Norman Cousins Monument

Date of construction: August 2, 2003. Mr. Norman Cousins (1915-1990) was the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Saturday Literary Review" in New York, USA. He visited Hiroshima in 1949 and published a reportage called "Hiroshima Four Years Later". This prompted him to work with Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto and others on a "spiritual adoption campaign" for children who had lost their families in the atomic bombing, providing both material and spiritual support to over 400 children from the US. Furthermore, in 1955, he became involved in the treatment of keloid scars from the aftereffects of the atomic bomb, which Rev. Tanimoto and Dr. Tomin Harada were working on, and he made an effort to send 25 women to the US for treatment, giving them hope and confidence for the future. In 1964, he was awarded the title of Special Honorary Citizen of Hiroshima City.