Muse No. 34
Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: January 2017
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
Translator: Kazuyo Yamane
Illstrator: Erico Tosaki & Pegge Patten

Invitation to Choro-kan Sekiya
Kohjin Ceramic Panel Museum for
Peace: Mashiko in Tochigi

soldiers who died abroad are
buried.)? by Ms Itsuko Ishikawa (hispartner, poet for peace)- CHINA-WANRENKENG-Chinese
being moved forcibly to Japan towork- HOLOCAUST-SHOAH by Mr
Claude Lanzmann(translated into Japanese by Mr
Taketomo Takahashi)

Shiro Yoshioka
Choro-kan is located at Mashiko
Ceramic Art Village in Tochigi
Prefecture. It takes two and a half
hours by bus from Akihabara, Tokyo.
Mr. Kohjin Sekiya aged 84 wrote
down the messages on ceramic
panels. His works are as follows;- KOREA-Halla-san by Mr Kim
Myung-Sik on armed uprising in
Cheju Island on Apr 3, 1948.
CHORO means morning dew fromhis poem.
HIROSHIMA&NAGASAKI-Quo
vadis ? (Where are you going ?)- Victims of Asia & Pacific War-Did
you go to CHIDORIGAFUCHI(where the remains of unknown

erico-CHERNOBYL─ A

prayerfor

Chernobyl
byMs
Svetlana
Alexievich, the winner of Nobel1

Prize for Literature in 2015．

Please refer to HP
http://chorogan.org/
Korean and Chinese version is ready.

please recommend them to visit. If
you have any questions, please feel
free to contact us.
Mr Kohjin Sekiya and Ms Itsuko
Ishikawa
Tel&Fax 81-3-3694-4369
E-mail: ituko@kc4.so-net.ne.jp
Shiro Yoshioka:

However, English version is underconstruction.

Tel&Fax 81-3-3627-8384
E-mail tncc@tkk.att.ne.jp- FUKUSHIMA-name of the town ofvictims by Nuclear Power Plants-OKINAWA-Tokyo Ryukyu-kan

HegraduatedfromWasedaUniversity and became a teacher.
He resigned and moved to Mashiko
in 1988.
CHORO-KAN was
renewed and opened in May, 2015
andsupportinggroupswereorganized at Mashiko and Tokyo.
Newsletters are published twice ayear. DVD (about 30 min) was madeby Nagata Seminar of Musashi Univ.
He published three photo books andnew photo book will be publishedsoon.

A prayer for Chernobyl

National Conference of Museums
for Peace in Japan

Mr Kohjin Sekiya and Ms Itsuko

Kazuyo Yamane

Ishikawa become a member ofJapanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseum for Peace recently andattended the national exchange
meetingatAuschwitz
Peace
Museum (Shirakawa, Fukushima)
on 29 and 30 Oct, 2016．

The national annual conference of
the Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace was held at
Auschwitz Peace Museum in
Shirakawa City, Fukushima on
29th-30th October. There were sixty
participants, and directors andcurators of various museums forpeace talked about their activities.

If you have a chance to come to
Japan, please visit CHORO-KAN
and if you have friends in Japan,
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They included the Display House of
the 5th Lucky Dragon, Choro-kan
Museum, Chukiren Peace Museum(of the Association of Returnees
from China), Manmou Kaitaku
Peace Museum (concerning thehistory of Japanese people sent toManchuria and Mongolia duringmentioned that the museum wasreceiving threatening letters fromnationalists who do not accept thehistorical fact that many women
were forced to work as sex slaves for
the Japanese military during WorldWar II. On the other hand, theconference also heard a report about

World War II), Maruki Gallery for
the Hiroshima Panels, Nagasaki
Peace Museum, Women’s Active
Museum,Yamanashi
Peace
Museum. A special lecture on

Choro-kan (Morning Dew Museum)by Mr. Kohjin Sekiya (sculptor of
ceramic plates and the museum’s
founder), Ms Itsuko Ishikawa (hiswife and a poet), and Mr. Shiro‘Museums against historical truthin the past and the future after the
3.11 Event’ was given by Professor
Yoshihiko Kimizuka, as well as on

Yoshioka(museum
supporter).
Through his art works, Mr. Sekiya
expresses the voices of voicelesspeople such as atomic bomb victims,

the hosting museum by Kiwamu
Kuriyama and Tatsuya Hagiwara.
Together with Professor Ikuro Anzai,
I introduced the forthcoming INMP
conference in Belfast. More than 20
Japanese participants are planning
to attend it.

Chinese who were forced to work inJapan during World War II, victimsof the Chernobyl accident, etc. The
museum also contains a display of
Ms. Ishikawa’s poems.
Participants visited the Auschwitz
Peace
Museumwhich
showsauthentic artifacts about the
Holocaust. The conference was heldat the Information Center on
Damage by Nuclear Accident; theCenter, founded in 2013, is on thesite of the Auschwitz Peace Museum.
Participantsalso
visitedtheCenter’s exhibition.
The conference included a general
meetingwhereparticipants
discussed various issues. Since

One of the critical issues thatmuseums are faced with is thethreat to the freedom of speech. For
instance, Ms Eriko Ikeda, director of
the Women’s Active Museum,3

there was no new candidate to takeover the secretariat of the Network,
Peace Aichi agreed to continue tofunction as its secretariat until thenext conference which will be heldat the Kyoto Museum for World
Peace in 2017.

The 10th Anniversary of Chukiren:
SaitamaNobuo Serizawa:
Secretariat of Chukiren
The 10th anniversary of Chukiren
Peace Museum being recognized as

Mr. Sekiya’s works can be seen at
this website.

NPO (Non-Profit Organization) was
held on November 13 in 2016.
Over 200 people participated in it
from Yamagata in the north ofJapan to Kumamoto in the south inJapan.
Dr. Yasuko Claremontattended it with her husband all theway from Australia.
Nobuo Serizawa talked about the

How to Exhibit Current Issues
Tamotsu Asakawa: Director
Yamanashi Peace MuseumofA temporary exhibition is held every
six months besides the permanent
exhibition. In planned exhibition,
war, Tanzan Ishimashi (1884 –
1973: who was a Japanese journalist
and politician) and current issues
are dealt with actively. Exhibited
were nuclear accidents and energy(2013), Special Secret Protection

10-year history of the peacemuseum and a lecture was given by
Ms. Hideko Ito whose father was a
war criminal during World War II.
Mr. Takeji Muno’s son named
Takeshi Muno talked about his
father who was an honorary advisor
to the peace museum and ajournalist aged 101. There wasLaw(2014),
theJapanese
Constitution and right of collective
defense (2015), and the JapaneseConstitution and constitutionalism.
(2016)
An emphasis is put on facts using
newspaper articles in the latest
exhibition. Now an exhibition isheld on Tanzan Ishibashi and it will
be held until the end of May in 2017.

also a panel discussion chaired byProfessor Takao Matsumura, thedirector followed by questions byparticipants and answers.

Museum Movement by WAM
Eriko Ikeda
Director of Women’s Active Museum
4It was reported on Dec. 28 in 2015that both Korean and Japanese
governments agreed on the lastresolution on solving “comfort
women” issues. However, it waswithout listening to voices of victimsof sex slavery and both governments
have been severely criticized by theservices. Fortunately, there has
been no bombing, but the criminal is
not clear yet.

victims.
However most of theJapanese media who supports thegovernment reported that the
problem was solved and people
started to be not interested in thenecessary to have enough space fortranslators and experts of images
and sound to work and preservethem. New museums on the sex
slavery issues have been opened inissues.

the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and
China recently and we have beenasked to support them andcooperate with them. Therefore,

An archive has been made using
collected materials so that they canbe used efficiently.
The fundraising was started because it isHowever, support groups of thevictims applied the UNESCO formaking the voices of “comfort
women” of the Japanese military
one of the World Memory Heritage.
This is because the victims andformer Japanese soldiers are getting
older and older and it is urgent tocollect materials and preserve them.
Since the WAM has been playing themain role in the Japanese

we decided to hold the first
conference of Asian museums on“comfort women” issues on April 1 in
2017.

Committee on the issues, it has been
criticized and slandered by Sankei
Newspaper, right wing historians
and groups.
There was athreatening letter from a right wingbomberdemandinghistoricalexhibits be removed. We protested
against such terror against freedomof speech and sent a letter to Sankei
Newspaper
and
other
media

“comfort women” by listening tothem. Though there is a tendency
to deny the historical facts of
comfort women’s issues in Japanand many people are not interested
in it, our activities at the WAM havebeen more and more active.

We hold an exhibition on victims ofsex slavery in Burma since July in2016 for one year. We also prepare
for an exhibition on Japanese5photos and Yuko Inoue on historicalsignificance of photos by Bunkasha.

The Center of the Tokyo Raids and
War Damage

A gathering on conveying U.S. airraids to future generations was heldon March 6 in 2016. Ms. Sayoko
Yoneda gave a lecture on war
experiences using imagination and

Masahiko Yamabe: Researcher
The main events in 2016 were as
follows:

Ms. Shizuko Nishio talked about her
war experiences when she was six
years old.
There were 330
participants.

A collection of photographs on thereconstruction
in
Tokyo
in
1945-1946 (by Masahiko Yamabe &Yuko Inoue: Bensei Shuppan) was
published on July 10 in 2016. A
catalogue on materials related to
movements by victims of U.S. airraids in Tokyo and Kanagawa waspublished on March 10 in 2016.

A special event of “Let’s learn the
big air raids on Tokyo and convey it
tofuturegenerations!”
wasorganized from Aug. 12 to 15. 511
people attended it.

Another catalogue was published on
Sep. 18 with an emphasis on
movements by war victims in Japan.

Daigo Fukuryu Maru
Exhibition Hall

A special exhibition on war
experiences by Hitoshi Koike washeld from February 24 to April 10.
Original paintings on U.S. air raids
on Tokyo were exhibited and there

Yusuke Hasunuma: Curator
A tuna fishing boat called the 5th
Lucky Dragon is exhibited at Daigo
Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall inTokyo. The 40th anniversary of thehall was celebrated in 2016.
Seventy years passed since the boat
was built and there is a special
exhibition on the boat. The boat
was supposed to be used for twenty
years and it is rare to see such aboat today. It is important not only
as a peace heritage but also as an

were 1201 visitors. They are fromhis book called Real Reasons Why
We should not Wage War. The
second special exhibition on Tokyo
after Japan’s defeat was held from
July 27 to September 4. There
were 2082 visitors. Two lectures
were given on July 31 in 2016:
Masahiko
Yamabeonthereconstruction

of

Tokyo

in

the
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industrial heritage.
The building and the boat are
getting old, which should be dealt
with.
The boat seems to beimportant to figure out a good way
to attract visitors so that they will
be able to get interested in the boatthat was exposed to radiation by

Manmou Kaitaku
Peace Memorial: Nagano
Hidefumi Terasawa: Vice director
Manmou Kaitaku Peace Memorial
deals with the Japanese who weresent to Manchuria and Mongolia as“pioneers” during World War II.
Such a museum is the only one inJapan, and three years and a halfpassed since its opening. We canmanage to run the peace memorial

U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954,
nuclear tests after World War II andthe threat of the time of hydrogenbombs.
It is an important
challenge to make exhibitions that

thanks to board members, staff andvolunteer groups though there arelots of difficulties as a private peace
memorial. As for our main events,
a lecture was given by Ms. Hisae

are easy to understand using images
and sound as well as the translation
into many languages.
Retired teachers and citizens work
as guides as a volunteer and they
explain exhibits to all the groups
that come to the exhibition hall.
We listened to former fishermen of
the 5th Lucky Dragon boat at Yaizu
City in Shizuoka, which was its
home port. We visited the grave of
Mr. Aikichi Kuboyama who was the

Sawachi on Nov. 3 in 2015. There
was an exhibition on Chinese foster
parents who had taken good care ofJapanese children after World War
II from November to December 2015.
A forum with Chinese foster parents
was held in December. A video film
called “Manchuria from each side:
Part 2” was made after listening toradio operator and passed away in1954 after being exposed toradiation by the U.S. hydrogenbomb test in 1954 near the Bikini
Atoll, which made us think that our
understanding was deepened in thefield trip.
I hope that theexhibition hall will be used to learn
the horror of the nuclear test by
watching the real boat.

stories by Japanese farmers who
were sent to China during WWII
and also Chinese foster parents in
March 2016. We visited Housei
Prefecture in Heilongjiang near theborder of former Manchuria and theformer USSR in September 2016.
We went outside the peace memorialand had an event by which people
7would be able to learn the history on
Sep. 19.

Peace Aichi was opened on May 4 in2007 and it will celebrate the 10th
anniversary in 2017. There arevarious events for the 10th
anniversary. A part of the events is
not free and it is necessary to pay
some money besides entrance fees.
The details of opening time and

The number of visitors became over
100,000 on Nov. 7. The emperor
and the empress visited the peace
memorial on Nov. 17 for the firsttime.

fliers are available on the website.
Though the peace memorial exists
in a mountain, about 30,000 people
visited there from various parts ofJapan since April in 2013. It was

We will hold a special exhibition on
Hiroshima Panels by Iri Maruki and
Toshi Maruki as well as an art

the fourth year since the opening
and the number of visitors wasdecreasing. However, the emperor
and empress visited the peace

exhibition on the atomic bomb by
citizens from Feb. 14 to March 25thin 2017.

memorial because they strongly
hoped to visit there. This was agood chance to raise awareness ofthe history. However, the media
did not report this as a big eventand the NHK did not report it at all.
This may be because “inconvenienthistorical facts” have been exhibitedat the peace memorial.
The

We will have events related to theexhibition. A curator of Maruki
Gallery will give a lecture on Feb. 18
and a film directed by Hideo
Sekigawa produced in 1953 (104min.) will be shown on Feb. 18 and19th. An exhibition on U.S. airraids on Nagoya will be held from
April 11 to May 25. Nagoya Castle

management of the peace memorial
seems to be full of difficulties in the
future.

was burnt down by the U.S. airraids on May 14 in 1945. Recallingthe changes of Nagoya Castle andits roles in Nagoya, one of themilitary city, the target and aims of
the U.S. air raids will be made clear
using materials of the U.S. military.

Peace Aichi: Nagoya
Daisuke Miyahara
Secretary General

An exhibition on the 10-year historyof Peace Aichi will be held from

War and Peace Museum called8April 11 to May 25 in 2017. An
exhibition on unknown facts in
Okinawa will be held from May 30
to July 1 with an emphasis on thebattle in Okinawa from patients ofHansen’s disease (leprosy patients).
They were isolated from ordinary
people following a law to prevent

Children in War

Hansen’s disease established in
1931.
They
had
terrible
experiences in the battle in
Okinawa.

The 85th Study Meetingat Peace Aichi
Yutaka Maruyama
About twenty volunteers attend astudy meeting which was started in
January in 2009. The 85th study

An art exhibition of Chihiro Iwasaki
called “Peace and Happiness for all
the Children in the World” will bemeeting was held in November in
2016. One of the characteristics ofthe study meeting is not justlistening to famous lecturers
passively. We try to find problems
and solve them by ourselves. Thisis a kind of citizens’ study movementof history with an emphasis on war
and peace. It is possible to see theheld from July 11 to August 31.
She drew paintings on splendor of lif
wishing for peace. Panels from her
picture books called When I was aChild and Children in War will be
exhibited as well as her major
colorful works full of gentleness.
Mr. Takeshi Matsumoto, her son,will give a talk about Chihiro
Iwasaki on July 23.

meaning of study as the essence of
education. Volunteer members canhave more confidence in themselvesbecause studying makes it possible
to change history for peace. It isneedless to say that such study
meetings supported the content ofexhibitions and planning them.
The result of the study meeting will
be published in the Journal ofMother by Chihiro

9Studies at Peace Aichi Vol. 2 inJanuary, 2017.

attended it from 15 countries andthey made an exhibition and peace
games after lectures and workshops.
One of the graduate students willattend the INMP conference in
Belfast in 2017.
The researchendeavour will continue to the 2017
workshopinLiverpoolin

Kyoto Museum for World Peace
Kazuyo Yamane: the expert advisor
An exhibition of “Japan and China
through Postcards: 1894-1945” washeld from Oct. 1 to Dec. 11 in 2016.
Howthehistory
fromtheSino-Japanese War (of 1894-5) tocollaboration with the International
Slavery Museum.

Grassroots House: Kochi

World War II is depicted was shownin the exhibition. Professor Hiroki
Futamatsu gave a lecture on therelation between China and Japan

Mana Abe: Secretariat
An event called the Peace Wave washeld from June 25 to August 21 as

depicted in postcards on Oct. 29. A
film called Ants Soldiers was shownon Nov. 26 and the director, Mr.
Kaoru Ikeya, talked about the film.

usual thanks to many people’s
support and cooperation: the 34th
Peace Tanabata Festival （ 6/25 ～7/31）, The 38th Exhibition to Thinkof War and Peace（7/13～18）, the33rd Peace Art exhibition（7/5～10）,
the 33rd Peace Film Festival （8/15）,

RENKEI PAX SCHOOL brought
together early career researchers
from the U.K. and Japan from a
range of disciplines to a researchthe 33rd Anti-Nuclear Peace Concert（ 7/12 ） , the 20th Peace Action:endeavour to lay the intellectual
foundation that contributes to Peace,Arts, Culture and Science from Sep.
14 to 23rd. (PACS = PAX =Peace) The theme of “ Enslaving
the Mind”was addressed and the

UNICEF Rally in Kochi（7/16）, etc.
However, a plan of the 10th Concert
at a former Gun Emplacement on
Aug. 21 was cancelled because of athreatening
lettertobomb
elementary schools and junior highschools in Kochi and we were told tocancel the event.
We strongly
protestagainstsuch
anpeace museum hosted the 2016
program in collaboration with
University of Liverpool and Kyushu
University. 22 graduate students

indiscriminate and nasty action.
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We were asked to send guest
speakers at elementary schools andjunior high schools this summer as
usual. The director, vice director,
curators and researchers visited
there using exhibits of the peacemuseum.

1954 in the Bikin Atoll will be
published on March 1 2017. An
exhibition on the same issue will beheld in April.
The Grassroots
House will be full of events in 2017.
The details are on its website.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kusanoie/

A peace concert was held at a park
on Sep. 25 and the theme was “It is
not possible to make peace using
weapons.” An exhibition on the
U.S. military bases in Okinawa andNagasaki Peace Museum
Masakazu Masukawa
the managing director

the issue of nuclear accidents was
also held. There were about 40
participants.

Nagasaki Peace Museum is a small
art and peace museum which is thebase to send messages for peacefrom Nagasaki to the world. The

A symposium on Okinawa was held
on Nov. 23 and a group called
Hashinchu was invited.
Theytalked about the situation of the U.S.
military bases in Okinawa: people in
Okinawa have been suffering fromthe U.S. military bases andprotested against the government.
About 45 people attended it. There

Nagasaki
Peace
“Gem
Fire”
Movement was proposed by Masashi
Sada, a singer from Nagasaki City,in 1995, the 50th anniversary of theatomic bombing, and many citizens
supported it. The policy is to send
the peaceful earth to children in the
future and there are two aims.
One is to send the information

was also a photo exhibition on
Okinawa.

related to peace and the other is tomake the network of citizens whowish for peace. The base of suchactivities
isNagasakiPeace
Museum and it was founded in 2003
near a port of Matsugae in Nagasaki
City. All the cost of the construction
and the management is fromcitizens’ donation, and activities are

In
2017
the
21st
National
Symposium of Preserving War
Remains will be held in Kochi. A
book of a collection of testimony byformer fishermen of tuna boats thatwere exposed to radiation by thehydrogen bomb tests by the USA in

supported by the members and11※Note: ”Broom” is called “houki(箒)” inJapanese
which
has
the
same
pronunciation with the word “放棄(houki)”which means “renunciation”. Broom
accessory named “senso houki” expresses“renunciation of war” in homophonic way
connoting “sweeping out dangerous
symptoms” at the same time.

volunteers. The themes of theexhibitions are not only war andatomic bombing but also issues of
starvation, refugees, human rights,
discrimination,
medicalcare,
education, environment and so forth.
The entrance fee is free and open to
citizens. We listen to voices of not

Himeyuri Peace Museum

only Japanese citizens but also
those in the USA, Canada, theNetherlands, etc.

Noriko Koga: Curator
70 years has passed since amonument of Himeyuri was madefor students and teachers who
passed away in the battle in
Okinawa in April 2016. A photo
exhibition on 70-year history of theWe also have a project to spreadideas of Article 9 of the JapaneseConstitution which renounces war
using an accessory called “warbroom” (in Japanese houki means abroom and also renunciation.)monuments was held from June 1 to
September 30. There were many
visitors who were interested in it
and surprised at changes of themonuments: it was first made on
April 5th in 1946 and a repository forthe bones of the dead with a cross
was constructed. Then a statue ofa girl was set up and a newmonument of Himeyuri was founded

There is a photo of children’s smilein the world by a photographer
named Koji Kitagawa.
We askvisitors to think what they can do toprotect such a smile. The image ofpeace museums tends to be dark,
but we hope that visitors will step
forward livelily for tomorrow after
their visit. We would like to makegreat efforts with 800 members andvolunteers who wish for peace allover Japan.

in 1957 and renewed in 2009.
As a special event in summer,
former students of Himeyuri talked
about their war experiences on
August 11, 13 and 14. A peace
lecture was given by the next
generation on August 23-28. Ms.
Masako Arasaki, Ms. Masako

Broom accessories to get rid of war
12Nakazato
andMs.
Yoshiko
Shimabukuro talked about theirwar experiences.
Six staff
members gave a peace lecture and305 people attended it.
A special exhibition on teachers
leading Himeyuri students’ party inthe battle of Okinawa has been held
since December 2015, the 70th
anniversary of the end of World War
II. It was renewed on October 1 in2016 by adding surviving teachers’
post-war life, a crime being forced tocooperate for the war and voices ofthe visitors.

Tree-People: Lady Headdress
by Pegge Patten(American artist)

The 9th INMP ConferenceandIt will be held on April 10-13 inanimation called Himeyuri in DVD
were made for sale. Many events
for teachers were held such as a
guide tour for teachers, a course of
lectures for teachers, a training
session for new teachers and staff
and so forth.

Belfast in Northern Ireland. The
theme is “Cities as Living Museums
for Peace”. 25 people are planning
to attend it. If you are interested
in it, please contact the Japanesebranch of the INMP.

A

guidebookin

EnglishAnzai Science(ASAP)

Tel: 098-997-2100 Fax:098-997-2102
http://www.himeyuri.or.jp

&

Peace

Office547-4-802
Higashi
Shiokojicho,
Kyoto 600-8216 Japan

Peace Museums Overseas

Open from 13:00 to 17:30 on Mon.,
Wed., and Friday.
Tel: 075-741-7267,
FAX: 075-741-7282

As for news on peace museums
abroad, please read the INMP
Newsletter on its website. It is
possible to read it in Japanese.
http://www.museumsforpeace.org/ne
ws/newsletters.html
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Museum and related monuments
・ Okinawa Prefectural Peace
Memorial Museum
・Exhibition room on Kadena U.S.
Air Base・ Okinawa Airakuen Community
Hall (Museum for peace and humanrights focused on Hansen Disease inJapan, visited by more than 10,000
people since its opening in 2015)
・Haebaru Culture Center (Museumof Culture and Peace established by
Haebaru Town vividly exhibiting
people’s life before, during and after
the World War 2)
・U.S. Army Helicopter Crash Site at
Okinawa International University
・Sakima Art Museum

Editors’ Notes
Muse Newsletter in English version
is not literal translation: some
information
is
added
for
non-Japanese and also some aresummarized.
The membership fee will not becollected and we need volunteers
who are willing to translate Muse
into English. If you are interested
in it, please contact the above
address.

I was especially moved by excellent
exhibitions of Okinawa Airakuen
Community Museum which wasestablished in 2015 and yet on theway of completion. Airakuen is anational sanatorium for Hansen
disease patients in Nago City
originally established in 1938. Due
to discrimination and prejudicegenerated by the government policy,
patients had unutterable inhumanexperiences during wartime and in
the post war period. I think it highly
recommendable for you to visit.

Editor’s Monologue
Memories of a short trip
to Okinawa in December, 2016
Ikuro Anzai; Editor of “Muse”
I made a 3-day tour to Okinawa inlate December, 2016. Major aim wastaking photos of peace-related sites
for 5-volume books on Okinawa now
writing for school children.
I visited following facilities;
・Tsushimamaru Memorial Museum(Museum about the tragedy of aship which was sunk by a U.S.
submarine on the way of evacuationof Okinawan school children to
Nagasaki on the 22nd of August,1944. Nearly 1,500 people including
779 school children lost lives.)
・ Himeyuri
Peace
Memorial
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