Muse no.8
Japanese Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter： December, 2002
The Editorial Office: Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University56-1 Kita-machi, Toji-in, Kita-ku, Kyoto City 603-8577 Japan
Director: Ikuro Anzai.

Curator: Masahiko Yamabe

Editor: Kazuyo Yamane.

Ilustrator: Erico Tosaki

Tel: +81-075-465-8151. Fax: +81-075-465-7899.
The 9th Conference of Association of

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

 Current

Japanese Museums for Peaceethnicconflicts

andterrorists’attacks can not be analyzed
just as the conflicts among nations.

The

9th

Conference

was

held

at

 It is important to deal with peace

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenshipissues through various events, special

on October 17th and 18th. The content ofexhibitions and homepages respecting

the discussion is as follows:

originality of each peace museum.

1. How to deal with peace issues atpeace museums
 It is not enough to pass down themisery of war to posterity and makevisitors think of the importance ofpeace.
 Human rights, starvation, poverty
and environmental issues should also
be considered as violence that hinders
human

sense

of

fulfillment

and

2. What to do with school children

self-worth.
 Positive peace should be consideredChildren used to go to school on Saturday,

rather than negative peace that isbut they don’t have to nowadays.

simply the absence of war.

to spend Saturday became important.

1

How

Comprehensive

study

has

such as English, Chinese and Hangul

beenintroduced at school and children areshould be promoted.

encouraged to study not passively but

and computers should be used more.

actively and comprehensively.

The

proposalAudio-visual aids

provides

other

peace

museums with useful information.
It is important to pass down war
experiences to posterity, and exhibitions

Other common issues were also discussed.

for

The

childrenseriously.

shouldbeconsidered

numberofpeoplewho

haveexperiences of war and evacuation is

Cooperation with teachers

who take their pupils to peace museums

decreasing.

is necessary.

experiences to the next generation should

community

Peace education at ashouldbe

How to convey such war

be considered.

promoted

How to collect materials,

cooperating with schools, the board of

how to promote high quality peaceeducation and administrative organs.

education and how to run a peacemuseum are getting difficult because

Education

expenses have been reduced by the local

Program in Nagasaki was made by thegovernments. It is hard to hire curators

study committee of Nagasaki City andand their position is unstable such as awas introduced by Nagasaki Atomic

part-timer.

The

Proposal

of

Peace

Bomb Museum at the conference.

In theproposal it is emphasized to promote

A website that connects nine big peace

peace education not only at school but

museums was made by Kyoto Museum

also at home and community.

for World Peace.

Learners

are asked to study peace, environment,

willhuman rights and so forth not passively

Memorial Museum.

but actively.

a symposium will be held with citizens’

Not only children but also

be

held

The next conferenceat

HiroshimaPeace

It was decided thatparticipation.

adults need to study and make efforts tocreate non-violent society. The methods

Saitama Peace Museumof peace education should be considered
more:

not

only

lectures

but

also

discussions, field work, workshops are

An exhibition of “
War without Weapons:

importantsocanInformation and Propaganda for a Plot”

participate

in

actively.

was held from July 23rd to September 1st.

thatlearners

studying

Nursery should be made so that peopleAnraising their children may be able to

Exhibited were handbills from Japanesestudy.

Air Force and U.S. Air Force during

Education of foreign languages

2

illustrated

book

was

published.

World War II as well as advertisement in

On August 15th a woman who was innewspaper and magazines.

There was a

Hiroshima when she was a student

lecture called “
The US Information War:

talked about her experiences of the

Office of War Information and Handbills

atomic bomb and her thought toward herin World War II”on August 11th.

classmates who had been killed.

There was an exhibition of “Children’s

A film on Sadako and folded cranes wasPlay and Life: Toys during and after theshown on August 24th.

War”from October 22 to December 1.

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Exhibited are toys as well as historical

http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/osirase/plazmaterials that show life during the war.

a

Meetings with persons who experienced

Kyoto Museum for World Peace

war were held.

A nurse attached to thearmy talked about her experiences on

There was a photo exhibition fromJuly

September 27th to October 20th.

13th

and

a

man

talkedhis

Theexperiences of labor service on November

photos had been accepted at the contest

9th.

of Photo Foundation for World Report.

Peoplevisited

Septemberwar-related

29th: thesitesChildren’s paintings were exhibited fromon

November 1st to December 1st.

site of Sakato

Airfield of the former army.

They hadbeen drawn by children in Maizuru City
in Kyoto during World War II.

Films were shown every month from
April to November.

An exhibition called “
One Hundred Year

Tel: 0493-35-4111. Fax: 0493-35-4112

Folly”has been held on Kusatsu campus

Http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~pms

ofRitsumeikan

University

fromNovember 21st to December 20th.

There

Kanagawa Plaza forare one hundred photos that show follies

Global Citizenship: Kanagawa

that human beings have being destroying
the earth and themselves.

An exhibition called “
Sadako and Folded
Cranes: Messages beyond Time”was held

As the 10th anniversary of the opening offrom August 1st to September 1st.

About

Kyoto Museum for World Peace, World

100 materials related to Sadako Sasaki

Students’Forum was held on November

and her folded cranes were exhibited.

1st and 2nd.

3

The theme was “
Creating

Peace and the Youth Task in the 21st

102 photos

Century”. Professor Cynthia Cockburnphotographers such as Koji Ito, Hirotoof City University, London gave a lecture

Kiryu,

on the role of gender and feminism in

Motohashi, Ittetsu Morishita, and Taku

conflict resolution and building peace.

Morizumi.

taken

Hiromitsu

bysixJapanese

Toyosaki,SeiichiSix sectional meetings were held:
Anti-Nuclear Poster exhibition has been
1. How to pass down war experiences toheld since September 24th and it will be

posterity

held until December 22nd.

There areabout 170 graphics by graphic designers
2. Environmental

issues,sustainablefrom Japan, Germany, Turkey, Finland,development, peace and security

Russia and so forth.

About 150 French

protested against French nuclear test in
3. Searching for the possibility of NGOs’
activities

the Pacific Ocean in 1995 showing 150
anti-nuclear
designers.

4. Gender and peace building

posters

byJapanese

A Japanese designer asked

other designers to make a poster using
fax and posters were made and collected

5. Globalization

within a week!

Such a protest using a

poster continued against nuclear tests by
6. Peace movement in Asia

China, India, Pakistan, the USA, andRussia.

About 200 students attended it from
Ritsumeikan

University,

Non-Japanese graphic artists

also made anti-nuclear posters.

sisteruniversities of Ritsumeikan University,

Seminars for Peace in the 21st Century

Hokkaido University, Kobe University

were

and so forth.

Professor

held

from

June

to

October.

Akira

Usuki

of

National

Ethnology Museum gave a lecture on
Osaka International Peace Center: Osaka

Palestinian issue on June 22nd.

Mr.

Seiichi Motohashi, a photographer and a
Two photo exhibitions were held fromfilm director, gave a lecture on nuclear

June to September.

issues on September 8th.

One is “Palestinian

Mr. Kinhide

Refugees and Today” by the United

Mushakoji, former vice President of U.N.

Nations and the other is “Hibakusha

University and the director of Osaka(victims of radiation sickness) in theInternational

World”. The latter photo exhibition had

lecture on human security on October

4

Peace

Center,gavea26th.

educatingchildrenataprivatePeace Flag Class was held by Ms. Keikoelementary

schoolin

theworld.

Fukui, a flag designer, on July 24th.

Children learn about the world moreChildren dyed their flags as they liked

when they become literate.

and enjoyed letting the flags flutter in thewind under the sun on August 3rd.
was

hoped

that

children felt

It

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theircoexistence with nature such as trees

Peace Memorial: Suita City of Osakathat moves in the wind and flying birds inthe sky.

The Flag Exhibition was held

There was an exhibition on Cambodian

from August 13th to 24th.

children from August 20th to September
1st.

Peace films were shown from August 1st
to 3rd.

This was a photo exhibition by

Mainichi Newspaper.

Peace Concert was held on

August 4th and citizens enjoyed singing

A peace film is shown every month.

songs.

example, shown was a film on Japanese

On August 10th Professor Kiichi

wereFujihara gave a lecture of “
The Meaning

whoof Remembering War”.

North-eastern part of China), during the
war.

sent

to

Manchuria,

For
the

An anti-war film of “
Im Westen

War and Journalism was published as

Nichts Neues”by Erich Maria Remarquethe record of lectures of Introduction towill be shown in January, 2003.

Peace Studies.

and cruelty of war is depicted through a(Newsletter of “Peace Osaka” No. 28

German soldier in World War I.

published on September 20th, 2002)

Tel: 06-6387-2593

Folly

Tel: 06-6947-7208 Fax: 06-6943-6080
http://www.mydome.or.jp/peace

Himeji Peace Museum: Hyogo

Peace and Human Rights Museum: Sakai“
Anti-Nuclear Exhibition: Searching forCity of Osaka

Peaceful Society”was held from July 20thtoSeptember

1st.

Exhibited

were

There was an exhibition on activities tomaterials related to the atomic bomb,

protect world heritages (such as the

pictures of the atomic bomb drawn by

Atomic Dome in Hiroshima and Machu

citizens in Hiroshima, photo posters on

Picchu in Peru) designated by UNESCO

thefrom November 24th to December 1st.

calligraphy by secondary school children

Thereof Himeji City. Peace Concert was held

was

also

an

exhibitionon5

atomicbomb,

paintings

andby Parunasosu Choir and the Himeji

1st)Children’Choir on August 4th.

Ms.

Tel: 082-241-4004 Fax: 082-542-7941

Yoshimiher

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite

Shuto

talkedabout

experiences of the atomic bomb on August/hpcf@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

18th.
News before and after World War II has

Takamatsu Civic Culture Center Peace

been shown in a film from October 6th andMemorial Museum: Kagawa

it will be shown until December 23rd.
Social conditions and control of speech in

Articles left by the deceased in theJapan are possible to know throughair-raids on Takamatsu City of Kagawa

photographs and films.

Prefecture were exhibited at Takamatsu

There was a

picture-story show called “
In Hiroshima”

City Hall from August 5th to 9th.

and Ms. Asa Mihara, an actress, read

before the air-raids was exhibited as wellstories aloud on November 3rd.

as photos of the air-raids.

A photoShunsuke Souda, the former employee ofexhibition of the

air-raids

and

the

Himeji Peace Museum, talked about theatomic-bombs

also

held

by

air-raids on Himeji City on November

Association of Citizens’Groups for Peace

23rd.

in Takamatsu City.

Mr.

was

A map

Tel: 0792-91-2525 Fax: 0792-91-2526
Articles kept by the museum were
exhibited

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

atKawashima Community

Center from August 21st to 26th.

Some

Newly donated materials have beenmaterials had been donated by citizens

exhibited since May 23rd and it will last

who used to live near the center.

for one year.

55 materials out of 67 thatwere donated by citizens have been

Peace Film festival commemorating theexhibited.

Japanese Constitution was held on May
25th.

Mr. Toshio Kubo, the president ofMaterials of peace activists have been

the Association of the Atomic Bombcollected, classified, and kept as data

Victims in Kagawa Prefecture, talked

base.

Materials of Ichiro Kawamoto, an

about his experiences in Hiroshima.

atomic bomb victim, were kept and a list

Two films for peace and love were shown.

of 3200 materials was made.
(Peace Culture No. 145 published on July

A peace play was put on July 21st and the

1st and No. 146 published on September

theme was the air-raids on Takamatsu on

6July 4th of 1945.
theThe play was put on by

theatricalcompany

Tokyo Document Centre on Air Raids andcalledWar Damages

Magudarehna.
(Newsletter No. 7 published in July)

Biannual

Tel: 087-833-7722.

published in July.

Fax: 087-861-7981

newsletter

began

to

be

It has news on the

http://www.city.takamatu.kagawa.jp/kyou

opening

iku/bunkabu/sbsenter/heiwa.htm.

Symposium commemorating the opening

ceremony

on

March

9th.

was held on March 9th under the title ofNagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum“
ThinkingofAir-raidson

Cities”.

Emeritus Professor Nobuichi Arai of
Paintings drawn by the victims of the

Ibaragi University gave a lecture on theatomic bomb have been exhibited since

history and the present situation of

October and it will last until January,

air-raids in Libya and Afghanistan.

2003.

Citizens of Nagasaki City had

been asked to draw pictures so that their

A list of materials that are exhibited iswishes for peace will be passed down to

introduced in the newsletter.

other people.

Society was created and its newsletter

Tel: 095-844-1231 Fax: 095-846-5170

will be published.

Friends

Students of secondary

schools visited the museum from other
Okinawa Prefecture

Peace

prefectures such as Iwate, Aichi, Kyoto

Memorialand so forth.

Museum: Okinawa

Foreigners also visited

including journalists.
“
Children’s Culture

under

the

U.S.

Occupation from 1945 to 1949” wasThere was an anniversary of Peace

exhibited from October 10th to November

Statue for Children of the World on May

24th.

5th, which is Children’s Day in Japan.

About

500

childrenbooks,A

magazines and newspaper were exhibited

15 year-old girl named Shirakami said

and books for children collected by Hisayothat the peace statue that appeals to

Murakami kept at the University ofpeople for peace is really necessary

MarylandAn

referring to Emergency Defense bill that

illustrated book on the exhibition was

Japanese ruling parties have been trying

published.

to pass.

werefocusedon.

Tel: 098-997-3844 Fax: 098-997-3947
webmaster@peace-museum.pref.okinawa

Fax: 03-5683-3326.jp

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/seikeiken/peace2/I
ndex2.html

7among people who grow the roses.

The 5th Lucky Dragon Display House:
Tokyo

Korean Museum: Tokyo
Mr. Matashichi Ohishi, a victim of thehydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in

A book of History of Exchanges ofMarshalltoJapanese and Koreans by Citizens was

He met some victims

published by Akashi Shoten Publisher.

there and found that people had been

It was written by the members of Koreansuffering from birth of deformed children,

Museumcancer and the thyroid gland problem.

students will be able to understand the

He found some similarities between

history according to the newsletter No. 3

Japanese victims and Marshall Islanders.

dated July 1st.

Islands

Marshall Islands.

in 1954,

went

so

that

even

high

schoolThe characteristics isthat readers feel as if they visited theThere are nine members at the museum

museum and there is not only history of

who work as a volunteer.

Five of themJapan and Korea but also history ofplay a role of guides when visitors comeKoreans who were forced to work inand four of them collect materials andJapan during World War II and live in

put them in order.

Japan.

Most of them are

retired teachers and they are happy toknow that children are impressed to see a

Ms. Tomiko Sou, the director of thereal fishing boat, that was exposed tomuseum, put on a play of “
The History ofradiation at the hydrogen bomb test ina Korean in Japan for three generations:

1954,

A Miracle is Created in Love”on August

andlearn real

history

there

according to Fukuryumaru newsletter No.

10th.

288 dated May 20.

on Koreans living in Japan from August

There was also a photo exhibition

10th to October 10th.

They show the life

Association of Spreading Roses of Aikichi

of Koreans such as forced labor during

andAikichithe war, a woman who were forced to

Kuboyama is the victim of the U.S.

work as a sex slave, Koreans of thehydrogen bomb test at the Marshallsecond generation living in Osaka and so

Islands in 1954 and passed away.

forth.

Suzu

wasfounded.

His

wife, Suzu, grew roses that Aikichi loved.

http://www.40net.jp/~kourai/

Young plants of roses are available at thekourai@40net.jp

price of 10,000 yen as follows:

Tel& fax: 03-5272-3510

03-3475-0668.

Fax:

Newsletter will be sent

twice a year and there will be exchanges

8Tokyo

Holocaust

Education Resource

Association of Correcting Mourning forCenterthe War Dead was inaugurated (theycriticize people who mourn for the deadA photo exhibition of “Hana’s Suitcase”

glorifying the war) and the members will

was

to

try to search for remains of the dead,A girl named Hana wascollect them, think how to bury them andkilled at German concentration camp inthink human rights of the dead according

Czechoslovakia when she was 13.

to the newsletter No. 37.

exhibited

September 28th.

from

July

30th

57

years later his brother went to Japan and
met Japanese children.

In June a trip to China was organized byHana’s Suitcase- A True Story was

Mr. Katsushi Chiba, the director of thewritten by Karen Levine (Second Story

museum.

Press: Canada)

participated in it and visited school

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/holocause/tokyo

whose construction fund was donated byholocaust@tokyo.email.ne.jp

Mr. Chiba.

Twenty-five

They were very welcome by241 children.
Pacific War History Museum: Iwate

peopleThey also visited Museumon 731 Unit and Museum on 9.18
Incident (the Manchurian Incident on

Mr. Takaharu Kanzaki of Shimoda City,

September 18 in 1931) that was built in

Shizuoka Prefecture, visited New Guinea

1991.

to gather Japanese soldiers’remains in

Fax: 0197-52-4575

March.

His father was sent there and
Shizuoka Peace Center

died there during World War II. The trip
was realized after showing the Japanese
government the video on the remains left

The number of visitors is 3547 in 2001

in New Guinea.

The members of theand the number of the members is 239.

museum have more trust among the666 materials were borrowed especiallypeopleby elementary school teachers.

in

New

Guinea

than

the

The

government, and they suggested that the

number of women groups that used the

NGO members negotiate with people ofmaterials increased after the 9-11 event

New Guinea in dealing with the remains

in New York.

according to its newsletter No. 36.

to have a peace museum so that they will

The members would likehave more space for visitors.
It is said that 2.4 million Japanesesoldiers died abroad and the remains ofAn animation called “Ecchan no Sensou”

1.15 million soldiers are still abroad.

(War seen by Ecchan, a girl) was shown9

on February 23.

It was made by Etsuko

that the investigation, recording andKishikawa so that there would never bedisseminating facts of war will lead to

war any more.

preventing another war.

Mr. Nobuhiro

Tajima of Yuki no Shita Peace Culture
Mr.

Kazuo

Kato,

the

head

of theMuseum talked how the museum was

Association for Making Shizuoka Peace

opened according to the newsletter No.

Museum, met Mr. Motoyasu Oda, the127.

head of Board of Education in Shizuoka
City on July 2nd and asked him to expand

The exhibition on Unit 731 was held at

Shizuoka Peace Center.

Fukui Prefecture Hall on August 18-19th.
Materials of the experiment on human

A book fair is planed in fall and citizens

bodies by Japanese army are kept by

are asked to donate used books, which is

Chinese Archive and they were shown ina good idea!

Japan for the first time.

Shizuoka-heiwa@nifty.com

photos and secret documents on Chinese,

Exhibits were

Russians and Koreans who were arrested
Yuki no Shita Peace Culture Museum:and sent to the 731 Unit.

Fukui

was organized as the 30th anniversary ofrecoveringtheThe exhibition

diplomatic

The National Conference of Association of

between Japan and China.

Recording Air Raids and War Damages

yukisita@kore.mitene.or.jp

relations

was held on July 27-28th at Fukui
Prefecture Hall.

Children Center for Peace & Human

About 200 people got

together and exchanged their activities

Rights: Sakai City of Osakafor peace. Mr. Masayasu Nishihashi,
former announcer of Fukui broadcasting

Mrs. Kazuko Yoshioka gave a lecture on

stationHousoupeace and human rights over 200 times

Kyoukai:Japan Broadcasting Association).

and her life was written in a book of The

He made a report on war experiences by

20th Century of a Japanese Girl Living in

U.S. air-raids on Fukui City on radio for

Manchuria

48 times in series in 1971.

of Grassroots No. 18. (Published in

of

NHK

(Nihonaccording to its newsletter

Japanese by Kaihou Shuppan-sha) She
He

said,

“
Voicesofpeoplewho

was born in Korea that had been ruled by

war

are

powerfulinJapan and moved to Manchuria whereconvincing people of the absurdity of war

she was educated for militarism. Afterby means of truth.” He also mentioned

the war she became a teacher andexperienced

10

promoted education for peace and human

There was a rally to protest againstrights.

emergency defense bill on April 19th heldin Tokyo.

Seamen union members

After she retired, she started Children

attended it because they didn’t want to beCenter for Peace & Human Rights andsent to war again.

lend school textbooks in Japan and other
Asian countries that describe Japan’s

Open: 10:00~17:00 from Mon to Friday

aggression.

c/oZennihon

Chiho-shibu
Tel: 072-229-4736. Fax: 072-227-1453

Kaiin
2F,

Kumiai3-1-6

Kansai

Kaigan-dori,

Chuou-ku, Kobe City 650-0024
Tel: 078-331-7541 Fax: 078-331-8578

Museum of Sunken Ship and Seamen:
Kobe

Grassroots House: Kochi

The museum was opened on August 15th

A workshop for peace in East Asia wasin 2000 at a hall of Japan Seamen Union

held at Jeju Island in South Korea inin Kobe City.

August.

The purpose is to keep

About 100 young people got

materials on sunken ship and seamen

together from Japan and Korea andduring World War II.

exchanged opinions for creating peace

photographsofA collection of

sunkenship

and solidarity in East Asia.

wasPeople in

In its newsletter No.

Jeju Island were forced to work at an

3 dated May 10th, there is an article on a

airport that had been built to invade

ship called Chikuzen-maru that met with

China even on August 15, 1945 whena disaster during the war.

Japan surrendered.

published in 2001.

Naoto

The Korean people

Okamoto wrote his experiences in theresisted against U.S. occupation and theship that was sunken by a torpedo on thedivision of Korea on April 3rd, 1948.

way to Japan from China, but managed

30,000 to 80,000 Koreans were massacredto survive.

by the U.S. military. The young people
learned such history and how to create

On March 14th, there was a lecture on

peace in East Asia.

Chinese people who were forced to go to

Yeong Hwan, a Korean researcher at

Japan and work there.

Chinese seamen

Grassroots House, young people andwho had been working in a Dutch ship

Koreans get together and discuss variousthat was captured by Japan were forced

issues.

Thanks to Kim

to work in Japan.
On 27th August a Japanese court rejected11

claims for apology and compensation

A movie called “Riben Guizi (Japanese

brought by 180 Chinese people who claim

Devils): Confessions of Imperial Army

they

Soldiers

were victims of Japan’s germwarfare in China in the 1940s.

The

from

Japan’s War

AgainstChina” was shown on 18th September.

court ruled that all claims were settled in

About 370 people watched the film.

bilateral peace treaties signed after thewar, and individuals had no right to seek

Bio-music Concert was held on Octobercompensation

6th and a Peace Concert was held on

from

a

state

under

international law. But it was the first

November 10th.

time a Japanese court admitted thatJapan conducted germ warfare during

A

World War II.

Children of the Gulf War by Taku

Three members of GRH

went to Tokyo to support the Chinese.

collectionofphotographs

calledMorizumi was sent to peace museums
overseas by citizens’
donation.

There is an article of “Germ Warfare (ATokyo court’s ruling confirms what many

GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp

suspected – that Japan attacked China

http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nis

withhimori/ (Muse is available here)

biologicalweapons

includingplague-infested fleas during World War II.
Will both nations finally face the truth?”German Museum：Tokushima

in Time (September 11, 2002)
According to Ruhe: the newsletter dated
There was a rally where two former

on September 30th, there was a concert,

Japanese soldiers talked about theirand music by Beethoven was played on

experiences in China on 31st August.

May 26th.

Both men were in their eighties andMarugame Concentration Camp where

decided to talk about cruel things that

German prisoners of war lived in World

they had done in China such as robbing

War I.

food, killing the Chinese, raping Chinese

28th and a German orchestra participatedwomen and so forth because they felt thatin it.

it was their responsibility to inform

invited and many citizens enjoyed his

younger generation of the past so that

performance. A peace concert was heldsame mistakes will never be repeated.

on August 1st and National German

They are afraid that the present situation

Speech Contest was held on September

is similar to the one in the 1930s in

7th.

Japan.

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12

The music had been played atGerman festival was held on July
A German street performer wasHiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall

will be held to discuss such issues in thefor the Atomic Bomb Victims

future.

Accordingtotheflier,“
Hiroshima

There was a meeting commemorating Mr.

National Peace Memorial hall for the

Takaju Aoki who was the head of

Atomic Bomb Victims is an effort by the

Association of Preserving the Imperial

Japaneseto

Headquarters in Matsushiro on June 23rd.

remember and mourn the sacred sacrifice

He wrote a book of Matsushiro Daihon-eiof the atomic bomb victims.

(The

national

government

It is also an

expression of Japan’s desire for genuine
and lasting peace.

Imperial

Headquartersin

Matsushiro) in Japanese in 1997.

This hall is designed

to convey the tragic disasters to people

An animation of “Kim’s Cross”was shownaround the world and ensure that futureon July 28th.

generations

thewere forced to work to make an air-raid

experience.” Victims and their family

shelter during World War II according toare asked to donate a photo of the victims

its newsletter.

so that they will be exhibited.

http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~kibonoie

will

learn

from

It is about Koreans who

kibonoie@mb.infoweb.ne.jp
1-6 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
City 731-0811

Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum:Tel: 082-543-6271 Fax: 082-543-6273

Nagasaki

http://www.hiro-tsuitokinenkan.go.jp/
A representative of Chinese people who(With thanks to Kentaro Kojima)

were forced to go to Japan and work there
Peace Museum Project in Matsushiro,

during World War II, and bereaved

Naganofamilies went to Nagasaki from July 25th
to 30th.

They were forced to work for

There was a meeting between National

Mitsubishi

Network of Preserving War-Related Sites

denies the fact that the Chinese people

and the Culture Agency on July 1st inwere forced to work.

Tokyo.

refused to offer materials related to theWar-related sites had been

Company,but

Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi also

investigated by the Culture Agency and it

forced labor during the war.

was requested by the national network

Chinese victims criticized Mitsubishi

that important war sites in Matsushiro,

severely and demanded that the company

Nagano and in Hiyoshidai, Kanagawa be

apologize to 40,000 Chinese for theinvestigated in details.

damages and compensate them for what

The meeting

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The

they had lost during the war.

Nagasaki: Peace Exhibition" from 6 to 9

(Nishisaka Newsletter No. 31 & 32)

August 2002 in Nagpur, India. The

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

purpose of the peace Exhibition is toreach maximum people of Central parts

Film Center for Peace (Provisional)of India to create solidarity and public
education and awareness towards

A preparatory committee for founding a

immediate and long range effects ofFilm Center for Peace (provisional) was

Atomic Weapons.

made in order to search for war causes
and realize peace in Okinawa.

Mr. Jin

The immediate goal is to create public

Takaiwa who made such films as “Waropinion (consensus) for pressuring ourthat was not taught at School: War in thegovernment to sign the CTBT and long

Philippines”,“
War that was not taught at

range is destruction of atomic weapons,

School: Shoukou Awagon in Okinawa”

which are in stockpile.

and so forth.

He has many precious

materials and made valuable films, andIndia and Pakistan are almost on theis planning to make a center whereverge of nuclear war. Attention has to bepeople can learn non-violence and peace.

concentrated on how to defuse the

As for details, please ask Mr. Ken Shibata.

situation. The wrong steps or(Tel & Fax: 044-986-4645)

misunderstanding can blow up

films,

pleasecontact

As for the

Eizou

Bunka

everything into smithereens. More than

Kyoukai (Fax: 045-981-0918）

one billion people in the two countries are
sitting on the precipice of destruction.
India and Pakistan must immediately
come to an understanding on how toInternational News

avert the collision.
NO MORE HIROSHIMA; NO MORENAGASAKI; PEACE EXHIBITION

Indian people are not aware of the

In Nagpur, Ｉｎｄｉａ

immediate and long range effects of

By Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey

nuclear bombs. Nuclear weapons forthem are like the conventional bombs.

To commemorate the bombing ofThrough Peace Exhibition we have to

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Indian Instituteeducate the people that the Nuclear

for Peace, Disarmament &Weapons increases security assumption

Environmental Protection has arrangedis wrong. Environmental and healththe "No More Hiroshima: No Moreimpacts of nuclear test are well known.

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A number of poor people who joined innuclear capabilities and weapons of

the euphoric over the tests were notmass destruction but from the economic

aware of the harmful effects of nuclear

growth. India is a poor country and there

weapons.

are other priorities where the money
could be utilized. We need money fordevelopment.

In the name of security, if India andPakistan carry out the Nuclear Weapons
tests, same program in other countries

Most Indians do not know what happened

may follow suit and mad race for Nuclear

in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what are

Weapons will start in Asia and it will

the immediate and long range effects ofengulf whole world.

Nuclear Weapons.

Campaign will haveto be launched in India to educate the
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND

people about immediate and long range

AWARENESS CAMPAIGN:

effects of nuclear bombs.

Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament

Indian Prime Minister, Foreign Minister& Environmental protection has

and other dignitaries said to Japanesearranged "No More Hiroshima: No More

Prime Minister and other Western

Nagasaki: Peace Exhibition" in Nagpur

political leaders and public that theyand many other cities. We have received

have to build the public consensus forthe tremendous response from people

CTBT . Through Peace Exhibitions weand especially from students and youths.

can build the public consensus.

They wrote their remarks which are eye
OBJECTIVITIES

opener for the policy makers. Those who
witnessed the peace exhibition, after

1) Educate the people regarding

seeing the effects of Nuclear bombing on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki came to theimmediate and long range effects offirm conclusion that the nuclear bombs

Nuclear Weapons

are inhuman weapons and it must be2) Improving public education andbanned from the earth. The students

awareness for CTBT and Nuclear

who witness the exhibition, next day

Weapons free World.
3) Cooperation between the committed

bring their parents to see the peace

NGOs and people.

exhibition.

4) Promoting strategies for media
People have to be informed andaccess, information on effects ofeducated that power does not come from

Atomic bombs.

155) Providing links between State

He became politically active when a

Coordinator and NGOs with

progressive high school textbook he wrote

National Coordinator and IIPDEP

was rejected by the textbook

6) Strengthening the network, whichauthorization council of the Ministry ofwill be formed by arranging Peace

Education in 1953.

Exhibitions in state capitals and big

contained descriptions of Japan’s war

cities.

crimes during World War II.

7) Build public opinion which will

The textbook
He wasasked to delete a reference to theultimately build political will to sign

Japanese “aggression”in China andthe CTBT

instead use “
military advance.” About

8) Exchange of information.

the 1937 Nanjing massacre in China, theministry argued that Ienaga’s accounts

International Peace Research Association

would cause misunderstanding andordered him to revise them.

The IPRA biennial conference was heldfrom July 1st to 5th at Kyung Hee

He filed the first of three suits in 1965

University in Suwon, South Korea.

arguing that textbook screening was

About 300 researchers participated in it.

unconstitutional because it violates the

There is Peace Education Commission

freedom of expression and education.

and peace education was discussed by

He was finally awarded damages in 1997

various researchers.

after a 32-year legal battle.

Cooperation with the IPRA would lead to

Ienaga filed a suit in 1984 over thepromoting peace research and peacedeletion of a description in his history

education at peace museums.

textbook about the Japanese Imperial

http://www.human.mie-u.ac.jp/~peace/ab

Army’s notorious Biological Warfare Unit

out-ipra.htm

731, which conducted experiments on live
prisoners in northeastern China during
the war.

The ministry had insisted that

Progressive Historian Ienaga Passed

no credible scholarly research existed on

Away

the subject.

Saburo Ienaga, a historian known for his

In 1997 Ienaga earned a partial victory

legal battles against government

when the Supreme Court ruled that it

screening of history textbooks, passed

was illegal for the textbook screeners toaway on November 29th.

He was 89.

16urge Ienaga to delete the description

Publications

about Unit 731.
Voices Against Woman in War Network
The state was ordered to pay him

Japan. The Women’s International War¥400,000 ($3,300) in damages.

Crimes Tribunal: Judgment: 4 December

But theSupreme Court ruled the2001.

textbook-screening system itself was

Tel & Fax: +81-3-5337-4088

constitutional rejecting Ienaga’s

Vaww-net-japan@jca.apc.org

Contact VAWW-NET Japanargument that it was tantamount tocensorship.

Robert W. Norris.

Looking for theSummer: Jacobyte Books
After the top court’s ruling he said that( www.jacobytebooks.com ) 2000

he had done all he could.

It is a novel by a conscientious objector in“
It is difficult

to change reality, but I believe I have

the Vietnam War.

helped open a hole to let in the fresh air.”Robert W. Norris. The Many Roads to
He was born in Nagoya City in 1913.

Japan: A Search for Identity: Jacobyte

He

respected Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe

Books. 2002

(1873~1948) who insisted thatsovereignty did not reside in the emperor.

Women’
s Peace Monitor: A Bi-Annual

As a result Dr. Minobe’s books on

Publication of Isis-WICCE (a global

Constitution was ordered to revise by the

women’s organization in Africa)

government and attacked by the rightisis@starcom.co.ug

wingers and the military.

Fax: 256-41-543954

Ienaga retired as a professor at the Tokyo

Shunbu Jubishi & Minoru Kikuchi edit.

University of Education in 1977.

The Encyclopedia of War-Related Sites

Japan’s Past Japan’s Future: One(Shiraberu

Historian’s Odyssey by Ienaga Saburo

Kashiwa Shobo: Tokyo. 2002 (421 pages)

was published in 2001.

This is written in Japanese and the brief(Translated andSensouIsekinoJiten).

introduced by Richard H. Minear.

content is as follows:

Rowman & Littlefield)

1. War-related sites: how to investigate,(The Japan Times of Dec. 3, Herald

preserve and study war remains.

Tribune of Dec. 2, Asahi Newspaper of
2. The guide of war-related sites in

Dec. 2)

Japan and abroad (China, Taiwan,

17Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, the

http://disarmament.un.org/education

Philippines, Indonesia, Guam, Palauand Russia) For example, the secret

The article above is also available ininstitute of germ warfare in China by“
Global Guide to Disarmament andUnit 731 is introduced in details with

Non-Proliferation Education”at theseveral photos.

website of University of Maryland

Japanese Army tried

to destroy the evidence, but some

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/pgsd

buildings have been preserved by
China.

New Peace Museum at Yamanashi
University: Yamanashi

3. Database for research: main libraries
such as National Diet Library, 30

There is a warehouse made of bricks atpeace/war museums and networks

Yamanashi University.

(National

renovated because of grassroots

NetworkofPreserving

It was

War-Related Sites, Japanese Network

movement and can be used as a peaceof Museums

museum.

for Peace, National

Participants of the National

Association of Recording Air-raids

Conference on War-Related Sites visitedand War Damages, Japan Research

the building.

Center for War Responsibility, andContact Yamanashi Network of

Research Network of Forced Labor)

War-Related Sites: Mr. Tamotsu
Asakawa.

Other News

4-7-14 Siobe, Kofu City,

Yamanashi Prefecture 400-0026.
Fax: 055-253-2735

Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Coordinator of
Nuclear Weapons Education & Action

The 6th National Symposium of

Project of Educators for Social

Preserving War Related-Sites

Responsibility was invited to promote
disarmament education in Japan by

The symposium was held at Yamanashi

Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She

Gakuin University on August 24th andwent to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and25th.

Kochi in November and December.

Network of Preserving War-Related Sites

She kindly put information of Japaneseand Japanese Network of Museums for

Network of Museums for Peace in thePeace.

U.N. website.

(Kazuyo Yamane wrote

Movement of Preserving War-related

an article on disarmament education at

Sites in the 21st Century.” About 200

peace museums.)

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It was cosponsored by the National

The theme was “Tasks of thepeople participated in it from all overof Museums for Peace talked about

Japan.

various issues as follows: Tetsu Morishita (Ritsumeikan

Over eighty people visited an Air-raid

University): Students’
Concept of War

shelter in Nirasaki City of Yamanashi

and Peace and Kyoto Museum forPrefecture and a renovated warehouse

World Peace, Ritsumeikan University

made of red bricks at Yamanashi Ichiro Kajiyoshi (Tokyo Document

University.

Center on Air-Raids and War
Damages): The Process of Creating

War-related sites in Japan wereTokyo Document Center on Air-Raids

introduced by slides first. Mr. Etsuo

and War Damages, Some Responses

Obinata of Association of Preserving theand Problems

Imperial Headquarters in Matsushiro Kazuya Yasuda (The 5th Luckytalked about war-related sites for peace

Dragon Display House): Educating

education. Mr. Masahiko Yamabe ofYoung People at the 5th Lucky Dragon

Kyoto Museum for World Peace talked

Display House

about the present situation of peace Kazuko Yoshikawa (Children Centermuseums.

for Peace & Human Rights: Sakai
City of Osaka): Educating the Youth

There was a special report on war-related

through School Textbook Exhibition

sites in the northeastern part of China by Machiyo Kurokawa (Tokyo Holocaust

Ms. Yu Binli, the deputy director of

Education Resource Center):

Northeast Martyrs Memorial Museum

Activities of Tokyo Holocause

Heilongjiang Provincial Revolutionary

Education Resource Center

Museum.

 Kazuyo Yamane (Grassroots House):
The present situation of Peace

Three sectional meetings were held on

Museums and Peace Museum

August 25th.

Projects in Japan and Some Problems
The next conference will be held in Usa

1. The situation of preserving

City of Oita Prefecture.

war-related sites
2. Research methods and techniques of

The Meeting of Japanese Network ofpreserving war-related sites

Museums for Peace
3. Peace museums and how to passdown war experiences to the youth.

The report by the members of theSome members of Japanese Network

network will be published in

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Ritsumeikan Peace Study, the bulletin ofnews in Japanese.

Kyoto Museum for World Peace.

is getting thick, his help is much

Since the newsletter

appreciated. The Japanese newsletter
Ten people attended the meeting andwas sent to peace museums in Japan in

discussed as follows:

December.

 A meeting will be held independently
so that more members of public peace

Editor’s Notesmuseums will be able to attend it.
The next meeting will be held one day

News on big peace museums was

before or after the conference of Peaceoriginally written by Professor Hideki

Studies Association of Japan.

Okada of Kyoto Museum for World Peace

The

preparation for the meeting will bein Japanese.

done using e-mails exchanging
opinions.

Mr. Masahiko Yamabe of

As usual, contact addresses that were

Kyoto Museum for World Peace andintroduced before are not written in thisKazuyo Yamane will contact othernewsletter.

members through the Internet.
 Members will be asked to write

WE WELCOME YOUR COMMENTS ON

articles for Muse more.

THIS NEWSLETTER.
WE WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Muse 8 in Japanese was published inAugust.

With best wishes,

It has information on the 4thInternational Conference of Peace

Kazuyo Yamane

Museums in 2003 and also the meeting of

kyamane@sings.jp

Japanese Network of Museums for Peace
held in August.

Muse 9 in Japanese was published in
December, 2002 and it has informationfrom International Newsletter of Peace
Museums.

Kentaro Kojima, who studied

under the supervision of Dr. Peter van
den Dungen finished MA Course of Peace
Studies at the University ofBradford, helped summarizing network20