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Under Article 95 of the Japanese Constitution, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law was enacted on August 6, 1949 to facilitate Hiroshima’s recovery after it was destroyed in the atomic bombing. As expressed in the first article of the law, it aimed to “provide for the construction of the City of Hiroshima as a peace memorial city to symbolize the human ideal of the sincere pursuit of genuine and lasting peace.”
Due to this law, the work of rebuilding Hiroshima as a symbol of world peace became a national project. Establishing the direction for town planning and bringing in more subsidies from the national government, the law contributed greatly to the reconstruction and development of Hiroshima.