Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum
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The Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum (袋町小学校平和資料館 Fukuromachi Shogakkou Heiwa Shiryokan) is a museum of the Peace in Fukuromachi, Naka-ku
, Hiroshima
, Japan
. The school was one of the closest schools to the ground zero
. They lost about 160 students and teachers and the building had great damage by the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. After a few days, the school became a first-aid station, and its black burned wall became a message board to find the people. The Peace Museum is the part of the school building with the basement of the former Municipal Fukuromachi Elementary School in Hiroshima. The school is keeping it, to convey the facts of the atomic bomb, to learn about peace, and to send their information to the world.
Naka-ku, Hiroshima
is the heart of Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Naka-ku is home to Hiroshima's central business district and Peace Memorial Park. Major attractions include the Hondori shopping arcade, a covered mall-like street of shops extending east from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to Hacchobori...
, Hiroshima
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. The school was one of the closest schools to the ground zero
Ground zero
The term ground zero describes the point on the Earth's surface closest to a detonation...
. They lost about 160 students and teachers and the building had great damage by the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. After a few days, the school became a first-aid station, and its black burned wall became a message board to find the people. The Peace Museum is the part of the school building with the basement of the former Municipal Fukuromachi Elementary School in Hiroshima. The school is keeping it, to convey the facts of the atomic bomb, to learn about peace, and to send their information to the world.
History
- Opened as a school in the Kaizen-ji, a temple of the Pure Land BuddhismPure Land BuddhismPure Land Buddhism , also referred to as Amidism in English, is a broad branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism and currently one of the most popular traditions of Buddhism in East Asia. Pure Land is a branch of Buddhism focused on Amitābha Buddha...
, on February 2, 1873. - Moved to Fukuromachi, the current place and renamed as "Sakuragawa School" in September, 1876.
- Renamed as "Onchi Elementary School" in October, 1884.
- Renamed as "Fukuromachi Jinjyo Elementary School" in August, 1890.
- Moved to Harimayamachi and renamed as "Harimayamachi Jinjyo Elementary School" in March, 1893.
- Moved back to Fukuromachi in May 1910.
- Renamed as "Fukuromachi Jinjyo Elementary School" in April, 1911.
- The main lecture hall was built in February 1927.
- The reinforced concrete school building was built in January, 1937.
- About 160 students and teachers were killed by the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
- Reopened the school for 37 students in May, 1946.
- Renamed as "Municipal Fukuromachi Elementary School in Hiroshima", current name, in April, 1947.
- New building and lecture hall was built in November. 1952.
- Another new building was built in June, 1957.
- Moved to temporary schoolhouse in December, 1999.
- New school buildings were built in April, 2002.
- Part of the building, built in 1937, was opened as the Peace Museum in April, 2002.
Education programs
- NHKNHKNHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
TV documentary program will be shown- Please Tell Me - Hiroshima, The Recalling Messages of the Atomic Bomb -
See also
- Municipal Fukuromachi Elementary School in Hiroshima
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiAtomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiDuring the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
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