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Island in the Seto Inland Sea only half an hour from wharf 4 of Hiroshima Port (Ujina Port), small and topped with the mountain Aki-no-Kofuji.
Ninoshima and the Second World War
During the Second World War the island served as a quarantine centre for the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. On Ninoshima was built a dock, arsenal, facilities for the study of infectious diseases contracted by service personnel overseas, and a horse quarantine station (later the Fourth Municipal Junior High School (now the Ninoshima Elementary School and Ninoshima Junior High School).
Ninoshima and the Dropping of A-Bomb
Nine kilometres from central Hiroshima, when the A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, the island was unscathed by the initial blast. Therefore, for the following three weeks the island became the destination of victims of the A-Bomb. In those weeks about 10,000 people were shipped to the island. Most of these were never to leave the island alive as thousands perished. In 1971 on the grounds of Ninoshima Junior High School was found a mass grave containing 571 victims’ skeletons. All the remains found were transferred to the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.