Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing

Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing
Location	Nagasaki Peace Park, Nagasaki, Japan
Opening date	July 7, 2013
Dedicated to	Chinese victims of atomic bombing

Monument to Commemorate Chinese victims of the Atomic bombing

The Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing is in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, Japan. It commemorates 32 Chinese, brought to Japan as forced labourers and made to work as coal-miners, who were in Urakami Prison and died in the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945, during World War II.^[1] The monument was unveiled on July 7, 2013.^[1]

This article, published by Japan News, mentions that this monument is to commemorate Chinese prisoners who were in jail for spying charges during the war. The prison was held at what is now called Nagasaki Peace Park. During the atomic bombing in August 1945, these Chinese prisoners died.

At that time, almost 1000 Chinese were brought to Japan and forced to work in mines in Nagasaki. This monument was a way for Japan to say sorry for what they did during the war and honor the A-bombed Chinese prisoners.

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