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Prototype of Peace Statue in Nagasaki

A 15-centimeter-tall prototype of the Peace Statue in Nagasaki's Peace Park goes on public display on Nov. 9, 2024, at a prison in Isahaya in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki. Sculptor Seibo Kitamura, the statue's creator, donated the prototype to the prison in 1959 to mourn the 134 prisoners and prison staff killed when the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki hit as they were at a prison unit located near Ground Zero.

Prototype of Peace Statue in Nagasaki

A 15-centimeter-tall prototype of the Peace Statue in Nagasaki's Peace Park goes on public display on Nov. 9, 2024, at a prison in Isahaya in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki. Sculptor Seibo Kitamura, the statue's creator, donated the prototype to the prison in 1959 to mourn the 134 prisoners and prison staff killed when the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki hit as they were at a prison unit located near Ground Zero.

Project to collect witnesses of nuke-bomb survivors

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks during video shoot in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 18, 2024, for a project gathering witness testimonies of atomic bomb survivors ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2025.

Project to collect witnesses of nuke-bomb survivors

Shigemitsu Tanaka, the 83-year-old head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks during video shoot in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 18, 2024, for a project gathering witness testimonies of atomic bomb survivors ahead of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2025.

Court ruling on Nagasaki A-bomb survivors

Photo taken on Sept. 9, 2024, shows a courtroom at the Nagasaki District Court in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The court ruled the same day in support of 15 of the 44 plaintiffs who were seeking state health care benefits as survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki after being exposed to the blast outside the state-designated area.