U.S. Zen priest calls to prepare 300,000 Jizos for A-bomb victims

NAGASAKI, Japan - Jan Chozen Bays (R) an American Zen priest, speaks at a news conference in Nagasaki on May 13. Bays is seeking to gather about 300,000 handmade images and statues of Jizo, one of the most beloved divinities in Japan, by summer 2005 in memory of every victim of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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