Muse No. 30
Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: November 2014
The Editorial Office: Daisuke Miyahara at Peace Aichi
2-820 Yomogidai, Meitoku, Nagoya City, Aichi 465-0091
Tel/Fax: 052-602-4222
http://www.peace-aichi.com/
Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translators: Mairead Hynes, Tanya S. Maus, Atsuko Takeda, Yoshiko Tanigawa, & Kyoko Terazawa
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki

Conference of Japanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace in Octobermuseums for peace.

An annual conference of Japanese Citizens’

Yamanashi Peace Museum, Celebrating its 7th Anniversary

Network of Museums for Peace was held on

is the Noborito Institute Peace Education Re-

Tamotsu Asakawa
It has been seven years since the Tanzan Ishi-

source Center on campus and participants vis-

bashi Memorial Yamanashi Peace Museum wasited there. It was opened in 2010 and there isestablished in Asake, Kofu City in May, 2007.

a brief explanation on its website as follows:

Since then, in addition to our permanent exhib-(http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/news/acadeits, we have hosted a total of fourteen semian-

mic_impact/academic_e_03.html)

nual special exhibitions (our present exhibition,

October 25 and 25 at Meiji University. There“Thinking about the Secret Information ProtecPrior to and during the Second World War, thetion Act,” will be on display through October,

Noborito Institute conducted “secret activities”

2014), and as of November 2013 the museumthat always accompany war such as counterin-

had reached 10,000 visitors.

telligence, intelligence, intrigues, and propaganda. The arms and materials developed there
raise serious issues in terms of humanity andinternational law. Meiji University intends topreserve this research facility, maintain a recordof what the institute has done, and utilize it as
an information center for the education of history, peace, and science, where with local residents, faculty and students can reflect upon theerico

issues of peace and war.

We have also had over 80 monthly lecturesand symposiums, which have been reported in

There were 27 participants from 16 museums

several places in the mass media.

for peace and various topics were discussed

On June 15, 2014, we had one of the top

such as how to deal with nationalism at various

constitutional scholars in Japan, Mr. Asaho
1

Mizushima of Waseda University, giving our 7th

the element of force in the “Comfort Women”

Anniversary Memorial Lecture, a highly suc-system.

cessful event with 100 participants. Mr. Mi-

scription of the “Comfort Women” from middle

zushima spoke on the theme of “The Japanese

school text books, he has been using the media

Constitution, from its origins to its present:

to try to control public opinion, especially

Learning from Tanzan Ishibashi,” strongly crit-through the NHK or Japan Broadcasting Cor-icizing the Abe Cabinet by saying: “The Abe

poration. As a striking example, four people

Cabinet’s movement towards a resolution au-

who are close to Prime Minister Abe werethorizing the exercise of the right to collective

added to the executive committee of the NHK,

self-defense is not a revision of the Japaneseand Katsuto Momii-- the new chairman-- madeConstitution, but its destruction.” Touching on

the following statements: "'Comfort women'

the theme of former Prime Minister Tanzan

could be found in all nations that were at war,"

Ishibashi, he lamented, “If the Ishibashi cabinet

and "All issues were resolved under the Ja-

had continued a little longer, many issues such

pan-South Korea treaty."as the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty might haveshow his ignorance and insensitivity to humanturned out differently.”rights, and are a clear sign that NHK has bethThis year is the 130 anniversary of Tanzan

Ever since the removal of the de-These statements

come nothing more than a mouthpiece of the

Ishibashi’s birth. To celebrate it, the Yama-

government.

nashi Peace Museum is planning a memorial
symposium on September 15th at which we will

WAM, along with other “Comfort Women”

welcome Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin Professor Hiro-activist groups, has been campaigning for theshi Masuda and Junji Asano, former Chief Ex-

resignation of the leader of the NHK, especially

ecutive of Toyo Keizai Inc. We welcome yoursince we feel that its coverage of the Secretparticipation from 2pm at Pure Sogo in Asake,

Information Protection Act and the collective

Kofu City.

right to self-defense has been strongly biased.
The “Comfort Women” issue has been complete taboo at the NHK for some time, but re-

Women’s Active Museum on War andPeace (WAM)

cently the intervention of the Abe cabinet in the
programming there has been becoming more

Eriko Ikeda (Director)
In the past six months, WAM has been in aand more pronounced.
To combat this trend, from July 3 until No-

flurry of anger over the many decisions of thevember, WAM is holding an exhibition called

Abe cabinet, who has been speaking sympa-“The ‘Comfort Women’ Issue for Middle

thetically about pre-war Japan’s fascism, impe-

Schoolers” again. Due to silence and censor-

rialism, and aggression, while chanting refrains

ship in the media and education, fewer andlike “Towards a beautiful country.” Of course,

fewer people understand what the victims suf-

as part of this, he has been continuing to deny2

fered. That is exactly why we feel that it is sowooden fishing boat that suffered from it.”important to spread basic information about this(B5 color, 216 pages, 2000 yen + tax). Fromissue. Although we are attracting more andApril to September, we also held four meetings

more criticism, and there is a very real fear ofof a citizen lecture series called “Now, let’s

an attack from right-wing groups, we are notlook at the hydrogen bomb era: Facing nuclear

afraid. We hope that if you come to Japan,

issues in the future.” We have had three hun-

you will stop by our museum to support usdred participants so far, and will publish a col-during this time.

lection of the records next spring. This fall,
we will also host a viewing of the original work
“Lucky Dragon” by illustrator Seitaro Kuroda

Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall

from October 11, and a commemorative concert

Since this year is the 60th year since the Bi-

called “The Next Voyage of the Daigo Fukuryu

kini Atoll Nuclear Test, we at the Public Inter-Maru” on October 26. In the 60th anniversary

est Incorporated Daigo Fukuryu Maru Peace

year of the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test, and as we

Association—the group which manages theapproach the 70th anniversary of the bombings

exhibition hall—are dedicating ourselves toof Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are continuingcommemorative activities. The main concept

our efforts to learn and educate about the hor-

behind these activities is a refocusing on the erarors of nuclear weapons.

in which the hydrogen bomb was being developed (considering the period between 1952 andthe 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as one

such as nuclear development, global fallout, theNews from the NPO: Chukiren Peace
Memorial (Association of Returnees
from China)

diffusion of nuclear damage, and the inhuman-

Nobuo SERIZAWA(Director General)unit).

This will help us understand themes

At our general meeting on May 25, 13 com-ity of planning for a nuclear war.
On March 1, the day of the Castle Bravo hy-

missioners and two supervisors were reelected,

drogen bomb test, the Daigo Fukuryu Maruand Professor Toshiro KOJIMA was newly en-

Peace Association held a memorial gathering of

gaged as a commissioner.

320 participants. There was a lecture given by

Although there have been fewer large groups

geoscientist Satoru Ikeuchi, and a commemora-

recently, people who really need the material oftive performance by pianist and composer Ha-

our museum continue to visit us.

runa Miyake of the original piece “From theAt the board meeting on December 1, we re-Dark Sea,” which was inspired by the story ofsolved the request for immediate withdrawal of

the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, and a commemora-

the “Specified secrets protection bill” and wetive publication entitled “The Daigo Fukuryu

submitted it to the chairpersons of both houses

Maru Sets Sail: 60 years of records about theof the Diet. Also we submitted our statement toBikini Atoll nuclear test incident and thethe Aashi Shimbun calling on further relation3

ship based on historical facts between Japanand China against the article of the Asahi
Shimbun (issued April 28, 2014) on the China’s
review of the old Japanese army.
In June, the China Central TV and Hong
Kong’s Phoenix Satellite TV visited us for reporting “Chukiren and Memorial Museum.” A

Mr. Takeji MUNO

monthly free magazine “Zoom Japan,” which
introduces Japan to the UK and France, also

Peace Aichi: Special Exhibition “Warand Young Men ― Lives and Hopes
Taken”

came to publicize the photos and interview ofPresident Matsumura.
The museum holds open lectures and work-

Daisuke MIYAHARA (Director General)

shops after regular meetings. This year, Pro-

We held a special exhibition for this summer

fessor Iko threw a lecture on his book about“War and Young Men ― Lives and Hopes

Japan-China confliction.

Taken.” from July 22 through August 31, 2014.

Mr. Takeji MUNO and his son visited us on

One of three themes of this exhibition wasJune 11. He received this year’s special award

about the students sacrificed in the war. Withof Japan Congress of Journalists for 30 years ofmaterial from the Wadatsuminokoe Memorial

continuous publication of weekly magazine

Museum, the exhibition introduced eight stu-

Taimatsu (torch) after he quit the Asahi

dents who were forced to go to the warfront

Shimbun on the day before Japan’s defeat inand lost their lives while in school. The materi-1945. During his visit, a round-table conference

al from Chuo University showed the nation’s

was held with commissioners and the volun-pressure on colleges to make Korean students

teers.

volunteer. Also, it included a high school student who volunteered at the age of 15 and dis-

Mr. Muno, a vigorous 99-year-old, loudly

appeared in Okinawa with an attack aircraft at

criticized the Abe administration and the cur-the age of 16.

rent status, banging the table. He valued the

The second theme was “Tragedy of Girl

museum as a center of talk on Japan-China is-Students,” which displayed the fact of school-

sue and became a member of the museum to-girls victimized by the bombing on Toyokawa

gether with his son.

Naval Arsenal.

Director-general Serizawa and President

The last one was nine paintings drawn by

Matsumura are giving speech at the 18th con-seven art students killed in the war.

ference of the nationwide network of war re-

The war has become the past in the memory

main preservation in August and the 8th interna-and visual image of the war doesn’t give view-tional conference of peace museums.

ers pain anymore. Not only soldiers, all the4people were pushed into the war and lost theirAnzai Yuka (a researcher of Korean history )lives including students in their teens.

(7/19) Anzai Ikuro (a director emeritus)

The theme of the exhibition was on the war“International students who saw Fukushima”,

and young people to dwell on them living 70

Yamaguchi Hironori (Ritsumeikan disasteryears ago.

recovery support) “the present situation of

Now that Japan is becoming a nation that can

Fukushima and support for reconstruction”

fight in war, we must look back on what was☆ Traveling Exhibition: the World Newsthe fate of the young students.

Some lectures

Photo Exhibition 2014

and events were held associated with the exhi-

Kyoto: 9/17～10/12, Shiga: 10/14～10/30,

bition.

Oita: 11/2～11/16☆ Mini Exhibition

Peace Aichi

the84th: Youthful days in Kyoto―the sce-

2-820, Yomogidai, Meitou-ku, Nagoya City,

ne of students and the high economic

Aichi 4650091

growth (2/8～3/30)

TEL&FAX: 052－602－4222

the 85th: Murakami Yasufumi’s Photo Ex-

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

hibition―The scar of the Vietnam War (4/3
～4/29)
the 86th: The life of Robert Jungk “Conveying Hiroshima to the world―to seek for

Kyoko Museum for World Peace at
Ritsumeikan University: Kyoko

a future without nuclear disaster” (byMaki Torii

Jungk study group, 5/13～6/1)[Activities from Jan. to June, 2014 ]the 87th: Children in Cambodia (by volun-

The number of visitors to our museum

tary students’ seminar, 6/7～7/6)

reached 900,000 on June 17.

the 88th: Health for the nation―Sports and“University Museum Association of Kyoto”

Wars (7/12～8/29)

which had been started in 2011 by 16 university☆ Ritsumeikan Saturday Lecturemuseums in Kyoto city, restarted on March 30,

Shirai Atsushi “The departure of students for2014 with making a comprehensive agreement.

the front and war responsibility of universi-[Special Exhibition]

ties” (8/2)☆ Spring Term (5/3～7/19) : Chung Chu-ha’s

Mizushima Asaho “The nation and society

Photo Exhibition “Does spring come to stolen

before the war, in the light of Air Defense

fields?”Law”

・ Opening Speech (5/3) : Chung Chu-ha (a☆ Seminar for the volunteer guides (8/23)

photographer ), So Kyonshiku (a writer),“Acting as a volunteer guide in Kyoko Mu-

Kawazu Kiyoe (a poet)seum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan Univer-・Talk Event:(6/7)

sity” (Lecturer: Anzai Ikuro)

Takahashi Tetsuya (a philosopher),5Grass Roots House Peace Museum:Kochi

of the Fukushima plant. There were about 470
visitors in six days. On July 5, we held a

Ai ABE (Secretaariat)

round-table discussion on Japan-China rela-

We held the annual meeting on May 10, 2014,

tionship at the 20th gathering for uniting Asian

where we discussed our future role and the ac-people, and a lecture at another meeting bytivities we should continue, as the museum

lawyer Hajime KAWAGUCHI who used to bemarked the 25th anniversary of the foundation

legal team secretariat of the suit for injunction

this year. Also, we determined to take initiative

against SDF dispatch in Iraq. On July 6th, thein the movement to solve issues threatening

first part of Barefoot Gen was screened at thehuman life. As an opening event, a storytelling

31st Peace Film Festival. And a musical gath-(Brown Morning by Franck Pavloff) is given byering, the 31st Antinuclear Peace Concert was

singer Kazutaka SHIBAMURA.

held on July 7 and people in a wide age range

On May 17, we held a workshop about theparticipated.

Constitution at the University of Kochi, which
was organized together with the Japan’s Scientists’ Association and there were 30 participants.
The lecturer was Kanehisa TADOKORO who

Oka Masaharu Memorial, Nagasaki
Peace Museum

had dedicated 38 years to teaching social study

Yasunori Takazane ( Director)

at the Kochi High School.

Recently, researchers in and out of Japan and

From May 31 through June 1, there was theseminar students tend to visit our museum.

5th symposium of war remains reservation in

Activities from Jan. to June in 2014 are as fol-

Kochi, where underlying report and caselows.

presentations were made and a tour of war re-Jan. 11: The 5th Modern History Lecture,mains in Kochi was conducted. There were“World WarII: Battle line in Europe and Japan’s

about 50 participants from both in and outside

movement” (Lecturer: Kado Satsuki)

the prefecture.

Jan. 12 : “Nishizaka Dayori”, the 72nd bulletin,

From June 29 to the end of July, we held thewas sent.

annual event “Peace Wave in Kochi 2014.”

Feb. 8 : The 6th Modern History Lecture,Throughout the period, the 32nd Peace Star

“Wars and Women” (Lecturer: Kunitake

Festival colored the local shopping areas with a

Masako)number of origami cranes praying for peace

Feb. 23: Prof. Eichhorn of Technical University

which were sent from schools and organiza-of Berlin, a president of the German-Japan

tions in the region. From 2 to 8 of July, the 36th

Forum, visited our museum with three young

exhibition of war and peace was held at thevolunteers.

Kochi Liberty and People's Rights Museum.

March 8: The 7th Modern History Lecture,

The exhibition focused on nuclear plants,“The second Sino-Japan War: in the light ofatomic bomb and war, inspired by the accidents

Fushun war criminals management center”
6founded. Since the museum’s opening, the stu-

(Lecturer: Okuyama Shinobu)
April 12: The 8th Modern History Lecture, “Diddents of Himeyuri have become witnesses who

the military protect the public? ― Manchuria

have conveyed the tragedy of war to museum

and Okinawa in the last years of the war.”

visitors. They have appealed to visitors to rec-

(Lecturer: Shinkai Tomohiro)ognize the preciousness of peace and the value

April 13: “Nishizaka Dayori”, the 73th bulletin,of human life. Through this they have come towas sent.

see these testimonials a requiem for their de-

May 31: The application for the 14th group toparted schoolmates. We hope that this upcom-

visit China for friendly relationship was sent

ing special exhibit at Himeyuri will be an op-

to the museum members.

portunity to communicate our prayers for peace

June 3: The press release of the application forto the next generation.

ththe 12 “Wings of Hope”, the group of juniorhigh school students to visit China for[Exhibit Contents]

friendly relationship

Prologue : Experiences we were not able toJune 28: The interview and acceptance of two

sharestudents who applied for “Wings of Hope”

1. A museum for sharing the experience of

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

Himeyuri
2. The establishment of the Himeyuri Peace
Memorial Museum

Himeyuri Peace Museum: Okinawa,
Itoman City

3. The activism of the witnesses begins
4. Lectures on the experience of war
5. From “Why didn’t I die?” to “Because I

On June 23, 2014, 25 years passed in the

lived!”: “25 Years of Himeyuri Witnesses”

Himeyuri Peace Museum since its opening.

6. The activist leaders of the museum

This summer, it reached 20,000,000 visitors

7. The encouraging voices of our visitors: a day

since it first opened. In addition, more thanof testimonials

2,300 school groups have visited on their

8. The projects for the next generation

school trips per year and it has become a place

9. Passing the baton of peace to the next gener-

to study peace. We are deeply grateful to allation.

these individuals who have supported us.

Epilogue

On July 18, 2015 we plan to hold a special[Witness video]

exhibit to honor our 25th Anniversary called,“The Witnesses of Himeyuri” (20 minutes)“The Witnesses of Himeyuri—25 Years of Tes-

Tel:098-997-2100 Fax:098-997-2102

tifying about the Battle of Okinawa.” In 1982

http://www.himeyuri.or.jp

the Himeyuri Alumni Association decided tobuild the Peace Memorial Museum and in 1989
the Himeyuri Peace Memorial Museum was711. They introduced how the people survived

News from Various Museums
for Peace

the war time situation.
Tel:0493-35-4111

Fax:0493-35-4112

http://www.saitama-peacemuseum.jp/

Sendai City Museum
Folkore : Miyagi

of History andA special exhibition “War and Citizens’ Lifeto reflect the change of the life through the

Fujimino Municipal Kamifukuoka
Historical and Folklore Museum:
Saitamavarious war times such as the Boshin Civil War,A small exhibit related to arsenals during theVol. 4” was held from June 28 to November 3

WWII was held from June 14 to August 17 to

the Sino-Japanese and the Russo-Japanese War,show one of the arsenals “Kawagoe Ammuni-

the WWI, the Asia-Pacific War. The exhibits

tion Factory” located in Kamifukuoka. A for-included magazines, newspaper and military

mer factory worker who had been mobilized

notes published during the Asia-Pacific War

as a student gave a speech on his experiences

and most of them were displayed at the libraryon July 27.

for the first time. Booklets on them were print-

Tel:049-261-6065

ed.

http://www.city.fujimino.saitama.jp/facility/bun

Five lectures, one old war site visit and two

kasports/siryoukan/index.html

Fax:049-269-4817

performances related to war and people’s life
were held through the term of the exhibition. A

The Center of the Tokyo Raids and
War Damage: Koto Ward, Tokyo

research report vol. 32 on the citizens’ and soldiers’ life in Tohoku area and Manchuria during

A book “A Fieldwork of Tokyo Raids” was

the WWⅡ as well as a list of the library collec-

edited by the center members and it was pub-tion vol. 12 were published.
Tel：022-295-3956

lished by Heiwa Bunka on February 22, 2014.

Fax：022-257-6401

On February 28, other research results were

http://www.city.sendai.jp/kyouiku/rekimin/inde

also published by the Center such as “A histor-

x.htmlical research on the photo materials based on
the governmental policy at the end of WWII：
Focusing on the national defense photographers

Peace Museum of Saitama
Higashimatsuyama City：

corps and the Tohosha” and “Photographs taken before and during the 2nd WW: The total

From January 11 to March 9, an exhibit

view of ‘the Tohosha’s collection’”, which in-“Memory of the War reflected by a New Col-cluded a bibliography of the Tohosha’s Collec-

lection” was held to focus on the citizens’ life

tion and a list of every frame of the negatives,

during the war time. Another exhibit “Maga-coauthored by Yuko Ito, Masahiko Yamabe,zines and War” which consisted of the library

Masumi Ueno, Akira Koyama and Satoshi

collection was opened from March 25 to May

Ohoka. The book was donated to the associa8

tion to record the Tokyo Raids.

From March 4 to 10, a memorial event “GreatThe center members also edited two maps: “A

Tokyo Air-raids Exhibition” was opened. A

map of life: Tokyo Raids and War damage”

part of the materials donated to establish “To-which connected where the victims had lived

kyo Peace Memorial Museum” were displayed

before the air raids and where they fell victim

and a film of survivors’ testimonies wereand “A map of witnesses by the Tokyo Raids’shown.

survivors”, which provides the testimonies

Tel:03-3622-1208

videotaped. They were opened to public fromhttp://tokyoireikyoukai.or.jp/

March 1, 2014.
On March 9, “A Gathering on the Great Tokyo Air-raids: The 11th anniversary of the
opening of the Center of the Tokyo Raids and

The Heritage and Future of Rikkyo:
Toshima Ward, Tokyo

War Damage” was held. The participants joined“The Heritage and Future of Rikkyo” wasa story-telling by a survivor, Toshiko Nakamura,opened on May 9, 2014 within Mather Librarya video screening, a lecture by Man Mikami

in Ikubukuro Campus. By visual media, Rikkyo

about the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution.

Gakuin affiliate schools’ educational activities

Tel:03-5857-5631

Fax:03-5683-3326

are displayed. The materials during WWⅡ in-

http://www.tokyo-sensai.net/Toshimacluding college rules, photos of military training at the college campus and the chapel goneto ruin, text books and a list of the students en-

Toshima Historical Museum: Tokyo

listed in the army are exhibited.

A special exhibition “Reflection of the War in

Tel:03-3985-4841

Summer, 2014” was held from May 15 to Au-

http://www.rikkyogakuin.jp/hfr/

gust 31. Materials such as documents regarding
the air raids, pictures drawn right after the war

Waseda University Archives: Shinjuku
Ward, Tokyo

ended as well as newly donated items including
the materials owned by a local town association

An exhibition “Waseda Story told by the ar-and an air-raid defense drills diary kept at achives” was held from June 20 to August 3.

municipal higher girls’ school. The 23rd study

The donated real materials such as a student’s

journal “Life and Culture” was published on

written reminder in 1943 and 44, students’March 28, which focused on the life of school

albums and a picture card of Waseda Univer-children’s evacuation and war time ceramicsity Kurume Hall were displayed. An exhibi-

substitutes.

tion catalogue is published.

Tel: 03-3980-2351 Fax: 03-3980-5271

Tel:042-451-1343 Fax:042-451-1347:

http://www.city.toshima.lg.jp/bunka/shiryokan/

http://www.waseda.jp/archives/Tokyo

Reconstruction

Memorial

Hall:

Sumida Ward, Tokyo9

“Exhibition of the Kawasaki Air Raid” wasFussa Local Material Hall: TokyoA special exhibit “A War Exhibition forheld from March 8 to May 6 to show the rec-

Peace” was held form June 28 to August 31 toords of the large scale raid on April 15, 1945.

reconsider the issue of peace by displaying theTel:044-433-0171

war-related materials left in Fussa. This year a

http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/shisetsu/category/

picture and military mails during the Rus-

21-21-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

Fax:044-433-0232

so-Japanese War were shown.
Tel:042-530-1120

City of Yokohama Municipal Archive
Reference Room: Kanagawa

http://www.museum.fussa.tokyo.jp/

A special exhibition “Yokohama Air Raids:

Higashimurayama City Museum: Tokyo

From the materials recorded by clues of the
B-29 bomber” was held from April 1 to mid-

A mini exhibition “Materials of War in Hi-

dle of July.

gashimurayama” was held from March 10 to

The donated personal belongings of the ex. first

31. According to the memorial day of the Greatlieutenant, the late King Martine were mainlyTokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945, the real

displayed. A catalogue of the exhibits was pub-materials donated by the local citizens werelished.

displayed to introduce the people’s life andTel:045-251-3260 Fax:045-251-7321

misery of war.

http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/somu/org/hous

Tel:042-560-6620 Fax:042-569-2762

ei/sisi/

http://www.city.musashimurayama.lg.jp/shiryoukan/index.html

Nagaoka War Damage Center: Niigata
KawasakiKanagawa

City

Peace

Museum:From April 19 to June 15, 2014, an exhibitionof the pictures painted by the survivors of the

When the standing exhibition was remodeled,

Nagaoka Air Raid was opened. A meeting to

new sections such as “Invasion and atrocity

listen to the experiences of the Nagaoka Raid

committed by the Japanese Army” and “Whatsurvivors was also held in May and June.

is the system of ‘comfort women of the Japa-

Tel:0258-36-3269

nese Army’?” were added.

http://www.city.nagaoka.niigata.jp/kurashi/sens

The 2nd exhibit “Let’s Think of Peace fromai/siryoukan.html

Fax:0258-36-3335

the Monetary Point of View” was held from
December 21, 2013 to January 31, 2014. “To
Create Peace, To Think of Peace” as held as

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka City

the third project from February 7 to March 2,

A special exhibition “Dresden, Berlin and2014 with the assistance of the members of the

Hamburg: Air Raided Cities in Germany” wasPeace Studies Association of Japan.

held from February 14 to May 25. It was a10

travelling exhibit directed by The Center of
the Tokyo Raids and War Damage.
During the period, two lectures were held: one

Sakai City Peace & Human Rights
Museum : Osakaby a chief researcher of the Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Tadahito

An exhibition on life during World War II andYamamoto about his trip to the air-raided cit-

US air raids on Sakai City was held using mod-ies in Germany, the other by a lecturer of To-

els of goods and documentary photos fromkai University, Nobuhiro Yanagihara about

April 2 to June 29. Citizens’ life during the

how to hand the memories of the air raids to

war and the horror of US air raids were dis-

the next generation.

played using collected photos and various

Tel＆ Fax:054-271-9004

models of goods used during the war that had

http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-heiwa/ind

been donated by citizens.

ex.html

Tel:072-270-8150

Fax:072-270-8159

http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/shisei/jinken/jinken/
heiwajinkenshiryokan/

Osaka International Peace Center:
Osaka CityThe 7th Exhibition of the Collection was held

Nara Prefectural Library and Information Center: Nara City

from Jan. 28 to April in 2014 and the 8th one
was held from April 29 to Aug. 31. Six grad-

An event on Patriotic One Hundred Poems by

ers who could not attend the graduation cere-

One Hundred Poets was held from Jan. 5 tomony because of the US air raids on Osaka had

March 27.

a graduation ceremony to commemorate the air

poems were selected by a patriotic association

raids on Osaka on March 13 in 2014. Thereof Japanese literature and published in No-

was also the second exchange meeting between

vember in 1942.

those who had an experience of war and thoseYoshie Sudou’s war experiences in Saipan was

who do not have it. Ms Miyako Kubo who isdisplayed from March 29 to June 26 in 2014.

the representative of the Association of Speak-

Exhibited were her memoirs, a town map ofing War Experiences of US Air Raids, Takako

Garapan City in Saipan, photographs from Ja-

Iga, the head of the Association of Injured Peo-

pan’s Southern Archipelago.

ple by US Air Raids on Osaka and Bereaved

Tel:0742-34-2111

Family, and Seiichi Okumura, the director ofthe

Associationon

NationalThis was the fourth time and theFax:0742-34-2777

http://www.library.pref.nara.jp/sentai/kikaku.ht

Elementaryml

Schools and Evacuated Children gave a speech
and there was discussion. A festival for parents and children was held on May 1, 2, 4 and 6

Himeji Historical Peace Center :Hyogo

and a film was shown.
Tel:06-6947-7208 Fax:06-6943-6080

An exhibition of the museum’s collection was

http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/
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Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims:
Hiroshima

held from Jan. 11 to March 30, 2014;the theme
was “The Manchurian Incident, the end of
WWⅡ, and the reconstruction of Himeji.” A

An exhibition on appeals from boys and girls

meeting was held to listen

in Hiroshima has been held from Jan. 1 toto the speech of Kendai Kuroda, whoDec. 28.

experienced US air raids on Himeji.

A book of the collection of atomic

bombed experiences by children was pub-

Spring Exhibition “Nursing activities inlished six years after the atomic bombing intime of war” was held from Apr. 12 to1945.

July 6, which displayed the activities ofThe book is introduced in the exhibi-tion and the misery of war and atomic bomb-

nurses under the severe conditions, theing is displayed as well as their wish forsituation of hospitals and nursing schools

peace.

in those days, the misery of the war, and theTel:082-543-6271

reform of nursing education by GHQ

Fax:082-543-6273

http://www.hiro-tsuitokinenkan.go.jp/

after the war, etc.
On May 5, there was a meeting where
Komada Maki, an actress, read records of US

Human Rights and Peace Museum
Fukuyama City: Hiroshima

air raids on Himeji.
On June 22, there also was a meeting for

An art exhibition on the Pacific War by chil-

listening to the air raids experience.

dren (from a book of paintings by Ms. Reiko(Lecturer: Taji Shin-ichi)
Tel: 079-291-2525

Okada) was made from June 6 to July 31. Ms.

Fax: 079-291-2526

Reiko Okada was born in Hiroshima in 1929

http://www/city.himeji.lg.jp/s50/heiwasiryo/_and was forced to work to produce weapons in

8293.html

Tadanoumi and toxic gas in Okunojima Island.
She was atomic bombed and helped victims.
She studied art at Kyoto City Art University

Okayama City Museum: Okayama

and became an art teacher at a secondary

The 37th Exhibition on Damage by WWII inschool. She published a book of paintings on

Okayama was held from June 19 to July 6 at
Okayama City Museum.

students who were forced to work to make tox-

Exhibited was how

ic gas in Okunojima island and so forth.

people in Okayama had prepared for US air

School life and how people were mobilized toraids, the situation of war damage and artifacts.

war system is described. Her talk was given

A lecture on national air defense system wasand a peace concert was held on June 22.

given by Prof. Hironari Tsuchida of Kobe Uni-

Tel: 084-924-6789

versity of Foreign Languages.

http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/soshiki/

Tel:086-898-3000 Fax:086-898-3003

jinkenheiwa/

http://www.city.okayama.jp/okayama-city-mus
eum/

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Fukuoka City Museum: Fukuoka

Tel:098-941-3515

An exhibition Called “War and Our Life: Chil-

http://www.tsushimamaru.or.jp/

Fax:098-863-3683

dren during War Time” was held from June 3
to July 27. An emphasis was put on children’slife during World War II such as school education, activities of Boy Scouts and so forth.

Naha City
Okinawa

MuseumofHistory:

Tel:092-845-5011 Fax:092-845-5019

An exhibit entitled “Okinawa under the

http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/

War-Time Regime—the Road towards theBattle of Okinawa” was held from May 31 toJuly

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial
Museum: Itoman City

2,

2014.

Using

artifacts

photographs from between theandSecondFrom June 2 to July 7 2014, the first children’s

Sino-Japanese war and the Battle of Okinawa,

exhibit was held. The title was “The Road tothe exhibit explores how Okinawan society
came under control of Japanese militarism.

the Battle of Okinawa, 70 Years Ago—What
happened back then?”

It focused mainly on the mobilization of theThis year, the exhibit

residents

introduced several incidents from the Battle ofof

war-time

OkinawabytheJapanese government in the period before the

Okinawa, such as the deployment of the Oki-

October 10, 1945 aerial bombing, and on the

nawan Guard, the Battle of Saipan, the evacu-

Battle of Okinawa.

ation of the school children from major cities,

Tel: 098-869-5266

the sinking of the Tsushima Maru (a passenger

Fax: 098-869-5267

http://www.rekishi-archive.city.naha.okinawa.

ship carrying hundreds of school children thatjp/

was sunk by a US submarine), and thelarge-scale aerial bombing of Okinawa on
October 10, 1944.
Tel:098-997-3844

Fax:098-997-3947

Uruma City Ishikawa Museum ofHistory: Okinawa

http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp/

From May 16 to June 29, 2014, an exhibitionof artifacts related to peace, called “Yoshuu
Kairaku—a man named Koushin Shikiya” wasTsushima-maru Memorial Museum:
Okinawa, Naha City

held.

The exhibit aims to explore what ismost important to building a peaceful world

A special exhibit was held on the second floor

through a consideration of the life of Koushin

exhibit room from June 1 to August31, 2014,

Shikiya, a native of Uruma City who wasfeaturing the memoir of a sailorwho saved

involved in Okinawan education in the

many of the refugees aboard

tumultuous pre- and post-war period, and also

the ship “Tsushima-maru,” a passenger

demonstrated his abilities during the era ofship that used to evacuate children.
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post-war recovery.

/publicfacility/06/paneruten.html

Tel＆Fax:098-965-3866
http://city.uruma.lg.jp/6/5141.html

Nago Museum: Okinawa
Kumejima Museum: Okinawa

From June 13 to 22, 2014, our museum hosted

From June 7 to 22, 2014, “Peace Exhibition

an exhibition called “The War in Nago and2014: Never Fight Another War-- Nuchido

Yanbaru: the October 10 Aerial Bombing” inTakara!

our gallery.

(Life is a treasure)” was held in the

On October 10, 1944, when

Special Exhibition Room and auditorium.

most people expected the fighting would be

Sixty-nine years after the war, the museum

far further south, the city suddenly fell victim

members feel that it is especially important toto aerial bombing by the American army.

mourn its victims, and pass on correct

Some of the Japanese battleship were attacked

historicalcivilianclose to Sesoku Island, near the Okinawan

massacres of the Battle of Okinawa and on

Motobu Peninsula by American bombers.

Kumejima Island to the next generation.

One of them entered Nago Bay in order toThis exhibition aimed to do this, and to

escape, but it was sunk near Miyasato

convey the preciousness of life and the

Ooiwamae,

importance of peace.

American airplanes flew over Nago city at low

teachings

Tel: 098-896-7181

about

the

Fax:098-896-7182

Nago

City.

In

response,

altitude, turned around over Nago Bay, andhttp://sizenbunka.ti-da.net/

attacked the city again and again.
Tel:0980-53-1342

Fax:0980-53-1362

http://www.city.nago.okinawa.jp/4/3282.html

Ginowan
Okinawa

Municipal

Museum:Miyakojima
Okinawa

In the Special Exhibit Room, we held a
photo

panel

display

called“Ikusayuunu

Municipal

Museum:Jinoon, the War Time of Ginowan City” toA special exhibit to celebrate Okinawan

commemorate Okinawa Memorial Day, a day

Memorial Day, called “Looking at warof mourning, from June 18 to July 13, 2014.

through artifacts,” was held from June 6 to 27,

The goal was not to condense the history of

2014.

the entire Battle of Okinawa in one exhibit,

five themes: post-war artifacts, the movement

but to explore themes of war and peace.

towards the pacific war, artifacts from theTel: 098-870-9317

Japanese army, daily life in wartime, andFax: 098-870-9316

http://www.city.ginowan.okinawa.jp/cityguideThis year, the exhibit was divided into

Miyakojina Seien, a national sanatorium,
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during the war.

87 pieces were exhibited,create a world where animals can live happily.

including water tanks, fuel tanks from themilitary aircraft that were manufactured in

We are now looking for more venues to host

Okinawa in place of the island’s traditional

the exhibit.

Sabani fishing boats, pots made of Duralumin,

・Number of pieces: 50-60
・Dimensions: ~250x300 mm

a type of aluminum alloy, and notices about

Exhibition Dates

the medical exam required for men who were“Precious Little Lives Lost in the Earthquake,

drafted.

Part 3 (Originals)”

Tel: 0980-73-0567

March to November 2015

http://www.city.miyakojima.lg.jp/soshiki/kyou“Precious Little Lives Lost in the Earthquake,iku/syougaigakusyu/hakubutsukan/Parts 1-2 (Reproductions)”
Available at any time
Requirements: fees to send pictures, fee forborrowing them, transportation fee to make an
exhibition (one person)
Tel: Usa (+81-090-3135-2008）“Precious Little Lives Lost in the
Earthquake” by Usa

email： hello@chiisanainochi.com
Website: www.chiisanainochi.com

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, humans

A book of “I became a part of the see:were not the only ones who lost their lives.

a story of small lives that disappeared

Many animals were killed, from dogs and catsin the East Japan Earthquake” wasto rabbits, hamsters, birds, and goldfish.

published by Usa. (Publisher: Kumon)

These animals were like family to the people
who owned them.
Little

Lives

Lost

2014

In the exhibit “Precious
intheEarthquake,”

illustrators and artists paint portraits of theanimal victims, in order to help these“precious lives” live on in some way.

The

portraits are displayed domestically andabroad, and afterwards are given to the ownersof the animals.
In Japan, animals can’t yet go to evacuation
centers like humans can.

People who

understand the value of these animals’ lives
realize that they are part of the same precious
family as humans, even if their outward
appearance is different.

I believe that we

can’t make a truly peaceful society if we don’t
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About the Cabinet Decision to Allow
Japan to Exercise the Right to Collective Self-Defense

An Appeal to Support t
he 8th INMP Conference
Ikuro Anzai (INMP Board Member()
The 8 INMP Conference will be held at No

A Statement by the Director and the Honorary
Director of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan Universityth

Gun Ri Memorial on Sep. 19-22 and there will
be many Japanese participants. It is necessary
to help those who cannot communicate in Eng-On July 2, 2014, the Abe Administration

lish. I would like to appeal for donation formade a decision to change the government’s

translation, hiring interpreters, sending students

interpretation of the Constitution of Japan thatfrom developing countries, publishing a booklet

may pave the way to allow Japan to exercise

on abstracts of papers and so forth.

the right to collective self-defense.

Pleasedonate some money by October 31.

The decision is intended to provide a newinterpretation of the Constitution that allows theuse of the minimum necessary force for precluding a clear danger of imminent infringement of life, freedom, and the right to the pursuit of happiness of the Japanese people in asituation where a country in close relationshipwith Japan is attacked and no other appropriate
means of defense are available.
In spite of sophisticated written limitations,the decision does not exclude the danger of anarbitrary interpretation by the Cabinet. Since its

A letter by Prof. Anzai

promulgation, this is nothing short of a basic
change of governmental interpretation of theConstitution concerning collective self-defense.
The decision may open a way for the use of
military force by the Self-Defense Force forconflict resolution, which is obviously contradictory to the spirit of Paragraph 1 of Article 9of the Constitution of Japan which forever renounces war as a sovereign right of the nationand the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
The Kyoto Museum for World Peace of16

Ritsumeikan University has a permanent exhi-

peace and prosperity of the international com-bition of materials related to the Constitution ofmunity based firmly on the principle of paci-

Japan and a wing that introduces The Hague

fism as appears in the Japanese Constitution.

Appeals for Peace of 1999 that referred to theimportance of Article 9 in the Japanese Consti-

Monte Cassim (Director, Kyoto Museum fortution.

World Peace, Ritsumeikan University)

Article 9 of the Constitution declares “sin-Ikuro Anzai (Honorary Director, Kyoto Muse-

cere aspiration to an international peace based

um for World Peace, Ritsmeikan University)

on justice and order”. We believe that this ideaof Article 9 is the crystallization of longtime

30 July 2014

endeavors by numerous individuals in modern※Note: The word “active pacifism” wasinternationally used as an English
equivalent for Prime Minister Abe’s
Japanese words “Sekkyokuteki Heiwashugi”. However, Abe himself later
expressed Japan’s role in his English
speech at the Hudson Institute as being a“proactive contributor to peace”.

history to illegalize war. Prime Minister Abe
prefers to use the word “active pacifism,” but itis well-known in contemporary Peace and Conflict Studies that the word “active peace” or“positive peace” has been used as a concept tomean active efforts to get rid of violence suchas social discrimination, poverty, suppressionof human rights, etc., in addition to “negative※Note: Some INMP board members sentme encouraging messages from Norway,
Italy, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and theUnited States.

peace” for eliminating armed conflicts. It isstrongly expected that Japan, as a democraticnation that constitutionally secures freedom ofspeech, should make utmost efforts to disseminate the ideals of its Constitution for developing a just and sustainable international commu-

New Books for Peacenity and for realizing “active (positive) peace”
in the truest sense of these words.
We firmly believe that Japan can occupy an

Seven new books written in Japanese were in-honored place in international society by striv-

troduced including books by Nobuo Nakano,ing for the abolition of direct, structural andAkihiko Kimijima and Ikuro Anzai, which were

cultural violence from the world, and by de-omitted here in English newsletter.

veloping friendly relations with neighboring
countries based on the idea of the abandonmentof the right of belligerency of the state.
Therefore, we strongly demand that the current Japanese Government contribute to the17Editor’s Notes
We express our deep gratitude to Ms.
Yoshiko Tanigawa, Ms. Atsuko Takeda,
Ms. Tanya S. Maus, Ms. Kyoko Terazawa
and Ms. Mairead Hynes for translating
many articles into English.
Editors are sorry about the delay of issuingthis English version of JCNMP Newsletter
No.30. Kazuyo Yamane (INMP Executive
Board Member) and Ikuro Anzai (INMP Advisory Committee Member) have been concurrently taking care of the Japanese version of the
INMP Newsletter No.9, and are going to takecare of the INMP Newsletter from 2015. It is
not so easy for the editors of “MUSE” to takecare of complete translation of Japanese version
of “MUSE” in a timely manner with limited
number of volunteers, and we are now reconsidering our principle of English translation ofJapanese “MUSE”. We have tried to translate
almost all information about the activities regarding peace including those of local folk
museums and libraries, and we know that suchinformation will be of worth as historical records. But, at the same time, we have beenaware that such detailed information about unfamiliar Japanese local social facilities is notalways necessary and has not been read bymany foreign people. Therefore, we are goingto slim the English version by shortening orsummarizing the description about the activities
of Japanese local facilities from next issue. We
hope the readers of English “MUSE” will understand the situation.

(A)

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