Picture of Nagasaki Peace Park
Caption: NAGASAKI PEACE PARK
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Caption: Peace Park
is a commemorative park honoring bomb victims of 9th August 1945.
It is a place to convey the truth of the Atomic Bomb.
Place of prayers and wishes, place of healing.
Picture of Peace Statue
Caption: The right hand indicates the threat of nuclear weapons, the left hand symbolizes peace.
Closed eyes express prayerfulness for those who are victims of war.
The folded right leg symbolizes quiet meditation, while the left leg is poised for action in assisting humanity.
Picture of Peace Park
Caption: There are houses of cranes on the right and on the left of statue. People bring here whole bunches of paper birds.
Picture of Peace Statue
Caption: Goup of schoolchildren in front of the Peace Statue.
Picture of Fountain of Peace
Caption: When the atomic bomb exploded, thousands of people suffered terrible burns and died begging for water.
Fountain was build with donations recieved from all over Japan, and dedicated it as an offering of water to the victims of the atomic bomb and a prayer for the repose of their souls.
Picture of Fountain of Peace
Picture of Hypocenter Park
Caption: Sculpture of woman with her baby in the Hypocentre Park, place of the atomic bomb explosion.
Picture of Hypocenter Park
Picture of A-Bomb Ruins of Urakami Cathedral Wall
Caption: Urakami Cathedral was completed in 1914 through donations and voluntary labor service by Catholic believers.
The explosion destroyed the grandest church in east Asia at the time. Only the broken church wall remained.
Picture of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Caption: Replica of the side wall of the Urakami Cathedral exposed in the museum.
Picture of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Caption: The clock damaged by the blast and stopped at the moment when the atomic bomb hit the city.
Picture of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Caption: The day before, we asked the local man what he would recommend us to see in Nagasaki. We also asked him if the Atomic Bomb Museum is good?
He didn’t know how to answer.
The next day we understood how inappropriate our question was...
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September 24, 2014
