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wThe Monu-ment of Preayer is situatec to
the right behind the Cenotaph for the A-bomb
Victims. It was completed on August 15, 1960,
on the fifteenth anniversary of the end of
the war, by the Committee to Carry out a
Na-tional Festival of Prayers for Peace to
Comfort the spirits of the Dead, sponsored
by the New Japan Association. This monument
is dedicated to peace and to comforting those
who died for their country in various crises
including the "Greater East Asia War"
. The monument has the figures of a young
couple on a pedestal holping their childin
their arms. It was designed by Yoshizimi
Yokoe, a sulptor. Just to the right in front
of the monument is a stone engraved with
a poem by Hiroshima-born poet Atsuo Oki entiiled,
"Praying for Peace and the Peaceful
Repose of the Departed Souls."x |
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