Hoax – Nagasaki Arch Survives Both Atomic Bomb and Tsunami – Hoax-Slayer

This story was first published on 1st July 2011

Outline:
Circulating message claims that attached photographs depict an “arch” in the Japanese city of Nagasaki that somehow survived both the atomic bomb blast of 1945 and the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

Brief Analysis:
The photographs are genuine but they do not show the same “arch” (more correctly known as a “torii”). Moreover, while the first photograph does show a torii at Nagasaki, the second photograph depicts a torii at the Kozuchi shrine in the Japanese town of Otsuchi.