A dove of peace on the Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan


A dove of peace on the Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園 Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial 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, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000). The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is visited by thousands of people each year. The park is there in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945. On August 6,1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was planned and designed by the Japanese Architect Kenzō Tange at Tange Lab.


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Location: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, 1??-1 Nakajimacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Photo credit: © David Warren / Alamy / Afripics
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