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The Tsukuba Sister City Stone Lantern is a 12-foot high stone lantern In Joan Lorentz Park of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in front of the main branch of the Cambridge Public Library. It was dedicated in 1995 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the relationship between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Tsukuba, Japan. Tsukuba is one of Cambridge's seven active sister cities and Cambridge is one of six sister cities of Tsukuba. The monument is one of many gifts exchanged between the two.

The lantern is in the style of those at the Kasuga Shrine in Japan, and in contemporary Japan they often adorn parks and gardens. It weighs 7,800 pounds and was shipped in seven pieces from Japan in the summer of 1994 then installed by the Cambridge Department of Public Works and University Monuments Inc. of Cambridge.

It was given to the citizens of Cambridge and dedicated in 1995 by Mayor Misao Kimura of Tsukuba, who attended the unveiling ceremony along with a visiting delegation from Tsukuba, and accepted by Mayor Ken Reeves of Cambridge.