Muse No. 28: Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: June 2013
The Editorial Office: Daisuke Miyahara at Peace Aichi
2-820 Yomogidai, Meitoku, Nagoya City, Aichi 465-0091
Tel/Fax: 052-602-4222

http://www.peace-aichi.com/

Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translators: Yoshiko Tanigawa, Terumi Imai, Tanya S. Maus, Atsuko Takeda, Yuriko Taki
Illstrator: Erico Tasaki

Shifumi Mochizuki, a part-time teacherof Osaka University of Commerce, won
the prizes.
The award will be held this year too
with the support of companies andorganizations. We look forward toreceiving applications from all over thecountry from July 1st to September 30th.
Contact Yamanashi Peace Museum forfurther information.

Ishibashi Tanzan Peace Award
Tamotsu Asakawa:
Yamanashi Peace Museum
Yamanashi
Peace Museum
Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Museum established “Ishibashi Tanzan PeaceAward” last year to celebrate the 5th
anniversary since its opening. There are
two awards named after Ishibashi
Tanzan, “Ishibashi Tanzan Award”
supported by Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial
Foundation and “Waseda JournalismAward in Memory of Ishibashi Tanzan”
backed by Waseda University. Theseawards are given to a person who made agreat achievement in academy orjournalism. On the contrary, “Ishibashi
Tanzan Peace Award” is aimed to spreadthe idea of pacifism which was developed
by Ishibashi Tanzan among young people.
We widely asked to write an essay
on Ishibashi Tanzan, the peace or thepacifism, and received a total of 136
essays from junior-high or high school
students mostly in Yamanashi prefectureand 36 essays from university students
and general adults across the country.
There were many outstanding works inthese essays.
After the selection by the committee
including Mr. Magoroku Ide, the awardwinners were announced to the press inNovember and the award ceremony washeld on December 23rd. Ms. Kumiko Saito
of Yamanashi Eiwa High school and Mr.

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Women’s Active Museum on War
and Peace (wam)Eriko Ikeda
Director

We have experienced extremely busy days
over the past six months, as an organization
addressing comfort woman issues. During the10th special exhibition titled “Military Do Not
Protect Women: Japanese Military Comfort
Stations and Sexual Violence by the US Armyin Okinawa”, the deployment of Osprey
1military aircraft to Okinawa and the rape ofJapanese woman by two US soldiers happed in
the last autumn were both unacceptable
incidences for us. We took protest actions somany times.
In conjunction with the exhibition of
Okinawa, we held seminars. In September,
Fumiko Kawata and Kim Hyonoku talked
about Bae Pong-gi, a former “comfort woman”
who remained Okinawa after the war. In
October, Hirofumi Hayashi and Naomi Jahana
were invited to the series of “Learning about
the Battle of Okinawa”. In February, Yoko
Shimabukuro Makato and myself, Eriko Ikeda,
participated in the video screening on sexual
violence in Okinawa titled “wam de video”.
Japan is now standing at a crossroad
which may let the country return to the age offascism. The right-wing government supportingthe constitutional amendment was unfortunately established due to the magic of
single-seat constituency system at the electionof the House of Representatives at the end of
the last year (16th December 2012). New Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe is a politician who has
been consistently insisting that there was noevidence that comfort women were forcibly
recruited by the military or officials. It has
started to affect many aspects. When the 11th
Asian Solidarity Conference on Japanesemilitary “comfort woman” issues was held in
Taipei of Taiwan last December with theparticipants from eight Asian countries, manyof the war victims and their supporters
attending the conference expressed theirconcerns about the Japanese government’s shift
to the right-wing policies.
In Osaka, scaring incidences happened
one after another. In February, Osaka
prefectural police fabricated a story that ourfour colleagues are “suspects” without evidence,
when a citizen group named “Citizens against
Special Privilege of Koreans (Zaitokukai)”filed a complaint report to the police. They
raided the office of “the Japanese Military
Comfort Woman Issue Kansai Network”. This

is nothing else than the obvious suppression on
activities to resolve the “comfort woman”
issues. “Liberty Osaka” is also under thepressure of the Osaka city government and the
Osaka prefectural government led by Toru
Hashimoto and Ichiro Matsui respectively. In
February, Matsui also stated at the press
conference that he wanted to remove a display
related to the Japanese military attacks such as
the Nanking Massacre from “Peace Osaka”. We
have to stop these reckless actions by further
strengthening domestic and international
cooperation.
Last December we held a memorial
event for Yayori Matsui, a founder of “wam”,
to mark 10 years since she died. As a journalist
and woman activist, Matsui proposed and led
the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal
in 2000. At the same time, she had a strong
feeling about Okinawa. It was therefore apleasure to see some young Japanese andKorean researchers starting “Study on Matsui”.
The 11th special exhibition titled “Warfor the Amah forced to become the Japanese:
Comfort Station in Taiwan and forcible taking
to overseas” will be held from July. We are
currently doing the research and preparing thedisplay panels.
※ Editor’s Note: The Peace Studies
Association of Japan (PSAJ) recently
decided to give its Peace Award to
wam. The awarding ceremony will beheld on 9th of November 2013 at Meiji
GakuinUniversity
duringtheautumnal study meeting of PSAJ. It
may be also note-worthy that
Professor Ikuro Anzai, one of theeditors of “Muse”, was also selected awinner of the PSAJ Peace Award.

Daigo Fukuryu Maru
Dragon) Exhibition Hall
Kazuya Yasuda
General Secretary2(LuckyOn January 25th, 2013, the number ofvisitors to the Lucky Dragon No. 5
Museum surpassed five million. The
Museum was established in Tokyo within
Yumeno Shima Park in June 1976 on the
momentum of the citizen’s anti-nuclear
movement which sought to realize anuclear free world and a world of peace.
Since the museum was founded, the 5th
Lucky Dragon Peace Foundation has
been instrumental in its operation, but it
has become increasingly challenging tooversee the Museum with its more than
100,000 visitors per year. The Museum
has expanded to serve as a site of public
education for school trips and projects,
and museum staff and workers are
finding this increasingly challenging.
It’s been 60 years since the 5th Lucky
Dragon was exposed to radiation near
Bikini Atolls. At the end of March, we
held an exhibit that told the story of thesuffering of individuals from the
Marshall Islands as well as the Rongelap
Atoll. We displayed a photo panel, createdby children of the Marshall Islands, sevenmeters in length called, “A Timeline of
Nuclear Testing and the Island Peoples. ”
After this exhibit is completed, we willhold an exhibit called the “5th Lucky
Dragon and the People of the MarshallIslands.” (To inquire for more details call:
03-3521-8494).
For next year, we hope to bring
together problems such as H-bomb
testing, the damages from nuclear
technology, environmental pollution, andfears regarding nuclear weaponry andintroduce these through the recent
projects of researchers in various fields.
We also plan to gather together the mostrecentpublications
andcatalogs
regarding the Bikini Atolls and the 5th
Lucky Dragon Incidents to be ready by
May. It’s been two years since the greatearthquake and since the Fukushima

nuclear accident, and it’s time to newly
assess the work that is being done byscientists in this new nuclear age.（The
Lucky Dragon No. 5 Peace Foundation）

NPO・Chukiren； Peace Memorial
Recent Activities Report
Nobuyo Serizawa
Office Administrator and Director

Our memorial was founded sevenyears ago 、 rather than as a site for
exhibition, but as an archival facility thatholds
testimonies
andjournals,
documents from the Fushun War
Criminals Bureau, as well as images andphotographs related to war and peace.
Originally a warehouse, we hope toremodel the ground floor to be a researchmaterials viewing room.
Our first director, Fumiko Niki, passed
away
unexpectedly
lastsummer.
Currently, Takao Matsumura (Professor
Emeritus, Keio University) is serving as
the Director. Last year we had the 3rd
annual meeting of the Board of Directors
after which we held a research conferencein which various academics attended andgave lectures.
Soon we hope to establish a homepage
and mailing list, and if possible become a“Certified NPO.”
This spring, on April 24, we plan toopen the museum (for a general period of
25 days) with the help of our friends tocommemorate the “Manmo Colonization
Peace Memorial.”3

had discussions on the possibility of
future education.
2013 is the 70th year since the student
mobilization during the Asia-Pacific War
and, at the same time, the 60th year since
the establishment of Wadatsumi Statue(A Sea God statue symbolizing student
soldiers’ anger, grief and mortification). It
is particularly important for us to teachyoung people more deeply about the thesignificance of “Wadatsumi.” After atwenty-year effort, we are looking toward
the “70th Anniversary of the Post War
Period” and the role of Japan’s peaceconstitution and peace education, as wellas our future plans for the development of
our society.
Below we introduce some exhibits andactivities that were held in the latter halfof 2012.

Kyoto Museum for World Peaceat Ritsumeikan University :Bi-Annual Activities Report
Maki Torii
Chief Manager

In 2012 the Peace Museum celebrated
its 20th anniversary through the key
concept of, “Memories of Global Citizens
and the Future: A New Path Toward
Global Peace”. The Peace Museum
focused on the Eastern Japan Great
Earthquake, the Fukushima nuclear
accident and many other problems thatincidentally resulted. Our 2012 springexhibition was “Radioactivity and the
Future of Humanity”, and the exhibit for
students, “What We Can Do: One Year
After the Great Earthquake” wasthereafter organized
As we look at recent problems, we will
also examine the past tragedy of war
along with current world concerns Our
2012 fall exhibitions were “UnfinishedWorks ─ The Beginning of the Eternal:
From a Mugonkan (Voiceless Museum)Collection to the Origins of Art” and“ World Press Photo Exhibition, 2012).
On November 30, there was a
symposium on “Peace Research Centers:
Trajectories, Research Topics, andPossibilities” in which Dr. Yoshikazu
Sakamoto (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo
University) made a keynote speech , andEU
Ambassador
Hans
DietmarSchweisgut gave a commemorative
message. Panel discussion was attended
by Professor Yasunobu Sato (Tokyo University), Professor Kiyoko Furusawa(TokyoWomen’s
University)
andProfessor
Akihiko
Kimijima(Ritsumeikan University).
On March 17, a forum commemorating
our 20th anniversary was held, andChinese, Korean and Japanese students

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【Special Exhibitions】“World Press Photo Exhibition,
2012” 9/19-11/18 (Kyoto, Shiga, Oita)
Lecture: Toshiyuki Tsunenari (Asahi
News)“Unfinished Works/The Beginning of
the Eternal: From a VoicelessMuseum Collection to the Origins ofArt” 10/23-12/1 with a three-coneredtalk by Gyoji Nomiyama (Artist),
Seiichiro Kuboshima (Director of
Mugonkan Art Museum), and Ikuro
Anzai (Honorary Director of Kyoto
Museum for World Peace)【Mini Exhibitions】
No.76 “The 6th Annual Ritsumeikan
School Peace Education Hands On
Exhibit” 10/14-12/21
No.77 “Vladivostok Russo-Japanese
Peoples Past and Present: ‘The
Siberian Mobilization’” 1/12-2/3, 2013
No.78 “Age of Youth in Kyoto: The
Students and War” 2/9-4/7【Statements of Directorand Honorary Director】

① Regarding Sino-Japanese Friendship(September 21, 2012)②A Critique of Israeli Military Violenceon the Gaza Strip: With a Sincere
ecognition of Both Sides of theIsraeli/Palestinian Peace Process(Statement) (December 6, 2012)③An Urgent Statement on the Nuclear
Test by DPRK (February 18, 2013)

Partisan Headquarters, sacred Koreansites, and Baektu Mountain. With
Makimura’s poem in the back of ourminds, we traced the history and toured
the various regions. A group of exchanged
students from Yanbian University was
also present. In addition, we hope to issue
a booklet for the 100th anniversary of Ko
Makimura’s birth entitled “Polovtsian
Straight, No. 10.”On November 17, 2013, Yuko Yoshida
of
the
NGO
Chernobyl
HealthSurvey/Relief Women’s Network has been
invited to give a talk on the topic of “TheVerification of Negative Health Effects ofChernobyl.” Kochi Branch of the Japan
Scientists Association (JSA) co-sponsoredthe meeting to stop Ikata Nuclear Power
Plant. We heard a scientific perspective
for opposing nuclear power in order toraise awareness about the lack ofknowledge regarding the health hazards
from radiation, and in particular thenegative health effects on women andchildren in the case of Chernobyl and its
implications for Fukushima. The meeting
was attended by 25 individuals.
From January 10 to February 9, 2013,
the Grassroots House Hall hosted theexhibition entitled “The Battle of Takamagaharayama: The Aviation Soldiers
who Fortified Themselves on the
Mountain in Anticipation of theMainland Battle.” Even today it is still
possible to find remnants of the Asia
Pacific War at Takamagaharayama
fortification in Nangoku City in Kochi
Prefecture. We gathered the testimoniesof those youths who sacrificed themselvesin war at the fortification as well as theartifacts found in bunkers and thesurrounding areas. Approximately 108
individuals attended it.
Ai Nakauchi

The Grassroots House: Kochi
Mana Nakauchi
Office Administrator
On August 29, 2012, we held an
Okinawa interview session with afilmmaker named Okada Ryuhei about
the topic of “Hello Okinawa, Bye Bye
Osprey: Henoko, Takae, Futenma Unified
in the Struggle for Okinawa.” Okada
visited Okinawa at the end of June, andsince then he has been living in Okinawa
and attending exhibits such as the Nago
Municiple Museum’s “The 3000 day
Sit-In for Henoko”, viewing the Takae
Helipad Resistance, and visiting Camp
Schwab in this area. Along withexchanging ideas about the film, he haslistened to the voices of the Okinawan
resistance. 30 individuals have been
involved in these efforts.
From September 1 to 7, we retold thepoem “A Trip to China’s Kanto Region(China: a Peace Tour)” by the Kochi
anti-war poet, Makimura Ko, and 30
individuals (20 from Kochi) participated.
Individuals from Yanji in the Yanbian
Korean Autonomous District were also
invited. During the poem, a local Korean
resident, Ikuko Toda (Author andtranslator) guided us through theunderground display which holds therecollections regarding the Japanese
Kanto Consulate General and the former
Japanese Kanto Consulate General aswell as the remnants of the Kanto
5Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki
Peace Museum
Yasunori Takazane
Director

Major activities during the second
half of 2012 were as follows; July 1: Newsletter “Nishizaka
Dayori” Vol. 66 was published.
 July 21: The 8th “Meeting to learn
from Oka Masaharu” was held.
We watched the video of Oka’s
1991 talk directed to a Koreanchurchgroup
followedbydiscussion.
 August 14-20: Museum goodwill
group (of five) visited China to
learn
about
the
Sanguang
campaign(kill all, plunder all andburn all) in Hebei and Nanjing(with Meishinkai Nanjing group).
It was regrettable that nostudents participated.
 September 1: Public lecture series“Let’s learn again! – Modern
Japanese
History,”
III-1“Machurian Incident – Why it was
not called ‘war’” (Leturer: Yoko
Kasai) October 1: Newsletter “Nishizaka
Dayori” Vol. 67 was published.
 October 13: Modern Japanese
History lecture series, III-2 “WhatwasSino-JapaneseWar?”(Lecturer: Shinobu Okuyama) October 14: Film screening “Myheart was not lost – the battle of a
North Korean resident and‘comfort woman’” Many people
demanded that the Japanese
government apologize and pay
compensation to the victims.
 November 10: Modern Japanese
History lecture series, III-3 “The
truth
about
the
NanjingMassacre” This was a special
lecture by Tamaki Matsuoka,
from Meishinkai Nanjing, entitled“A look at Nanjing Massacre fromthe investigations by victimizers
and victims.” The reality of themassacre was supported by thetestimony of victimizers on a film,
which moved the audience.
November 23: The 10th annual
meeting. The resolution to become
an authorized NPO was passed.
December 16: The 12th “Nanjing
Massacre Survivor Nagasaki
Testimonial Meeting” Testimony
by survivor Yu Chang Xiang (bornin 1927) and commentary by Li Yu
Rong from Nanjing MassacreMuseum. Yu’s experience, who hid
in the underground water systemfrom the Japanese military, was
too terrible to describe andillustrated the reality of themassacre.
December 15: Modern Japanese
History lecture series, III-4“Colonies under the Imperialist
Policy – Taiwan and Korea”(Lecturer: Tomohiro Shinkai)

http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen

Himeyuri Peace Museum
Katsumi Maedomar
CuratorThe 2012’s exhibition was entitled“Himeyuri Students Who Survived – fromthe Concentration Camp to Home”.
This exhibition is currently open
and is derived from the publication inJune 2012 entitled “Collection 5:
Himeyuri students who survived – fromthe concentration camp to home.” Theexhibition tells us about what happened6

to the Himeyuri students who survived
after the “camp” through 13 panels, newfilm “Himeyuri students who survived”,
artifacts (the list of the Himeyuri
students and their whereabouts, a letter
written by the father of a student who
died (“Words to Send You Off”), etc.
The visitors, not only adults but
also junior and senior school children,
looked at the film and the items very
seriously, and left comments such as “Ilearned that the survivors also sufferedtremendously” or “I learned meeting withthe family of the deceased was very
hard.” It was originally planned to beopen until March 31, 2013, but has been
extended (until around June) because of
the good turnout.

An Exhibition on Renewed
Japan-Russia Relationship at Kyoto
Museum for World Peace
Machi Horie
Director, Japan-Vladivostok Association;
Member of the Friends of Peace

Russia’s major city Vladivostok isgetting attention now, but its true faceand relationship with Japan is not wellknown. From January 12 to February 3,
2013, the mini exhibition entitled“HistoryofJapan-Russia
citizens
exchange and the present situation –including its relationship to the sendingof troops to Siberia” was held at Kyoto
Museum for World Peace organized by
Japan-Vladivostok Association.
War, oppression, distrust – Japanand Russia went through the dark era.
However, citizens of both countries tried
to establish friendship and coexistence
despite the national policies. That
attitude never changed since Meiji era.
Today, Russian youth enjoy Japaneseculture with a big smile in the city. Thatis captured in a picture in the exhibition,
as well as other pictures, books andchronological table. This museum signed
academic exchange agreement in 2012
with Arseniev Memorial Museum, which
helped with the exhibition. Their director
and curators visited Japan, held a study
tour with us, and told us about theireffort to preserve the Japanese peoples
footprints left in Vladivostok. I believe
thiscontributedtobuildingaforward-looking relationship between thetwo countries and more peaceful JapanSea.
The items in this exhibit can bechecked out for free. Shipping charges arenecessary. Please contact the JapanVladivostok Association for details.

Atomic Bomb Survivors in Nagasaki and
Himeyuri Get-together
On February 5, 2013, Chorus
Group Singing for the Peace in Nagasaki,
Himawari (a chorus group of atomic
bomb survivors) and Himeyuri survivors
got together. Himawari consists of atomic
bomb survivors ages 67-87, and is the
only chorus group in the world thatconsists only of atomic bomb survivors.
The group was deeply moved by the poem
read by a student at Shuri High School at
the 2012’s Okinawan War Dead Memorial
Service, so they turned it into a song.
They came to Okinawa to sing that songfor us and the 55 members visited out
museum. At the get-together, people
listened to each other’s war experienceand they sang “Our Hearts Go To the
Shore.” Their voice was beautiful andsome of the Himeyuri survivors had tears
in their eyes.
Okinawa and Nagasaki experienced
the same war. They reconfirmed to eachother that they should never repeat thewar.

7Japan-Vladivostok Association
Tel＆Fax：03-3425-6183
E-mail: jpvlad@tcat.ne.jp

News in Japan
Nayoro City Museum: Hokkaido
Two special exhibitions titled “A Panel
exhibition: to hand the wartime
experiences to the next generation” (the1st: October 19th ～ 28th, 2012, the 2nd:
December 21st ~January 13th, 2013) were
held. The contents were edited based on aDVD, which contains the first-handaccounts told by local citizens. The realmaterials including old water bottle andblanket used at the war time were also
displayed.
Tel:01654-3-2111
http://www.city.nayoro.lg.jp/www/content
s/1250058541686/index.html

Exhibition“Anne Frank Meet and Learn”
Yoko Takagi
JEARN Takatsuki Office

At Japan Education and Resource
Network (JEARN), the seven founders
started “Anne Frank Meet and Learn.”This exhibition consists of 34 large
panels (in Japanese), which were sentfrom Anne Frank House in the
Netherlands. The first exhibition washeld at Jochi (Sophia) University in 2009.
Since then, many colleges, schools,
museums, and regional event halls havehosted the exhibition and many people
has met and learned about Anne.
We are now in search of the next
host of this exhibition. The only condition
for becoming a host is to pay for the
shipping cost to the next host. In addition
to the panels, there are videos (in English
and Japanese) and books. Upon request,
the musical DVD “Anne Frank – fromAnne’s diary” can also be shipped. Pleaselook at the pictures of the students at
Okinawa Shougaku High School, who arepreparing for the exhibition (shipping,assembling, and disassembling thepanels).
http://www.oki-wide.com/iearn/okisho/p
anels/
Please let us know if you would like tohost “Anne Frank Panel Exhibition.” I
hope you can host this exhibition so thateven more people can meet Anne.
Please contact:
Yoko Takagi (JEARN Takatsuki Office)tel: 072-680-2115 E-mail: yoko＠jearn.jp
JEARN（http://www.jearn.jp/japan/）
ANNE FRANK（http://gcpej.jimdo.com/link/annefrank/）

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma:
Takasaki City
From January 19th to March 24th, aspecial exhibition “Portraits of the cities
destroyed: Gernica, Rotterdam, Tokyo”
was held. Its theme was the inhumanityof indescriminate bombing during the20th century. It aimed to convey what therole of art was to express such brutal
violence to innocent citizens. Famous
works such as “Guernica” by Publo
Picasso, “Destroyed City” by Ossip
Zadkine and a series of “Great Tokyo Air
Raids” by Yuichi Inoue were displayed. A
special talk on Yuichi Inoue was given on
March 10th.
Tel:027-346-5560 Fax:027-346-4064
http://mmag.pref.gunma.jp/
Peace Museum of Saitama: Higashi
Matsuyama City
The second special exhibit in 2012 washeld from December 1st, 2012 to February
24th, 2013. The title was “War memory
shown by the real materials donated in2011”8

581 of the historical materials and theutensils used during the war time were
newly contributed to the museum in2011. Among them, about one hundred
items such as post cards, militaryuniforms, school textbooks were divided
into four sectors and displayed.
Tel:0493-35-4111 Fax:0493-35-4112
http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacemuseum/was held by displaying panels and photo
albums regarding the Japan-dominatedera. They were produced by Institute for
Researchincollaboration
with
Ritsumeikan Center for Korean Studies
in 2010, which was the centennial
anniversaryoftheJapan-Korea
Annexation.
Tel＆Fax:03-5272-3510
http://www.40net.jp/~kourai/

The Center of the Tokyo Air Raids and
War Damage: Koto Ward
A special exhibition “German cities hit
by air raids － Dresden, Berlin and
Hamburg” was held from February 16th
to April 7th, 2013. In February 2012,
those who experienced air raids in Tokyo
and Osaka visited German cities to meetthe local citizens. German people havebeen sincerely trying to record their
history as offenders as well as air rais
victims during the war time. The efforts
for reconciliation with the past enemies
were displayed by photo panels. Related
documents were also shown.
On February 23rd, Dr. Morio Minami
gave a lecture on the importance of the
air
raids
history
exhibitions
bycomparing the difference between
Germany and Japan.
Mr. Matthias Neutzner from Germany
also gave a speech on March 16th and23rd.
A gathering commemorating the 11th
anniversary of the establishment of theCenter of the Tokyo Air Raids was heldon March 9th. There were various
programs including a speech by Prof.
Yutaka Yoshida and film screening.
Tel：03-5857-5631 Fax：03-5683-3326
http://www.tokyo-sensai.net/

Sumida Heritage Museum: TokyoA special exhibition “War Orphans:
depicting their feelings” has been held
since March 19th, 2013.
Tel:03-5619-7034 Fax:03-3625-3431
http://www.city.sumida.lg.jp/sisetu_info/s
iryou/kyoudobunka/index.html
Midori Library: Tokyo, Sumida Ward
From March 9th to 24th, 2013, exhibits“Materials related to disasters such as
war time, earthquake and flood in
Sumida” and “Writers and disasters in
Sumida” were held.
A lecture on “Disasters and women” wasalso given on March 10th.
Tel：03-3631-4621 Fax:03-3631-4660
http://www.city.sumida.lg.jp/sisetu_info/l
ibrary/annai/midori.html
Memorial Hall of Constitutional
Government: Tokyo, Chiyoda Ward
A special exhibition “Showa: an age of
upheavals of parliamentary government– from crisis to resurgence” was held from
November 8th to 30th. It focused on thehistory of the party politics in Japan
before and after the WWⅡ. A booklet on
the exhibit was published.
Tel:03-3581-1651 Fax:03-3581-7962
http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_annai.nsf/h
tml/statics/kensei/kensei.htm

Korai Museum: Tokyo, Shinju Ward
From August 29th to December 28th,
2012, an exhibit “Colony, A huge prison”
9when violent conflicts occurred, what the
influence of internet communication andthe efforts to distribute information byNGOs is like. There were related events
as follows: “Media and youth”, organized
by students in cooperation with a news
reporterof
MainichiShimbunNewspaper. “Media and Peace Studies
Association”, given by Prof. Takao
Takahara of Meijigakuin Univ. and Prof.
Atsushi Ishida of Tokyo Univ. about
documentary coverage.
From March 9th to May 6th, an exhibit on
the records of Kawasaki Great Air Raidwas held and the accounts of thefirsthand experiences were presented.
Tel:044-433-0171 Fax:044-433-0232
http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/25/25heiwa/
home/heiwahome/

Museum on Life in the Showa Era:
Tokyo, Ota Ward
From August 1st to 31st, 2012, an
exhibit “The War remnants in the
Koizumis” was held by displaying war
time utensils such as substitutes formetal items and air-raid hood.
Tel＆Fax 03-3750-1808
http://www.showanokurashi.com/
Communications Museum “Teipark”:
Tokyo, Chiyoda Ward
A special exhibit “Military Mails from
Battle Fields” was held from August 1st to
31st, 2012.
Tel:03-3244-6811
http://www.teipark.jp/
Waseda University Archives: Tokyo,
Shinjuku Ward
A special exhibit “70 years since thestudents’ departure off to the front” washeld from March 25th to April 27th, 2013.
Mementos left by the students, whojoined the forces and never came backwere displayed so that visitors could
imagine their college life and thoughts.
Tel:03-5286-1814 Fax:03-5286-1815
http://www.waseda.jp/archives/

The Meiji University Noborito ResearchArchives for Peace Studies: Kanagawa,Kawasaki City
The 3rd special exhibition “The resultof researching the fifth building: Oldprinting works of counterfeit money”
was held from November 21st, 2012 toMarch 2nd, 2013. Reportedly the fifthbuilding was built in 1939 and had long
been used as a laboratory and awarehouse. In 2011, when it wasdismantled, a research was conducted tounearth what it was used for. According
to the result of the research, there
seemed to be high probability that it wasused as “a factory for counterfeit money
production”. By displaying the result of
the research, the remained blueprints
found in the campus as well as thephotos taken by a local photographer, Oh
Koike, the exhibit showed the visitors
what the role of the fifth building was
before the war.
Tel&Fax:044-934-7993
http://www.meiji.ac.jp/noborito/index.html

Musashimurayama City Museum ofHistory and Folklore : TokyoA special exhibition “War-related
Documents in Higashimurayama” washeld from March 10th to 31st, 2013.
Tel:042-560-6620 Fax:042-569-2762
http://www.city.musashimurayama.lg.jp/
shiryoukan/index.html
Kawasaki Peace Museum: Kanagawa
To commemorate the 20th anniversaryof the founding of the museum, a special
exhibition “Peace from the point of viewof the media” was held from November
14th to December 13th, 2012. It focused on
the questions such as how media worked10http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-hei
wa/
Tel&Fax:054-271-9004

Kashiwazaki City Museum: Niigata
A special exhibition “War memories:
What the real materials tell” was heldfrom October 20th to November 25th,
2012. The museum’s collection of the realmaterials including the photos taken by
the local colonists settled in Manchuria
and military utensils were displayed.
There was a talk event given by an ex.
Manchuria settler Hiroshi Makiguchi in
November 3rd.
Tel:0257-22-0567 Fax:0257-22-0568
http://www.kisnet.or.jp/~k-museum/instit
ution/index.html

Manabino Mori Museum of Kyoto
University of Education: Kyoto City
The exhibition of “War and Teachers’
School in Fushimi, Kyoto” was held from
10 Nov. through 7 Dec, 2012. Fushimi
region used to be a military capital where
16 divisions of old Japanese army werebased in. The current location of the
Kyoto University of Education was theplace where infantry force used to stationand the renovated facility of the oldbrigade headquarters is used as themuseum. The exhibition was to organize
what was the war like for the school as apredecessor of university of education,and to look into the role of war remains
for peace studies.
A related lecture by Professor Ito and
Associate Professor Okabe was held on 11
Nov, 2012. The old 16-mm film recently
discovered showed the woman who wasstudying at the teachers’ school for girls
70 years ago.
Tel: 075-644-8840
http://manabinomori.kyokyo-u.ac.jp/man
abinomori.html

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka CityA special exhibit “War and animals”
was held from November 9 th, 2012 toFebruary 24th, 2013. During the war
time, there were several hundred
thousand of animals which were used
and killed for military purpose. They
were called “Silent soldiers”. Many of
the animals were collected to flay their
fur for making soldiers’ thermal wear.
While wild animals bred at zoos such aslions and elephants were killed as they
could be released into towns and must be
harmful when their cages would be
broken by bombings. It aimed to show
the children how brutal the war was bytelling the story of the innocent animal
victims.
Another special exhibit “Ryosai Hirano:
an anti-war painter born in Fujieda
Town” was held from March 8th to May
26th, 2013. Originally he wished to
become a painter to express joy.
However, after joining the navy andreturned home alive, he was strongly
influenced by an anti-war painter Iri
Maruki and he started painting pictures
for the repose of the dead including his
siblings and friends. He always worked
with a prayer for peace in his mind until
his death.

Osaka International Peace Center(Peace Osaka): Osaka City
We held the exhibition of our collections
from 15 Jan. through 31 March, 2013. It
was to consider the meaning of war andpeace displaying various materials andpictures.
Commemorating the 71st anniversaryof outbreak of the Asia-Pacific War, an
event for wish for peace was held on 9
Dec., 2012. In the first part, a lecture on
an army general, Hitoshi Imamura, wasgiven
byProfessor
Asano
from
Takarazuka University. The lecturer was
given about the thoughts of Imamura
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who served a sentence as a war criminal
after the war. The second part was a
singing show where famous songs on war
and peace were performed.
The event commemorating Osaka
Air-raid was held on 3 Mar., 2013. The
event is to convey war experience of
decreasing number of people who haveexperienced the air-raid to future
generations. Along with a lecture given
byProfessor
Oda
from
Osaka
Electro-Communication University, thegraduation ceremony, which had been
missed due to the air-raid, was held andthe graduates received their certificatesafter 68 years.
We held an event for families 23-27
Dec., 2012, and 22 Mar.-7 Apr., 2013,
where animated movies on war by
Akiyuki Nosaka were screened.
Tel: 06-6947-7208 FAX: 06-6943-6080
http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/

movements did for the goal and makeaudience rethink today’s significance ofthem.
In association with the exhibition, a
symposium was held on 30 Sep., 2012,
where Kazuo Teshima from Ritsumeikan
University and Tadayuki Komai from
Suihei-sha
Museumattendedasreporters.
Tel:06-6561-5891 FAX:06-6561-5995
http://www.liberty.or.jp/
Himeji Historical Peace Center: Hyogo
The autumn exhibition “Air-raids inthe mainland and War Memorial of Mt.
Tegara” was held from 29, Sep. through24, Dec., 2012. The memorial tower was
built to solace the spirits of war victims
and to pray the world’s lasting peace. The
exhibition tracked the background of thisfoundation in Himeji City which used to
be a small town back in the days.
An associated lecture to share theexperience of Himeji air-raid was given
by Hideo Takaya on 28, Oct., 2012.
From 12, Jan. through 24, Mar., 2013,
we held a collection exhibition many ofwhich are donated. Our local region
boasts various festivals since ancient
times in its diverse, fertile environment.
Attacked by B-29 bombers, however,Himeji was reduced to ashes including
temples and shrines, and the festivals
could not be maintained during the war
time. After the war, the Himeji citizens
had burning passion in restoring the cityand restart celebrating the festivals. The
exhibition showed collection through theperspective of such festivals.
An associated lecture to share theexperience of Himeji air-raid was given
by Shinichi Tohji on 11, Feb., 2013.

Osaka Human Rights Museum (Liberty
Osaka): Osaka City
We held the 67th exhibition “Age of
Suihei-sha” from 11 Sep. through 25 Nov.,
2012,
commemorating
the
90thanniversary of the founding of Zenkoku
Suihei-sha. It was founded on 3 Mar.,
1922, as the origin of today’s Buraku
Kaiho(outcast
peopleliberation)
movement. The Suihei-sha tried toestablish an equal society eliminating thediscrimination against the outcasts,
which still continued to exist after“Senmin Haishi Rei (emancipation law)”,
and fought against discrimination withworkers and farmers. Cooperating for the
Pacific War, the body joined anothermovement and dissolved in Jan., 1942.
The Suihei-sha tried to integrate the
Buraku people into common people,
which played an important role ofabolishment of the discrimination. The
exhibition was to discover what theTel: 079-291-2525 Fax:079-291-2526
http://www.city.himeji.lg.jp/heiwasiryo/

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gave an explanation on visual analysis of
the process of the A-bomb from theviewpoint of the U.S. forces, tracing therecord of American photo reconnaissance.
Tel:082-241-4004 Fax:082-542-7941
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/

Nara Prefectural Library and Information
Center: Nara City
Exhibitions of war experience were
held from 29, Sep. through 27, Dec., 2012
and 5, Jan. through 28, Mar., 2013. As
the third and fourth of the series of “Frompapers written by nurses of Nara Red
Cross”, they introduced the records of thenurses who worked at military hospitals
or marine division to help A-bomb victims
in Hiroshima.
Tel: 0742-34-2111 Fax: 0742-34-2777
http://www.library.pref.nara.jp/sentai/kik
aku.html

Hiroshima National Peace Memorial
Hall: Hiroshima City
The special exhibition "The Road to
Recovery-Surviving the Chaos after the
Hiroshima Atomic Bombing" is being heldfrom 1 Jan. through 28, Dec., 2013. On 6,
August, 1945, one single A-bomb
destroyed the city of Hiroshima in a
moment and many precious lives wereindiscriminately taken. Although thewounded people who had lost their familyby the bomb and suffered a shortage offood and supply, they took a first step on
the road to recovery with a fear of illness
caused by the radioactivity. To share thehearts and words of bomb survivors whowent through the turbulence after
bombing, the exhibition introduces thepeople’s footsteps toward recovery
through their narrative.
Tel:082-543-6271 Fax:082-543-6273
http://www.hiro-tsuitokinenkan.go.jp/

Exhibition Room of the Okayama
Air-raids: Okayama City
Next to Okayama City Museum, we
opened Peace Museum on 1, Oct., 2012.
Based on studies on air-raids in Japanand the U.S., we display materials on
air-raids and their damage, and living
preparingforattacks.
Exhibition
brochure is available.
Tel:086-898-3000 Fax:086-898-3003
http://www.city.okayama.jp/okayama-city-museum/index.html
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum:
Hiroshima CityThe 2nd exhibition of 2012 is being heldfrom 8, Feb. through 15, July, 2013. The
first A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshimaon 6 Aug., 1945. How have the people got
through after being hurt and deprived of
their loved ones on that day? They might
have thought so many times “If there
hadn’t been the bomb…” The exhibition
was to think about the damage broughtby the atomic bomb which is still
anguishing people even though already67 years have passed now.
On 2, Feb., an open lecture was given
by Professor Yozo Kudo from Tokuyama
College of Technology. From the materials
Kudo has collected for a long time, he

The Shiki Museum: Ehime
A special exhibition on Hironori
Mizuno was held from 15 Dec., 2012
through 11 Feb., 2013. He joined theJapanese-Russo war as a navy man. His
chronicle of the battle in Japan Sea, Kono
Issen (English title: This One Battle),
became the best seller and was translated
overseas. Having gone over WWI later,
Mizuno became acutely aware of theimportance of peace and retired from thearmy, consequently published many
books od pacifism as a militarycommentator. In Dakai ka Hametsu ka
Kobo no Kono Issen published in 1932, hemaintained antiwar ideas foreseeing the13

air raids on Tokyo and Japan’s hard time
due to the war outbreak between Japanand U.S. In 1945, he died in Imabari city
after witnessing the end of the war. The
exhibition introduced his life as a navyman, author and pacifist as well.
Tel: 089-931-5566 Fax: 089-934-3416
http://sikihaku.lesp.co.jp/

The exhibition on Leyte Island washeld 1-30 Oct., 2012. The island waswhere the U.S. military landed to regain
the Philippines from Japan and the battle
was broken out on 20 Oct., 1944. Morethan 80 thousand victims counted fromthe Japanese military were virtually
killed. The exhibition included the bones
collected there by people of Itoshima Cityand the nameplates donated from Mutsu
City, Aomori. It was to let visitors think
about war through the voiceless tools,
some of which were brought back as a
substitute for the bones.
The exhibition of war materials
donated by late Naomasa Fukuda washeld from Nov through 28 Dec., 2012. It
includedpropaganda
leafletstheJapanese Military scattered, military
currencies and photos of colleagues and asinger who visited the battlefield to
comfort soldiers.
The exhibition of military postcards
was held from 25 Jan. through 24 March,
2013. It displayed picture cards during
the Japanese-Russo War (1904-05),
letter-cards sent from old Manchuria(current the northeastern part of China),
a new year’s card with a mouse (probably
the zodiac of the year) in uniform and an
envelope censored by the U.S. military
with attached tape saying “OPENED
BY.”
Tel: 09496-2-8565

Usui Peace Memorial Center: Kama City
in Fukuoka
We held an exhibition on how the
war-experiences were passed down from31 July through 22 Aug., 2012. The
exhibition included print arts by Keisuke
Kashii, water paintings by Suehiro
Yoshikawa and sculptures by Chimei
Hamada owned by Kama city, which arethemed on war. It was to deepen theawareness of peace.
An associated event was held in 18
Aug., 2012, where three local people told
their experiences of the war.
Tel: 0948-57-3176
Peace Museum for the People: Kotake
Town in Fukuoka
An exhibition of mimeographs was heldfrom 7 July through 31 Aug., 2012. It
showed six collections of memorial
writings for soldiers killed in the PacificWar. One of them was assembled to lift
their sprits by superior of thereconnaissance unit, which the former
president of the museum Tomio Takefuji
belonged to, when the first soldier died in
February, 1942. Using the papers takenfrom the U.S. military, the soldiers
printed the sentences written during thereconnaissancemission.
The
onemourning a soldier killed in Indonesia,
Wakare Dori, contains the memory oftalking “when I go back safely, I’ll marrya beautiful wife and remember mymother.” The other collection tells about atown that became a battlefield.

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum:
Nagasaki
The first exhibition of the museum
collection in 2012 was held from 4 Julythrough 2 Sep., 2102.
The second exhibition about munitions
factories and students was held from 13
Sep., 2012 through 30 Jan., 2013. During
the war, many students were recruited to
the factories to supply a need. On 9
August, 1945, an A-bomb was dropped on
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Nagasaki and a number of such students
fell victims in the demolished factories.
The exhibition introduced Mitsubishi
weapon factories that were close to theground zero and experiences and remainsof the bombed students working there.
The third exhibition of photos
commemorating Tomatsu Shomei washeld from 14 Feb. through 6 May, 2013.
The photographer had been capturing thetruth of A-bomb and the recovery ofNagasaki. Until 14 Dec., 2012 when hepassed away, he kept taking pictures for
50 years and contributed to nurturing
young photographers and promoting
culture in Nagasaki. Photos of the victims
were taken to show their entity living theirreplaceable life.
Tel:095-844-1231 Fax:095-846-5170
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/pe
ace/japanese/abm/index.html

International
News and Articles
Silence Memories and the Approach of
Peace Museum: Considering Iloilo
Peace Museum, Philippines

By Patporn Phoothong
One thing I observe about museum inThailand is, many of people who live
nearby museum do not visit museum andin some case, they even have no idea thatmuseum is located within theircommunity or what museum is all about.
This observation comes to question onwhether we really consider museum as alearning center and museum is a part ofour society. For the word “we” here, I
mean everyone especially museum, if
museum considers community andinstitution nearby as their stakeholders
whom they need to work and cooperate
with?
After a year in field research on peacemuseum in Japan and Philippines, I
became to realize that the content inmuseum is equivalent important as therole of museum as socio-political space.
Museum, especially peace museum would
not be able to declare their achievement
without playing a role as learning space
and interacting with the community
around them.
Back to summer 2012, my destination atthat time was Iloilo Peace Museum which
is located in Haro District, Iloilo Privince,
Panay Island in Visayas, Philippines.
This peace museum is unknown both inlocal and international context, thanks toGoogle, I found it when I was searchingfor peace museum in Southeast AsianRegion. I also found that Iloilo Peace
Museum is only one museum in
Philippines that declare themselve as

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial
Museum: Itoman City
An exhibition about Okinawa people
and wartime livelihood was held from 10
Oct from 9 Dec., 2012. It included the
aspects of the war and postwar throughthe eyes of people involved into the war.
A traveling exhibition of Yaeyama
Peace Museum on Okinawa people andwartime livelihood was held from 16 Jan.
through 26 Feb., 2013.
The third kids’ process exhibition washeld from 17 Oct through 30 Nov., 2012.
It introduced evacuation of school
children who spent difficult times in
Kyushu away from their parents for 2
years.
Tel:098-997-3844 Fax:098-997-3947

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peace museum.
Iloilo Peace Museum was establishedand supported by Mr. Toshimi Kumai, theformer veteran who was dispatched toand stationed in Iloilo city during theWorld War II. Though small, it talks
about the mass suicide of 50 Japanese
civilians, women and children including
soldiers in the deep forest after thedeclaration of surrender. It also tells thestory of Toshimi Kumai, the former
Japanese soldier who established themuseum. He was dispatched to Iloilo
during World War II and learned about
the mass suicide in 1972. After the
discovery of the suicide venue, the smallmonument was built on the spot for the
departed souls on spot.
What I am attracted the most of thispeacemuseumismilitaryas“perpetrator” talking or telling about war
and peace. It can be seen that most ofpeace museums present experiences andstory of the victim of violence; it is veryrare to hear the perpetrator view point
and reflection. We realize that the loss,
suffering and pain of victim create newexperiences for museum’s visitor as
learning such things lead them to thebetter understanding of what the peace
actually is, however, learning fromperpetrator‘s story is an experience wecannot ignore. We would not understandthe ‘meaning of peace’ if we do not knowwhat ‘violence’ is, and this reason broughtme here in Iloilo Peace Museum.
This museum operates on behalf ofJapanese citizens and Japanese soldiers
who were stationed in Iloilo city, informs
Japanese society of the fate of Japanesecitizens and soldiers in the foreign land.
The exhibition at Iloilo Peace Museum
shows the responsibility taken by aJapanese veteran for the losses sufferedby Japanese citizens which cannot beseen in the Japanese museums,

especially those run by the state.
However, this source of knowledge has
been hidden in the residential area ofHaro District. Many of local people whom
I met and asked about museum direction
do not know about where the museum iseven though they live nearby. In addition,prior to visit Iloilo Peace Museum, visitor
needs to make an appointment. At thefirst visit, while I was standing outside
the gate and looking at a small newbuilding which located in the private
property surrounded by the fence, thatmoment I asked myself if this is what I
am looking for.
According to the museum guestbook,found that there is very little number ofvisitors which most of them are Japanese.
But how many Japanese visit Iloilo? And
the most important, where are thosePhilippino, the local people? Iloilo Peace
Museum occasionally organizes historicalclass in secondary school in the area, andthere were group of students visited
museum as well but these activities
happen occasionally. Museum does nothave concrete plan to promote theirexhibition either plan for school activities
regardless cooperation with any othermuseums, academic institutes, andscholar or relevance organization in
Iloilo.
Considering the management of Iloilo
Peace Museum, the weak operation has
many negative consequences thoughmuseum attempt to send critical peace
message, such as the invisibility of themuseum even within the community
where it is located. The museum does notinteract with the community or the local
educational institutions.
One of its limitations is a visitor
targeting strategy which is inappropriate
considering its location. Since the main
target visitors are Japanese who visit
Iloilo, this focus deprives the museum of
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the opportunity to cater to other potential
visitors for imparting knowledge orbringing about change.
It is unfortunate that the collective
memory of the people of Iloilo of theJapanese military invasion and the lossesof the Filipinos caused by war, this peacemuseum does not even serve as a voice ofJapanese citizens who dwell in Iloilo City,
who are equally victims of the war. Thishas become an obstacle to the diversity ofcollective memories in Iloilo city and abetter understanding of the war fromholistic perspectives.
The silence memories as a result fromthe weak operation of peace museum
leading us to rethinking of the actual roleof museum, the realization of peacemuseum is not only result from whatpeace museum presents but it is also
associated with how peace museum
interact with society as a socio-politicallearning space.

curator, Gabriela Pickett read about theplanned reenactment she was horrified
that event planners would turn such a
tragic event in history into a form ofentertainment,
especiallywithout
presenting proper emphasis on the cost in
human life and suffering that occurred asa result of these bombings.
Ms. Pickett contacted her friends andassociates and an internet petition wasstarted by the Missing Peace Art Space
directed to the head of the Dayton Air
Show;” Dayton Air Show: Cancel adisplay to celebrate the dropping of theatomic bomb”.
In less than a day nearly 200 hundred
signatures were received with comments
and the local news had picked up on thestory. By the third day the Air Show
officials had reconsidered their positionon the reenactment and dropped it fromthe show.
We have become a culture, in the USA
and globally, that is fixated on violence. It
permeates almost all parts of our lives,
especially in what we consider asentertainment. Then when horrible actsof violence occur in our societies we ask,
“Why did this happen?” Could it be that it
happens because we have created theenvironment for it to happen, in our
minds and in our physical world?
We need to celebrate and make a place
for peace in world, and this can begin by
not tolerating the celebration of violence.
More can be read about this story at :http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-5
7580261/world-war-ii-atomic-bomb-re-en
actment-dropped-from-ohio-air-show-after-outcry/www.missingpeaceart.org

We Can Make a Difference
Steve Fryburg
Director, Missing Peace Art SpaceThe Dayton Air Show is an annual
event in Dayton, Ohio, which was hometo the Wright Brothers, the fathers offlight.
Each year tens of thousands of people
come from across the country and theworld to enjoy the show and visit thebirthplace of flight, but this year theshow would not proceed as planned.
The 2013 Dayton Air Show advertised areenactment of the bombing of Hiroshima
with a “Great Wall of Fire “display, could
this be happening in Dayton, a City ofPeace?
Dayton is also home to a small peace art
museum, the Missing Peace Art Space, amember of the International Network ofMuseums for Peace. When the gallery

A film of “Saving 10,000:
Winning a War on Suicide in Japan”
Is Japan really peaceful when there areso many people who commit a suicide?
17Here is a film which makes us think.
Synopsis
In a war on suicide, who is the enemy?
‘Saving 10,000′ is the story of an
Irishman’s personal passion to uncover
the true causes of the high suicide rate inJapan. The disturbing findings include
the Japanese media`s perverse love affair
with suicide, a variety of cruel andpredatory economic pressures and an
outdated and failing mental health caresystem. With the help of front-line
experts and ordinary Japanese, many
touched by the horror of suicide, themovie delivers practical proposals on how
Japan can win a war on suicide. Howeverwith suicide such a taboo, the odds are
nobody will listen. Or will they?
“Saving 10,000 – Winning a War on
Suicide in Japan” is a 52-minutedocumentary directed by Rene Duignan
and filmed by Marc-Antoine Astier.
Unusually for a small low budget
documentary, “Saving 10,000″ has
attracted a lot of media interest
withRene giving over 20 interviews todate. The movie also sparked interest
from politicians with DVD requests froma Minister and Vice-Minister and ascreening was held at the Japanese
Parliament. Rene has had the privilege ofsharing his ideas in a meeting with the
Suicide Prevention Unit of the Cabinet
Office. After the high profile Japanese
media coverage, a large amount ofscreening requests have been comingfrom all over Japan. Due to huge public
interest and the extreme urgency ofraisingsuicideawarenessinJapan, Rene has made the decision torelease the full movie online for free.
Please note DVDs will be provided free ofcharge to any organisation/university/
NGO that would like to hold a public
screening.
Rene will endeavor to fulfill as many

speaking requests as is feasible for a“film director” with a day job. Requests
and enquiries torene.duignan@gmail.com
www.saving10000.com
Join us for Sekai Hibakusha-ten (theWorld Hibakusha Photo Exhibition)
Keeping the memories of Hibakusha
alive: Uniting with world heritage
sites, first in Kyoto, then the world
This exhibition features the works ofsix photographers who have documented
the lives and stories of Hibakusha, aJapanese term for victims of nuclear
radiation
exposure,aroundtheworld. Through the perceptive filters of
six photographers*, the photos in the
exhibition recall important stories andmemories of hibakusha around the worldin Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima,
Chernobyl, as well as the survivors of
nuclear testing and uranium mining.
To commemorate the 70th anniversary ofthe dropping of the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this summer
Kyoto will become the launching point for
the World Hibakusha Photo Exhibition.
In this historic city of extraordinary
cultural capital, we aim to unite sites ofworld heritage with Hibakusha who are aheritage to world memory.
This collaboration will be documented
for posterity and in order to bring visitors
to other venues around the world.
Specifically we will photograph panels ofphotos of the hibakusha at the world
heritage
temples
KinkakujiandGinkakuji
Next year the exhibition will make its
way to other parts of Asia, the Middle
East, Europe, Central and South America,
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and Africa.

Editor’s Notes

We hope to hold Hibakusha Photo
Exhibitions at renowned world heritage
sites including churches, temples, schools
as well as history and art museums
where we can attract a wide audience. If
you are interested in hosting theexhibition, please do get in touch. We arealso seeking volunteers and contributions
to help with the running of the exhibition.

We would like to express our deep
gratitude to Ms. Yoshiko Tanigawa, Ms.
Terumi Imai, Ms. Tanya S. Maus, Ms.
Atsuko Takeda and Ms. Yuriko Taki fortranslating many articles into English.
In Japan, so-called Comfort Women
Issue recently became a great nationwide
interest originally triggered by anutterance of the city mayor of Osaka
named Toru Hashimoto, one of theco-leaders of the Japan Restoration Party.
He claimed in May 2013 that the comfort
women were “necessary evil” to give
“rest” to the Japanese soldiers during
World War 2. He even told a senior U.S.
forces official in Okinawa that the sexual
energy of U.S. marines is uncontrollable
and that they should make more use of
local adult entertainment industry inJapan to reduce the incidence of sexual
crimes against women. His carelessremarks incurred rage among the victimsof sexual violence during the war, andbrought many women and men serious
displeasure.
As is introduced at page 2 of this issue,
the Peace Studies Association of Japan(PSAJ) recently decided to award“Women’s War and Peace Museum”(commonly known as “wam”) its peace
prize in this significant situation. Wam
has been making great efforts toelucidate and make known to the people
the reality of the so-called comfort womenissue, and has often been exposed toright-wing attack.
PSAJ is one of the largest national
peace research organizations in the world.
It is a member of IPRA (International
Peace Research Association) and hosted
1992 international conference held at
Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

For more details visit our homepage or
get in touch by email.
URL
http://www.no-more-hibakusha.net/english/
e-mail hibakushaten@gmail.com*Ittetsu MORISHITA, Takashi ITOH,
Hiroto KIRYU, Hiromitsu TOYOSAKI,
Seiichi MOTOHASHI, and Takashi
MORIZUMI
World Hibakusha Photo Exhibition
in Kyoto
Dates: August 6, 2013 – September 8,2013 (closed Mondays)
Hours : 10:00am - 5:00pm (starts at 1:00
on the opening day)
Location: Kyoto Shokoku-ji Jotenkaku
MuseumAddress: 701 Sokokuji, Monzen-cho,
Imadegawakarasuma Higashiiru Agaru,
Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City 602-0898
Telephone : 075-241-0423
Access: Subway Karasuma Line to"Imadegawa Station".Kyoto City Bus to"DoshishaMae".
Entrance: Free (entrance fees charged for
Jotenkakuji museum exhibitions)

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PSAJ established a commendation
system for honor members in 2005, and
gives
Peace
Award
and
Peace
Encouragement Award every two years to
its members who contribute to peacestudies and/or peace movement thereby
expecting to activate them. Peace Awardis given to an individual or an
organization having a basis of activities
in Japan for the great contribution topeace studies and/or peace movement.
Peace Encouragement Award is given to
up to 2 young researchers (preferably
younger than 40 years old) who
contribute to peace studies by publishingexcellent papers or books.
Wam is one of the important membersof the Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace, and we, editors of its
official newsletter “Muse”, express ourheartfelt satisfaction about the fact thatPSAJ unanimously decided to give its
Peace Award to wam.
Congratulations!

Information about
Fukushima
Also introduced in this issue,
Professor Ikuro Anzai, one of theeditors of “Muse”, was also electeda winner of the PSAJ Peace Award.
He was one of the first students
in Japan who specialized in nuclear
engineering in early 1960s. He has
been criticizing nuclear power
policy of the Japanese Government
for more than 40 years.
He is now visiting Fukushima
every
month
to
investigate
radioactive contamination of living
environment, and also to support 2
million people residing there. His
office, Anzai Science & Peace Office(ASAP), has been offering radiationdose meters to about 150 people
including many young children toscientifically grasp the actual risk
they are receiving. Recent dataover 6 months suggest that the
average annual radiation dose of
the people in Fukushima city is
about 1.8 mSv/yr, fortunately
almost comparable to (or rather
less than) the world averageannual natural radiation dose (2.4
mSv/yr according to the U.N.
Scientific Committee on the Effectof Atomic Radiation). It is mainly
because concentration of naturalradioactivity in air is relatively low
in Japan.
Dr. Anzai is proposing practicalmethods to reduce radiation
exposure due to the Fukushima
nuclear accident, and to minimize
radiation risk of the people in
Fukushima.

※ Information: Wam recently
published a book about the
comfort women system of Japanesemilitary force (only in Japanese).

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