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We have discovered unknown very valuable old photos of Prof. Hideki Yukawa atthe unveiling ceremony of his bronze statue at an elementary school in Kochi in1954. The statue was moved to a newly created garden in1982, which in thesubsequent decades accelerated the forgetting of its existence. The forgettingof the statue by the local people is related by chance to a historic event inthe Marshall Islands. Prof. Yukawa's visit to attend the unveiling ceremonyoccurred just after news that Japanese fishermen were heavily injured by atomictesting at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. At the news conference whenhe arrived at Kochi, he was unexpectedly asked about his attitude to the bombtesting by the US. He was considered to be the foremost top scientist innuclear science in Japan at that time, having been awarded the Nobel Prize forphysics in 1949. People in Kochi were very anxious about the test since manyfishermen worked near Bikini Atoll. Contrary to the expectation of localpeople, he refused to comment on the matter at the news conference and inpublic lectures, which were held several times during his stay in Kochi. Afterreturning to Kyoto, he issued the famous statement titled Nuclear Era and theTurning Point of Mankind in an influential national newspaper. This was a timein Prof. Yukawa's life when he had to reflect and consult his conscience, andhe chose to take a principled stance that became a turning point in his life.After the visit to Kochi, he devoted himself with his wife to the peacemovement against nuclear weapons. Looking back, it can be observed that thevisit in 1954 to attend the unveiling ceremony of his bronze statue in Kochimarked the start of that change. The statue can be seen to symbolize not onlyhis Nobel Prize but also the turning point in his life that led him to supportthe peace movement against nuclear weapons.

The Visit of Prof. Hideki Yukawa to Kochi to Attend the Unveiling Ceremony of the Yukawa Bronze Statue: Turning Point in Life