Nagasaki Peace Bell

This Bell Tolls for All of Us

This monument to the mobilized students and forced laborers who died as a result of the atomic bomb tolls at 11:02am, the time of the notorious attack. It also evokes the famous memoir of Catholic pea...

Getting things right

When you are building memorials for the world to come and see, they have to mean something no matter what the culture and history of the viewer. This did not resonate with me, but I cannot think of an...

In memory of the mobilized students and forced laborers.

This bell is a part of the Urakami Cathedral that survived the bombing. It was used in a new frame in 1977. The name of the monument echoes the name of the book "The Bells of Nagasaki" by Takashi Naga...

Simple but Symbolic

This bell is very simple in its structure but then doesn’t need to be a grand statement at all as it strikes when the time of the attack was each time to sound a reminder to all that can here it in th...

At its proper place at this location

One of the memorial items in the Nagasaki Peace Park. Artistically not a very interesting memorial, but of course fully at its proper place at this location.