Nagasaki Peace Bell to ring for anniversary of bombing

Advertiser Staff

In commemoration of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 57 years ago, the city and several local organizations will ring the Nagasaki Peace Bell at 6 p.m. today at Honolulu Hale's Civic Center Grounds.

The city received the Nagasaki Peace Bell as a gift from survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing and their supporters in 1990. The survivors wanted to make a gesture of reconciliation to the people of Honolulu.

Since 1990, the bell has been sounded Aug. 9 every year and on the day observing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

The Nagasaki survivors also gave two other peace bell monuments, one to Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg), and the other to a city in Manchuria, which felt the brunt of Japanese military action.