Hiroshima offers permanent home to Okamoto's 'Myth of Tomorrow'

Hiroshima offers permanent home to Okamoto's 'Myth of Tomorrow'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - With a copy of Taro Okamoto's mural ''Myth of Tomorrow'' in the background, Akiomi Hirano, director of Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in Tokyo, speaks to reporters in Hiroshima on Jan. 9 about Hiroshima's offer to house Okamoto's painting at a park north of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome. The ''Myth of Tomorrow,'' a 5.5-meter-by-30-meter mural painted on seven panes of concrete, depicts the moment of an atomic bomb explosion and a skeleton burning under a mushroom cloud. Tokyo and Osaka have also expressed interest to offer a permanent home for the giant mural produced between 1968 and 1969 in Mexico. (Kyodo)

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