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Japanese Peace Bell Formally Presented to United Nations

8 June 1954

Renzo Sawada (left), Japanese Observer to the UN, and Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secretary-General for Public Information, are seen here striking the ""peace bell"" given to the United Nations by the UN Association of Japan. The bell is cast from coins donated from some 60 nations and individual contributions of various kinds of metal and housed in a typical Japanese Shinto shrine-like structure made of Japanese cypress wood.

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