Children's Peace Monument (Japanese: 原爆の子の像) is a monument for peace to commemorate Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and is located in in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, itself in the city of Hiroshima. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities Sadako Sasaki ( Japanese:佐々木 禎子 Sasaki Sadako, January 7, 1943 &ndash October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at is a large park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack ( The Japanese city of ( is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan 's Designed by native artists Kazuo Kikuchi and Kiyoshi Ikebe, the monument was built using monies derived from a fund-raising campaign by Japanese school children including Sadako's classmates, with the main statue entitled 'A-bomb Children' being unveiled on the 5th of May, 1958, or (Children's Day in Japan). Kodomo no Hi (こどもの日 meaning " Children's Day " is a Japanese national Holiday which takes place annually on May 5, the fifth Universal Children's Day In 1954 the United Nations General Assembly suggested that all nations should observe a Universal Children's Day as a day of worldwide For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Sadako is immortalized at the top of the statue, where she holds a crane. Thousands of origami cranes from all over the world are offered around the monument on a daily basis, with ancient Japanese tradition holding that one who folds a thousand cranes can have one wish granted. is a group of one thousand Origami paper cranes held together by strings They serve as a sign that the children who make them and those who visit the statue desire a world without nuclear war, having been tied to the statue by the fact that Sadako died from radiation-induced leukemia after folding over a thousand cranes, wishing for world peace. Beneath the main structure lies a bronze crane that works as a wind chime when pushed against a traditional peace bell from which it is suspended, the two pieces having been donated by Nobel Laureate in Physics Hideki Yukawa. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature né, was a Japanese Theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.
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Sister statue
The monument inspired a youth funded and designed sister statue in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, in the state where "Little Boy", the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was built. Santa Fe ( Navajo: Yootó is the Capital of the state of New Mexico. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Little Boy was the Codename of the Atomic bomb, developed via the "Manhattan Project" which was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6 1945 by the The sister statue was dedicated in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the bombings. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 [1]
See also
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- Hiroshima Witness
- Sadako Sasaki
- Thousand origami cranes
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The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at is a large park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack ( Hiroshima Witness, also released as Voice of Hibakusha, is a Documentary film featuring 100 interviews of people who survived the Atomic Sadako Sasaki ( Japanese:佐々木 禎子 Sasaki Sadako, January 7, 1943 &ndash October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl is a group of one thousand Origami paper cranes held together by stringsDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic