"安らかに眠って下さい 過ちは 繰返しませぬから"

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World War IIBombingWar crimes1940s in Japan
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Let all the souls here rest in peace for we shall not repeat the evil. — Tadayoshi Saika, Inscription on the cenotaph at Hiroshima, Japan. Quoted as "REST IN PEACE. THE MISTAKE SHALL NOT BE REPEATED." in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977(. In Robert Andrews Famous Lines: a Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations (1997), 340.