There are a pedestal without the statue and a frame without the inscription.
They are in the place surrounded by trees near Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art on the Mt. Hijiyama.
The distance from Hiroshima Pease Memorial Park ( in other words, the ground zero of Atomic bomb) is 2km.
I hear that Hijiyama protected many lives as a shield.
The reason the statue and the inscription were lost was not the atomic bomb,
but is the metal recovery act for World War II.
The person in the bronze statue is KATO Tomosaburo, the prime minister born in Hiroshima 1861.
Though he had been a naval officer, opted for disarmament against military opposition.
He said ' National defense does not belong to the military. '
' Avoiding war by diplomatic means is the true meanings of the national defense. '
He concluded there were no way to go to war with U.S.A.
That was 1921.
However the history went to the direction he'd warned.
His statue was built by volunteers in Hiroshima to make his intentions known in 1934,
but even it was handed over for the war afterward.
Only the pedestal and frame were left here.
I can't feel that is a mere old story.
We have something we have not to lose.