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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The ruin of the hall serves as a memorial to the people who were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Over 70,000 people were killed instantly, and another 70,000 suffered fatal injuries from the radiation.
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Takeshi Araki was the mayor of Hiroshima from 1975 to 1991.
The end of World War II in Asia occurred on 2 September 1945, when armed forces of the Empire of Japan surrendered to the forces of the Allies. The surrender came almost four months after the surrender of the Axis forces in Europe and brought an end to World War II.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. 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. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is visited by more than one million people each year. The park is there in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was planned and designed by the Japanese Architect Kenzō Tange at Tange Lab.
Ryuichi Shimoda et al. v. The State was an unsuccessful case brought before the District Court of Tokyo by a group of five survivors of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who claimed the action was illegal under the laws of war and demanded reparations from the Japanese government on the ground that it waived the right for reparations from the U.S. government under the Treaty of San Francisco.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony is an annual Japanese vigil.
Tadao Watanabe was a Japanese politician and Mayor of Hiroshima from 1955-1959.
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Setsuo Yamada was the Mayor of Hiroshima from 1967 until his death.
Tsunei Kusunose was the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from October 1945 to 1950.
Shichirō Kihara was mayor of Hiroshima from October 22, 1945 to March 22, 1947 and was elected as member of the Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly in 1911.
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Wakami Fujita was mayor of Hiroshima from 1939 to 1943.
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Yoshio Shigezono was a Japanese lyricist and music teacher. He is known principally for writing the words for the Hiroshima Peace Song.
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- Robert Jungk, Children of the Ashes
- Yoshiteru Kosakai, Hiroshima Peace Reader (Hiroshima, 1980)