The mild face symbolizes divine grace and the gently closed eyes offer a prayer for the repose of the bomb victims' souls.

Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.

The black stone monolith marks the hypocenter.The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned, and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble.About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150,000 people killed or injured and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of vegetation for 75 years.

This was constructed in August, 1969, as a prayer for the repose of the souls of the many atomic bomb victims who died searching for water, and as a dedication to world peace.

Lines from a poem by a girl named Sachiko Yamaguchi, who was nine at the time of the bombing, are carved on a black stone plaque in front of the fountain.

[2][3] The Mayor of Nagasaki City, Shiro Suzuki, justified his decision to exclude Israel (as well as Russia and Belarus, who are involved in the invasion of Ukraine) in an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun stating that "something might happen if we invite participants of a conflict where the ceremony cannot proceed peacefully and solemnly".

The park was shown in the 1991 Akira Kurosawa film Rhapsody in August, in which a Japanese child points out that there is no sculpture in the Peace Symbols Zone from the United States.

[9] "Constellation Earth" was donated in 1992, a year after the film's release, after this omission was noted by St. Paul mayor James Schiebel during a trip to Nagasaki in 1990.