Парк Мира в Нагасаки

Park located in Nagasaki, Japan

Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II. It is next to the Atomic Bomb Museum and near the Peace Memorial Hall.

A plaque at the nearby hypocenter gives the following account and statistics of the damage caused that day. + DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION1. Leveled Area: 6.7 million square meters (2.59 square miles)2. Damaged Houses: Completely burned: 11,574 Completely destroyed: 1,326 Badly damaged: 5,509 Total structures damaged: 18,4093. Casualties: Killed: 73,884 Injured: 74,909 Total: 148,793
(Large numbers of people have died in the following years from the effects of radioactive poisoning.)

Every year, on 9 August, the anniversary of the atomic bombing, a Peace Memorial Ceremony is held in front of the statue and the Mayor of Nagasaki delivers a Peace Declaration to the World. At the south end of the park is a "Fountain of Peace". This was constructed in August, 1969, as a prayer for the repose of the souls of the many atomic bomb victims who died searching for water, and as a dedication to world peace. Lines from a poem by a girl named Sachiko Yamaguchi, who was nine at the time of the bombing, are carved on a black stone plaque in front of the fountain. It reads: "I was thirsty beyond endurance. There was something oily on the surface of the water, but I wanted water so badly that I drank it just as it was."

The park was shown in the 1991 Akira Kurosawa film Rhapsody in August, in which a Japanese child points out that there is no sculpture in the Peace Symbols Zone from the United States. "Constellation Earth" was donated in 1992, a year after the film's release, after this omission was noted by St. Paul mayor James Schiebel during a trip to Nagasaki in 1990. Peace Park of Nagasaki