“I’d ring out love between my brothers and my sistersAll over this land”- Peter, Paul, and Mary - the Hammer Song (by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger)
At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, erected over soil brought from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, stands the World Peace Bell. It was cast in 1952 by Chiyoji Nakagawa, a one-time Mayor of Uwajima in Shikoku (who collected donations of coins from 65 member nations, which were melted to make the bell) and given to the United Nations by the people of Japan in 1954. Today there are 21 replicas around the world, donated over the years, four of them in Japan. One of these bells is at Soya Misaki (Cape Soya), the northern most tip of Hokkaido, near the town of Wakkanai.
A small bell for visitors to ring at Soya Misaki, next to the World Peace […]
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