Monument for foreign victims of the war,the abolition of nuclear weapons and for the prevention of war.
Monument for foreign victims of the war,
(The erect day:8th December 1981)
Epitaph December.8.1981
During "the fifteen years
war"- the war between Japan and China - the beginning of which was
the Liu-tiao-gou Incident,September 18,1931,and including the pacific war
which began at Pearl Harbor-3.100.000 Japanese,and millions of people in
the world were killed.
In Nagasaki at the end
of the war, more than 70.000 Japanese citizens,and several thousand foreign
people,Koreans,Chinese laborers,students,merchants,and P.O.W. of the Allied
Forces from he United Kingdom,USA,Australia,the Netherlands and Indonesia-were
victimized by the attack from the U.S.Air Force,submarines and the atomic
bomb.
On the nearby hill where
the Urakami prison existed,32 Chinese,13 Koreans,and some Japanese prisoners
were also killed by the atomic bomb.
Several hundred P.O.W.
from the Allied Forces had been killed earlier by diseases and accidents
in the P.O.W. camps in Koyagi and Saiwai-machi.
In memory of all these foreign war victims in Nagasaki, including Father
Kolbe,whowas a bictim at the X Auschwitz Concentration Camp,we erect this
memorial paid for by private donations collected widely both within and
outside Japan,and offer our prayer for the abolition of all nuclear weapons
and our pledge never to repeat those tragedies again.
On the 40th anniversary
of the beginning of the pacific war.
Committee for the Erection
of a Memorial to All Foreign War Victims in Nagasaki.
