Hiroshima Post Office Worker Martyr Monument

Date of construction August 1975 Hiroshima Post Office (commonly known as the main office) was opened in 1871 as the center of Hiroshima's communications, and in 1893, a modern brick building with some mortar coating was constructed, with three stories above ground and one below. At the time, it was highly praised for being the "prefectural office at No. 1, and the post office at No. 2." The building was located at the location of the Shima Hospital information board (the hypocenter) and the parking tower across the road, and facing this three-way intersection was the three-story main entrance with a modern clock tower. Since it was directly under the hypocenter, the building collapsed in an instant. It is believed that those inside died before they could even see the light or hear the sound. By the evening of that day, there were only numerous unrecognizable skeletons and charred corpses lying in the rubble. At the time, many male employees had been drafted into the military and had left their jobs. Many of the victims of the atomic bomb were women who had been hired to make up for labor shortages, mobilized female students, and students in the upper division of national schools. The monument reads, "288 Hiroshima Post Office employees lost their lives in the atomic bombing," but a newspaper investigation in 2000 found that in addition to these, one female student and eight young children who were in the nursery room were also killed.