Children's Peace Monument
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Children's Peace Monument (Japanese: 原爆の子の像) is the monument for peace to comemorate Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bomb.
The monument was built by the fund-raising campaign with children including Sasako's classmates in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on the 5th of May (Children's Day in Japan) in 1958.
On the top of the monument, there is the statue of Sadako holding a golden crane.
Thousand origami cranes from all over the world will be offered around the monument.
[edit] See also
- Sadako Sasaki
- Thousand origami cranes
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
