Amélie Nothomb. Tokyo bride (№ 247486)

Wandering the streets, I thought: here it, a unique dignity that distinguishes the Japanese, here it manifests itself in the most amazing ways. Nothing, absolutely nothing, suggests that it is a city-Martyr. In any other country from such an unimaginable nightmare for sure would have sucked all dividends possible. Capital, acquired on the tragedy, the wealth of many States were absent in Hiroshima.