Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing

The Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing is in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, Japan. It commemorates 32 Chinese, brought to Japan as forced labourers and made to work as coal-miners, who were in Urakami Prison and died in the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945, during World War II. The monument was unveiled on July 7, 2013. According to the Japan News, there were 33 Chinese prisoners in jail for various charges, which included spying. There was one survivor from among the prisoners, who later died under interrogation.

At that time, almost 1000 Chinese were brought to Japan and forced to work in mines in Nagasaki. This monument was one way for the Japanese government to atone for the treatment of Chinese prisoners and to honor those who died in the atomic bomb explosion.