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| Hiroshima Peace memorial park |
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima. 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 location of Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Park was once the city’s busiest downtown commercial and
residential district. The park was built on open field that was
created by the explosion. Today there are a number of memorials
and monuments, museums, and lecture halls, which draw over a
million visitors annually. The annual 6 August Peace Memorial
Ceremony, which is sponsored by the city of Hiroshima, is also
held in the park. The purpose of the Peace Memorial Park is to
not only memorialize the victims, but also to establish the
memory of nuclear horrors and advocate world peace.
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| Sadako
Sasaki started to fold cranes |
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| Still
thousands of folded cranes comes, so the exhibition is
changed all the time |
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| The
river and a closer look at the famous building |
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| My private crane |
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| from around 1965 |
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