Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
The Remembrance Hall

The Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims is one of the National Memorial Halls in Nagasaki, Japan. Like its counterpart in Hiroshima, the hall was constructed as a place to remember and pray for those killed by the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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Designed by architect Akira Kuryu, the memorial was constructed between November 2000 and December 2002.[1] The subterranean interior of the building contains a reference area, a large conference room, an anteroom with a bank of monitors showing photographs of the victims, and a stylized remembrance hall in which 12 pillars of light symbolize hope for peace.[2] An upper level serves as an abbreviated tour, with diary excerpts and a viewing station allowing visitors to view the Remembrance Hall from above. As viewed from the outside, the top of the memorial consists mainly of a tree-lined basin of water through which the 12 pillars of light continue to rise from below. At night, 70,000 fiber optic lights are illuminated across the surface of the water, symbolizing the victims.[3]

The foundation also tours internationally, holding anti-nuclear displays in cities around the world. The 2005 exhibition was held at the Peace Museum in Chicago, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the bombing as well as a conference in New York which reviewed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.[4] In 2007, the exhibition was held in Guernica, Spain, which was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in April 1937.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims". McGraw Hill Construction. http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/lighting/archives/0403nagasaki.asp. Retrieved March 7, 2008. 
  2. ^ "Route for Remembrance". Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. Archived from the original on January 26, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080126220815/http://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/eng/ftop.html. Retrieved March 7, 2008. 
  3. ^ "Sculpted Basin". Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. Archived from the original on January 26, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080126220815/http://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/eng/ftop.html. Retrieved March 7, 2008. 
  4. ^ "An excuse for nuclear weapons". The Japan Times. August 6, 2005. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20050806a1.html. Retrieved March 8, 2008. 
  5. ^ "Guernica to get national peace hall annual show". The Japan Times. May 30, 2007. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070530b3.html. Retrieved March 8, 2008. 

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Coordinates: 32°46′22″N 129°51′54″E / 32.77278°N 129.865°E / 32.77278; 129.865


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