
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