Tadao Watanabe

Tadao Watanabe

Mayor of Hiroshima 1955-1959. In 1956, he inaugurated the statue of the goddess Kannon in the Peace Park in memory of those killed and in anticipation of peace. [http://library.thinkquest.org/C006932/himeguri/bun/bun14.html]

External links

* Interview by Watanabe to the Los Angeles Times [http://www.marxists.org/archive/hansen/1958/xx/coexistence.htm]
* Article in the Time mentioning Watanabe [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810499,00.html]


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