Ninoshima Memorial Monument

On August 6, 1945, toward the end of the Pacific War, a special bomb dropped by a US B29 bomber on Hiroshima caused unprecedented casualties. The military designated the Ninoshima Army Quarantine Station as a temporary field hospital and began to take in the wounded. Over 10,000 people were taken in, and more than half of them, and some say nearly 10,000, died there. Their bodies were cremated at the quarantine station (now the Juchheim Ninoshima Welcome and Exchange Center) and the horse quarantine station (now the Ninoshima Elementary School), but because the death toll was so high, a large trench was dug in the square and the remains were buried there. The remains of those who died in the atomic bombing were discovered in October 1971, 26 years later, in a corner of the grounds of Hiroshima Municipal Ninoshima Junior High School in Haedomari, Ninoshima Town, and Hiroshima City Hall erected this monument in November 1972.