Muse No. 22: Japanese Citizens’Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: February, 2010
The Editorial Office: The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage
1-5-4 Kitasuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0073 Japan
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Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translators: Yoshiko Tanigawa, Hisako Masuda, Atsuko Takeda, Eriko Ikeda,
Yuriko Taki, Mihoko Yasuhara
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki

The 9th National Meeting of the Japanese
Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace
Secretariat: Masahiko Yamabe
The 9th meeting was held on December
5th and 6th in Tokyo and 34 people attended
it. On the first day there were reports on
research and exhibitions at museums, thecooperation
betweenmuseums
andcitizens/groups, how younger generations
have made efforts to convey war experiences
and so forth. First, Kazuya Yasuda of Daigo
Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon)Exhibition
Hall made a keynote speech. Choukei
Futenma presented a paper on activities at
Himeyuri Peace Museum.
Tadahito
Yamamoto talked about research andactivities at the Center of the Tokyo Air-Raidsand Damage with an emphasis on how
people have conveyed war experiences tofuture generations.
Hajime Tsuneichi
talked about the present situation of Peace
Osaka as a public peace museum and its
challenges.
After discussion, Yukinobu
Okamura of Maruki Gallery for the
Hiroshima Panels made a report on activities
at the art museum. Masahiko Yamabe, thesecretariat of the network, made a report on
activities and finance. There was a party
after the meeting at a Korean restaurant atnight.
On the second day, 23 persons attended
the meeting. Professor Morio Minami of
Aichi University of Education made a reporton exhibitions on Nanjing and bombing of
Chongqing at Japanese museums of
Self-Defense Forces.
It is surprising to know that the number ofpeople who visit peace museums is almost
the same as those who visit war museums.
Masahiko Yamabe made a report on
war-related exhibitions at museums for peacein 2008 and 2009.
Kazuyo Yamane
introduced a guide map of peace-related sites
in Leeds which Dr. Peter van den Dungensent to her. There is a similar guide map inTokyo and it was discussed that such a guide
map would be very useful in various places.
Ariyuki Fukushima talked about his
introduction of peaceerico
museum studies at the conference of Peace
Studies Association of Japan. Maki Torii
made a report on Kyoto Museum for World
Peace and the Association of Japanese1Museums for Peace to which relatively big
peace museums belong. Eriko Ikeda of
Women’s Active Museum on War and Peacemade a report on the introduction of panels
on sex slaves of Japanese military to theChinese No.8 Troop Memorial Hall in
Sghanxi Province. Fusako Watanebe made areport on Wadatsumino Koe Memorial Hall.
Daisuke Miyahara talked about activities ofPeace Aichi and Tamotsu Asakawa made areport of activities of Yamanashi Peace
Museum. Sayoko Yoneda made a report on
House of Raicho. Their reports will be
introduced below in respective articles.
Dr. Peter van den Dungen kindly sent his
message to the meeting of the network and it
was introduced by Kazuyo Yamane.
Some participants attended Wadatsumino
Koe Memorial Hall after the meeting on 6th.
Masahiko Yamabe made a report on
activities of the network. Muse in Japanesewas published in December 2008 and August
2009. English version was published in
January 2009 and October 2009. The 9th
meeting of the network was held on
December 5th and 6th 2009. As for the planof the network, Muse will continue to be
published twice a year both in Japanese andEnglish. Museums for Peace Worldwide inJapanese will be published in 2010. (It was
The secretariat
published in March, 2010).
continues to be Masahiko Yamabe of theCenter of the Tokyo Air-Raids and Damage.
Board members will be Eirko Ikeda,
Keiichiro Kaji, Masahiko Yamabe, Kazuya
Yasuda, Tamotsu Asakawa and Daisuke
Miyahara.
The editors of Muse are
Masahiko Yamabe, Kazuyo Yamane, andProfessor Ikuro Anzai.

Dear friends and colleagues,
It is with pleasure that I am responding to
the request to send a message on the occasionof your meeting here today and tomorrow.
In a few days, on Thursday, President Barack
Obama will be receiving this year’s Nobel
Peace Prize in Oslo. Following theannouncement in October that he had won
the prize, volunteers and supporters of the
Dayton International Peace Museum (inOhio), decided to send letters to him in thehope that he would donate some of the prize
money to their museum. On 18th November,the museum held a press conference when an
official letter from the museum was sent to
the President. It would be a terrific boost for
the Dayton museum, and for peace museums
everywhere, if the new Nobel laureate would
respond positively to this approach.
Meanwhile, the world’s media haveintroduced the (small) museum to a large
public, and one strong message is that theefforts for peace education taking place inpeace museums is vitally important, butthese institutions are in need of financial
support.
This picture is familiar to many of you.
Not a few museums for peace have beencreated following the initiative of one person,or a small group of individuals, whose vision,
drive, and determination made a dream cometrue. Many museums for peace are sustainedby the invaluable work of their volunteers, aswell as the small but vital donations by theirfriends and sponsors.
The museums associated in your Network
are of the most diverse kind with a richvariety of exhibitions and displays, as well asactivities and educational programmes. Your
museums give meaning and substance to thephrase ‘developing a culture of peace’ andshow what has been done and must be done
to make the world a happier place for all.
Your museums provide their visitors withenlightenment,
inspiration,andencouragement, and in this way offer an

Message to the Annual Meeting of Japanese
Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peacefrom Dr. Peter van den Dungen,
General Coordinator, International Networkof Museums for Peace (INMP)

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educational experience which is truly
priceless.
Over the years I have had the good
fortune of visiting several museums
represented here which all have left a lasting
impression – of the striking and sometimes
profoundly moving exhibits, but also of the
devotion of the museums’ staff andvolunteers. Please allow me to mention a few
examples only.
Daigo
Fukuryu
Maru(LuckyDragon)Exhibition Hal, the Center of theTokyo Raids and War Damages, and the
Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace,
all in Tokyo, as well as the Maruki Gallery innearby Saitama, are wonderful creations,addressing very different subjects, but united
in their vision of a world without violence andwar. In Okinawa I have been moved by visits
to the Himeyuri Peace Memorial Museum(now celebrating its 20th anniversary as a
new member of the Association of JapaneseMuseums for Peace) and the Sakima Art
Museum, among others.
I have the highest regard also for the Oka
Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace
Museum whose name commemorates a great
Japanese peacemaker who was concernedwith the fate of Korean and Chinese forced
labourers, and who were forgotten victims of
the atomic bombing of the city. Very different
is Grassroots House in Kochi where, many
years ago, I was happy to meet its founder
and inspiring peace educator, the late Mr.
Shigeo Nishimori.
I am happy to salute editors of MUSE
including Mr. Masahiko Yamabe, Dr. Kazuyo
Yamane and Professor Ikuro Anzai for theirtireless work over many years and also for
producing (with the help of others) an
English translation which enables friends ofpeace museums around the world to be kept
informed of the many developments in Japan,
the only country where it is possible to speakof a peace museum movement.
On behalf of the International Network ofMuseums for Peace I am sending heartfelt
thanks for all the splendid work for peace youare engaged in, and best wishes for a fruitfulreunion.

The Summary of Discussion on the First Day
Kazuya Yasuda: Curator of Daigo Fukuryu
Maru (Lucky Dragon)Exhibition Hall
Three themes were set for the first time forthe meeting.
① How to convey war experiences to future
generation at peace museums② Research at peace museums③ To think of the present situation of peacemuseums.
First, I gave a keynote speech and eachtheme was presented by Choukei Futenma ofHimeyuri
Peace
Museum,Tadahito
Yamamoto of the Center for Tokyo Air-Raidsand Damage and Hajime Tsuneichi of Peace
Osaka respectively. Questions and answers
followed and discussion became quite active.
Many people were interested in how toconvey war experiences to future generation
because survivors are getting older and older
or tend to pass away. As for Himeyuri Peace
Memorial Museum, it was noted that a
project was made in 2002 to convey war
experiences to the next generation and they
continue to follow the project patiently andcomprehensively. It would not be easily
possible for any peace museum to do so, but
their activities are full of suggestion.
As for the Center for the Tokyo Air-Raids andDamage, researchers get involved with thecenter because the center is an affiliatedfoundation of the Institute of Politics andEconomy.
War
DamageResearch
Department was opened in 2006 and journals
are published regularly. A grant was given
to the center by the Ministry of Educationand Science and they have been active inresearching
air-raids
andholding
symposiums.
Activities to convey war
experiences to future generation are

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interesting as well as joint activities withyounger generation.
As for Peace Osaka, a report was madeespecially on financial difficulties because
budget for public museums was drasticallyreduced as well as systematic attacks on
exhibitions on Japan’s aggression. Most ofpeace museums that are members of theJapanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for
Peace are from private peace museums, but it
is important to continue to study exhibitions
and their future at national and publicmuseums carefully.

survivors and show it at an exhibition room.
However, it was discussed that it is notenough to show such a film and it would benecessary to renew exhibits. What waschanged in the renewal is (1) to increase
explanation of materials, captions andgraphics, (2) a film of survivors was added in
the exhibition, (3) a place for peace was set,and (4) English explanation was added indetails. The purpose of the renewal is tomake exhibitions understandable even if
there is no explanation by survivors so that
secondary school students will be able tothink of war as their own problem.
While we discussed how to renew exhibits,
it was suggested to educate some staffs sothat they would be able to explain survivors’
experiences. New staffs were hired to do so in
1995 and there are three staffs who can
explain exhibits just like survivors.
In the project of conveying war
experiences to the next generation, a survivor
and a young staff visit war remains together
and the staff listens to the survivor’s
experiences not only during World War II but
also before and after the war. We have a planof sending a traveling exhibit to othermuseums from April, 2010. What is
important in conveying war experiences tothe next generation is to educate successors.
It is important to share the purpose that it isvery meaningful to convey war experiences tofuture generations between survivors andstaffs. In this case it is significant tomaintain the peace museum because it is thebase for promoting precious activities forsurvivors and staffs. What is also importantis how to run the museum. Survivors went
through hardships, founded the museum andhave run it for twenty years. I think that themost important thing is their team work
based on their democratic way ofmanagement. What supported their teamwork is the fact that all of them share war
experiences, but most of all they sharedexperiencing the foundation of the peace

Reports from Peace Museums at
the Conference
Himeyuri
Peace
Museum:ItomanCity,Okinawa
Curator: Choukei Futenma
Himeyuri Peace Museum was opened onJune 23rd 1989 and twenty years havepassed since then.
The museum wasfounded by those who experienced World War
II helping injured soldiers as students so thatsuch war will never break out and theirexperiences will be conveyed to future
generations.
Ideas of the museum was decided bysurvivors who discussed them for a long time:“Never forget the danger of education”, “toconvey the horror of war that theyexperienced to future generation”, “appeal
the importance of peace to people” and “toconsole spirit of friends and teachers who
passed away”.
Survivors run the museum since its
opening, but it became a big challenge toconvey their war experiences to younger
generation since 2000. They started to deal
with this issue as a project for the next
generation.
The first idea was to make a film of4

published by Shin Nihonshuppan.
Secondly, I introduced a brief history of thecenter: Association to Record Tokyo Air-Raids
founded in 1970, an issue of Tokyo Public
Peace Museum that was not realized, thefoundation of the center in 2002, activities atthe center, an administration system of thecenter and so forth. The center is an affiliatedfoundation of Institute of Politics andEconomy and this supported basic researchof exhibits and education for peace. Eight
years have passed since its foundation andfinancial bases will be discussed seriouslysoon.
Lastly, it is necessary to make clear someproblems based on practical cases, raise
professional coordinators and get rid ofregional gaps of resources for activities. In
order to do so, it is important to promotemutual relationship among peace museums.
The whole picture of war will be made clear if
various museums are connected one anotherand this would make it possible for eachmuseum to promote activities for peace. It
is our challenge to make clear what we cando together and also what to do to look forsupport from social systems.

museum and the management.
We, young staffs, have no experiences of
war nor founding the peace museum. But
we share the purpose that it is meaningful toconvey war experiences to the next
generation. I believe that it is possible toconvey war experiences to future generations
if we keep sharing the purpose.
Ms. Tsuru Motomura said at the press
interview, “We would like to entrust
everything to such young people. Therefore,
I would like young people to listen to us andlearn from us as much as possible.” We thinkthat it is meaningful to share time withsurvivors just like a miracle. We’d like toshare such precious experiences with otheryounger generations.

The Center of theTokyoRaids and Damage:
Koto Ward, Tokyo
Tadahito Yamamoto: Researcher
The generation that went through war has
been having exchanges with younger
generation at the center in order to convey
war experiences and their memory to them.
Younger generation means the one whoseparents or grandparents went through thewar.
It is important that the third
generation (grandchildren for those who
experienced the war) learn war experiences
and war memory so that they can convey
these things to future generations.
First, I called children of those who went
through war “the second generation”, andthose who are grandchildren “the third
generation”. I introduced activities of thecenter in order to think what a peacemuseum can do in conveying war experiences
to future generations. An exhibition of
messages by the generation that does notknow war was held from December 6th 2007
to January 14th 2008. The details was
published in my article in a book of Power of(Sensoueno
ImaginationofWar
Souzouryoku) edited by Youichi Komori and

Exhibitions on Nanjin Massacre andAir-raids of Chongqing at SDF Museums
Morio Minami: Aichi Kyouiku University
It is important to regard peace museums
in contrast to war museums (war-related
museums based on ideas to affirm war.)
War museums revived and are newly
founded in 1990s in Japan and the number ofvisitors of war museums is comparable to theone of visitors of peace museums. I
researched ten odd relatively big peacemuseums as well as ten odd war museums
from 2006 to 2008. It was found that visitors
are 3-4 million in both museums. Important
war museum are museums and information
centers of Self Defense Forces besides public
war museums such as Yushukan Museum of5Yasukuni Shrine, museums related to
Gokoku (meaning protecting the nation)
Shrine, and Yamato Museum. War museums
can be classified based on their foundingtime: a type before the war (Etajima:
Kyouiku Sankoukan museum, etc), an oldtype in the 1950s and 1980s, and a new typeafter the 1990s. The focus was put in an oldtype of war museums. What is problematicis that war crimes by Japanese military are
ignored or hided, there is no criticism of theiroperations, the war dead such as Japanese
officers and soldiers of Japanese military are
uncritically glorified, and Japan’s aggression
is ignored. A focus of my research was put
on an exhibition on Nanjing Massacre andJapan’sindiscriminate
air-raids
in
Chongqing in China in museums related to
the SDF (in Fukuchiyama, Kui, Utsunomiya,Hamamatsu etc). I pointed out actual
circumstances that cruel acts and war crimesof the Japanese military are ignored andhidden intentionally. I also pointed out aproblem that history exhibition against
Japanese government official views (byformer Prime Minister Murayama) is
maintained and managed by national
expenses.

been involved with the operation andpreparation for exhibitions at public peacemuseums. The biggest problem of a public
peace museum is that it is getting harder andharder to run a museum because of the
reduction of budget such as Peace Osaka andRittou History Museum.
However, efforts have been made for peacesuch as holding war-related exhibitions atmany history museums. For example, awell organized exhibition was made at
Sakuragaoka Museum and such an
exhibition continues to be held.
An
exhibition was made at Minoo City Museumof Folk , Although it was discontinued
temporarily, an exhibition for peace started tobe held again. Such an exhibition continued
to be held at Kamaishi Historical Museum,
Historical Museum Izumisano, Museum of
the Town of Tadotsu, Miike Playing
Memorial Museum, Kumejima Natural andCultural Center and so forth. There werealso history museums where an exhibition forpeace was held for the first time: Otsu City
Museum of History and Museum of Ehime
History and Culture held a big-scaled andsolid exhibition. At Sendai City Museum ofHistory and Folklore, Mito City Museum,
Wakayama Municipal Museum and others, a
special war-related exhibition and one on therecovery from World War II were made after
a long time.
As for the themes of exhibitions, war
remains have been dealt with at Human
Rights and Peace Museum, Fukuyama City,
Gifu Peace Museum, Peace Aichi, Nagoya
City Miharashidai Archaeology Museum,
Fuchu
City
ForestMuseum,Musashimurayama
City
Museum,Higashiyamato City Museum and so forth.
Maps and guidebooks were published by
Sendai City Museum of History and
Folklore , Gifu Peace Museum, Human
Rights and Peace Museum, Fukuyama Cityand so forth. A guided trip to war remains
for children is organized at Numazu City

War-related Exhibitions at Museums for
Peace in 2008 and 2009
Masahiko Yamabe
I would like to introduce war-related
exhibitions at museums for peace since the
7th national meeting of the Japanese
Citizens’ Network of Museums for peace in2007.
Mito Peace Memorial Center was openedon August 1st in 2009. This is the result of
citizens’ long-term movement for founding apeace museum.
Sasebo Air-raids Exhibition Room and
Hirakata City Peace Gallery were opened in2006.
On the other hand, citizen’s groups have6Museum of Meiji History. An exhibition on
war memory was held at Sumida Heritage
Museum, Ishikawa Prefecture History
Museum, Sanin History Museum of Yonago
City and so forth.

social violence which prevents people’s ability
from blossoming and appeal to visitors tomake efforts for peace. A report was madefrom each museum and they discussed
creating a logo and database for materials oftraveling exhibits together in order to inform
people of activities of the Association ofJapanese Museums for Peace.
Kyoto Museum for World Peace is
expected to contribute to summarizing
above-mentioned questions. Some issues
with regard to museum administration will
be summarized and information will beshared among the affiliates to improve theproblems. After the conference, participants
visited Peace Osaka, and they made to a tour
around war remains near Osaka Castle thenext day, in addition to a visit to Osaka
Museum of History. The 17th conference will
be held in November 2010 at Kanagawa
Plaza for Global Citizenship in Yokohama
City.
This year's meeting adopted a joint appeal
on the occasion of the International Day of
Peace (November 11) especially referring to
President Obama's speech on nuclear
disarmament in Prague on 5 April, 2009. The
following is the joint appeal. This is the firstjoint statement which has ever been adopted
by the Association.

Introduction of the Association of JapaneseMuseums for Peace: Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, Ritsumeikan University
Maki Torii: Education and Culture Project
SectionThe 16th Annual Meeting of the Associationof Japanese Museums for Peace was held on
11-12
November,
2009,
at
Osaka
International Peace Center (Peace Osaka)
Guests from Human Rights Section of Osaka
Prefecture and Osaka City Board of
Education gave a speech. Dr. Peter van den
Dungen, General Coordinator of INMP,
kindly sent a warmest message to thismeeting and it was introduced there. This
association is affiliated by 10 Japanesemuseums for peace; Okinawa Prefectural
Peace Memorial Museum, Himeyuri Peace
Museum,Tsushima-maru
Memorial
Museum, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum,
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Osaka
International Peace Center, Kyoto Museum
for World Peace, Kanagawa Plaza for Global
Citizenship, Kawasaki City Peace Museum,and Peace Museum of Saitama. It wasestablished in 1994 in Hiroshima, and sincethat year an annual meeting has beenorganized in turn. This year, Peace Osaka
was responsible for organizing the meeting.
The number of visitors of these peacemuseums
is
about
four
million.
Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum which
was opened in Naha City in Okinawa in 2004
became a new member of the association.
In many of these museums, valuable
materials, photos and panels on war (bothaggression and victim side of war), poverty,
discrimination and environ- mental issues
have been exhibited in order to get rid of

Joint Appeal On the Occasion of theInternational Day of Peace
November 11, 2009 (International Day of
Peace)
Signs of change for peace are now emerging
in the world.
A ray of hope has streamed into the world
covered with dark clouds where, even in the
21st century, nuclear weapons still exist andvarious types of violence such as armed
conflict,discrimination,
povertyandecological crisis are threatening thehumanity.
That hope was brought by a speech delivered7

by the U.S. President Barack Husain Obamain Prague, Czech Republic, on the 5th ofApril,2009. He clearly stated that "a world
without nuclear weapons" could come true,
and, above all, explicitly expressed that theUnited States has a moral responsibility to
act as it is the only nuclear power which has
used nuclear weapons. This statement
encourages us, the only A-bombed nation,and confirmed our faith in the abolition of
nuclear weapons.
After President Obama's speech in Prague,
the United Nations Security Council
unanimously endorsed a resolution in
September this year to "create the conditions
for a world without nuclear weapons".
However, we must not forget that the way is
still steep and therefore:
Showing our respect to President Obama's
speech in Prague, we, the participants of the
16th Annual Meeting of the Association ofJapanese Museums for Peace, jointly pledge
that we will continue to work for the abolitionof nuclear weapons and for the realization ofeternal peace.

because of President Obama’s declaration of
the abolition of nuclear weapons and achange of Japanese regime.
An exhibition on Masayoshi Nakamura
was held from October 24th to December
12th. Masayoshi Nakamura was elected asa judge of the Nitten (the Japan Fine Arts
Exhibition and it is the most popular of all
the major art organizations in Japan) when
he was thirty-six, but he began to question a
traditional order and withdrew from it andsearched for a unique world of expression.
He organized a new association against the
Nitten and painted critical works such as
dealing with Minamata disease from whichpeople suffered because of pollution by
mercury in the 1950s and the 1960s. Kunio
Takeshige, a film director and producer, gave
a lecture on Masayoshi Nakamura and films
on October 31st. A play on Minamata
disease was put on by Hirotomo Kawashimaon November 7th.
A tour was organized on November 28thand 29th and twenty-three people attended it
to visit places related to Ashio mining
pollution and Shozo Tanaka (1841-1913) who
dealt with the pollution. The remains of
Ashio factory will be removed by March 2010.
Participants visited memorials related
Chinese and Koreans who became victims inthe mine.
An exhibition on Toshi Maruki ten years
after her death has been held from December
19th till April 10th 2010. She passed away
on January 13th 2000 when she was 87 and120 works will be exhibited such as oils andwaters, original paintings of picture books
and so forth. Oil paintings which she
painted when she became an elementaryteacher are exhibited for the first time. Thisis an important opportunity to know awoman painter’s life history.
Tel:0493-22-3266 Fax:0493-24-8371
http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/top/kikaku.htm

Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels:
Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama
Curator: Yukinobu Okamura
Professor Mikiyo Kanou, a genderresearcher, gave a lecture on August 6th,
2009 and nearly 300 people listened to her.
She said, “People have dualism in aggressive
war: aggressors and victims. Ideas of the
weak ｖ conflict with nuclear weapons inwhich an emphasis is put on efficiency inmodern civilization.” Paper lanterns were
put in a river near the art museum to pray
for victims of the atomic bombs.
The fifth anti-nuclear & anti-war
exhibition was held from September 12th toOctober 17th. Paintings, photos, sculpture,
3-D arts and so froth by Eighty-seven artists
were exhibited to deal with war and nuclear
issues.
Media paid attention on them8

DaigoFukuryu
Maru(LuckyDragon)Exhibition Hall
: Koto Ward, Tokyo
Curator: Kazuya Yasuda
Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon) Peace
Association has been running “Daigo
Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon)Exhibition
Hall ” on behalf of Tokyo Municipal
government and it became a public
foundation on November 2nd. I’d like tomake more efforts as its secretary general inpreserving the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky
Dragon) , collecting materials on damages byatomic and hydrogen bombs and current
nuclear issues, promoting peace educationand increasing the number of visitors.
An exhibition of Message to the Earthwithout Nuclear Weapons was held in 2009as the 55th anniversary of suffering from the
US hydrogen bomb test. It will be held until
March 22nd 2010, for it is the 65th
anniversary of suffering from the atomic
bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Exhibited are works by Seitaro Kuroda, an
illustrator and designer, and paintings on
Bikini Atoll, Fukuryu-maru (Japanesefishing boat named “Lucky Dragon”), atomic
bombs and Hiroshima and Nagasaki Protocol.
Steven Leeper of Hiroshima Peace Culture
Center will give a lecture to the citizens
under the title “Let’s create a world without
nuclear weapons” at Meiji Gakuin University
on March 6th. There will be commentatorsfrom Japan, the United States, the Republicof Korea and China.
A concert is held on May 9th as the 65th
anniversary of the atomic bombing andworks by Hikaru Hayashi are played. I
hope that panels on the 5th Lucky Dragonboat will be exhibited in various places in the
future.

An Exhibition on Sex Slaves in China
Head of the Steering Committee: Eriko Ikeda
The main event of Women’s Active
Museum (WAM) is the 7th special exhibition
of “Testimony and Silence: Former soldiers
who faced their acts of aggression” from July.
There were two other big evens. Our website
in Japanese and Korean was realized and thelatest map of sites where women were forced
to work as sex slaves will be completed andmade public soon. An exhibition on sexual
violence by Japanese military was held at the
Chinese No.8 Troop Memorial Hall in Shanxi
Province China. On November 2nd an
opening ceremony was held by curators in
China and Japan inviting Chinese women
who were forced to work as sexual slaves in
Shanxi Province and their family as well as
survivors. It was spectacular to see 166 big
panels at the exhibition hall. The exhibits
were based on WAM’s exhibition on sexual
slavery in China and the Women’s
International War Crimes Tribunal for the
Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery,
and they were made by members of WAM
and NGOs that supported victims of sexual
violence in Shanxi, Nanjing and Hainan Dao,
which took about two years. It would be thefirst time that an exhibition made by aJapanese NGO is held for one year at anational museum in China. It was very
impressive to see victims of sexual slavery
and their family who were moved and were
staring at panels earnestly. There is a planof visiting the exhibition in spring, 2010.
※Translator’s notes: As for the Chinese No.8
Troop Memorial Hall, it was founded in 1988
in Shanxi. The Hall is located in the
Taihang revolution area, and it was built andopened in 1988. The whole exhibition area is
8000 ㎡，and it is the biggest hall whichreflect the army theme of the 8- year war. It
describes the whole process of the No.8 army
crossing the Yellow River to the battlefield,
and confrontation with the Japanese army,
and the foundation of the Anti-Japanese base

Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace(WAM):
Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo9

until the victory. In this site, there is also a
tremendous exhibition of the cave war. It was
built on the base of the left cave site during
the Phoenix Mountain war. It reflects thewhole facts of the whole cave war. The cave is
1 kilometer long. The inside layout is much
like underground war, which has a meeting
room, a command centre, a weapon houseand a warehouse etc.
No.117,Taihang Street, WuxiangCounty,
Shanxi Province
Tel: 0355—6437583 & 0355—6438666
www.balujun.org/
liguowei003@163.com
longyuanet@163.com)

future. I hope that such an exhibition willcontinuously be made in the future. In 2007
the memorial belonged to Bunkyo Muse Net
which is run by Bunkyo Academy
Foundation. Information on exhibitions ispublished in Square, its newsletter with amap of 34 museums, so the number ofvisitors has been increasing little by little.
An event called Muse Festa is held once a
year and we make an exhibition of
posthumous manuscripts of deceased
students and have exchanges of ideas andopinions with young people from various
fields such as sports, art, historic sites,
gardens, museums and so forth. Visitors
tended to be persons who experienced war
and peace activists, but I hope that we will
have more exchanges with people in thecommunity to spread anti-war activities forpeace. Forums and lectures are held with
Wadatsumi-kai twice a year, in addition to alecture given by persons who experienced war.
Newsletter is published once a year, so wewould like to issue it at least twice a year.
The memorial is open in the afternoon on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but if agroup is coming, we welcome them anytime.
Tel&FaxX: 03-3815-8571
e-mail: info@wadatsuminokoe.org
http://www.wadatsuminokoe.org/

Wadatsumino Koe Memorial Hall: Bunkyou
Ward,
Tokyo
Fusako Watanabe
Letters, diaries, wills, photographs ofdeceased students in World War II have been
exhibite for three years. In summer there isa special exhibition of posthumous
manuscripts and relics of deceased students
for peace. This is displayed at Edo Tokyo
Museum for several days around August
15th, the day when Emperor Hirohito
announced Japan’s defeat on radio. Also
exhibited are photographs and materials of
deceased Korean students, materials on 60
year-old history of Wadatsumi-kai (Japanese
Association of Deceased Students), publishedmaterials written by deceased students, andmaterials rented from other museums suchas Mugonkan (Memorial Museum of War
Dead Art Students). This is a result of TV
reporting such as NHK and TBS radio
station as well as our advertisement through500 postcards, our website and fliers.
Over 3000 people visit the exhibition every
year and they write their impression. It is
encouraging to read their impression. The
generation who experienced war wrote thatsuch a war should never break out in the

Yamanashi Peace Museum: Kofu City
Director: Tamotsu Asakawa
Two years have passed since its opening. I
would like to write our activities and somechallenges. As for an exhibition on war andpeace on the first floor, the content has
becoming not only local but also global: theemphasis used to be put on US air-raids ofKofu and the history of Kofu regiment, andlife during the war. There is also an
exhibition on Tanzan Ishibashi from
Yamanashi who worked for human rights,
peace and freedom as a journalist. A
symposium was held in October as the 125th10

anniversary of his birth and Emeritus
Professor Takayoshi Matsuo of Kyoto
University gave a lecture.
An event is held every month so that war
experiences will be conveyed to future
generations. There is new discovery, meetingand links through such events. We also haveexchanges with other museums: Professor
Ikuro Anzai of Ritsumeikan University gave
a lecture in 2008 and Mr. Katsumoto
Saotome of the Center of Tokyo Air-Raids andDamage gave a lecture in 2009. Fivemembers attended the International
Conference of Museums for Peace in 2008.
The number of young people fromelementary school to university is increasing,but it is not enough yet. We need to think
how to attract young people more in the
future.

is to realize her wish for peace in modern
time.
It is open on Saturday, Sunday andMonday from the latter half of April to thebeginning of November. It is closed in winter.
If a group is planning to come, please make areservation so that it can be open during
week days. It takes about forty minutes from
Ueda station by car. There is no bus, so it isnecessary to rent a car or a bus. It is
possible to make a peace trip to Mugonkan, amemorial of Senji Yamamoto and Matsushiro
Headquarter as well.
℡＆fax:03-3818-862
Association of Raicho Hiratsuka: 1278-720
Chouji Junohara, Sanada-machi, Ueda City, Nagano

Peace Aichi: Nagoya City, Aichi
Secretary General: Daisuke MiyaharaThis is the third year since Peace Aichi is
opened. There are over 500 visitors a monthin average and 80% of them is adults while
20% is children from elementary school tohigh school. This is almost the same as lastyear.
There are one full-time staff and several
volunteers. A meeting is held once a monthwith the director and about twenty membersof the steering committee. About ten
committees are active with volunteers.
There is an exhibition that lasts two
weeks to two moths besides a permanent
exhibition. There are also various events
related to exhibitions. Such activities are
getting active because we want visitors tocome back and work for peace.
There is an exhibition on life during WorldWar II and this will be held until February
6th. The next exhibition on air-raids on
Nagoya will start on May 4th when the peacemuseum was opened. We are also planningto make an exhibition of works of inscription
on grave stones of victims of the air-raids, amemorial meeting, the Association of Victimsof Air-Raids in Nagoya, reading and a tour ofRaicho’s House: Square for Peace,
Cooperation and Nature: Nagano
Director: Sayoko Yoneda
You may wonder why there is aparticipant in the meeting from Raicho’s
House. I attended it as an individual. Four
years have passed since Raicho Hiratsuka’smemorial was built in a forest in Shinshu.
She is well known for a book of A woman was
the Sun Originally. We had a meeting totalk war experiences, and showed a film of“Costa Rica that got rid of Military”. A
series of lectures were given: Raicho’s ideas
for peace and Hideki Yukawa’s wish for aworld without nuclear weapons. We also hada special exhibition on peace messages by
women. This made me wonder if Raicho’s
house is a kind of a museum for peace.
Raicho wished for world peace from astandpoint to protect children’s life as mother.
After World War II she protested against
nuclear weapons by super powers and Viet
Nam War and kept appealing people tocreate the world without military, bases andwar. The important mission of Raicho’s house11

war remains related to air-raids on Nagoya.
The number of visitors, especially fromelementary schools, decreased because of theinfluence of new type of influenza in fall. We
were asked to send speakers of war
experiences to elementary school by Nagoya
City officials.
A year passed quickly in the first year of
the opening of the peace museum. We
settled down in the second year and become
more active in various fields in the third year.

substitutes in life and toys were exhibited sothat people’s life during the war will beshown.
The 50th mini exhibition of works by
Mineko Ochiai was held from September 12th
to October 8th. Ms. Ochiai, a painter, studied
Western paintings at Kyoto City Art College
and has been painting pastel drawings about
forty years. She began to appeal for theabolition of nuclear weapons since the 1990s.
15 works were exhibited in this exhibition forpeace.
In the 51st mini exhibition, the result ofpeace education at five attached schools of
Ritsumeikan was exhibited from October 11thto December 18th. This is the third time tomake such an exhibition. Peace educationand human rights education at elementary
school and secondary school was introduced
to make clear their awareness of peace andhuman rights as well as their ideas inrelation to modern society and the world.
A special quilt exhibition in the Philippines
was held from October 1st to 31st to think of
the history of sustainable economic
independence. Caohagan island is off Cebu
island and it is a small island which is 2km
about. Katsuhiko Sakiyama started to live
there in 1991 and began to work forsustainable independence with an emphasison sanitation, medical care and education in
1995: there had been no electricity, watersupply and toilet in the island.
People started to make quilt with Ms.
Junko Yoshikawa’s help since 1996. They
created beautiful quilt works full of uniquecolor, imagination and their concept of theworld. It is sold by fair trade and its income is
one third of all the income in the island. In
this exhibition about fifty exhibits weredisplayed such as a collection of quilt on
Caohagan, goods showing the island andphotos by Keisuke Kumakiri. The exhibition
made us think of possibility of fair trade ofquilt and ecotourism. New visitors came tothe exhibition, which made us think how to

Kyoto
Museumfor
World
Peace,
Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto City
Secretary General: Maki Torii
A forum on Shuichi Kato was held on June
20th 2009 at Ritsumeikan University. He
was a critic and was called “an intelligent
giant” and six months had passed since his
death on December 5th 2008. He loved
Kyoto very much and was the first director of
Kyoto Musuem for World Peace. 360 people
got together to discuss his life, make sure hiswill and follow in his footsteps.
A war exhibition for peace in Kyoto
started to be held since 1992 and the 29th
exhibition in 2009 was held from August 4th
to 9th. 3500 people visited there. It was
free for elementary and junior high school
students to see permanent exhibition during
the time.
Many pupils of elementary
schools visited there during summer
vacation.
A mini-exhibition on newspapers,
advertisement and fliers was held from
August 1st to 30th. Newspapers and fliers topromote substitutes at the end of World War
II were introduced.
Magazines andnewspapers for children who were forced towork during the war were exhibited to see
how war was described and what they wereasked to do such as a picture-story show of
Boy
Storm
Troops(producedbyDainihon-ngageki Corp.) and printed matters.
In a corner on elementary school pupils,

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A lecture and workshop for parents andchildren were given on August 1st and 2nd.
Mr. Tomohiko Takasugi, the director, gave aspeech and Professor Ikuro Anzai gave alecture. On August 1st, an environmental
issue including the reduction of wastes wasdealt with together with a staff from Miyako
Ecology Center. On the second day peace andwar was discussed using Chinese characters:
they have meaning such as war, peace andharmony. Student volunteer staffs also
attended it and there were 130 participants.
A total of 7500 people canceled their visit of
the peace museum because of the influence ofa new type of influenza by the end of
December.
On the other hand, a
subcommittee of Japan Mothers Congress
was held at Ritsumeikan University on July
26th and over 700 mothers visited themuseum. There were more visitors when theconference of Peace Studies Association ofJapan and the 2009 nationwide festival ofgroup singing movement were held in Kyoto.
An anti-war rally was held on Biwako &Kusatsu campus on December 8th and theother one was held in front of Wadatsumi
statue at Kyoto Museum for World Peace on
9th. The statue was made in 1950 and built
on the campus of Ritsumeikan University in
1953. The 60th anniversary of the statue will
be celebrated in 2010.

attract visitors. There was also a special
exhibition in which ordinary people could
show their quilt whose theme was peace.
A special photo exhibition “2009- World Press
Photo” was held in four places and 18,000
people visited: Mitsukoshi Department Storein Sapporo from September 12 to 21,
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University from
October 1 to 14, Biwako & Kusatsu Campus
from October 17 to November 1 and Kyoto
Museum for World Peace from November 2
to 29. This exhibition has been held since1995. World Press Photo exhibition consistsof about 200 photographs that were awardedat World Press Photo contest. The
headquarters of the World Press Photo
Foundation is in the Netherlands. Photos ofvarious evens in the world have been taken
by excellent technology and photographers
and they made people think of what ishappening in the world.
Mr. Bunyou
Ishikawa gave a lecture entitled “Life istreasure” (“Nuchi du takara” in native words
in Okinawa) and about 210 people listened tohim.
He has been taking photos inbattlefields such as Viet Nam War for peace.
A lecture was given by Mr. Vera Lengsfeld
on November 25th. He is a writer and aformer Congress member of the Federal
Republic of Germany and talked about peace
based on his life before and after the fall of
the Berlin Wall in 1989. About 150 students
and citizens listened to him.
As for showing films, a film called “America
Banzai” was shown twice and 204 peoplecame to the show. Mr. Yukihisa Fujimoto, its
director, and Professor Akihiko Kimijima had
a discussion. Another film called “Taiwan
Jinsei(life)” was shown on December 9th and
Ms. Mitsuko Sakai, its director, and Professor
Ikuro Anzai had a discussion after the film.
In order to make a preview of the peacemuseum, 54 teachers from 30 different
schools came to the museum from July 29th to
31st. Another 34 teachers from 18 schools also
visited the museum on August 20th, 21st, andHimeyuri Peace Museum: Itoman City,
Okinawa
Chokei Futenma, Curator
The Himeyuri Peace Museum marked
its 20th anniversary on Jun. 23, 2009. The
Tower of Himeyuri was repaired andrenovated for the occasion. Built in 1957, thetower was deteriorated and in need of repair.
To preserve the tower that had been valued
for half a century, the whole surface wascovered with marble slabs, and the relief oflily was replaced with the bronze one. The

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inscription plate executed in 1974 was also
renewed with the new one, adding names of
the war dead identified after the museum
was opened.
We hold many anniversary events this year.
The special exhibition ‘The Track of Himeyuri
Gakuen’ is now being held at the Chamber 6
from Jun. 1, 2009 to Mar. 31, 2010. The
exhibition looks back the history of Himeyuri
Gakuen: the Women’s Section of Okinawa
Teacher’s School and the Okinawa
Prefectural First Girl’s High School. The
schools, where Himeyuri Student Corps
studied, were the pioneers in women’s
modern education in Okinawa.
In August, Ikuro Anzai, the honorary
director of the Kyoto Museum for World
Peace of the Ritsumeikan University, gave alecture on world peace. People of all ages,
from teens to eighties, participated andconfirmed the importance of creating peace
through the generations.
The special event ‘War Experiences of
the Surviving Members of the Himeyuri
Student Corps’ was held for 20 days from Aug
1. The witnesses gave lectures to group
visitors with advance reservations in themultipurpose hall, as well as talking tovisitors about their experiences at theexhibition rooms, offering a good opportunity
for individual visitor to listen to their stories
directly. Many tourists and residences of
Okinawa visited during the event. Other
than the anniversary events, interviews
titled ‘Memories of Each Witness on Visiting
Battle Sites’ and ‘Interviewing Each Witness
about Her Prewar and Postwar Experiences’
were conducted as part of our research study
activities. We visited battle sites withwitnesses and listened to their own stories.
Interviews about their prewar and postwar
experiences, which usually got less attention,
were conducted in order to complement thestories of wartime experiences.
Tel: 098-997-2100 / Fax: 098-997-2102
http://www.himeyuri.or.jp/

Pacific War History Museum: Oshu City,
Iwate
Director, Nobuteru Iwabuchi
The government mission who went to thewestern part of New Guinea to gather theremains of Japanese soldiers came backhome along with two hundred ninety one setsof the remains on December 17th in 2009. A
ceremony was held at the Chidorigafuchi
National Cemetery for the War Dead tohonor them. Following the action by Pacific
War History Museum which is a
non-government organization and visiting
the war sites to gather the remains ofJapanese war dead at its own expense, theJapanese Ministry of Health, Labor andWelfare conducts the mission. Since thegovernment mission started ten years ago,the number of the remains collected has
increased. The bodies are discovered by
digging only the surface of the ground. It is apity that there were a lot of bodies unearthedfrom a garbage site. This mission will be
continued.

Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan: Sirakawa
City, Fukushima
Curator: Eiji Azuma
Auschwitz Peace Museum in Japan is a
non-profit private museum where materials
and victims’ relics were offered from Polish
National Auschwitz Museum and are
exhibited. A traveling exhibition of“Auschwitz Exhibition for Memory” was held
at 110 places in Japan from 1988 to 2000 anda total of 900,000 people visited there. As aresult, a museum was founded in Shirakawa
City in Fukushima Prefecture.
In 2008 a material in the museum wasused in class as a part of teaching materials
for elementary and secondary schools in
National Institute for Education Policies by
Fujioka Higashi Junior High School in
Gunma and Shinagawa Elementary Schoolin Tokyo. This is a project of making an

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interdisciplinary teaching material to
improve Japanese children’s ability ofthinking by themselves and discussing withothers which is their weak point. Teachersof about thirty elementary and junior highschools in Kanto area attended a study
meeting once a month in Tokyo to make ateaching material so that their students willlearn citizenship mainly using a subject ofJapanese language. I also attended it andintroduced Auschwitz related materials andhumanitarian actions by Maximilian Kolbe
and Chiune Sugihara with a researcher,
Yoshiyuki Shimoda. We put an emphasis onpeace and human rights and tried to maketeaching materials so that students will beable to feel the preciousness of life andthoughtfulness. Children’s humanity has
been destroyed because of too muchemphasis on entrance examinations, but I
hope that our class will make them think
what is really important.
Auschwitz Peace Museum(NPO): 245
Sanrindai, Shirasaka, Shirakawa City,
Fukushima 961-0835
TEL 0248－28－2108
FAX 0248－21－9068
URL:http://www.am-j.or.jp

Koreans live. The reason why she visitedthe peace museum is that she was very
surprised to know that Makimura’s poem
was read in Yanbian: a Korean history
professor aged 80 told her that he was taught
the poem by a Korean teacher when he wasan elementary school pupil. The Koreanteacher told me that there were bad
Japanese, but there was also such a poet.
She talked with Mr. Masahiro Okamura, thedirector, and Mr. Mutsushi Ino who hasstudied Makimura. She enjoyed seeing an
exhibition on Makimura at the peacemuseum and visited Makimura’s grave and amonument inscribed with his poem near
Jousei Park. She is planning to write about
Makimura and his poem in Korean andmake a presentation in Yanbian.

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace
Museum: Nagasaki City
Director: Yasunori Takazane
The following is our activities in the latter
half of 2009.
＊July 5th: Nishisaka Dayori Newsletter
No. 54 was sent out.
＊ July 20th: The 5th meeting to learn
from Masaharu Oka was held and Mr.
Kazuto Hara, a priest of Ginya-cho Church of
the United Church of Christ in Japan talked
about Oka who practiced Christian love andpeace in modern society. It was a goodchance to know how Oka read the Bible fromthe oppressed people.
＊ August 1st: We attended Peace Week
organized by citizens in Nagasaki. Mr.
Kazuo Hayata aged 79 gave a lecture on his
activities for peace abroad: Hiroshima
Nagasaki Park was made in Köln in 2004
and a monument for the abolition of nuclear
weapons was made. High school students
were deeply impressed to listen to him.
＊ August 13-19th: the 7th trip to China
for friendship between Japan and China was
made. Seven people including two college

Grassroots House Peace Museum: Kouchi
City
Books on Kou Makimura, anti-war poet,
have been published and there are some
visitors who want to know about him.
There is a poem called “A song of Kantou
Partisan in 1932. Kantou was a place
where Korean people lived: it was in China
and called Manchuria, a puppet country ofJapan since March 1st 1932. Makimura
wrote this poem on partisans in Kantou
made of Koreans fighting against Japan’scolonialism.
Ms. Ikuko Toda, a freelance writer living
in Korea, visited the Grassroots House. She
often visited Yanbian in China where15

students who applied for the trip visited
Shanghai, Nanjing, and Xuzhou where theylearned atrocities of Japanese military atmuseums and Chinese victims of Japan’s
aggression. They also discussed issues with
Chinese students. Japanese students wereshocked to know the reality in the past andthey promised that they will make efforts forfriendship between Japan and China. A
German CO, Georg Freise, who worked at
Oka Masaharu peace museum for 11 months,
also attended the trip. He mentioned thatthe trip contributed to his research of Asia
which will be his theme when he starts to go
to university.
＊ September
13th:A
Germanconscientious objector, Alexander Weiss aged
19, came to Nagasaki. This is the fourth timeto accept such c.o. He started to work thenext day. He is cheerful and his Japanese isimproving day by day and he talks withvolunteer workers as a receptionist vividly.
＊ September 19th to 23rd: The 2nd trip to
the Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidence of theJapanese 731 Troop. Our museum became
its sister museum in 2005 and eleven people
visited there.
They also visited
Pindgdingshan Museum of Victims’ Remains,
9.18 Historical Museum, and Fushun
Administration of War Criminals. Some ofthem visited there for the first time and wereshocked to know cruel acts by Japanesemilitary. They felt the importance of Japan’srecognition of 731 unit’s human experimentand germ war and apology to victims afresh.
＊ October 4th: Nishisaka Newsletter No.
55 was issued.
＊ October 17th: an exchange meeting ofmembers and supporters of the peacemuseum with Alexander Weiss.
Manysupporters donate money to accept a German
conscientious objector. We had a party to get
to know one another.
＊ The 7th general meeting since the peacemuseum was accepted as a NPO(non-profit
organization). Report on activities, finance,

an audit, plans, budget was made and they
were approved. This is the 15th year since
the museum was founded. Since Japan’s
political situation was changed, the missionof the peace museum was emphasized.
＊ Korean language class started by Chon
Unok, a researcher, and it will continue until
August 2010.
＊ December 12th: 9th rally for testimony
by survivors of Nanjing Massacre. Mr. Zhang
Guodong aged 81 and Mr. Shen Liguo, a
researcher of the Research Association of
Nanjing Massacre gave a speech. Mr. Zhang
said that his father was killed by a Japanesesoldier when he was nine with tears in hiseyes in a hoarse loud voice. Mr. Shen
explained not only Nanjing massacre but also
cruel acts on the way to Nanjing from
Shanghai. He stressed an importance ofknowing the history before the Nanjing
massacre (four-month war). There arequestions and answers and it was impressive
to hear clear answers on an issue of
population in Nanjing which is based on
statistics and research results.
Tel&Fax:095-820-5600
http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen

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Obihiro Zoo: Hokkaido
A special exhibition titled “Animals
disappeared from the zoo” was held at theChildren’s Hall from August 1st to 31st in 2009.
The exhibition was about stories related toanimals during the WWⅡ. It consisted ofthree parts: the animals in Ueno Zoo whichwere killed under the military order, dogs
and cats as well as military animals such as
horses, dogs and doves that fell victims.
Tel:0155-24-2437 Fax: 0155-24-2439
http://www.obihirozoo.jp/

16November 23dr in 2009. As the number of
those who experienced the war and the Mito
air raid is decreasing, we need to convey howharsh the reality of the citizens’ life bothduring the war and after the war was to thenext generation. In this exhibition, the life of
citizens who endured the damage of war andrecovered from the heavy blow was displayed.
A booklet is published. On November 6th,
there was a study trip visiting the Center of
the Tokyo Raids and War Damage and soforth. On August 2nd and 15th, talk sessions by
those who have war experiences were held.
Tel:029-226-6521 Fax:029-226-6549
http://business4.plala.or.jp/shihaku1/

Historical Museum of Urahoro: Hokkaido
A special exhibition named “Anafterimage of the burning passion in the midsummer－stories of the war experiences” wasgiven at the Urahoro town education centerfrom 6th to 19th August in 2009.
Tel:015-576-2009 Fax:015-576-2452
Kamaishi Historical Museum: Iwate“The exhibition on war damages by thenaval bombardment at Kamaishi 2009” washeld from July 10th to September 27th in theexperience learning room. In 1945, City of
Kamaishi was targeted twice by the Allies. A
lot of citizens and foreigners including
prisoners were killed and the city famous forthe steel industry fell into ruin. As the naval
bombardment is getting unfamiliar year by
year, this exhibition was held to show what
the City of Kamaishi was like during the war
time by displaying real materials such as
fragments of the bombs and war experience
records.
Tel& Fax:0193-22-2046
http://www.city.kamaishi.iwate.ja/kyoudo/ind
ex.html

Tochigi Prefectural Museum: UtsunomiyaCity
An exhibition “The citizens’ life during
and after the war” was held from July 18th toSeptember 23rd in 2009. A lot of realmaterials including bonds issued to raise war
expenditure,
picturestory
cards,
phonographs, bankbooks, school text books,
documents related to the conscripted soldiers
were displayed. There is a material list of thisexhibition.
Tel:028-634-1311 Fax:028-634-1310
http://www.muse.pref.tochigi.lg.jp/

Opening of Mito Peace Memorial Center :IbarakiOn August 1st in 2009, Mito City Peace
Museum was opened. Mito City was attacked
by 160 U.S. B29 bombers before dawn on
August the 2nd in 1945 and the city wasruined. In 1994 a citizens group “Association
for building Mito Peace Museum” started andsince then it has gathered over one thousand
war related materials. This museum is thefirst public museum about war and peace in
Ibaraki Prefecture. Real materials such as
war victims’ lists, clothes and utensils during
the war time and fragments of the dropped
bombs are displayed by photos and videos.

Peace
Museumof
Saitama:Higashimatsuyama CityA special exhibition “Watch and touch the
war time life” was held from July 18th toSeptember 27th in 2009. Real materials suchas a doll with blue eyes, utensils at that timeweredisplayed.
Visitors
experienced
blacked-out room, too. An exhibition “Forworld peace and everyone’s happiness ―through children’s efforts” was held from
August 4th to November 8th. It showed theactivities of international contribution forpeace building by the children within
Saitama Prefecture and NGOs. Gatherings
to listen to war and peace-related literatures
recited by local groups were conducted in

Mito City Museum: Ibaraki
A special exhibition “Recovery from theruin” was held from October 10th to17

August and October. Those who have war
experiences gave a talk on August 15th.
Every month war-related movies were run:
“Youth of Etsuko Kamiya” in August,“Life of Maya” and “Chiichan no kageokuri”
in September,“Barefooted Gen (Hadashi no Gen)” in
October ,“Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka)” in
Nevember,“Black Rain (Kuroi Ame)” in December
Tel:0493-35-4111 Fax:0493-35-4112
http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacemu
seum/

Ichikawa Literature Plaza: Chiba
A special exhibition “Poetry: Sounds forpeace ― by Sakon So and Kafu Nagai”
dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Sakon
So’s birth and the 130th anniversary of birthand 50th memorial of death of Kafu Nagai
was held from June 13th to October 12th in2009. A poet Sakon So (1919-2006) publishedan anthology “Burning Mother” based on his
experience that he lost her mother in theTokyo raid. He left a lot of works on roots ofhumanity. A writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959)
who lost his house in Tokyo raid and moved
into Ichikawa published anthologies such as“Sango shu”. In this exhibition, his poems
were mainly focused and displayed. In
addition, a playwright Yoko Mizuki(1910-2003) was also presented. Materials
like diaries and drafts written by So during
the war, note books written by Nagai were
exhibited, too.
Tel:047-334-1111 Fax:047-332-7364
http://www.city.ichikawa.lg.jp/cul01/bunpla.htmlWarabi Municipal Museum: Saitama
The summer exhibition (the 20th peace
prayer exhibition) “A photo studio Warabi:
during and after the war” was held from
August 1st to September 27th in 2009. The
pictures displayed were taken during the war.
They are photos such as a send-off party anda funeral procession for soldiers, militarytrainings at school, make-believe play of war,
an air-raid drill, and visiting woundedsoldiers. Photos of people’s lives after the war
were also displayed. Real materials such as atemporary draft notice, newspaper on the dayof the opening and the termination of the war,
patriotic playing cards, and a cloth baseball
glove were also displayed. There is a leaflet of
those materials.
Tel:048-432-2477
http://www.city.warabi.saitama.jp/rekimin/in
dex.htm

Setagaya Peace Gallery: TokyoA special exhibition “No More War: handdown the ravages of the Asia Pacific War to
the next generation” was held from August
1st to 31st in 2009 to honor the sufferings andefforts of those who experienced the ravages
and to hand down their experiences. The
exhibition consisted of twelve parts. They
were about the history of Asia Pacific War,poverty during the war time, Children in
Setagaya, Air raids all over Japan, young
soldiers killed in the battle fields, the final
war site Okinawa, tragedies of A-bombs andothers. Real materials such as soldiers’
clothes, war time food, utensils, a ceramic
land mine, a hand grenade, and a tube of
incendiary bomb were displayed. Successively,
travelingexhibitions
inKitazawa,
Karasuyama, Oyamadai and Kinuta were
held in September and October.
Tel:03-3703-8100

Iruma City Museum Alit: Saitama
A special exhibition “Peace Prayer
Exhibition” was held from August7th to 9th.
About one hundred war-related items
including “one thousand-stitch belt” andclothes of a boy who was in Hiroshima as amobilized student and fell a victim of A-bombwere exhibited.
Tel: 04-2934-7711 Fax:04-2934-7716
http://www.alit.city.iruma.saitama.jp/

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“Tokyo, Guernica and Chongqing － tounderstand the war from the view point of
the cities in the world damaged by raids”
were held on October 3rd, 17th , 31st,
November 14th and 28th. This project wasplanned to commemorate the publication of
Iwanami DVD book and to give the authors
opportunities to explain the contents to theaudience. Katsumoto Saotome, the director of
the Center, reported about the visit to the
U.K., Shinichi Arai talked about therelationshipbetweenindiscriminate
bombings and imperialism mainly in Europe,
Masahiko Yamabe talked about the reality ofTokyo raids recorded in historical documents,
Tadahito Yamamoto discussed how citizens
protected themselves under the raids and
Tetsuo Maeda spoke about Chongqing andmodern wars.
Tel:03-5857-5631 Fax:03-5683-3326
http://www.tokyo-sensai.net/

http://www.city.setagaya.tokyo.jp/030/d00005
024.html
The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War
Damage: Koto Ward, Tokyo
The second special exhibition in 2009 “A
photo exhibition of Tokyo, Guernica andChongqing Raids ―a new development ofrecording and researching the raids” washeld from July 22nd to September 6th. It washeld to commemorate publishing “DVD book
Peace Archives: Tokyo, Guernica andChongqing ―consider peace by the raids”.
Including photos of air raids in Tokyo,
Japanese main land, Chongqing, Dresden
and Guernica and others, about one hundred
and twenty photos which were recorded in
the book were displayed.
On July 27th in 2009, the third symposium“What is the position of urban raids on
Germany and Japan―the turning point ofindiscriminate bombings” was held in Meiji
University. It aimed to give further
consideration about the raids on Germany
and Japan conducted by the Allies during theSecond World War. Isao Nakayama reported
his study by researching documents of the
U.S. Military about the reality of bombing on
the selected Japanese residents. Eiichi Kido,
an associate professor of Osaka University
reported about the study on raids inGermany. Nobuhiro Yanagihara, a doctorial
course student of Tokyo University joined thediscussion with his work about theexhibitions of raids in united Germany. The
report of this symposium was issued on
November 24th.
A summer program for parents andchildren was held on every Saturdays inAugust. Picture book reciting, a talk of air
raid experience, a play of picture story cards,
a musical were given in these programs. In
addition, the participants enjoyed hand craft
workshops such as paper crane folding andpicture letter drawing.
The second consecutive public lectures

Korea Museum: Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
The special exhibition ‘The Lost Korean Cultural
Heritage - Plunder and Drain of Cultural Assets
under Colonial Rule and the Exhibition of Restituted
Properties’ was held from Aug.12 to Nov. 29, 2009.
During Japan’s colonial rule, Korean cultural assets
were destroyed, plundered or brought into Japan.
Many properties remain in Japan, but part of themhas been restituted and shown to the public in South
Korea. The exhibition showed the history of these
Korean cultural assets through pictures andcommentaries on panels.
Tel & Fax: 03-5272-3510
http://www.40net.jp/~kourai/
Shibusawa Memorial Museum: Kita Ward,Tokyo
The museum holds the theme Exhibition Series
titled ‘Notion of Peace’ every summer to introduce
materials concerning peace. In 2009, the 2nd
exhibition ‘The 100th anniversary of the Honorary
Commercial Commissioners of Japan to the UnitedStates of America; Eiichi Shibusawa’s Visit to the
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Ago’ was held at the special exhibition room from
Aug. 15 to Sep. 23, 2009. The Honorary
Commercial Commissioners, led by Eiichi
Shibusawa, consisted of some 50 members who
worked at the Chambers of Commerce in the large
cities such as Tokyo and Osaka. Having left the portof Yokohama on Aug. 19, 1909, they made a tour of
the U.S. for three months, visiting facilities ofindustry, economy, politics, social welfare, andeducation, as well as meeting with such magnates as
the 27th President of the U.S. William Taft, themaster of invention Thomas Edison, the railroad kingJames Hill. 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of
their visit to the U.S. The exhibition offered a good
opportunity to consider peace through materials
concerning the Commissioners’ inspections andexperiences 100 years ago.
Tel: 03-3910-0005
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/museum/taken at the place of evacuation. ‘All Men were
Drafted into the Military’ showed the military mail,Senninbari (thousand-person stitches), Hoko-Bukuro(military sacks), military notebook (replica), anddraft card (replica) among others. ‘Wartime Children’featured the picture diary and scrapbooks by Masako
Fukuda. ‘Life during the War’ showed items such as
women’s standard clothes, Women’s National
Defense Society sash, monpe (women’s slacks),
haversack, protection hood, gas mask, the women’smagazine Shufu-no-tomo, and newspapers issued at
the start and the end of the war. ‘Japan under
Occupation’ showed substitutes for metal buttons,
hooks, and graters, and instruments such as thebread-maker, hanao (sandal thong) making device
and electric stove, as well as the recreated Suiton(wheat dumpling soup).
The special exhibition ‘The Life of Koreans inJapan - Crossing the Sea with a Pottali (bundle
wrapped in cloth)’ is being held from Sept. 5, 2009
until the end of Aug. 2010. The life of Koreans inJapan is followed through tools for cooking, clothing,and housing. The exhibition consists of the sections:‘Overview’ - Why the Koreans Came to Japan, ‘The
History of a Korean in Japan’ - The Reason for Lee
Su Yeon, ‘Habitation’ - Collective Housing Area inTokyo, ‘Doburoku (unrefined sake), ‘Food’ - Dietary
Habit of Koreans in Japan, ‘Clothing’ - Compulsionof Japanese-Style Clothing, ‘Giving Birth’ – Deliveryof Halmoni (Korean women), ‘Ceremonial
Occasions’, ‘Pastimes of Koreans in Japan’. The
guide book of the exhibition is available.
The associated event ‘Let’s Enjoy Korean Folk
Songs and Makgeolli’ was held on Dec. 6. The event
included the commentary talk on the exhibition andthe live performance of the folk songs including
original Ariran by the rock, blues, and bossa nova
singer-songwriter Pooh Kang Wan.
Tel & Fax: 03-3750-1808
http://www.showanokurashi.com/

National Showa Memorial Museum: Chiyoda
Ward, Tokyo
The special exhibition ‘Written Sentiments Wartime and Postwar Japan Reflected in Letters andDiaries’ was held at the special exhibition room on
the 3rd floor from Jul. 25 to Aug. 30, 2009. Letterswere the only means of the communication between
the soldiers in the battlefields and their families.
Under the censorship system, it was difficult to
express oneself freely in letters, while the true state ofthings was revealed in diaries. People depictedchanges in daily life due to the war and postwar
reconstruction with sentiments. Letters and diaries
from our collection and newly depicted picture lettersevoked by photos and memories of the time were
exhibited.
Tel: 03-3222-2577 / Fax: 03-3222-2575
http://www/showakan.go.jp/
Museum on Life in Showa Era: Ota Ward, Tokyo
The exhibition ‘Traces of War in the Koizumi
Family’ was held from Aug. 1 to 30, 2009. The scarsof war in a family reminded viewers of our desire forpeace and spirit of the antiwar. The section ‘War and
the Koizumi Family’ exhibited the family photos
taken before the evacuation of civilians and photos

Nara Prefecture War-experience Library“Nara Prefecture War-experience Libraryin Tokyo, Nihonbashi 2009” was held at Nara
Mahoroba Hall form August 4th to 20th in2009. War-experience Library is an archive20

of war-related records donated by citizens
nationwide. About fifty thousand items are
stored and opened to the public. In 2009, theexhibition focused on food during WWⅡ andmaterials were displayed based on thethemes shown below. Since the General
Mobilization Law was enacted in 1938, thegovernment beefed up restriction of ricesupply and citizens were forced to live withlimited amount of rice and to grow vegetables
at home. They ate even seeds, skins andcalyxes. Sugar, salt and other flavorings were
distributed under a rationing system. Recipes
with substitute materials and leftovers were
taught to citizens to eliminate waste of food.
After the war ended, a food rationing
system continued. There was a pamphlet totell public how to cook corn meal made in the
U.S., which supplemented lack of food supply.
A list of the exhibited items is available.
http://www.library.pref.nara.jp/sentai/gallery.
html

to the Manchurian Incident and explanatory
panels provided by China-Nomonhan War
Research Institute and Mongolia Defense
Science Institute were displayed. ”An
Exhibition on Great Panda Bears” was also
held.
http://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/
Local Museum of Chofu City: Tokyo
A Foundation for Peace Exhibition 2008
“Excavating the cover trenches- around
Chofu, Rotako and Hyakurihara” was heldfrom August 8th to 16th in 2009 at Chofu Civic
Hall. It focused on the cover trenches
disclosed by excavating Chofu airport, asecretly- constructed airport named Rotak
and Hyakurihara base camp to confirm theimportance of peace.
From August 7th to 16th in 2009, a peace
exhibition “Trees damaged by Tokyo Air
Raids‐what high school students observed”
was held. Thanks to support by the Center of
the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, students
of a public high school reported about thosevictim trees and their works and photos were
exhibited.
Tel:042-481-7656 Fax:042-481-7655
http://www.city.chofu.tokyo.jp/www/contents/
1176118850606/index.html

Nihon University, the Department of
Humanities and Sciences: Setagaya Ward,Tokyo
At the One Hundred Year’s Anniversary
Hall, war and history- related exhibitions
were held from December 5th to 24th in 2009.
In an academic exhibition “History ofdevelop- ment in Edo and Tokyo-the way ofchanges and disasters”, there was a display ofthe complete history from the beginning of
Edo era to present Tokyo. Real materials
related to the war such as a map of theGreater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere,
newspapers and magazines during wartime
and a map of war damaged areas. Aerial
photos taken before and after the Tokyo air
raids were also displayed along with a real
incendiary bomb. “A photo exhibition ofJapan-China War” consisted of photos
provided by the People’s Daily. In “Anexhibition on the Nomonhan Incident”,
photos of Nomonhan taken at the time of theincident and present time, materials related

Folk Museum of Higashimurayama: TokyoA special exhibition” A hundred years
history of ‘Zensei En’ and Higashimurayama” was held from September 19th toDecember 6th in 2009. Zensei En is a public
nursing home for victims of Hansen’s disease
which was established in 1909. As this year isits 100th anniversary of the foundation,
historical materials related to the nursing
home such as an incident against building it,
the relationship to Hiagashimurayama City
concerned with education, a kabuki theater
called Zensei-Za and a forest of human rights
were displayed. A pictorial record is
published.
Tel:042-396-3800 Fax: 042-396-7600

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An exhibition “Welcome to ‘Country ofHiroshima’－a peaceful world we build” washeld from August 1st to September 23dr in2009. A newspaper for peace ‘Country ofHiroshima’ which was made by teenagers
was launched in January 2007 on Chugoku
Shimbun newspaper. As the 50th issue waspublished in May 2009, this exhibition washeld to review the articles and photos whichwere carried for these two years. To makeyoung people think about what they can dofor building peace, various kinds of materials
including poverty and environmental issues
were displayed.
Tel:045-661-2040 Fax:045-661-2029
http://newspark.jp/newspark.greeting/index.html

Higashiyamato City Museum: Tokyo
An exhibition “Photo exhibition of war inTama” was held from August 1st to 30th in2009. There are old military facilities and air
raid damages in this area. More than 70
photos were displayed and shown how
horrible the war was.
Tel:042-567-4800 Fax:042-567-4166
http://www.city.higashiyamato.lg.jp/24,0,297.
html
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts:Tokyo
A standing exhibition “War and woodblock
artists-Otto Dix and Fumio Kitaoka” washeld from June 24th to September 23rd. Worksby German artists Dix (1891~1969) who
depicted his dire experience as a soldier in
WWⅠ and works by Kitaoka (1918~2007)
whose works are about repatriation from
Manchuria were displayed.
A special exhibition “100th anniversary of
the birth of Tadashige Ono - Portraits ofShowa Era” was held from October 3rd to
November 23rd. Ono (1909~1990) depictedaffairs of human society during Showa era
both poetically and realistically. By his sharp
observation, he expressed madness of the era
as well as a sense of common people andromanticism in his works. He also studied
about history of print and wrote a lot of
valuable books based on his research ofworks in Edo era and in China which had
remained obscure.
About 130 works as well as his closefriends’ works and the written materials
related to him were exhibited.
Tel:042-726-2771 Fax:042-726-2840
http://www.city.machida.tokyo.jp/shisetsu/cul/
cul01hanga/

Ishikawa Prefecture History Museum:
Kanazawa CityA special exhibition “Memory of War” washeld from July 18th to September 13th in 2009.
By displaying the military- related materials
possessed by the museum, it focused on theway the wartime experiences were recorded.
Real materials used during the wartime suchas ceramic hand-grenades designed by apublic hand craft trainer, clothing items, an
air raid defense bulb, an iron helmet, atestimonial for women’s volunteer-labor corps,
medals, detailed war report of JapaneseChinese War along with some of the soldiers’
photos were displayed.
Tel:076-262-3236 Fax:076-262-1836
http://www.pref.ishikawa.jp/muse/rekihaku/index.htm
Gifu Peace Museum: Gifu City
“An exhibition of peace for children” washeld from July 18th to August 2nd in 2009.
Panels with photos, explanations and maps
related to twenty war sites in Gifu City,
which are mainly raids- stricken areas, weredisplayed. They were about damaged
stone-curved statue, burnt trees andbuildings, memorial tower for war victims

Japan Newspaper Museum: Yokohama City,
Kanagawa

22and so on. A pictorial record is published.
Tel:058-268-1050

held on August 7th in 2009 for primary school
children.
Tel:055-923-3335 Fax:055-925-3018
http://www.city.numazu.shizuoka.jp/kurashi/
sisetu/meiji/index.htm

Yanaizu Folklore Museum : Gifu City
An exhibition “Posters during Wartime”
was held from July 28th to August 30th.
Sixteen posters displayed were originally put
up in Kawai village. Eight of them areposters of soldiers and their families callingfor support of wounded soldiers and bereaved
families. Others are about asking for draft,saving and diligent labor. Dolls made forboosting eagerness to fight and photos ofmilitary ceremonies in Gifu City were also
displayed.
Tel:058-270-1080
http://www.city.gifu.lg.jp/c/40120461/4012046
1.htmlNagoya City Miharashidai Museum of
Antiquities: Aichi
A standing exhibition “War and Peace in
Miharashidai” was held from June 24th toSeptember 13th in 2009. Based on thematerials related to Yayoi period moats andan AA battery position, it focused on ancientwars and modern wars. Photos of unearthedinstitutions such as ancient structural
remnants, batteries, barracks and radio wave
ranging facilities were exhibited along withreal materials such as a segment of AA guns,
a bayonet, a fragment of B29 bomber and an
incendiary bomb which were excavated in
Miharashidai. Excavated items from othersites in Nagoya City including Nagoya Army
Hospital, the 6th Regiment of Infantry in thesecondary enclosure of Nagoya Castle andTsugata barrow were also displayed. Aerial
photos of central Nagoya City before andafter the air raids were displayed, too.
Tel:052-823-3200 Fax:052-823-3223
http://www.city.nagoya.jp/kurashi/shisetsu/to
shokan/bijyutukan/nagoya00011160.html

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka CityA special exhibition “Paintings of theBattle in Imphal” has been held from
December 4th in 2009 to March 28th in 2010.
Paintings and records by Koichi Mochizuki, asurvivor from the battle field, are displayed.
On August 30th in 2009, Shoji Sakuma,
Masae Kuwahara and Takayoshi Takagi who
experienced WWⅡgave a speech.
Tel&Fax: 054-271-9004
http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-heiwa/
Hamamatsu Revival Memorial Center:Shizuoka
An exhibition “Nostalgic Sceneries ofShowa Era－Dreams, Hopes and Future”
was held from August 7th to 16th in 2009.
Symbolic toys and signboards in Showa Era
were displayed.
Tel&Fax: 053-455-0815
http://www.hamahall.com/modules/hama1/

Azai Museum of History and Folklore:
Nagahama City, Shiga
The 7th exhibition to commemorate theend of war “Life of the home front andWomen” was held from July 23rd to
September 6th in 2009. The worse the war
situation got at the end of WWⅡ, the more
the youth and women were mobilized
institutionally to serve the army as voluntary
corps so called “Patriotic Women’s
Association” or “The Greater Japan Women’s
Association for Defense”. This exhibition
focused on the women in northern Biwako
lake area who suffered from such heavy
duties in home front as well as from sadness

Numazu City Museum of Meiji History:
Shizuoka
On August 6th, 8th and 15th in 2009, a visit
to old war sites were carried. An event toexperience the life during the war time was23

of losing their husbands and brothers.
Real materials related to their lives andwar including clothes, furniture, utensils,
letters from the battle fields, militaryuniforms, draft notices, a fabric bucket, aspear made of bamboo, a thousand-stitch belt,
a commission letter to the patriotic women’s
association, comfort bags were displayed. A
gathering for children to listen to theexperience of war time was held in July 25thin 2009 and war time food was served.
Tel:0749-74-0101
http://www.city.nagahama.shiga.jp/index/000
012/002487.html

http://www.city.yasu.lg.jp/doc/kyouikubu/hak
ubutukan/20071219c.html
Ritto History Museum: Shiga
An annual peace exhibition “A foundationof Peace 2009” was held from August 1st to
16th, which has been held every summer
since 1990 based on the Peace City
Declaration of Ritto City. There wereexplanation panels about the history of Asia
Pacific War, citizens’ life and damages by air
raids. Real materials such as items of
Women’s Defense Association, substituteutensils such as a ceramic foot warmer and apaper basin, a gas mask, gramophone records
to stiffen the moral and a Mauser weredisplayed.
From August 1st to 30th, an exhibition
displaying trophies in Shino-Japanese War
was also held.
Tel:077-554-2733 Fax:077-554-2755
http://www2.city.ritto.shiga.jp/hakubutsukan

Omihachiman City Local Material Museum :Shiga
A special exhibition “A Prayer for peace
vol. 4” was held at the old house of Ban
family from July 11th to August 16th in 2009.
It mainly displayed real materials such as
documents related to Russo-Japanese War
and the special maneuvers in 1917, militaryuniforms, an ammunition pouch, a duffle bag,an air raid hood, a ceramic hand grenade, apictorial magazine “Advancing Japan”, amilitary letter from mother, a ceramic fire
extinguish ammunition and photos of
weddings and soldiers leaving for the front in
1944. A collection of compositions by those
who experienced the war is published.
Tel:0748-32-7048 Fax:0748-32-7051
http://www.city.omihachiman.shiga.jp/conten
ts_detail.php?co=kak&frmId=823

Muko City Museum: Kyoto
The summer exhibition “The war in daily
lives” was held from August 15th toSeptember 23rd in 2009. Focusing on thelabor service and the food production during
the Asia-Pacific War, the exhibition
introduced the local documents and photos
about the people helping soldiers’ families
and working hard to contribute crops during
and after the war. The other exhibits such as
quota delivery books in 1945, rice donation
lists, and the commemorative wooden
bushels for the completion of donation in1950 were displayed.
Tel：075-931-1182 Fax：075-931-1121
http://www.city.muko.kyoto.jp/shisetsu/shiryokan.html

Yasu City Historical and Folkloric Museum :Shiga
A summer exhibition “Findings in
Women’s History － Life of women inmaterials” was held from July 18th to August
30th in 2009. Materials concerned withwomen’s life in the fields of archaeology,
history and folklore were displayed. There isa guidebook with the list of the exhibitedmaterials.
Tel:077-587-4410 Fax:077-587-4413

Ohyamazaki-cho Museum of History: Kyoto
An exhibition “A Cornerstone of Peace” washeld from August 11th to 23rd in 2009. This
year, the exhibition displayed materials suchas the documents of the then town office and24magazines during the Russo-Japanese War(1904-1905) to show how the situation was
different from the one in the Asia-Pacific War.
It was significantly highlighted that captivity
was not blamed in the Russo-Japanese War.
Exhibited were office documents such as abook of the government notices (emergency
drafts by the Ministry of War from Otokuni
county office to the leaders of Households
Union in 1886.), books of submitted reports
both in 1905 about the aid for soldier families’
livelihood and in 1922 about hospitality by
the village for a conscription examinee from
Saga prefecture .
Other real materials such as a school girls’
board game in 1909, photos of the siege toPort Arther in 1904, commemorative photobooks of Japan’s stationing in Manchuria
around 1929, commemorative great photobook of the Shanghai Incident in 1932 werealso displayed.
Tel：075-952-6288
http://www.kiis.or.jp/rekishi/kyoto/yamazaki2.html

to avoid the air raid, while junior high school
students were forced to work for munitions
factories and university students were
mobilized to battlefields. The exhibition
illustrates the deprivation of freedom fromschool and everyday lives and feelings ofyoung people by photographs and artifacts,
encouraging viewers to think the meanings of
war and peace. The display includes 80
panels of photos and text information
showing how schools became involved in the
war and 50 materials such as “Houanko” (aspecial storage to enshrine the emperor’s
portrait.), school uniforms and comfort bags
for soldiers.
Peace memorial event for 8.15 (theanniversary of the end of WW Ⅱ )‘Examination of War and Peace by Lectures
and Songs’ was held on Aug. 8, 2009. Over 60
years after the war, the globalization has
created more dynamic movement of people
across the world. As a result, new generationsof Japanese immigrants are returning toJapan, their one-time home country, to workand live permanently. They are called“returning immigrants”. The purpose of theevent was to realize the problems of the
returning immigrants such as JapaneseBrazilians, Japanese Filipinos and thesecond and third generations of returnees
from China, and also consider what we can orshould do at present. It helped theparticipants to realize the stupidity of war
and the importance of peace.
Shohei Mozu acted as MC, Professor
Shun Ohno, Director of Kyusyu University
Asia Center, gave a lecture “Returning AsianJapanese Immigrants and the War”,“Thirteenth Night’ from ‘Berceuse of Akagi(Akagi-no-Komoriuta)”, a popular song
during the war time, was sang by Kako
Takahashi with piano accompaniment by
Yuko Tanaka
Peace memorial event for 12.8 (thestarting day of WWⅡ) “ The Consequences ofGuns” was held on Dec. 6, 2009. US

Kyoto Country Tool Museum: Kyoto City
“Life during the war” was held in August
in 2009. This museum was established 22
years ago by a former primary school teacher
Seiichi Takeya. It was the first war-related
exhibition since 1995. The exhibition focusedon the fact that the tide toward war wasformed by education and in daily life. The
exhibition introduced brochures about theImperial Rescript on Education, ceramic
buttons and a helmet distributed to civilians.
Tel：075-581-2302
Osaka International Peace Center (Peace
Osaka): Osaka City
Special exhibition ‘War and School –Freedom Lost from the Classroom’ is heldfrom Oct. 6, 2009 to Feb. 21, 2010. During theSecond Sino-Japanese War and the PacificWar, school education was increasingly
affected by the war. Children were evacuated25

President B.Obama, in his speech in Prague
in April 2009, declared toward the wholeworld that elimination of nuclear armaments
is an ultimate purpose for humans. In themeantime, millions of people are still being
killed or injured in conflicts such as terrorism
and civil wars, where not nuclear weapons
but conventional weapons, mostly small guns,
are in use. We are no longer allowed to stayignorant to huge catastrophe caused by small
guns. The purpose of the event was to
examine people’s ideas about guns throughlectures and songs. It helped the participants
to realize the stupidity of war and theimportance of peace.
Having Shohei Mozu as MC, Koichiro
Kageyama, professor of Department ofHistory at Teikyo University gave a lecture
titled“Lessons
from
the
War”.
KakoTakahashi sang “Shrike on the Starved
Trees” to piano accompaniment of Yuko
Tanaka.
“Weekend Cinema”:
August: The film Grave of Fireflies wasshown on Aug. 1, 15, 22 and 29, 2009. A storyof a young brother and little sister who losttheir mother in the firebombing of Kobe in1945.
＊ September: The film Wings of a Man -the Last Play of Catch was shown on Sept. 5,
12, 19 and 26, 2009. A story of a young malenamed Shinichi Ishimaru, an ace pitcher for
the Team Nagoya (the current Chunichi
Dragons).
＊ October: The film Turtles Can Fly was
shown on Oct. 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2009. Set in
the north of Iraq during the war in 2003, thefilm depicts three children, a refugee girl, ablind baby and a boy who lost his arms, whostrongly live through the war with the woundthat can never be healed.
＊ November: The film Forbidden Gameswas shown on Nov. 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2009. A
story of a young boy and girl who build small
cemeteries by stealing crosses form the local
graveyard. The innocence of children implies

the cruelty of war.
＊ December: The documentary film The
Pacific War directed by a French director,
Rene-Jean Bouyer, was shown on Dec.19 and26, 2009. The combats of the whole period of
the Pacific War were filmed in color.
The 1st workshop of “Peace study forteachers” was held on Aug. 7, 2009. The
participants joined a lecture ‘Views on Peace-- Experiences at the Peace Osaka’ and afieldwork “Visiting Battle Sites in Osaka
Castle Park.” Secondly the participantsjoined the peace memorial event for 8.15
‘Examination of War and Peace by Lectures
and Songs.’
Tel: 06-6947-7208 / Fax: 06-6943-6080
http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/
Sakai City Peace and Human Rights
Museum: Osaka
A photo panel exhibition ‘Students’Evacuation’ was held from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1,
2009. The display contained 22 panels ofphotographs and 8 panels of text information,
providing the overview of the students’evacuation.
A special exhibition ‘Land Mines’ was heldfrom Nov. 11 to Dec. 27, 2009. While morethan 100 millions of land mines are still in
the ground, injuring numerous people, theexhibition displayed various models of landmines and images provided by JAHDS(Japan Alliance for Humanitarian Demining
Support) and conveyed the terror of landmines
A special exhibition ‘Living on the Earth -DAYS JAPAN Photojournalism Photo
Exhibition’ was held from Oct. 7 to 16, 2009.
The exhibition displayed about 40
photographs that won “DAYS Inter- national
Photo-journalism Award” in 2008 and 2009.
The
photographs
taken
by
the
photojournalists around the world conveyed
the realities of the planet including wars,
natural disasters and environmental
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the problems of humans and the earth aswell as endless tragedies and desperation
during the continuous change of the world.
A film The Face of Jizo (Chichi toKuraseba) was shown on Oct.10, 2009. The
film is a story of father and daughter with theatomic bombing in Hiroshima. Three years
after the atomic bombing, a young female
librarian named Mitsue falls in love with ayoung man. However, with a loss of her loved
ones at the bomb and a subsequent feeling of
guilt as a survivor, Mitsue tries to ignore her
feelings to him. Then, her farther Takezo’s
ghost appears.
A film Grbavica (Flowers in Sarajevo) was
shown on Oct. 11, 2009. The film is a story of
mother and daughter rebuilding their lives
with hopes in the aftermath of the war
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the mostdevastating conflicts after the World War II.
A young daughter named Sala is proud of her
father’s death as a war hero, but told that his
name is not in the list of war victims. Then,her mother reveals the terrible fact in thepast.
Tel: 072-270-8150 Fax: 072-270-8159
http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/city/info/jinken/

Hirakata City Peace Gallery : Osaka
A Special Panel Exhibition ‘The Atomic
bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki’ washeld from August 15th to 20th in 2009 aiming
to pass down the hard experiences to the next
generation.
Hirakata City Peace Library opened on
August 1st in 2006. In the permanent
exhibition, the photos of the great explosion
at Kinya gunpowder magazine and militaryuniforms are displayed.
Tel:072-2841-1221 Fax:072-841-1700
Osaka Human Rights Museum (Liberty
Osaka): Osaka City
A photo Exhibition “A negative legacy inthe 20th century, Okinawa－The battles in
Okinawa a photographer of Osaka watched”
was held from August 1st to 30th in 2009.
Photographer Toshiki Konishi, an Osaka
resident, has been taking photos of the oldbattlefields in Okinawa for four years. One
hundred and twenty four photos which hehas taken were displayed. After researchingold battlefields everywhere in Japan, hestayed at Okinawa and photographed thesites imagining the war time. He took photosof the coast where U.S. Marine landed, thecliffs where the people were cornered,evacuation shelters, the monuments built
after the war and the U.S. bases. His works
told the residents in Osaka how to confront
Okinawa issue and war.
The 64th special exhibition “A story ofschools in Osaka － education andcommunity” was held from September 8th toOctober 12th to think what the meaning ofschools for character building and for society
is. The theme of the exhibition consisted of
the history of school education, the rights tobe educated, anti-discrimination educationand human rights education, ethnic
education and multi-cultural education andeducation which nurture humanity.
Tel:06-6561-5891 Fax:06-6561-5995
http://www.liberty.or.jp/

Suita Peace Memorial Center: Osaka
Poster exhibition “Sadako and Paper
Cranes” was held from Aug. 18 to 30, 2009 to
introduce the life of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who
died from leukemia caused by the exposure toradiation at the atomic bombing, along witheveryday lives of children during the war.
Peace film screening was held on Aug. 22, 23
and 30, 2009 where the film On a Paper
Crane was shown. The film is an adventure
story of a young girl named Tomoko who met
Sadako at the Peace Memorial Park during
her visit to Hiroshima in summer vacation.
Tel & Fax: 06-6387-2593
http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/home/soshiki/div-jichijinken/jinken/original/000338.html

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Historical Museum Izumisano: Osaka
From July 28 to August 30, 2009, theexhibition of “War and Peace” was held,
which has been annually organized by intern
curators since 1997. It included “War in Daily
Life”, “War and Media”, and “Soldiers
Heading to War.” The expository documentfor displayed materials is available.
Tel:072-469-7140 Fax:072-469-7141
http://www.city.izumisano.osaka.jp/ka/rekishi.html

municipal junior high schools was held.
From October 3 to December 23, 2009, theautumn exhibition of “Himeji Air Raids andRecovery” was held. It introduced the twice
air-raids with the tactical mission reports of
the U.S. Military and witnesses. The
exhibition showed also the photos andmaterials of the reconstruction after the war
and the displays about the national
war-damaged city federation and the war
memorial for air-raid victims.
Associated with the exhibition, a meetingfor sharing the experiences of the Himeji
air-raid was held on October 31, where Mr.
Tetsuji Ishimoto and Mr. Gondai Kuroda
gave a talk.
Tel:0792-91-2525 Fax:0792-91-2526
http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/

Minoo City Museum of Folk: Osaka
The exhibition of “Daily Life in Wartime”
was held from August 7 to 31, 2009. This is
the annual summer event since its opening in
1989. It aimed to pray for peace and to pass
the tragedy of war to the next generation as
in other years. Most of the displays were
given from citizens and the intern curators
put them on display. The exhibition was filledwith the wish for continuous peace in Japanand no more war all over the world.
Tel:072-723-2235 Fax:072-724-9694
http://www2.city.minoh.osaka.jp/KYOUDO/

Museum for the Kakimori Collection : Itami
City, Hyogo
A small exhibition of postcards withpictures during the war was held from July
25 to September 23, 2009. A Japanese-style
painter Michio Maeda’s 900 pictures on postcards, which were sent for his family from abattlefield or a base camp, had been donatedin 2003.
Most of them are pictures of daily sceneryand flowers and filled with sympathy andlove for his family. This exhibition displayed,for the first time, the cards sent from
Philippines till his disappearance in August
1945. Also, some of the displays of theprevious exhibition and other haiku writers
during the war were included. A brochure of
republication of the displayed materials isavailable.
Tel:072-782-0244
http://www.kakimori.jp/

Himeji Historical Peace Center: Hyogo
From July 17 to August 30, 2009, theexhibition “Nuclear-free and Peace” was held.
It was to enlighten elimination of all nuclear
weapons and world lasting peace, based on
the declaration as a city of nuclear-free andpeace (March, 1985). The displays included
the original materials and photographs
owned by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Museum, the pictures and calligraphy by
students of the city, and the works by
students of the Himeji Technical High School.
On August 2, a chorus music concert forpeace was performed by the Himeji Children
Choir. On August 9, an assembly was held
where a-bomb survivor Osamu Sugawara
told his experience. From September 12 to 27,
an exhibition displaying the assignments onpeace for summer vacation by the students ofNara Prefectural Library and Information
Center: Nara City
From October 1 to December 27, 2009, theexhibition of “War and Foods 3: Seasonings”
was held. The third exhibition of the same28

theme introduced the seasoning rationing
and the use of them at home. Beginning withsugar in 1940, rationing of oil was introduced
in 1941 followed by that of salt, miso
(soybean paste), and soy sauce in 1942.
People could buy no seasonings without the
tickets and the propaganda to curb use ofthem was repeatedly made. Rationing wasstrictly made by districts determined bymayors. The worse the condition of the war
became, the more reduced and belated
rationing were seen. To make up for them,people were encouraged to make seasonings
at home: vinegar from half-rotten
persimmons, water with soy flour instead ofsoy sauce, juice of grapes instead of sweet
cooking wine, as well as some substitutes forajinomoto, ketchup, mayonnaise, and currypowder. They showed the effect of the war on
use of seasonings. The main displays
included purchase tickets for home-use salt,purchasing passbooks of home-use miso andsoy sauce, rationing counter books, and thematerials on how to make soy sauce, otherseasonings, and foods under the government
control.
Tel:0742-34-2111 Fax:0742-34-2777
http://www.library.pref.nara.jp/sentai/gallery.
html

The 1st exhibition in 2009 “Yuichiro
Sasaki’s Photo Exhibition part I, For
Establishing Peace“ was held from July 18 to
December 15, 2009 including “Children in
Hiroshima”,“Shattered
Hometown”,“Reconstruction of the City”, “Symbol of
Peace”, “Light and shadow of Reconstruction”,
and “Afterimage of Hiroshima”.
Tel:082-241-4004 Fax:082-542-7941
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/
Mirasaka Peace Museum of Art: Hiroshima
A special exhibition “Hope andTomorrow: The 24th Peace Exhibition” heldfrom July 25 to August 23, 2009, allowed
viewers to sense the artists’ prays for peace intheir works and to know how precious peaceis.
Tel: 0824-44-3214
http://www.hiroshimarekiminkyo.com/miras
akaheiwa.html
Shin-ichi History and Folk Culture Museum:
Fukuyama City, Hiroshima
Exhibition “War and People” was heldfrom July 4 to September 6, 2009. It
highlighted that regardless of whether one
joined fighting or not, everyone experienced
both sides of an offender and a victim during
the war. To pass on the scars of war to the
future generations, it strongly appealed aprayer for peace. A pictorial guidebook isavailable.
Tel: 0847-52-2992
http://www.hiroshimarekiminkyo.com/shinic
hirekimin.html

Bizen City Museum of History and Folk:
Okayama
The 38th Exhibition “Memory of a Beach/the Pacific War in Setouchi Region” was heldfrom July 4 to August 23, 2009. It presented
materials of Kure City where the battle ship
Yamato was built and air raids on Okayama
Prefecture, as well as old photos of Bizen Cityat the time featuring life in Setouchi region
during the war.
Tel & Fax: 0869-64-4428
http://www13.ocn.ne.jp/~rekishi/Takamatsu Civic Culture Centre, Peace
Museum:Kagawa
Materials of “Air raids on Takamatsu”
and photos of “Defeated Island, Western New
Guinea Front” were exhibited at Citizen’s
Hall in Takamatsu City Hall from July 27 to
31, 2009. Also an exhibition regarding mainly
education during wartime was presented at

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Takamatsu Cultural Center from August 21
to September 6, 2009.
Tel：087-833-7722 Fax：087-861-7724
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/1794.h
tml

published. The visitors found them filled withjoy of living life in peace and enjoyed theoriginal 100 illustrations by Yoshiki Inada
painted for each poems. The 100 poems
include works of two of the then Koga City
residents.
Tel： 092-940-2683 Fax: 092-944-6215
http://www.lib-citykoga.org/museum/muse_top.htmlMuseum of the Town of Tadotsu: Kagawa
An exhibition “An Era of substitute goods”
was held from August 1 to 30, 2009. Sincearound 1939, in the midst of Sino-JapaneseWar, as Japanese government collected ironproducts including benches, street lights, andbraziers from all over the nation, substitute
goods were created. It introduced not only
those items but also materials on children’s
evacuation, daily goods under the wartime,and army related materials during the
Russo-Japanese War and the Pacific War. At
this library, war-related exhibitions havebeen held since 2003.
Tel：0877-33-3343
http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~t-kaikan/siryou1.html

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum: Nagasaki CityThe 2nd special exhibition 2009 ‘Paintings fromthe Collection of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum’
was held at the special exhibition room on the 2nd
basement from Jul. 16 to Sept. 30, 2009. About 40
works by bomb survivors from our collection were
exhibited, which depict important facts to remember
and memories to hand down, even more than 60
years after the atomic bombing. The works were partof the entries to the contest ‘Paintings by Bomb
Survivors’ co-hosted with NHK in 2002
Tel: 095-844-1231 / Fax: 095-846-5170
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/mus
eum/

Miike Playing Memorial Museum: Ohmuta
City, Fukuoka
A special peace exhibition “War and Lifeof home front—to pass on to children” washeld from June 7 to August 9, 2009. By
displaying war-related materials including
Karuta playing cards, it focused on showing
the difference of daily necessaries between
the present day and the wartime to raiseawareness wishing for peaceful society.
Tel＆Fax: 0944-53-8780
http://三池カルタ・歴史.com/

Sendai History Museum, Satsuma-Sendai City:
Kagoshima
The special mini-exhibition ‘Anniversary of the
End of the War’ was held from Aug. 4 to 23, 2009.
Tel: 0996-20-2344 / Fax: 0996-20-2848
http://rekishi.sendai-net.jp/index2.htm
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum:
Itoman City
The 10th special exhibition ‘Ikusayuunu Warabi(Wartime Children) - Children and Wartime
Education’ was held at the special exhibition roomon the 1st floor from Oct. 10 to Dec. 13, 2009. The
exhibition was based on surveys, researches, andinterviews on the education and conditions ofchildren before, during, and after the battle of
Okinawa. We aimed to promote better understandingof the wartime education and aspects of children who
suffered and sacrificed, and to provide an opportunity
for reconsidering the cruelty of war and thepreciousness of peace. Various materials andKoga City Museum of History, Fukuoka“Prayer for Peace—100 Poems with 1,000
Wishes, Original Pictures Exhibition of One
Hundred Peace Waka Poems” was held from
November 3 to 15, 2009. In 1948, 100 Peace
Waka, Japanese 31-syllable poem, wasselected from 23,720 Wakas collectednationwide to celebrate the establishment of
the new Japanese constitution. Last year, areprinted edition of the anthology was30evidences were exhibited. An overview of themodern education, featuring the history of educationfrom the period of Kokumin-Gakko (Wartime
School) to the period of the battle of Okinawa andAmerican occupation was also provided. The
exhibition consisted of the sections ‘Imperial
Rescript on Education and Hoan-den Archive’,‘Kokumin-Gakko and Textbooks’, ‘Children called‘Sho-Kokumin (Jungvolk)’, ‘Deserted Schools’,‘Child Soldiers’, and ‘Reopening Schools from
Prison Camps’.
The 3rd Children’s Process Exhibition 2009 ‘A
Call for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons from
Okinawa’ was held at the Yuimaaru Forum from
Aug.1 to Sept. 10, 2009.
Tel: 098-997-3844 / Fax: 098-997-3947
http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp

slogans and propaganda for national policy. The
potteries, showing how people’s daily life was
influenced by the war, provided a good opportunity
to confirm aspirations for a peaceful world.
Tel: 098-862-3761 / Fax: 098-862-3762
http://www.edu.city.naha.okinawa.jp/tsuboya/
Kumejima Natural and Cultural Center:
Kumejima-cho, Okinawa
The special exhibition ’Peace ‘09’ was held at the
special exhibition room and the lecture hall from Jun.
19 to 26, 2009. Sixty-four years after the war, theexhibition was planned to mourn for the victims of
the war, to give children of the next generation theright historical lessons about the slaughter of people
in the battle of Okinawa and on Kumejima Island,
and to teach the preciousness of human life and theimportance of peace. The exhibits consisted of war
documents from our collection and reports on thepeace studies in schools.
Tel: 098-896-7181 / Fax: 098-896-7182
http://www.town.kumejima.okinawa.jp/bunkacenter/
index.html

Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum: Naha City,
Okinawa
The 12th Tsushima-Maru Memorial Society
special exhibition ‘Tsushima-Maru and Evacuation –Wake of Tsushima-Maru and Evacuation
Documents’ was held at the special exhibition roomon the 1st floor from Oct. 4 to Nov. 23, 2009. A
related lecture ‘The Wake of Tsushima-Maru’ wasgiven by Eian Toma on Oct. 4, 2009.
The 13th special exhibition ‘Children’s World Peace
Paintings - Dedicated to Schoolchildren of
Tsushima-Maru’ was held at the special exhibition
room on the 1st floor from Dec. 16, 2009 to Jan. 15,
2010.
The Chaaganjyuu (alive and kicking) Lecture‘The Most Important Thing of the Islanders’ wasgiven by Mayumi Sakihara, a Churashima Tour Bus
Guide, on Dec. 6, 2009.
Tel: 098-941-3515 / Fax: 098-863-3683
http://www.tsushimamaru.or.jp/

International Network News

INMP’s Secretariat being established in The
Hague !
Dr. Peter van den Dungen, General
Coordinator of the International Network ofMuseums for Peace, has been vigorously
working for establishing INMP’s secretariat
office in The Hague, and now it is open at:
Dr. Peter van den Dungen
c/o International Network of Museums for
Peace (INMP)
Laan van Meerdervoort 70
NL-2517 AN The Hague,
The Netherlands

Tsuboya Pottery Museum: Naha City, Okinawa
The Exhibition ‘Potteries Reflecting the life in
Wartime’ was held at the special exhibition room on
the 3rd floor from Jun. 16 to 28, 2009. In 1935, as themilitary demand increased, metal products
disappeared from daily life and were replaced byceramic substitutes, some of which bore wartime

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Secretariat Administrator:
Ms. Nike Liscaljet.

focal points of sightseeing in Cape Town. In 1999,
the land was registered as a UNESCO world heritagesite. Former prisoners serve as volunteer visitor
guides.
2. Johannesburg, South Africa
・Hector Pieterson Museum
This museum is located inside Soweto (the area
where Native Africans had been required to live). It is
not listed in sightseeing guides or on Ms. Kazuyo
Yamane’s recommendation list. However, this isindeed a very important peace museum. The building
was constructed as a memorial to Hector Pieterson,
who died at the age of 13 when he was shot by
policemen in a 1976 riot. Inside the Museum there
are displays of various works of art executed by the
citizenry, that are intended to convey the history ofthat time and place to future generations, to educate
people and to help eliminate racial prejudice. These
displays have a calming effect on the visitors who
contemplate these events.
3. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
・The National Museum
I had scheduled a visit to the Peace Memorial
Museum. However, it was closed on the schedule
date and it is difficult to reach because it is on an
isolated island. Instead, I visited the National
Museum. Dar es Salaam is Arabic for "Place ofPeace" (with the connotation of a “Peaceful
Seaport”). It is a good natural harbor and prosperedin the past due to active trade up and down the East
African coast. An impressive passenger car used by
the English viceroy during the colonial era isexhibited at the Museum entrance.
4. Nairobi, Kenya
・AFRICOM (International Council of African
Museums)
This information center deals with all
information about peace museums throughout Africa.
The center serves as the nerve center for a network ofpeace museums in Africa and it conducts various
kinds of promotional activities. The staff of thiscenter was delighted with Ms. Yamane’s
recommendation list and the English version of
MUSE (the peace museum network magazine).
They want to attend the 7th International Conferenceof Peace Museums that will be held in 2013.

INMP Board Meeting will take place in The
Hague during 21st -23rd in May, 2010.

What I learned from my visits to peace museums
in Africa and the Middle East
Power actually controlled by the people is the key
to the amicable resolution of disagreements. Peace isconstructed upon a secure foundation of health forthe population, protection of the natural environment
and promotion of the area's cultural and esthetic
values.
Ryotaro Katsura: Ritsumeikan University
From September to December of 2009, I spent
one term in overseas study at Singapore University.
This gave me the opportunity to visit peace museums
in Africa and the Middle East. I would like to provide
an overview of these peace museums and give my
impression of them in this paper.
1. Cape Town, South Africa
・St. George Cathedral and the Archbishop
Desmond M. Tutu
The Cathedral was built in the British colonial era
and is located in the center of Cape Town. Inside thebuilding there is a display that employs photographs
and videos to trace the path of Archbishop Desmond
M. Tutu and his group in their movement against
apartheid. The Cathedral is supported by numerous
people who are striving to eliminate racial
discrimination, and it is still a focus of the struggle
against apartheid.
・Robben Island Museum
Robben Island is offshore from Cape Town. It
was a prison island used exclusively to confine
Native Africans, mainly political prisoners, during
the apartheid era. Nelson Mandela was one of thepeople confined there. Now, the whole of the island
has become a museum, and this is one of the new32

As Africa is making many advances througheconomic growth, the continent is also facing
problems of environmental disruption and thecontinuing resistance to rights for ordinary people.
Therefore, the role of peace museums is becoming
more and more important. Cooperation among
museums will be an important subject in the future.
I was not able to contact the Kenya Heritage andMemorial Foundation and so could not visit theCommunity Peace Museum there.
5. Cairo, Egypt
・Egyptian National Museum
I remember that when the Tutankhamen exhibit
was held in Japan I was only able to spend a few
minutes looking at the artifacts. This time, I had
enough time to get a good look around at thematerials displayed in the Museum. This rare
museum is a very important world asset, as
representations of the vast historical heritage of
Egyptian culture, especially including the ancient
Egyptian civilization with its pyramids, areassembled there. You would need a week or longer to
get a glimpse of all the things inside. It is a huge
museum that can even house gigantic stone artifacts.
However, the strict body searches and absoluteprohibition against taking pictures imposed by theguards convey the fact that the political situation in
Egypt is unstable and that the government has towork hard to maintain public order.
6. Jerusalem, Israel
・Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance
Authority (Yad Vashem)
The building was constructed to commemorate
the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany during
World War II. The designation of the memorial
comes from the Hebrew words, yad (Remember)and shem (the Names). On a 30 meter high column
standing in front of the main entrance is engraved in
Hebrew: “Never forget”. A Museum of Holocaust
Art was recently opened inside this site. It not only
reminds us of the damage done by war, but also
expresses the power of the arts to contribute tobringing about peace in the future. A researchlaboratory to study the holocaust is also located there.
A tree is planted in the garden as a memorial to
Chi-une Sugihara, known as the Japanese Oskar

Schindler. Its presence also expresses man's
co-existence with nature.
Summary of my impressions
My general impression after this visit to the peacemuseums of Africa and the Middle East is that thesemuseums are fulfilling roles as world cultural
heritage centers and sightseeing attractions, and thatthey are supported by visitors from all over theworld.
The shared aspects of these museums are thatthey were constructed with care, and much effort wasdedicated to creating a harmonious interface with thesurrounding environment, including the preservationof spectacular sites, with the understanding thatamicable living-places and human tranquility comewith co-existence with nature. Robben Island is
especially notable, in that the whole island isregistered as a world heritage site, and it ismaintained and managed using state-of-the-art
Japanese technology. In addition, environmental
preservation technologies and preservation science tomaintain historical heritages and construction are
becoming more and more important, and arehighlighted for emphasis in the future. I becameaware of how important it is to preserve these
historical heritage artifacts.
I also noticed that the art in each museum has
great power and is the prime mover to conveying a
sense of peace. These art works are not created solely
by professional artists. They are also created byordinary citizens. These works of art enliven themuseums and they help people develop a sense ofoneness with the museum. Typically story tellers anddocents work at the museums: they have actuallyexperienced the memorialized wars and racial
discrimination, and they share their memories withthe visitors. Therefore, I could see vividly the
suffering and the struggles represented by thesemuseums in Africa and the Middle East.
On the other hand, I felt that the museums in
Singapore, where I was pursuing my studies abroad,had become sightseeing spots in the form of
memorials to war, and that they were not dedicated topeace and to the true construction of amicable waysof life. It is certainly true that Africa and the Middle

33year in 2008 we held a peace conference inKurdistan of Iraq in the city of Suli where agreat number of governmental officers andNGOs participated in, with addition to all theabove things. We work daily as tirelesspeacekeepers raising the slogan of peace forall our visitors: we daily have about ahundred of visitors.
We hope to make relation with all peace
keepers around the world not only by emails
but visiting each other, meeting, holding
conferences to work harder in this process.
halabjamonument@yahoo.com
www.halabja-monument.net
Tel: 0096453885

East need economic support from more advanced
countries. But even now I am moved by the love ofpeace against apartheid expressed by African people(by which I especially refer to the Native Africans),
and the enthusiasm of local people who offer theirvolunteer services to contribute to the cause ofeliminating human slaughter.
I believe that the important concepts that indicate
the direction peace museums should move toward
are: power in the hands of ordinary people, a securefoundation of health for the population, protection of
the natural environment and promotion of the area's
cultural and esthetic values. And the prime mover
unifying these will be the power of art. Art is, in otherwords, the essence of human culture, of human
wisdom about life, and collectively refers to all formsof human skills.
That sums up what I thought and felt as I visitedthese museums.

Related News
Finding a missed boy after 21 years
A boy had missed during chemical
bombardment of our town Halabjah on
16/March/1988 when he was only (40) days
old. Some members of his family were killed
and became unconscious due to chemical
affect, so the boy was found by some Iraniansolider who took him to Iran. He was raisedby an Iranian woman in Masahd city of Iran.
After 21 years when a delegation from
Halajah Monument went to Iran, he met theboy and brought him to Halabjah. So manyfamilies who had lost their babies at the timeof bombardment came to Halabjah
Monument to see the boy.
After anintensive medical test of DNA, the boy foundhis real family and his real mother. What is
mentionable is that the boy’s name wasregistered among the victims of chemical
bombardment, so in a cheerful ceremony in
our Monument the boy’s name was deleted
among the victims. The boy’s name is
Zmnako.

Halabjah Museum: Iraq
Mahmood Hama-Amin: Press Officer
Our museum was established in 2003 tocommemorate 5000 victims of chemical
bombardment on 16/3/1988 which was usedby former Iraqi president Saddam
Husayn. We thought that the criminals of
this massacre got their penalty so there is noneed to think about war and think about
revenge. We decided to do our best in
spreading the idea of peace to prevent suchmassacre so that it would not be repeatedagain in our country and at any part of thisworld. We should try to make our world
more peaceful.
I would like to inform you that we hope toparticipate in commemoration of othermassacres happened in different places in theworld like Zardasht in Iran, Hiroshima andNagasaki in Japan, Ieper in Belgium. We
participated in a peace meeting held in
Nagasaki on 6/8/2009 where about 300
mayors including our mayor participated in.
We held some conferences on Sep/2009 with
Iranian peace museum in Tehran, also last

Day of Peace in The Hague: a Great Success
MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER
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The Martin Luther King Centerestablishes an office in The Hague. Thisannouncement was made today by Isaac
Newton Farris Jr., director of the King
Center and cousin of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
during the yearly Peace message which hegave on The Plein in The Hague during theInternational Day of Peace. This year the
Day of Peace was celebrated extensively in
The Hague, International city of Peace andJustice.
In the morning more than 1200 children
released white balloons near the replica of
the Peace palace in Madurodam. Following
this they crossed the city on a Peace walk to
the Plein. Here they were addressed byamong others Isaac Newton Farris Jr. andMayor Van Aartsen. Together with The
Hague War Child City-ambassadors Tim
Akkerman, Dennis Weening en Soumiya
Abalhaya, Ali B thanked all the children for
their efforts.
The municipality of The Hague is content
with the announcement of Isaac Newton
Farris Jr.
Alderman Frits Huffnagel(International Affairs): 'This center fits
perfectly in The Hague as international cityof Peace and Justice. It is fantastic to bringthis news on the international Day of Peace'.
The King Center is established in 1968 in
the United States after the murder of Martin
Luther King, Jr., to honor and disseminate
the legacy and philosophy of the reverend.
Isaac Newton Farris Jr. emphasized the bigpart that The Hague plays in the world in thearea of Peace and Justice: 'The Hague is theideal base from which to spread the message
throughout Europe.'

Center (EMRPC) in close cooperation withsome other institutions in Osnabrück has
designed this exhibition. The project was
initiated by Osnabrück - The City of Peace.
The exhibition shows new and unusual
perspectives of war reporting from theancient world to the present. It tries toanswerquestions
like:
How
have
technological developments changed theimage of war. Why are war reports suchsuccessful consumer goods? It tries also to
explore the supposedly authentic media
reports controversially and in a resistantmanner.
Especially,
theexhibition
demonstrates how 'image battles' rather than'images of battles' evolve in the mind of thebeholder, e.g. in case of 'embedded' war
journalism.
More information can be obtained from the
EMRPC: Markt 6; D-49074 Osnabrück(Germany);
www.remarque-zentrum.deen www.imagebattles.eu.
(With thanks to Gerard Lössbroek)

Peace museum angling for Obama's peace
prize money
By JAMES HANNAH (AP) – Oct 27 2009
DAYTON, Ohio — A fledging museum
devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its
mission is just what President Barack
Obama is looking for when he decides what
to do with the $1.4 million cash award thatcomes with his Nobel Peace Prize.
Volunteers and supporters of the Dayton
International Peace Museum are writing
letters to Obama in hopes of swaying him to
make a donation. Dayton Mayor Rhine
McLin says city leaders also will reach out tothe president. The museum's founders arealso urging state officials to make an appeal.
Obama has said he will travel to Oslo,
Norway, to accept the award in December,and plans to donate the cash to charity.

Exhibition Image battles; 2000 years of news
from the war; Technology - media - art in
Osnabrück (Germany) 22 April - 4 October
2009.
To mark 2000th anniversary of the Varus
battle, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace35

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs
said this month that Obama has not decided
which charity or charities will get the money.
Museum officials say they would use theprize money to expand their peacemaking
andconflict-resolution
programsinelementary schools and among first-time
youthful offenders and at-risk youth.
The beating death of a Chicago honor
student last month attracted Obama's
attention. The president sent Attorney
General Eric Holder and Education
Secretary Arne Duncan to the city to meetwith students, parents and administrators.
Federal officials also promised support efforts
to stop youth violence nationwide.
The idea for the Dayton museum wasborn at a bus-station diner in 2003 when
Christine Dull and her husband, Ralph Dull,longtime peace activists who live in the
Dayton area, were on their way home fromNew York City after visiting the United
Nations.
"All of a sudden I said, 'It's high time
Dayton had a peace museum,'" Christine
Dull recalled. She said the couple wasinspired by the realization that there were
thousands of war museums and memorials
throughout the world, but few peacemuseums.
The Dayton museum opened in 2005 in astately 1877 Italianate mansion. The Dulls
and several others used their own money tostart it, along with a $10,000 grant from a
local organization that supports grass-rootsgroups that promote social change. The
museum is nonpartisan and not affiliatedwith any church or religion.
The museum sends volunteers to schools
to urge students to make nonviolent choices,
sponsors a summer peace camp and puts ona peace festival. Its former director has
visited Pakistan, India and Iran multiple
times to meet with peace groups and schools.
"I believe there is a critical mass for goodin the world now. And we want to be part ofthat," Christine Dull said.
Some peace organizations are flourishing.
The United States Institute of Peace, agovernment-funded, independent group thatworks to prevent and resolve conflicts aroundthe world, recently celebrated its 25th
anniversary. It has grown from three
employees to around 250 and is building a
new headquarters on the national mall in
Washington near the Lincoln Memorial,
giving it high visibility.
"It's a symbol of our nation's commitment
to peace-building," said spokeswoman
Lauren Sucher.
Richard Deats, former executive directorof the U.S. branch of the Nyack, N.Y.-based
Fellowship of Reconciliation, has followed,
lectured and written about the peace
movement for years. He said a peacemuseum is a physical sign of humanity's
desire for peace and called the Dayton
museum "significant.""It's very important as a cultural
landmark where peace is being studied,"
Deats said.
Photos and biographies of Mahatma
Gandhi and Nobel Peace Prize winners,
including Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela
and Martin Luther King Jr. hang on the
Dayton museum's walls. Shelves are linedwith books on peace. One room is devoted to
the United Nations. Another resembles aschool classroom with posters on how to deal
with bullies.
One exhibit includes photos from theWorld War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, Japan, and poems written by
survivors.
"There are a couple of generations thathave no idea what nuclear bombs can do, andwe think they need to be educated on that,"
Christine Dull said.
The Dulls have had a passion for peacenearly all of their adult lives.
Ralph grew up in the Church of the Brethren,which historically has taken a strong stance36

for pacifism. He was a conscientious objector
during the Korean War, working for two
years in the slums of Baltimore instead ofserving in the military.
In 1983, the couple began traveling to theSoviet Union on friendship trips. In 1989,
they lived in a collective farm village there
while two Soviet farmers worked on theirfarm in Ohio.
"We went for friendship purposes because
we felt that no matter what our governments
were doing, we thought that the people
should get to know each other," Christine
Dull said.
Over the years, the Dulls have taken partin countless peace rallies and vigils.
When peace talks between leaders of the
war-torn Balkans were held at nearby
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1995,
Christine played her cello outside the base's
fence line in tribute to Vedran Smailovic, theSarajevo cellist who became a symbol ofcourage for playing in the city's bombarded
streets during its siege.
Today, the Dulls are part of a museumthat has 75 volunteers and counts former
U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, actor
Martin Sheen and singer Willie Nelson as
honorary trustees.
The couple often is seen at community
events riding in their PeaceMobile, acolorfully painted motor home with an
exhibit inside. It is among several suchvehicles around the country. Only rarely do
the Dulls get a hostile reception, such as thetime they asked for permission to join aparade in a local suburb.
"The man yelled at me over the phone andhe said, 'What's the matter with you, lady?
PeaceMobile? Don't you know we have a war
going on?'" Dull said, laughing.
If the museum receives funds fromObama, it wouldn't be the first time it has
gotten peace prize money. In 2005, Holbrooke
donated $10,000 of his $25,000 Dayton PeaceAward to the museum after he was honored

for his role in forging the agreement reachedat Wright-Patterson that ended fighting in
the Balkans.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press.
All rights reserved.

The International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Museum
The purpose of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Museum is to serveas the memory of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Movement and topreserve its heritage. To that end it has
acquired a number of objects testifying to themain stages in the Red Cross and Red
Movement's development. Its collection of
objects made by prisoners and offered in
gratitude to the ICRC's delegates is unique.
Another feature of the Museum's
collections is its store of 16,000-posters with
their geographical coverage as impressive as
their geographical span.
Through special cooperation with ten
National Red Cross and Red CrescentSocieties, the Museum is adding to its
collections of objects and images bearing
witness to contemporary humanitarian
action in order to constitute the heritage ofthe future. A selection of these objects,
images and posters - most of which havenever been displayed in public before - cannow be viewed on www.micr.org
Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et duCroissant-Rouge
17, av. de la Paix
1202 Genève
www.micr.org
Tél. +41 22 748 95 11
Fax +41 22 748 95 28

Calendars: Photos taken by Children of the
Albanian Summer Program
In July 2009 Paddy McEntaggart andSusan Jones, two designers with a keen37

interest in photography and travel went to
the remote village of Theth in Northern
Albania as volunteers on the B3P Summer
Programme. The idea behind the Summer
Programme is to help the village develop intoa sustainable tourist destination by teaching
English and Environmental Studies to theyoung people - after all the long-term futureof the village is in their hands. The vision of
the photography project was to help thestudents celebrate everything about theirvillage through photography - capturing theculture, landscapes and people that make it
so special with the aim of helping themrecognize the precious environment andheritage that they have a responsibility tolook after.
Over the course of 2 weeks 60 students
aged 5-20 years old were given basic digital
cameras and told to photograph everything
and anything that they felt was interesting,beautiful or unique about Theth. For most it
was their first experience of using a camera
but they all greeted the project with great
enthusiasm and were extremely proud of
their
results,which
surpassedallexpectations.
Since returning to the UK Paddy andSusan have created this calendar featuring
12 of the best images taken by the students
to help raise funds so that B3P's work in theregion can continue for years to come and in
the hope that the programme can be
expanded into the adjoining regions in
Kosovo/a and Montenegro next year.

international relations of the Asia-Pacific.
In addition to articles prepared for thejournal, it offers translations from Japanese,
Chinese, Korean and other languages. This
peer-reviewed, open source journal is a fully
indexed resource. Its website contains morethan 1,400 articles. 4,000 subscribers receivea free weekly newsletter linking to three toseven new articles. More than 400,000
articles are accessed each month with morethan 170,000 reader visits from 180 countries
on six continents.
This is an e-journal and archive among
whose priorities include in-depth discussionof war and peace, bombing, nuclear war, war
atrocities, historical remembrance, war in thelong twentieth century with criticalexamination of the record of Japan, Korea,
China, the United States and other nations.
http://www.japanfocus.org/site/view/103
Japanese and American War Atrocities,
Historical Memory and Reconciliation: WorldWar II to Today by Mark Selden
http://japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/2724
A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy,
the Destruction of Japanese Cities and theAmerican Way of War from World War II to
Iraq by Mark Selden
http://japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/2414

Forbidden Photos from the Dutch East Indies
Published on 8 December 2009 by Fediya
AndinaThey were forbidden at the time by the
Dutch colonial government in what was thencalled Batavia (now Jakarta) because it
wanted to present a positive picture of the
Dutch Colonial War in Indonesia. Today, 8
December, sees the publication of a book ofphotos from the period 1945-1949, put
together by a team of three authors: Erik
Somers, René Kok and Louis Zweers. The
nearly 200 photos show scenes of woundedsoldiers and of Indonesians being intimidated

www.balkanspeacepark.org(With thanks to Dr. Antonia Young)

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
It has in-depth critical analysis of theforces shaping the Asia-Pacific and the world.
The Asia-Pacific Journal provides criticalanalysis that illuminates the geopolitics,
economics, history, society, culture, and38

– pictures that have never before appeared in
the Dutch media.
The three authors have already spent along time researching photos from the Second
World War in various archives. They also
have a large collection of photos from thedecolonisation
periodinIndonesia(1945-1949). A large number of thephotographers were ‘embedded’ and working
for the Dutch colonial government. They
were obliged to hand over their photos to theauthorities in Batavia, who then made a
selection to send to the Dutch media. Picturesconsidered too shocking - of wounded soldiers,
for example - were not selected, as they might
have caused distress to relatives of the Dutch
soldiers at home.
The book shows just how selective was the
choice of reports and photos at the time. The
government, intelligence service and thearmed forces censored everything that was
published. The truth was a well-kept secret.
Now, 60 years later, a selection of photos thathave survived in various archives andcollections has been put together andpublished, giving a true picture of the terror
and violence that took place during theColonial War.
After their return home, the some 120,000
Dutch soldiers found that people didn’t want
to hear their stories about the brutal reality.
They didn’t tally with the picture that had
been presented in the media. What’s more,
the loss of "our East Indies" still had to getthrough to the national consciousness. Even
before publication of the book, the threeauthors had numerous reactions, especiallyfrom former soldiers, but also from theirchildren. This book will help them tounderstand why their fathers didn’t want totalk about the war.

(With thanks to Gerard Lössbroek)

EuroClio Documentary Screened in Japan
Former Yugoslavia: History in Action
Students studying global issues at Kochi
University watched the Teacher TV
Documentary on Teaching History in Bosnia
and made wonderful comments about thework of EUROCLIO. Among the comments “I

think that it is important for different ethnic
groups to exchange ideas through a mediator
such as EuroClio. I think that children’s
exchanges are important because they canmake friends more easily than adults. Whensuch children grow up, they would be able topromote peace.”＊ I did not know such a case that an NGO
as EuroClio plays a role of mediator inhistory education in other countries. I was
impressed to know that the social position ofNGOs is much higher that one in Japan.
＊ I think that it is very good to make acommon history textbook, for it is unusual fordifferent ethnic groups to use one schoolbuilding without any exchanges. If history istaught in each ethnic group, it would lead tocause distrust and fear toward the otherethnic group. Mutual understanding will bepromoted by having meetings for teachersand exchanging ideas and opinions, so I thinkthat it is nice that they make a common
history textbook through EuroClio.
The following is a Korean student studying
at Kochi University in Japan:

First I wondered why the EuroClio has been
making efforts to promote history educationin Bosnia. But when I think of the case of
my country, the Republic of Korea, I noticed
that the issue of history textbook is not easy
to solve. There are still conflicts between
Korea and Japan in history education. In
Korea An Jung-geun is regarded as a hero in
Korean independence movement while he isregarded as a terrorist in Japan because heassassinated Hirofumi Ito who had presided

Koloniale Oorlog: 1945-1949
René Kok, Erik Somers, Louis Zweers
Carrera Publishing
ISBN: 978 90 488 0320 0

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Korea in 1909. I am sure that it is not easy
to be objective to make a good history
textbook independently. I think that
EuroClio plays an important role as a bridge
between conflicting parties. I also think that
EuroClio contributes to promote not only
history education but also peace.

energy, nuclear weapons, small arms,
landmines & cluster munitions.
The objective of the discussions was tomake the participants understand thenecessity of the role of civil society and as
part of civil society, role they could play inminimizing the impact on society andenvironment. Many visual supports wereused to guarantee a better understanding of
the different topics.
Overall the conference was a positive
experience. The conference achieved its
objectives of raising awareness among theparticipants and mobilizing them to be more
actively involved. It can be assumed that the
impact of the conference was broader as theevent was well covered by the local andnational media. The participants showed akeen interest in the topics covered and felt it
was a good initiative, for many of them were
not familiar with the issue. They felt thatsuch conference was very informative. They
were very concerned by the suffering causedby the use of misuse of science. Someparticipants promised that they will actively
work on the issue by sensitizing theircolleagues and communities. However it is
the role of INES, the IIPDEP to keep the
momentum going and coordinate follow up
activities.
Delegates were taken to see our "No More
Hiroshima" No More Nagasaki: Peace
Museum". I briefed the delegates regarding
work of International Network of Peace
Museums.

(This is from the following EuroClio’s website.
Kazuyo Yamane)
http://www.euroclio.eu/site/index.php/bosniacroatia-serbia-regional-projects-303/activities-regional-projects-141/932-euroclio-document
ary-screened-in-japan

2nd NATIONAL CONFERENCE“ROLE OF SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS
TOWARDS SOCIAL RESPONSIBIITY IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES”
17 JANUARY 2010: NAGPUR (INDIA)
Balkrishna Kurvey: Indian Institute for
Peace, Disarmament & Environmental
Protection & No More Hiroshima: No MoreNagasaki: Peace Museum“Role of Scientists & Engineers Towards
SocialResponsibilityinDeveloping
Countries" was arranged jointly by Indian
Institute for Peace, Disarmament &Environmental Protection,
International
Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War(IPPNW) and Indian campaing to Ban
Landmines & Cluster Munitions on 17
January 2010 at Nagpur, India.
Eighty two participants from all the partsof India attended the conference. Participants
included various high ranking scientists,
engineers, researchers, policy makers,
intellectual’s,
bureaucrats,
medicalprofessionals, legal experts, scientists, social
workers, young scientists etc.
The presentation structure and content
were formulated to ensure a clear
understanding of the problem faced by thedeveloping countries of energy fordevelopment and the trends in the worlds togo for clean and environmental friendly“Art Makes Us Human” - Mary Perry Stone,
1909-2007
Stephen Fryburg: Director of Missing Peace
Art Space
Mary Perry Stone (1909-2007) was aprolific artist who produced more than 50
social-protest murals during her lifetime. She
addressed social injustice and anti-war
sentiment through her art. She actively

40opposed U.S. involvement in war. Mary
believed that art is what makes us uniquely
human and hoped that someday themessages in art would be more widely
respected. She saw art as the perfectlanguage to motivate people to make theworld a better place. What makes her work
unique is the fact that she refused tocommercialize her art. She painted to express
her feelings about the need for social change.
In honor of her devotion to peace and social
justice, the Missing Peace Art Space isdedicating space in the gallery specifically to
the work of Mary Perry Stone. Aside frombeing a space to exhibit her art, it will serve
as a space to recognize women artists, past &present, from around the world who
dedicated their work to peace. "The Mary
Perry Stone Women’s Art Gallery” at theMissing Peace Art Space will be inaugurated
on February 5th 2010 by Stone’s daughter
Ramie Steng.
Along with this wonderful opening event
we will also be unveiling an exhibition on theInternational Cities of Peace initiative, which
will be headquartered in Dayton Ohio; andthe European based international artisan
cooperative Artenade is also coming to
Dayton.
The
Missing
Peace
Art
Space/Unitarian Fellowship for World Peace
will be taking over the operations of Artenade
as of February 2010.
Feb. 5th - Mar. 7th, 2010
Address: Missing Peace Art Space: 234 S.
Dutoit St. Dayton, OH, 45402, US
Phone:(937) 241-4353
Email:
info@missingpeaceart.org
Website: http://www.missingpeaceart.org/

Peace Resource Center and Watson Library ofWilmington College will host Bridges of Friendship:
How Children Learn about Other Cultures, a new
exhibit exploring how children learn about othercultures through books, dolls, festivals and music.
The exhibit will open on Wednesday, March 3 from6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and run through October 1, 2010.
The campus is located at 1870 Quaker Way,
Wilmington, Ohio. Visitors can see the exhibit
Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
and specific Saturdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
The exhibit has a strong focus on the 1927
Friendship Doll Project with the historic peace dollEllen C’s. homecoming. Ellen C. will travel from her
kindergarten class on Hirado Island, off the coast ofNagasaki, to Wilmington for a five month stay andthen return to Japan. In addition, a traditional
Ohinasama, Japanese doll platform set used during
the Honorable Small Dolls Festival on March 3, hasbeen donated.
The exhibit will feature monthly special events,
including the Children’s Festival on May 5. It has
something for boys and girls of all ages and thoseyoung at heart. School tours, coloring books, andin-classroom programming led by museum staff areavailable.
A package deal is available for those who visit theexhibit: a discount coupon for the Clinton County
History Center to visit their toy exhibit, a discountcoupon for American Girls books purchased at
Books-N-More, and a special overnight stay at theGeneral Denver in downtown Wilmington.
The 1927 Project was an exchange of dolls
between America and Japan inspired by tensions
between Asia and Americans over immigration
restrictions. The Committee on World Friendshipamong Children sent 12,739 American dolls to Japanand 58 Orei Ningyo (Dolls of Gratitude) to America.
During World War II, most of the Japanese
Friendship Dolls were stored out of sight. Only 45of the 58 Dolls of Gratitude have been located in
America. At the same time, American Friendship
Dolls were destroyed in Japan. As of 2010, only 325
have been found, including Ellen C. She was dressedand named by the Wilmington Friends JuniorSunday School Class, in Clinton County, Ohio. Ellen

Quaker Heritage Center: Ohio
Bridges of Friendship: How Children Learn about
Other Cultures
International Exhibit to Open at Wilmington
College on March 3, 2010
Wilmington, Ohio – The Quaker Heritage Center,41

In addition to the Handelspas the exhibit
will contain/showcase, among other things, anumber of documents in which ‘the Demandsof the Emperor’ are recorded: the Shogun had
a detailed description drawn up of whichcuriosities he wished to receive from theNetherlands. He ordered, for instance,
among other things, horses, a diving bell foruse by pearl divers and Delft Blue porcelain.
The selection of pieces from the collections of
the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the National
Archives is supplemented with a number ofpieces on loan from the Royal Archives andthe National Museum of Ethnology, such as aJapanese cartoon of King William III from1861.
Minister Plasterk on the exhibition: “Wemay count ourselves lucky that Professor
Willem van Gulik – a pre-eminent authority
on Japan – was prepared to act as guest
curator. Thanks in part to his contribution, in
combination with the magnificent collections
from our national cultural institutions,
everyone can now see how many beautiful
and fascinating objects Japanese-Dutch
relations have yielded.”This is from the website of
http://www.kb.nl/nieuws/2009/vanhiertottoki
o-en.html.
(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)C’s story is detailed in the book Finding the
Friendship Dolls, A True Story: How Children Can
Help Create World Peace through Toys and isavailable
at
the
Peace
Resource
Center, http://www.wilmington.edu/prc/bookstore.cfm.
(937) 382-6661 ext 719

Opening exhibition 'From here to Tokyo – 400years of trade with Japan': The Netherlands
On 25 August 2009 the exhibition ‘From
here to Tokyo – 400 years of trade withJapan’ will be opened in De Verdieping van
Nederland (The Legacy of the Netherlands),
the communal exhibition area of theKoninklijke Bibliotheek - the National
Library of the Netherlands (KB) - and the
National Archives (NA) in The Hague. The
opening will be attended by their Imperial
Highnesses Prince and Princess Akishino of
Japan and their Royal Highnesses Prince
Constantijn and Princess Laurentien of theNetherlands. Dr. R.H.A. Plasterk, Minister of
Education, Culture and Science, will act as
host. The highlight of the exhibition is thefamous Handelspas (trade pass) – the deed ofsafe-conduct with which the Japanese
Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu gave permission to
the VOC in 1609 to trade with Japan.
Exclusive trading partner
In cooperation with Professor Willem van
Gulik, professor at Leiden University andgreat authority on the historical relations
between Japan and the Netherlands, themost beautiful and historically importantpieces from the KB and the NA have been
selected for this exhibition. Special attention
is given to the period from 1609 to halfway
through the 19th century. During this period
the Netherlands was, for well over 200 years(from 1639 to 1858), the only country in theworld that was allowed to trade with Japan.
In addition, particular attention is paid to therelationship between Japan and our House of
Orange.

Obituary: Franz Deutsch(1929-2009)
Inspiring founder-director
Austrian Peace Museum

of

the

First

It is with great sadness that we havelearnt of the death of Franz Deutsch on 18th
November 2009 as a result of a heart-attack

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while on holiday in the Red Sea resort of Ras
Mohamad in Egypt. In 1993 he opened apeace museum in the small market town ofWolfsegg, not far from Salzburg, and during
the next sixteen years, up to the time of hisdeath, he was its dynamic and inspiring
director. From the beginning he was also an
enthusiastic supporter of the inter- national
network of peace museums, having
participated in the first conference in 1992
and several of the following ones.
Participants will remember him as apassionate peace educator whose kindness
and warm- heartedness endeared him tomany.

The peace museum in Wolfsegg was his
courageous and imaginative creation for theeffective promotion of peace education and forthe building up of the 'defences of peace'.
Franz saw peace museums as public places
which functioned as centres for peaceeducation and for the fostering of a culture ofpeace. Here, the public, and especially theyounger generation, could deepen theirunderstanding of the causes of war andviolence and engage in dialogue about ways
and means to overcome them. In order tostimulate debate he produced well over 100'peace leaflets' which related to individual
exhibits or thematic issues in the museum.
He wanted to see them distributed as widely
as possible so that the museum also had, as it
were, a 'travelling' component.

Given his background and educational
philosophy, it was appropriate that themuseum was housed in a building which had
previously been used as a primary school:
Franz had been a schoolteacher and wasparticularly keen to help young people how tothink about social issues, especially war andviolence. It was in Wolfsegg that thePeasants War in Upper Austria came to an
end in 1626. The proximity of an oldbattlefield (where the peasants were brutallyslaughtered and defeated) gave him an
opportunity to confront museum visitors withthe central question, 'Where does war begin?'
The answer was not to be found outside, on
the battlefield, but inside, in the human mind.
He was fond of referring to the phrase in thepreamble of the UNESCO constitution, 'Sincewars begin in the minds of men, it is in theminds of men that the defences of peace must
be constructed.' The visual representation ofthis idea became the logo of the museum.
Designed by Hans Schenk, a local artist andfriend, it depicted the profile of a human headin the shape of a Moebius ring in which
nestled a dove carrying an olive branch. With
the artist's approval, Franz offered the samelogo to the international network (which
would take many years before finallydeciding on a different logo).

He also regarded peace museums as thenatural home of peace-loving people, andenvisaged a global network of peacemuseums which would eventually unite
millions across the world and who would
thereby become a significant force for peace.
His ideas and hopes in this respect are clearly
outlined in a 'Manifesto for the Founding ofPeace Museums' that he included in thebeautiful, richly illustrated 60-page bilingual(German- English) booklet that served as a
guide/catalogue to the museum. His great
support for the development of a worldwide
network of peace museums is further
evidenced by the fact that following its
creation he requested Hans Schenk to design
possible logos for the network, some of which
are reproduced in the catalogue.
Franz deeply believed that the 'dream ofworld peace' would become reality andargued, quoting Henry David Thoreau, that
we can dream about castles in the air, butthat at the same time we had to work hard toprovide foundations for them. The latter were
to be sought, first and foremost, in the realm

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of education. Education was able to uncover
the motives and driving forces of war, show
the cost and futility of war, and suggest
alternatives. He was fond of quoting Peter
Rosegger, the Austrian poet who was also one
of Bertha von Suttner's most fervent
supporters: 'What will be stronger than war?
The belief in peace! We must have this belief
in the possibility of lasting world peace andspread it throughout the world - this willaccomplish a lot. I am firmly convinced thatpeople will find peace if they search for it'.

who, in a small and picturesque corner of his
country, was successful in turning his dreaminto reality.

Founder of the First Austrian Peace
Museum' is a claim of which he could
justifiably be proud, and which he earned
through dedication, persistence, and theconstant support of Trudi, his wife of many
years. In order for the museum to come about
he had to overcome countless obstacles. He
encountered a great deal of ignorance andindifference, and when the museum waseventually established, he said it 'stood like arock in a sea of misunderstanding'. Its creator
belonged to that generation which had
experienced the Second World War, in hiscase, as a young teenager who lost many of
his family members when his local town wasdestroyed by bombing. This was the deeper
origins of his passion for peace; only after hisretirement was he able to devote himself fully
to peace education and particularly theestablishment and running of a peacemuseum. Following the Second World War,the same experience, passion, and hope also
inspired other individuals, notably inGermany and Japan, to create peacemuseums. Because they owe so much to thevision and commitment (including financial)of the founder, the future of such museums
can be precarious once their creator has
passed away. We must hope that the First
Austrian Peace Museum will survive thedeath of its founder and will be able tocontinue his devoted work for peace. In any
case, we salute a foremost peace educator

Publications
The Sifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding:
Stories and Lessons by John W. McDonald:
Kumarian Pr Inc

International Encyclopedia of Peace by Nigel Youngas Editor in Chief: Oxford University Press. 2010.
There are articles on museums for peace.

Interesting Website:
The Institute for multi-Track Diplomacy inWahsington, D.C. in 1992
see www.imtd.org
Transition's special issue on climate change withbackground information and educational and action
resources for peace educators, activists andresearchers: www.globalepe.org

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Acknowledgement
The editors would like to thank Ms. Yoshiko
Tanigawa, Ms. Hisako Masuda, Ms. Atsuko Takeda,
Ms. Eriko Ikeda, Ms. Yuriko Taki and Ms. Mihoko
Yasuhara for translating Japanese into English.
Thanks to their great efforts, non-Japanese readers
will enjoy knowing what is going on in Japan.

"We are made wise not by recollections of the past,
but by our responsibility to the future." G.B.
Shaw

Notice
The unsigned articles were written up on the editor’s
responsibility, but the sighed ones do not necessarily
express the same opinions embraced by the head
office of the Japanese Network of Museum for Peaceor the editor of this newsletter.

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