Part 3 Rescue and Medical Relief
Final Section
Chapter 2：International Culture City
1. War Damage Restoration Project
2. War Damage Restoration Land Allotment Project and Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Project
3. Enactment of International Culture City Construction Law
4. Peace Commemorations
(1) The Peace Park
(2) Nagasaki International Culture Hall
(3) Peace Promotion Office and Atomic Bomb Museum
(4) The Peace Statue
(5) The Peace Fountain
(6) Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
5. Memorial Monuments in Nagasaki City
1. War Damage Restoration Project
Battered in body and spirit by the atomic bombing and defeat in World War II, the citizens of Nagasaki wandered about in a state of confusion and bewilderment in the weeks and months after the bombing, unable to consider anything more far-reaching than day-to-day survival. But soon the prefectural and municipal governments joined forces and created the first plan for the restoration of Nagasaki's former living environment, allotting a budget of one million yen for surveys and measurements in the 1945 fiscal year. Nagasaki was also one of 115 cities designated on November 12, 1945 as a recipient of postwar restoration benefits provided by the national government of Japan. On November 30, the basic policy regarding the war damage restoration project was decided.
On the basis of the national policy and its historical and geographical setting, Nagasaki City formulated plans for the restoration of streets, parks and green areas, as well as its water supply and sewerage systems, envisioning an administrative, cultural and economic local core city with industries centering around trade, shipbuilding and fishery and underpinned by the long history of international exchange.
The allotment of land was the first step in preparing for the restoration project. On September 30, 1946, Nagasaki City, in accordance with the national policy regarding war damage restoration, designated the areas in the atomic wasteland subject to the War Damage Restoration Land Allotment Project. The city government later added Ōhashi-machi and the area to the north, and launched the project in cooperation with the prefectural government on December 4. (By the time the project reached completion, the allotment area had been adjusted several times and expanded in size to approximately 430 hectares.)
In conjunction with the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law promulgated on August 9, 1949, authorities undertook a thorough review of the predetermined plan and on March 31, 1951 unveiled the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Project including a large-scale athletic field and commemorative facilities such as the Nagasaki International Culture Hall and Nagasaki Peace Park. This project established the foundations of Nagasaki’s modern-day urban infrastructure.
3. Enactment of International Culture City Construction Law
The Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law was passed unanimously at the fifth session of the Japanese Diet on May 11, 1949. The purpose of the law was to enhance the development of international culture and to achieve the ideal of lasting world peace. Nagasaki, after all, was a city with a colorful history as Japan's western gateway to the world, with a vital responsibility as one of only two cities to have experienced nuclear devastation, and with a port in close proximity to China and the countries of Southeast Asia. The law provided Nagasaki with the impetus to raise itself up from the ashes of the atomic bombing and to develop its unique characteristics as an international city of peace and culture.
Referendum
The law was subject to article 95 of the new Japanese Constitution stipulating that it could not be enacted without the approval of a majority of Nagasaki citizens. The question was put to the public in the form of a referendum on July 7, 1949, the first conducted under the new constitution. A high 73.5% of Nagasaki's 111,090 eligible voters turned out, and an overwhelming 98.6% voted in favor of the enactment of the law.
Officially adopted on the fourth anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing on August 9, 1949, the law marked an important first step toward reconstructing Nagasaki as an International Culture City. A grand citywide commemorative event was held in Nagasaki to celebrate the day of promulgation and to express hopes for the future development of the city.
The result of the vote for the International Culture City Construction Law
Number of Eligible Voters: 111,090
Total Votes: 81,637
Voting Rate: 73.5%
For: 79,220 (98.6%)
Against: 1,136 (1.4%)
Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law (law No. 220, enacted on August 9, 1949)
(Purpose)
Article 1. This law aims to reconstruct Nagasaki as an International Culture City, by developing an international culture, in order to realize the ideal of everlasting peace.
(Plans & Projects)
Article 2. The Special City Plan to Build Nagasaki International Culture City (International Culture City Construction Plan) includes projects to construct various facilities suitable for the International Culture City, in addition to the city planning stipulated in Article 1 of the City Planning Law (law No. 36, enacted in 1919).
2. The Special City Planning Project to Build Nagasaki International Culture City (International Culture City Construction Project) is designed to carry out the International Culture City Construction Plan.
(Assisting Projects)
Article 3. Organizations affiliated with the national and local governments should provide as much assistance as possible toward advancing and completing the International Culture City Construction Project, considering that the project has important implications as per the purpose of Article 1.
(Special Aid)
Article 4. The National Government can transfer common property to public organizations that pay the cost of implementing the International Culture City Construction Project, when such transfer is necessary for the project, regardless of the provision in Article 28 of the National Property Law (law No. 73 enacted in 1948).
(Report)
Article 5. Those who implement the International Culture City Construction Project must make efforts to quickly complete the project, and must report their progress to the Minister of Construction at least once every six months.
2. The Prime Minister must annually report to the Diet the situation of the International Culture City Construction Project.
(Commitment of the Mayor of Nagasaki)
Article 6. The Mayor of Nagasaki City must oversee constant activities to complete Nagasaki International Culture City, through cooperation with the public and the assistance of affiliated bodies.
(Application of the Law)
Article 7. With regard to the International Culture City Construction Plan and the International Culture City Construction Project, the Special City Planning Law (law No. 19, enacted in 1946) and the City Planning Law will be applied, except as regards special provisions in this law.
Supplementary Provisions
1. This law will come into force on the day of its promulgation.
2. When this law comes into effect, the Nagasaki Special City Planning Project, which is currently implemented, will be changed into the International Culture City Construction Project so as to conform to the main purport of Item 2, Article 2, by going through the formalities stipulated in the provision of Article 3 of the City Planning Law.
Since the law had many benefits as stipulated in the various articles, the expectations of the citizens of Nagasaki were extremely high at the time. The benefits included every possible form of assistance from national and regional governments in promoting various projects in the construction of the international culture city and, when necessary, special transfer of government properties.
The Nagasaki City Government and City Council established a task force for the vote, requested the organization of a cooperative committee, held meetings with citizens by area and rallied against voter abstention by mobilizing trucks and picture card shows to stimulate public enthusiasm and expectations for voting.
After the law took effect, the planning of the International Culture City Construction Project Plan took on various aspects: the restoration of war-damaged streets, harbor facilities, water supply, houses and schools; the designation of an area four kilometers in diameter around the hypocenter as a cultural hub; and plans for the construction of Nagasaki Peace Park, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and Nagasaki International Culture Hall, as well as other museums, universities, athletic facilities and hot-spring resorts. Although at the time the total project cost was over 18.5 billion yen, only a part of the project was actually implemented and completed. In any case, the project played an important role in the reconstruction of the urban center into which Nagasaki has grown today.
The purpose of the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law was to help Nagasaki recover from the wounds of war, rebuild itself as a peaceful, pleasant and livable city, and lead efforts for lasting peace In that sense, the various projects launched as part of the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Plan can be seen as peace-related endeavors. The following are representative peace commemorative facilities that were constructed in accordance with the motto “Peace from Nagasaki.”
(1) The Peace Park
The construction of the Peace Park, a facility to convey the history of the atomic bombing and the importance of peace to people in Japan and abroad, was started in 1951 at the hypocenter in Matsuyama-machi as a project related to the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law.
Since then, additions and improvements have been implemented each year, including the Peace Statue (1955), Nagasaki International Culture Hall (1955), the Peace Fountain (1969) and the World Peace Symbol Zone (1980-1992).
The Peace Park underwent further construction projects starting from fiscal 1994 on the basis of the Peace Park Construction Plan formulated the previous year. The three districts on the east side of Route 34, namely the Peace Statue District, Hypocenter District and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum District, were designated the Aspiration Zone, Reflection Zone and Study Zone, respectively. On the west side, the district containing the prefectural baseball stadium, municipal swimming pool and municipal rugby and soccer stadium was designated the Sport Zone, while the district with the municipal athletic stadium, tennis courts, softball stadium and Japanese archery school was designated the Plaza Zone. These zones are integrated to form the greater Peace Park (approximately 15.7 ha in area).
The Peace Park currently attracts many visitors, including tourists and students on school excursions, and continues to create a new history as a center for the dissemination of peace from Nagasaki.
(2) Nagasaki International Culture Hall
The construction of the Nagasaki International Culture Hall commenced in April 1951 as a project based on the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law. The much-awaited building reached completion in February 1955 and the facility opened to the public in April the same year.
The total construction cost was almost 168 million yen, covered in six-ninth, one-ninth and two-ninth portions by the national, prefectural and municipal governments, respectively.
Location: 7-8 Hirano-machi, Nagasaki City
Land area: 4,644 tsubo (15,325 m²)
Main Building: one-basement, six-story reinforced concrete building
Total floor area: 775.98 tsubo (2, 565.22 m²)
Attached Lecture Hall: reinforced concrete building
Total floor area: 310.91 tsubo (1,027.78 m²)
The purpose of establishing the Nagasaki International Culture Hall, as stipulated in the first article of the above law, was to “collect, preserve and exhibit information on the atomic bombing and to promote the use of that information in public meetings and events, so as to realize the ideal of lasting peace and to promote international cultural development.”
The main building of the Nagasaki International Culture Hall was located only 150 meters from the hypocenter, on a hill commanding a clear view of the hypocenter area. The gardens around the main building exuded the exotic subtropical atmosphere of Nagasaki, planted with Phoenix trees and Chinese tallow trees (Sapium sebiferums), the city tree of Nagasaki. Designed to resemble the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the building stretched from east to west, with stones from the Goto Islands embedded in the western façade and eastern rear side and an entrance in the form of a memorial to the more than 70,000 people who died in the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
When the building reached completion, it towered over the other buildings in the hypocenter area and clearly symbolized the determination of Nagasaki citizens to rise from the ashes of the atomic bombing and to strive for peace. Drawing more than one million visitors annually, the Nagasaki International Culture Hall conveyed the importance of peace and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons with its various atomic bomb-related information and exhibits.
(3) Peace Promotion Office and Atomic Bomb Museum
The Nagasaki International Culture Hall was inaugurated as both a multipurpose cultural complex and a museum related to the atomic bomb disaster. With the construction of other facilities in the city and later redecorations, it gradually came to be used exclusively as an atomic bomb museum. Subsequently, the attached lecture hall (annex) was demolished and the Nagasaki City Peace Promotion Office constructed on the site and opened on July 21, 1981.
Rebuilding the Nagasaki International Culture Hall
The Nagasaki International Culture Hall was put to practical use after coming to serve as an atomic bomb museum, but the building became cramped and dilapidated as the number of visitors increased. As a result, a decision was made to rebuild the facility as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing. Dismantled in July 1993, it was rebuilt at a total cost of some 6.6 billion yen and replaced with a new facility with a total floor space of approximately 7,950 m², or three times the size of the former building. The new “Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum” opened in April 1996 as a symbol of Nagasaki’s role as an international peace city and its mission to promote peace worldwide.
The two-basement, two-story reinforced concrete building looks like a protrusion from a verdant hill when viewed from a distance. The facility includes an exhibition room and special exhibition room in the lower basement; entrance lobby, video room, conference hall, peace study rooms, training room, book shop and lounge in the upper basement; a library, office and video corner on the first floor; and conference rooms on the second floor.
(4) The Peace Statue
For a period of five years from 1951 to 1955, Nagasaki City invited donations from home and abroad for the construction of a commemorative monument in the Peace Park, a new park on an elevated tract of land in the atomic wasteland north of the hypocenter. The unveiling ceremony was held on August 8, 1955.
The Peace Statue Construction Co-sponsoring Association called for donations with the following letter of intent:
Object of the Construction of the Peace Statue
Nine years have passed since Nagasaki experienced the flash of the atomic bomb. August 9, 1945, the day of the atomic bombing, is not only the greatest day of sorrow in the memory of Nagasaki citizens but also a significant day in Japanese and world history in that it brought World War II to an end.
Having directly experienced terrible hardships and paid a heavy price on the day of the atomic bombing, the residents of Nagasaki sincerely aspire to contribute to lasting peace for all humankind and to make efforts to reconstruct Nagasaki as an International Culture City under the slogan “Peace from Nagasaki.”
Since the construction of a commemorative facility at the hypocenter has long been a desire of Nagasaki residents, we are delighted to hear of Nagasaki City’s decision to construct the Peace Statue and comfort the souls of the atomic bomb victims and to commemorate their great sacrifice. The five-year project beginning in fiscal 1951 will symbolize the aspiration of the people of Nagasaki for lasting world peace. The construction of the Peace Statue was commissioned to Kitamura Seibō, one of the greatest statuary artists in Japan, with subscriptions collected at home and abroad.
After completion, the Nagasaki Peace Statue will become a noted world monument and will help to comfort the souls of the atomic bomb victims by inviting visitors from around the world to look up at the statue and to embrace a desire for peace. To this end, the Peace Statue Construction Co-sponsoring Association was organized to secure the 30 million yen construction costs. We appreciate your understanding regarding the object of the construction project and the deep feelings of gratitude and responsibility embraced by the survivors of that horrific war, and we look forward to your donations as an offering to the departed spirits of the atomic bomb victims.
Peace Statue Construction Co-sponsoring Association
President
Nakabe Etsurō
Outline of the Peace Statue Construction Project
Organizer: Tagawa Tsutomu, mayor of Nagasaki
Location: The atomic bomb hypocenter area of Nagasaki (Peace Park)
Date of Completion: August 9, 1955, 10th anniversary of the atomic bombing
Cost: 30 million yen (all costs covered by donations, except for the pedestal and other accessories covered by the Nagasaki City Government)
Sculptor: Kitamura Seibō, member of the Japan Academy of Art
Statue and Pedestal: Bronze statue: 32 shaku (9.7 m)
Pedestal painted white: 13 shaku (3.9 m)
Circumstances of the Peace Statue Construction
In a booklet co-edited by the Peace Statue Construction Co-sponsoring Association and the Nagasaki Prefectural Teachers Union (issued on October 1, 1964), the circumstances of the construction project were described as follows:
The explosion of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki caused indescribable human suffering and material damage, slashing the city population of 270,000 to 140,000 and causing such thoroughgoing destruction in the hypocenter area that not so much as a blade of grass remained. The sight of the desolate fields of Urakami blown by the bitter winds of defeat and drenched with cold rain left an indelible and inexpressible impression upon the surviving citizens.
Did the people of Nagasaki contemplate revenge in the wake of this cruel and inhuman event? They would no doubt have been justified in this feeling if they did. But the answer is no.
The reason is that the people of Nagasaki experienced the atomic bombing directly and saw with their own eyes the carnage and horror it caused. Watching their peers die one after another from late effects even nine years later, they were constantly burdened with worry that atomic bomb disease might be their fate as well. That made the idea of revenge meaningless. Nuclear war, the survivors realized, must be avoided at all costs. To save humanity from nuclear destruction they resolved to appeal to people lacking knowledge of the atomic bomb. The maxim ‘Peace from Nagasaki!’ sprouted naturally from that resolution.
On May 10, 1949, the Nagasaki International Culture City Construction Law was passed in the national diet, launching Nagasaki on a mission as a city symbolic of Japan's new principles of peace and culture. Still, it was not until restoration work had seen considerable progress and the workaday life of the city returned to normal that the question of a monument for the more than 70,000 victims of the atomic bombing became a topic of serious discussion. At the same time the wooden pillar indicating the exact point of the hypocenter was criticized as a shabby marker of that important site. In fact, the city administration had already made a budget allotment for the construction of a permanent commemorative monument, and the citizens of Nagasaki were making active proposals such as the construction of an ‘International Culture City Monument’ on one of the mountains surrounding the city. When sculptor and Japan Art Academy member Kitamura Seibō's enthusiasm for the creation of a peace statue came to light, the Committee for the Preservation of Atomic Bomb Relics announced its support for the commissioning of the statue to Mr. Kitamura. The reason stated was that ‘the proposed statue is ideal because it symbolizes both peace and culture and therefore answers all three of the requests for commemorative monuments in Nagasaki.’ That was followed by announcements of unanimous support from organizations such as the International Culture City Construction Council and the Rotary Club. Care was also taken to air all opinions before the final decision, such as the reaction of the alumni of Nagasaki Prefectural Women's Junior College to the fact that the statue featured a naked male figure. Finally, the Nagasaki City Council approved a budget proposal for a four-year project involving an expenditure of 15 million yen to be gathered by donation (except for the construction of the statue base, etc.) by an overwhelming majority in the spring of 1951. As a result of the subsequent rise in general prices and a change in the proposed height of the statue from 30 to 32 shaku (about 9.7 meters), however, the construction budget was increased to 30 million yen in the initial budget of 1954 and the project was extended by one year.
Although officially an undertaking of Nagasaki City, the project depended on contributions from the general public. It was necessary to establish a civilian organization called the ‘Peace Statue Construction Cooperative,’ which assumed responsibility for the collection of contributions not only from Japan but also from North and South America, Hawaii, Thailand, Burma and other places overseas. Another important source was the "one yen per person" fund-raising campaign, which was discussed at the All Japan Elementary School Principals Conference in Fukuoka, the All Japan Conference of the Japan Teachers Union in Sapporo, the All Japan Conference of Directors of City Boards of Education in Sendai, and a large number of regional education organizations. These many organizations approved of the campaign as a way to realize the construction of the Peace Statue and in fact put it into practice, collecting donations of one yen each from teachers and pupils in elementary schools and junior and senior high schools throughout Japan. The people of Nagasaki were also deeply grateful for the resolution by the All Japan Conference of the Shin-shū Nishihonganji Branch Buddhist Youth Organization, which was held in Nagasaki on the atomic bomb commemorative in 1954, to initiate a fund-raising campaign on the national level.
The sculptor, Kitamura Seibō, wrote the following poem to commemorate the completion of the Peace Statue and to express his wish for world peace.
Words of the Creator of the Peace Statue
In the face of that nightmarish war,
that bloodcurdling carnage and extreme misery,
that horror that forbade mothers a sight of their dead children,
who would not pray for world peace?
The Peace Statue rises here as a pioneer
in the worldwide movement for peace.
It has the mountain-like immobility of a holy sage,
and the healthful vigor of a powerful man more than 32 shaku in height.
The right hand points to the atomic bomb,
and the left to peace,
and the solemn face prays for the repose of the victims' souls.
It is a person beyond race,
sometimes Buddha, sometimes God,
the symbol of Nagasaki's great passion and resolve
and of humanity's highest hope.
Kitamura Seibō
Spring 1955
(5) The Peace Fountain
After the atomic bomb exploded on August 9, 1945, the victims, who suffered burns that penetrated to their inner organs, died while crying for a last drink of water. The Peace Fountain was sponsored by Nagasaki City and the National Council for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Construction of World Peace and completed in August 1969 on the basis of donations from Japan and abroad. It serves as an offering of water to the tortured souls of the dead and as an expression of aspiration for lasting world peace.
The water spurts to a height of six meters, creating a pattern that simulates the wing-beats of a dove of peace.
The black stone in front of the fountain is inscribed with the words of Yamaguchi Sachiko, who was nine years old at the time of the atomic bombing: “I was desperately thirsty. An oily substance was floating on the surface of the water. I was so thirsty that I drank the water, oily substance and all.”
(6) Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
This facility was established by the national government as a tribute to the atomic bombing victims and an expression of the wish for lasting peace. The facility also plays an important role as a venue for the gathering and dissemination of information in the form of memoirs, testimonies and other materials conveying the experience of the atomic bombing to future generations and providing information for international cooperation and exchanges regarding peace and medical treatment for radiation exposure. The construction project commenced in November 2000 and the facility opened on July 6, 2003.
Location: 7-8 Hirano-machi, Nagasaki City (adjacent to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum)
two-basement, one-story reinforced concrete building on premises 15,391.53 m². m in area, with a total floor space of about 3,000 m².
The main facilities are in the lower and upper basements. On the surface level, a sculpted basin 29 m in diameter was installed. When night falls, some 70,000 fibers of light radiate from it, signifying the number of victims who died as a result of the atomic bombing.
In the Remembrance Hall in the basement, the “Pillars of Light” indicate the direction to the hypocenter (250 m away). The lists of departed atomic bombing victims are stored at the back of the hall, beyond the pillars.
In the reference area, pictures of the deceased, hand-written diaries and audio and video testimonials from the database may be freely accessed.
The facility is conveniently connected to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum along the lower and upper basements, making visits to both facilities easy.
5. Memorial Monuments in Nagasaki City
There are now well over 100 monuments in Nagasaki established to commemorate the atomic bombing and to express the aspiration for world peace. These various monuments include general memorial monuments, remembrance monuments, memorial towers (statues), peace monuments (statues), and literary monuments inscribed with songs and poems.
The following are a few of the principal monuments located in the hypocenter area.
(1) Statue of a Child Praying for Peace — 5 Hirano-machi, Peace Park Central District
This is a statue of a girl holding paper cranes, a Japanese symbol of wishing. Donations were collected from children around the world to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the atomic bombing, and the statue was unveiled on August 9, 1967 as a symbol of the wish for eternal peace.
Stone plaques from 15 countries and all of the Japanese prefectures are affixed to the base of the monument, which carries the following inscription (in Japanese):
May the grief of the children of Nagasaki,
Who clutched their mothers and cried
Under the atomic mushroom cloud,
Never be repeated in our world.
May the sound of guns
Never echo again in our ears,
And may the sun shine ever brightly
Over all the children of the world.
(2) The Statue of Peace for Children — 23-1 Shiroyama-machi, Shiroyama Elementary School
This life-size statue of a boy stands in the courtyard near the front gate of Shiroyama Elementary School. Located closer than any other school to the hypocenter, Shiroyama Elementary School suffered terrible death and destruction in the atomic bombing, including 28 teachers, more than 1,400 pupils and more than 200 mobilized students who were on the premises at the time. The statue represents the efforts of the pupils of Shiroyama Elementary School to recover from the tragedy of the atomic bombing and to live in peace. Like the children of the time, the boy is standing bravely, barefoot and naked from the waist up. The statue was unveiled on August 8, 1951. Sugimoto Kamekichi, director of the school association at the time, served as representative of the building project. The statue is the work of Tominaga Naoki, a sculptor from Nagasaki.
(3) Monument to Those Children — 20-56 Hashiguchi-machi Yamazato Elementary School
The white granite monument is located in a corner of the Yamazato Elementary School compound. Carved in relief on the stone is a girl in monpe (Japanese-style pantaloons), who is shown kneeling amid the flames of the atomic bombing with her hands held in prayer. The “Monument to Those Children” stands on an elevated spot to the left of the front gate. Unveiled on November 3, 1949, the monument is dedicated to the more than 1,300 teachers and pupils who perished in the atomic bombing. The project was funded using the royalties from Living under the Mushroom Cloud, a collection of essays written by the surviving pupils and published at the suggestion of Dr. Nagai Takashi, who was confined to bed by illness at the time. The faculty and pupils gather every year in November to conduct a peace ceremony in front of the statue and to renew their commitment to world peace and to remember the teachers, pupils, parents, brothers and sisters who perished in the atomic bombing.
The inscription on the stone pillar next to the monument shows the words “Heiwa (Peace)” and “Anokora-no-hi (Monument to Those Children)” carved in the handwriting of Dr. Nagai.
(4) Monument to the Mobilized Students from Junshin Women’s High School who died in the Atomic Bombing — 13-15 Bunkyō-machi, Junshin Women’s High School
Of all the women’s schools in Nagasaki, Junshin Women’s High School suffered a particularly high death toll, with over 200 mobilized students perishing in the atomic bombing. The monument was unveiled on May 30, 1949 in front of the entrance to Junshin Women’s Vocational School. The following 31-syllable (in Japanese) poem, written by the Dr. Nagai Takashi, was inscribed on the base of a statue of Our Lady of Mercy in prayer, recalling the students who died singing hymns: hansai no hono’o no naka ni utaitsutsu shirayuri shōjo moenikeru kamo (“Singing hymns, the girls as innocent as lilies burned in the flames of war”).
(5) Peace and Memorial Monuments in the Peace Park
The following is a list of the commemorative monuments in Peace Park (Matsuyama-machi and Hirano-machi), where the hypocenter, the Peace Statue and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum are located:
Monuments and Other Structures in the Peace Park (Peace Statue District)
| No. | Name |
| 1 | Peace Statue |
| 2 | Peace Fountain |
| 3 | Paper Crane Towers |
| 4 | The Bell of Nagasaki |
| 5 | Monument of Recovery from War |
| 6 | “Monument to People’s Friendship” from the former German Democratic Republic |
| 7 | “Joy of Life” from the former Czechoslovakia |
| 8 | “Statue of Peace” from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| 9 | “A Call” from Bulgaria |
| 10 | “Statue of a Maiden” from the People’s Republic of China, |
| 11 | “Dedicated to Peace” from Santos, Brazil |
| 12 | “Sun Crane of Peace” from the Republic of Cuba |
| 13 | “∞ Infinity” from Ankara, Republic of Turkey |
| 14 | “Earth Constellation” from St. Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| 15 | “Victory of Peace over War” from San Isidro, Argentina |
| 16 | “Hymn to Life” from Pistoia, Italy, |
| 17 | “Flower of Love and Peace” from Poland |
| 18 | “Monument to Peace” from Porto, Portugal |
| 19 | “Protection of Our Future” from Middelburg, The Netherlands |
| 20 | Repository for the Names of Atomic Bomb Victims in Komaba-machi |
Monuments and Other Structures in Peace Park (Hypocenter District)
| No. | Name |
| 1 | Hypocenter Monolith |
| 2 | Ruins of the Former Urakami Cathedral |
| 3 | Stone Lanterns from Shōtokuji Temple |
| 4 | Monument Commemorating the Events of the 50th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing |
| 5 | Monument to Streetcar Workers Victimized by the Atomic Bomb |
| 6 | Monument to Foreign Victims of the War, the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and the
Prevention of War |
| 7 | The Sumako Fukuda Poetry Monument |
| 8 | Monument to Telecommunication Workers Victimized by the Atomic Bomb |
| 9 | Monument to Peace and the Renunciation of War |
| 10 | Statue of a Child Praying for Peace |
| 11 | Monument to Korean Victims of the Atomic Bombing |
| 12 | Nagasaki Peace Flame Monument |
| 13 | Mothers and Children for Peace |
| 14 | Monument to the Poetry of Yoshiho Hata |
| 15 | Monument to the Poetry of Takami Oyama |
| 16 | Monument to the Poetry of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing |
| 17 | The Atomic Bombing Poetry Monument |
| 18 | Peace Monument |
| 19 | Nurturing Peace and Anti-nuclear Sentiment |
| 20 | A Requiem for that Summer Day |
| 21 | Passing Our Hopes for Peace on to Future Generations |
| 22 | PEOPLE AT PEACE |
| 23 | Monument to the Poetry of Haruto Kuma |
| 24 | Monument to Poems on the Atomic Bombing by Atsuyuki Matsuo |
| 25 | Monument to the Poetry of Shūoshi Mizuhara |
Monuments and Other Structures in the Peace Park (Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum District)
| 1 | Children of the Future |
| 2 | Statue of a Teacher and Students Sacrificed in the Atomic Bombing |