Ashita Kira Kira, Shining Hope for Tomorrow

At home,
You were a reliable father or a brother.
At the foot of the bridge,
You and your colleagues wrote certificates for the victims
despite your wounds.
Soon after,
The Maintenance of the Public Order Act vanished.

This monument used to be located in Kako-machi at the time of the A-bombing, one km away from the hypocenter. It collapsed and was heavily damaged in the bombing. All police officers in Hiroshima Prefecture united to have it relocated and rebuilt here on the national holiday of Autumnal Equinox Day in 1949.
The huge monument stone with the edges chipped away tells us what enormous power the A-bomb had.
The names of 441 police officers killed in the line of duty are engraved in the back of the monument. Three hundred fifty-four souls lost in the A-bombing were newly consoled in this monument.