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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) is designated as a historic site under Japanese 1950 Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, and is managed by Hiroshima City under the guidance by the Hiroshima Prefectural Government and the Government of Japan.
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The municipal government of Hiroshima holds annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony at the Memorial. UNESCO World Heritage Site. In December 1996, the Genbaku Dome was registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List based on the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
On August 6, 1945, the first ever atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, resulting in the deaths of upwards of 146,000 people. In the interest of memorializing the severe human toll of the bomb and advocating for future peace, the city designated an area of land to serve as a memorial site.
It is an officially designated site of memory for the nation’s and humanity’s collectively shared heritage of catastrophe. The A-Bomb Dome was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on December 7, 1996.
There are two world heritage sites in Hiroshima. One is the Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima, and the other is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall, which has been crowned as the top of the atomic bomb explosion around the world.
Aug 6, 2019 · Genbaku Dome: Visitors to the city can also see Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Genbaku Dome -- a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When the United States dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945, it exploded just...
Although China and the United States expressed reservations about its inclusion, UNESCO designated the dome a World Heritage site in 1996, describing it as “a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind,” that also “expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons.”
