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Peace Clock Tower

 

Date of completion

October 28, 1967

 

Designer Shoji Ohata

 

Shape:

A tower made of 3 iron pillars each twisted by 60 degrees with a spherical clock facing three directions on top (height 20m).

 

Memorial Epigraph:

"With the appearance of nuclear energy, mankind is standing at a crossroads between life or death, downfall or prosperity. Uniting the wide world with one heart, the role of Lions Club members in establishing peace is big. We have built this clock tower and donated it to the city in accord with the perennial preservation of the A-bomb Dome. The chime of the clock tower resounding everyday at 8.15, the time when mankind received its baptism of the atomic bomb for the first time, calls out to the world for "No more Hiroshima" and we pray that the day for lasting peace may soon come to mankind."

October 28, 1967

Celebrating 10 years since

the transmission of the charter

Hiroshima Rijo Lions Club

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