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| Above, remnants of the Urakami Prison can still be seen at Nagasaki's Peace Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
A story in the Asahi Shimbun about local Nagasaki residents seeking to remember POWs who died in a prison camp when the atomic bomb was dropped caught my attention. The prison camp was formerly a junior high school.
A monument is being planned to be erected on the former POW prison site to memorialize the POWs.
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| Above, Urakami Prison building foundation ruins can be seen from both sides of the walkway to the Peace Statue at Nagasaki's Peace Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
There was another prison in Nagasaki and it housed Chinese and Korean prisoners along with staff members and public residences, the Urakami Prison. It was the closest facility to the atomic bomb hypocenter. The site of the former prison is now a part of Nagasaki's Peace Park. For details on the prison, go here.
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