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|location      = [[Nagasaki Peace Park]], [[Nagasaki]], Japan
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|open          = July 7, 2013
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[[File:The Content of the Monument to Commemorate Chinese victims of the Atomic bombing.jpg|thumb|Monument to Commemorate Chinese victims of the Atomic bombing]]
The {{nihongo|'''Monument to Commemorate Chinese Victims of the Atomic Bombing'''|中国人原爆犠牲者追悼碑|Chūgokujin genbaku giseisha tsuitōhi}} is in [[Nagasaki Peace Park]] in [[Nagasaki]], Japan. During [[WWII]], at least 40,000 [[Chinese people|Chinese]] laborers were forcibly brought to [[Japan]] from [[China]] to make up for a nationwide labor shortage. There were about 1,000 Chinese laborers forced to work in mines in Nagasaki.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/07/national/rites-held-to-honor-a-bombed-chinese-prisoners/|title=Rites held to honor A-bombed Chinese prisoners|date=2013-07-07|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref> During the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, 32 of those Chinese laborers died.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/07/national/rites-held-to-honor-a-bombed-chinese-prisoners/|title=Rites held to honor A-bombed Chinese prisoners|date=2013-07-07|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref>
The Nagasaki memorial commemorates those 32 Chinese, brought to Japan as [[forced labourer]]s and made to work as [[coal-miner]]s, who were in [[Urakami Prison]] and died in the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing of the city]] on August 9, 1945, during [[World War II]].{{r|times}} The monument was unveiled on July 7, 2013.{{r|times}}  According to the ''[[Japan Times]]'', there were 33 Chinese prisoners in jail for various charges, which included spying. There was one survivor from among the prisoners, who later died under interrogation.<ref>{{Cite web|title= Rites held to honor A-bombed Chinese prisoners|work = The Japan Times|date = July 13, 2013| url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/07/national/rites-held-to-honor-a-bombed-chinese-prisoners/#.VVKqs5N0fYh |accessdate= 12 May 2015}}</ref>
==References==
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<ref name=times>[s.n.] (July 7, 2013). [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/07/national/rites-held-to-honor-a-bombed-chinese-prisoners/ Rites held to honor A-bombed Chinese prisoners]. Kyoto: ''Japan Times''. Accessed April 2015.</ref>
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[[Category:World War II memorials in Japan]]
[[Category:Monuments and memorials concerning the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]