World Peace Bell Association

The World Peace Bell Association (WPBA) is a Japanese organisation which attempts to raise awareness of the World peace movement by casting and installing Japanese temple bells in locations around the world.

The association was effectively begun in 1954 by Chiyoji Nakagawa, with the goal of providing peace bells to every country in the world.

[3][4][5][self-published source] The bells are made using melted-down coinage donated from countries around the world.

[4][5] They have been placed in sixteen countries to date, with the US, Japan and Australia having more than one bell.

[3] The current president of the association is Tomijiro Yoshida.