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Doomsday Site Reborn with Peace Statue at Nagasaki
Ten years after the Nagasaki A bomb attack, Shiroyama grade school rises on the same site with a bronze schoolboy statue and two doves in its courtyard. Principal Tatuso Oi describes teaching that emphasizes peace over war, while survivors remember 73 000 killed at Mt Kompira. Next week Nagasaki unveils two new civic buildings a Peace Prayer statue and a cultural center.
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Nagasaki
Shiroyama
Japan
Tatuso Oi
Mt. Kompira
Magic Mountain
Pan
New International Cultural Center
Bikini
U.S. Navy