Norman Cousins Monument

Date of establishment: August 2, 2003 Norman Cousins (1915-1990) visited Hiroshima in 1949 as the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Saturday Literary Review in New York. , published the report "Hiroshima in 4 years." Taking this opportunity, together with Pastor Kiyoshi Tanimoto and others, he conducted a ``spiritual adoption campaign'' for children who lost their families in the atomic bombing, and provided both material and spiritual support to over 400 children from the United States. Furthermore, in 1955, he became involved in the treatment of keloids, an after-effect of the atomic bombing, which Reverend Tanimoto and Dr. Higashimin Harada were working on, and contributed to the treatment of 25 women who traveled to the United States, giving them hope and confidence for the future. I did. In 1964, Hiroshima City Special