There are a total of five temples, which was installed and demonstrated by the daily rotation of the Earth around the Sun Foucault's pendulum. In the Paris Pantheon French physicist and astronomer Jean Foucault hung his invention in 1851. In addition, the Foucault pendulum is suspended in the Basilica of San Petronio Italian city of science of Bologna and the Church of St. Johns in Vilnius. From under the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the pendulum was lifted in 1986 and is now in the vault of the Cathedral. The fifth temple, where you can see this invention, is a Buddhist temple Fukushi-JI temple in Nagasaki.

The pendulum length of 25 meters in a Japanese temple scores over time remains 16500 killed during the Second world war the Japanese. As a reminder of the victims of a nuclear explosion on August 9, 1945, the temple bell is ringing every day in 11 hours 2 minutes – the exact time of the disaster. The temple Fukushi-JI temple was completely destroyed in the day of the atomic bombing, but was rebuilt in 1979.

The history of the temple complex started in 1628, since the founding of the Chinese monks who came from Fujian province. In 1650 in it was a statue of the bodhisattva Kannon, the deity of mercy. Now the temple looks like a huge turtle, which holds on its shell giant Kannon statue in white. It is made of aluminum alloy and weighs 35 tons, its height is 18 meters. This statue towers over the roofs of houses and visible from other quarters Nagasaki.

The temple Fukushi-JI temple belongs to the Buddhist school Obama and is one of four so-called "monasteries of happiness" in Nagasaki, along with the temples Sofuku-JI temple, Kofuku-JI and Sofuku-JI temple. All four churches were built by the monks from China. They lived mentors who brought from China new sacred texts. The temples were called the "temples of bliss".