MuseNo. 23: Japanese Citizens’Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: October, 2010

The Editorial Office: The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage
1-5-4 Kitasuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0073 Japan
Tel: +81-3-5857-5631 Fax: +81-3-5683-3326
Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translators: Eriko Ikeda, Terumi Imai, Hisako Masuda, Atsuko Takeda, Yuriko Taki, Yoshiko
Tanigawa
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki
The 10th Exchange Meeting of theJapanese Citizens‟ Network of Museums
for Peace
The annual meeting will be held from
December 4th to 5th in Kofu City in
Yamanashi. There will be two special
reports by Peace Aichi and Yamanashi
Peace Museum. The three themes fordiscussion are (1) how to convey war
experiences to younger generations, (2)how to expand the use of a museum(citizens‟ use, cooperation with teachers,
research, etc.) and (3) how to enrichmuseum activities (exhibition, collection ofmaterials, research, etc.) It is possible tovisit Yamanashi Peace Museum before orafter the annual meeting.

International War Crimes Tribunal,” 5 years ago,
this eighth special exhibition also includes themost current information on the state of Asian
countries and female victims, media issues,
including NHK’s programming alterations (onthe Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal),
and sexual assault against women amidst regional
conflicts throughout the world. In addition, an
executive committee, made up of those women
who originally participated in the 2000 Tribunal
plans to organize a large-scale 10-year
anniversary event in December.
In November 2009, the Chinese Communist
Army Memorial Hall in the Shanxi Province,
China opened the “Japanese Military Sexual
Violence Exhibition”. The panels used in thisexhibition were made by WAM and a support
group for the sexual assault victims. It is agroundbreaking project: experts on China andmembers of the media have stated that they“[have] never thought such a project possible in
China.”

Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace(WAM)
Eriko Ikeda: the chairperson of a steeringcommittee
WAM opened its eighth Special Exhibition,“Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal:
Ten Years Later,” on July 3, 2010. It has now
been 10 years since the tribunal was held in 2000,
and 5 years since the opening of WAM. This
exhibition examines what types of progress andchanges have occurred in the past 10 years
regarding the issues of “Comfort Women” andJapan’s wartime responsibility. Utilizing theexhibition panels from WAM’s first special
opening exhibition, “All about Women’s

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made a blog in our website which shows
daily events even if they are small. The
theme is “small peace” in the field of Peace
Studies and this is based on an idea that apeace maker needs his or her own inner
peace. The number of the access of thewebsite is increasing, so please take a lookat it.

When a Japanese group visited the exhibition in
March, it was broadcasted widely in China. The
organizers estimate that around 90,000 people
have visited the exhibition so far. WAM’s 177
panels on the sexual violence throughout Asia
have received high praise from scholars ofmodern Chinese history and the museum staff.
WAM feels a sense of hope in the fact that young
Chinese members of the press, curators, andstudents have realized that they have failed to
face the problem of the wartime victims in theirown country and have started to ask themselves,“What can I do?” Members of WAM are planninga second visit in September.
Since 2008, the city councils all over Japan
have been working to prepare a statement
demanding that the government create a solution
to the issue of “comfort women”, and recently
this effort has grown rapidly. Under the new
government, there has been increased activity
directed toward creating a solution. Yet, at thesame time, the supporters of “comfort women”
have encountered frequent harassment or
obstruction of their activities by right wingorganizations. Despite these obstacles, WAM’s
panel exhibit has traveled all over the country,
and will be held in many locations this summer.
We hope you will visit the nearest exhibition.

Grassroots House: Kochi
From February to June, five consecutive
culture events were held focusing on „apoem for Kanto Partisan‟ These eventswere originated as a meeting with a visitor
from South Korea who is a researcher of
Kou Makimura, who was an anti-war poet.
130 participants enjoyed the lectures, poet
reading and dance related to Makimuraand his works.
Grassroots House organized an annual
peace event called „Peace Wave‟ mainly in
July. This event started in 1994 merging
with a lot of other peace events in Kochi.
With the opening ceremony on June 27th
this year, a shopping mole in the downtown
was ornamented with one million peace
cranes with messages contributed by the
local school children and organizations.
During the period, the 32nd exhibition on
war and peace was held at Kochi Liberty
and People‟s Museum having about 550
visitors.
As a matter of fact, the number of thepeace exhibition visitors is decreasing year
by year. As the former director of
Grassroots House mentioned in a news
letter in 1998, we believe that we need to
exhibit the war-related materials not as
past war records in a negative sense but astools to create peaceful future in a positive
sense. (by Mana Nakauchi)

New Projects in Peace Osaka
Hajime Tsunemoto
The budget for the center was reduced
half by Osaka Prefecture and Osaka Cityin 2008. The number of curators was cut
half and as a result, the number of special
exhibitions and events had to be decreased.
However, we had new projects so that there
will be more visitors. For example, we
asked citizens to donate articles related to
war and peace. We displayed them withphotos of persons who possessed theremains so that visitors would getinterested in them. Such a project wasreported in newspaper three times lastyear and they were effective. We also

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace
Museum: Nagasaki
Recently, the museum and the „Nagasaki
2the world warⅡ, a legendary jockey Maeda
Chokichi and Sadako and the posters oforigami cranes,‟ was held from July 17 toAugust 22, 2010. To realize the misery of
the war and A-bomb and preciousness ofpeace, this exhibition was highlighting two
individuals. One was Maeda Chokichi who
had won the Derby race as the youngest
jockey in 1943 with the best mare Kurifuji
at that time, been drafted into military
service in October, 1944, and died in
Siberia on February 25, 1946, and theother was Sasaki Sadako who sufferedfrom the A-bomb when two years old anddied of leukemia ten years later.
Tel:0176-26-2100 Fax:0176-26-2110
http://komakkoland.jp/

Organization for Human Rights of Korean
Residents in Japan‟, which is a parent
organization of the museum, have been
giving interviews to various kinds of media
including
Koreannewspapers
andJapanese magazines.
In January, we had a joint visit byuniversity students from both Soul andKyoto. In February a public talk session byHand Su Sang, the author of a novel „Awarship island‟ and Minato Kawamura, its
translator, was given. In March, an event
related to a film about Masaharu Oka washeld and there was a panel discussion by
the director of the film and others after thefilm was shown. In April, Prof. Eichhorn,
the president of Germany and Japan Peace
Forum, gave a speech. He was visiting
Japan to find a place that could accept
Julian Sander who is a German
conscientious objector. In May, invited by
Koreanorganization„PeaceCitizenSolidarity‟ and „Hapchong peace House‟,
Yasutoshi Takazane , the chairman of themuseum, visited „ Welfare Center for the
A-bomb survivors‟ located in Hapchongwhich is called „Hiroshima in South Korea‟.
After giving a speech, he exchanged
opinions with the survivors and the second
generation of them. He was also invited toattend a human rights forum in Kyushu
area. In June, Alexander Weiss, a
conscientious objector, gave the final public
speech and a lot of audience enjoyed it.
Korean delegates visited the museum andmet the A-bomb survivors and exchanged
their opinions.
Tel&Fax: 095-820-5600
http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen

Pacific War History Museum: Iwate prefec.
The government asked the museum
director to cooperate searching for
information on remains of Japanesesoldiers in Indonesia and 24.32 million yen
will be allocated as the budget. There is aplan of visiting Indonecia five times from
June, 2010 to March, 2011.
Tel: 0197-52-3000
Sendai City War Reconstruction Memorial
Hall: Miyagi pref.
A themed exhibit, „War Reconstruction,‟
was held from July 8 to 11, 2010, which
was the annual event around the day of the
Sendai air-raid on July 10, 1945. Pictures,
belongings of victims, the victims‟ nameboards, and ink-wash paintings were on
exhibit. The exhibit booth was set up foreach institution in Sendai City, such as
Miyagi Gakuin, the Sendai City Museum,the Sendai City Museum of History and
Folklore, the Sendai Literature Museum,the Sendai Mediatheque, and the Citizen
Centers.
Tel:022-263-6931
http://www.city.sendai.jp/aoba/sensai/

News in Japan
TowadaCity
EquestrianMuseumShotoku-kan (Memorial Hall): Aomori pref.
The special exhibit, „The two lives lost in
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The Sendai City Museum of History and
Folklore: Miyagi pref.
A themed exhibit, „Civilians‟ living andthe war,‟ was held from July 17 to
September 5, 2010. This introduced theliving of civilians during the war mainly
around the Sendai district. Various prayer
materials for luck in battle and dodging
bullets, pictures and photos of the militarycity Sendai, magazines featured the PacificWar, items of Aikoku Fujin-kai (Patriotic
women‟s society), Kokubou Fujin-kai(National defense women‟s association),and the imperial veterans' association were
exhibited.
In connection with the exhibition, apaper-picture show „A doll with blue eyes‟
was played on July 23, 2010, a lecture „The
war ruins in Sendai‟ took place on July 30,
2010, and the historical touring with alecture ‟Exploring the war ruins around
Tsutsujigaoka Station‟ took place from
August 13 to 15, 2010.
Tel:022-295-3956 Fax:022-257-6401
http://www.city.sendai.jp/kyouiku/rekimin/

environmental destruction, child labor,child soldiery, refugee, public nuisance,
nuclear tests, social discrimination, poverty,
disasters, overwork, birth and death, etc.
The exhibition was prepared by Mr.
Munesuke Yamamoto, JVJA member
photographer, under the sponsorship of Mr.
Seiichiro Kuboshima. The latest newsletterof Shinano Dessin Museum carries anarticle of dialogue between Mr. Munesuke
Yamamoto and Professor Ikuro Anzai,
honorary director of Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, about this photo exhibition.
Tel:0268-38-6599, Fax:0268-38-8263
Peace Museum
Matsuyama City

of

Saitama:Higashi-A themed exhibition Ⅳ, 2009, „ Familyties in letters during the war,‟ was heldfrom February 27 to May 9, 2010. Startingfrom the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to
Sino-Japanese war and to the end of the
Pacific War, Japan had experienced thelong wartime. As immigration
toManchuria, going to war, and evacuation
forced many families to split in the era,
writing letters was one of the handfulmeans to contact with other family
members living far away, because there
were less communication tools then. The
exhibition focused on letters which
expressed the writers‟ feelings to theirrelatives. The exhibit consisted of„Concerning about family,‟ „The postal
service during and after the war,‟„Manmo-kaitaku Seishonen Guyu-gun(Manchuria and Mongolia reclamation by
Japanese youth volunteer army),‟ ‟Sent toManchuria and Saipan,„ „For my two sonskilled in the war,‟ „What is to go to war,‟ and„Evacuation of children, ---far from theirown families.‟ The illustrated book and thecomment on the letters are available.

Kaita-an annex to Shinano Dessin
Museum：Ueda City, Nagano prefec.
Photo exhibition “178 Faces Worldwide”
produced by Japan Visual Journalists
Association (JVJA) was held at Kaita-an,annex to Shinano Dessin Museum, during
September 5-16, 2010. Shinano Dessin
Museum is an art museum established by
Mr. Seiichiro Kuboshima, director of
Mugonkan,which is a museum of art
students who died in the Pacific War.
The exhibition “178 Faces Worldwide”
displays photos of a great variety of
appearance of the people beyond borders
which have been taken by manywell-known photographers. Photos vividly
introduce expressions of the people indifferent scenes such as wars, regional
conflicts, suppression of human rights,
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A themed exhibitionⅠ, 2010, ‟ Air raids
and Evacuation,‟ was held from July 17 to
September 5, 2010, commemorating the65th postwar anniversary. A number of air
raids brought enormous damages to theTokyo area and the local cities at the end of
the latest war. Air raids getting more
violent, children and other civilians started
evacuating. Saitama was the place which
was bombed but also took in refugees fromthe other regions. Focusing on thedevastating air raids and children
evacuations, by means of many relevant
items, this exhibit offers the images of thesituation to make clear misery of the war
and importance of peace. Photos andarticles about „Chongquing Bombing by theImperial Japanese Army‟ from „Domei
Shashin News‟(Tripartite Pact Photo
News) were on exhibit with the notes of thelocal civilians‟ damages. The illustrated
book is available.

remind visitors of the fear and misery of
the war and the importance of peace today.
To realize the impacts of the war on thecivilians‟ everyday living, the exhibition
consisted of several themes such as „The
home front and the air-raid drills,‟ „The
change of the clothes during the war,‟ „The
departure to the war, civilians andsoldiers,‟ „The war and children,‟ „The
Kumagaya Air Raid,‟ „Reorganizing after
bombing,‟ „The postwar town readjustment
project,‟ „The postwar reconstruction,‟ „The
tools of the army,‟ „Kumagaya Riku-gun
Hiko Gakko(the Kumagaya Flyng Training
School of the Imperial Japanese Army),‟„The military railroad, the Tobu-Kumabaya
line,‟ „A doll with blue eyes,‟ and „theGoddess of the war victims.‟ The booth of„Let‟s make origami cranes praying forpeace‟ and the viewing seats for the videosof the Air Raid were set for the visitors.
The illustrated book is available.
In connection with this exhibit, „thehistorical lectures: Talking about the
Kumagaya Raid‟ were held to pass down
the experiences to the next generations.
The first lecture by Ms. Fujima Toyoko took
place on August 7, 2010, and the second by
Mr. Himukai Akira on August 21, 2010.
Both of them were held at the art exhibit
room on the third floor.

Tel:0493-35-4111 Fax:0493-35-4112
http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacem
useum/
Kumagaya City Libruary the Local History
Museum: Saitama pref.
„The 65th postwar anniversary: the timeof the Kumagaya Air Raid‟ was held from
July 24 to August 29, 2010. Around 11 p.m.
on August 14, 1945, firebombing on
Kumagaya City by the B-29 bombers had
killed 234 people only in the downtown andburnt down two thirds of the area. The
exhibitions about the Kumagaya Raid havebeen held on occasion of each anniversary
after the 40-year postwar, showing thestrong will of „No more wars.‟ This time is
the 65-year anniversary. Having less
opportunities to talk about the reality of
the war and the survivors becoming older,
the exhibition took place so that it can

The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
The exhibition, „Children‟s living during
the war: From the picture calendars by
Watanabe Takeo,‟ was held from January
30 to April 18, 2010. An oil painter,
Watanabe Takeo(1916-2003) who was
associated with Saitama prefecture, also
had been working on illustrations formagazines and textbooks. The 23 pieces of
his original drawings for the children‟spicture calendars before and during thewar, which were donated to the museum
last fiscal year, were on exhibit. They were5

vivid water paintings depicting theseasonal events such as skiing, skating,and cherry blossom viewing, or a militaryband reflecting the era.
Tel:048-824-0111 Fax:048-824-0119
http://www.momas.jp

anti-Japanese movements in Manchuria,
the China Mainland, and the Philippines.
The postwar topics are indicated below.
The new constitution, gender equality,
farmers‟ movement for democracy, the Red
Purge caused by the change of theoccupation policy, military resurgence, theanti-war movement against it, the Bikini
Atoll incident, the related anti-nuclear
movements, anti- movements against the
U.S. bases in Okinawa, Tachikawa, andUchinada, the Cultural Revolution around1968, opposition campaigns against
pollution, and the society of Zainichi
Koreans(the ethnic Korean residents ofJapan).
The issues about the Bombing of Gernica,
the Bombing of Chongqing by JapaneseArmy and air raids on Japanese local cities
are commented.
For one year from the opening, an
exhibition dealing with the "Migration of
People" between Japan and the UnitedStates has been held in the nearby
exhibition room. In the modern times, thedeepening exchanges between Japan andthe West encouraged the immigration ofmany Japanese. The movement has shedlight on many aspects in the modern society,such as nation-state construction, making
boundaries, bias and discrimination, andimpacts of wars on people‟s living.
Japanese has immigrated to North and
Latin
America,Southern
Ocean,
Manchuria, and so on. The exhibit
introduces the history of immigration andsettlement from the immigrants‟ view
points, especially focusing on theimmigration to North America such as
relocation camps during the war andrepatriation ships after the war. The
foreign correspondents in the occupied
Japan are focused on, either, to explore thereflections of Japan and Asia on them. It isa good opportunity to reconsider the 20th

The National Museum of Japanese
History: Sakura city, Chiba pref.
A themed exhibit, „War and peace‟ and„The Postwar Lifestyle Revolution‟ opened
at Gallery 6 on March 16, 2010. The timefrom the 1930s to the 1970s has had an
impact on today's Japan and the world inmany ways. How did people live in thattime of significant change throughout
society? On the major themes of „War andPeace‟ and „The Postwar Lifestyle
Revolution,‟ the life and culture of the time,
and the movement of society and the world
surrounding it are introduced with a widearray of images such as films, commercials,
news, etc., restoration models, anddioramas along with living ware andpublications of the time. Not covering every
issue, but you can get proactive messages
from the collection such as, Wall scrolls, theChrysanthemum Throne on the militaryguns, banners, and war monuments, which
distinctly indicate a fact that the JapaneseArmy had belonged to the Emperor.
With special emphasis on the Empire ofJapan, the artifacts of the colonial
occupation in Korea and China were on
exhibit. Soshi-kaimei(literally „creation of afamily name and changing given names‟),
Kyowa-kai(Concordia Association), themobilization of people suffering fromcolonialism, and the resistance movements
such as March 1st Movement and the May
Fourth Movement were also important
topics. Besides, clearly saying theperpetration of the Imperial JapaneseArmy in the Nanking Massacre, the exhibit
covers antiwar movements in Japan, and6century through the eyes of „Aliens‟ in eachof society in Japan and the U.S.. The
exhibit consists of the following.

and messages from other cartoonists weredisplayed, while the film “The History of
Sanichi Onozawa” was screened.
At the opening ceremony held on Feb. 20,

1. People migrate
2. The immigration and the war ---theAnti-Japan movement, the Relocation, theRepatriation
3. The foreign correspondents in theoccupied Japan
4.Japanese immigrants and JapaneseAmericans in the American society after
the Relocation
In connection with the exhibition, a
symposium, ‟The past, present, and featureof the Japanese immigrants to America,‟
took place on March 20, 2010.
Tel:043-486-0123
http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/

2010, Shinichi Koizumi, a journalist of
Asahi Shimbun Newspaper and author of
the book “Tokyo Downtown”, gave a speech
and joined a talk session with Mrs.
Onozawa, where she told her experiences of
Yamanote

Air

Raids.

Atthecommemorative talk held on Mar. 21, 2010,
Toshifumi Takei, a curator of the Fuchu Art
Museum, introduced a history of air raid
paintings and explained that Onozawa wasstrongly

influenced

by

the

GermanExpressionism.
Study Group of War Damages launched ajoint

research“Comparative

study

of

rescue activities between the Tokyo Air

The Center for the Tokyo Raids and War

Raids and the Great Kano Earthquake” inDamages: Koto Ward, Tokyo

Apr. 2010 under the subsidy for scientific

The first special exhibition in 2010

researches. It is aimed to compare “natural“Never forget the Great Tokyo Air Raids -disaster and air raid” and the actions

Paintings of air raids by Sanichi Onozawa”

people took in each emergency case. In

was held from Feb. 20 to Apr. 11, 2010.

particular, Edo Tokyo Museum, Toshima

Onozawa joined the military service toHistorical Museum and Sumida Heritage

work for the recovery of people and places

Folk Museum will jointly develop “Tokyo

damaged by the air raids, while his house

air raids disaster map” showing thein Koishikawa district was burned up in

evacuation routes of victims of all the

Yamanote Air Raid. He became a successful

wards of Tokyo.

caricaturist and cartoonist, and died inStudy Group of War Damages will start a2000 at the age of 82. He started painting

one-yearof the air raids from 1970, focusing on the

research

project“Historicalstudies regarding the establishment andsufferings of children and mothers. At thechange of recognition of air raids in

exhibition, a total of 45 paintings werebroadcasting”

displayed including those owned by his

as

a

pilot

programtopromote academic utilization of the NHK

wife, Toshiko Onozawa, and the paintingsarchives.

of the military service he joined and

They

will

look

thoughthedatabase of NHK broadcast programs,

Korakuen district and downtown Tokyovisual tapes and scripts and analyze thewhere the damages still remain. Thechange of air-raid related programs inphotographs of Onozawa himself, posters

volume and time period, as well as
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examining

thecontents

of

major

anniversary after the war: the war anddocumentary and news programs. The

home front in Itabashi district” is held fromresults will be presented on the journal

Jul. 17 to Sep. 26, 2010, focusing on the„„The Research of Politics and Economy.”

newly donated items showing the social

The 24th Study Meeting of Study Groupcustom and history of Itabashi district inof War Damages was held on Jan.29, 2010.

the pre-war, wartime and post-war period.

Shizue Osa, an associate professor of Kobe

With the pre-war and wartime generations

City

Studies,

gradually aging, it is aimed to develop thereported about “Questions on the politics ofresource of peace material and pass them

air raids in the period of occupation.” On

down to the future generation. There is a

the journal “The Research of Politics anddisplay of photographs taken by Koyo

Economy vol.94,” released by the InstituteIshikawa capturing Itabashi area damagedof Politics and Economy on Jun. 1, 2010,by the air raids, and potteries which were

Tetsuo Aoki wrote an article “The air-raid

substituted for metal products due to the

on Tohoku (north-eastern) districts by

shortage of material in the wartime. A

planes of the U.S. navy in the last period ofvideo on air raids and school evacuation is

Asia-Pacific War: the case of Syonai andshown and the exhibition pamphlet is

Mogami area (Yamagata prefecture) on 10

available.

August 1945.”

Tel.03-5998-0081 Fax: 03-5998-0083

UniversityofForeign

The 8th anniversary program “Passing

http://www.city.itabashi.tokyo.jp/kyoudo/

down the stories of the Tokyo Air Raid” washeld on Mar. 6, 2010 at Cameria Hall.

Katsushika City Museum: Tokyo

Tomoe Hiiro, an actress, talked about theMuseum volunteers‟ group, “Katsushika

sufferings of her family in the air raids andExplorers” organized an even titled “Tokyo

recited a war-related book, and a film

Air Raids and Katsushika District: Special

screening and a talk of air raid experience

visit of the ruin of the air raid shelter atwere given.

the Yamamoto‟s residence in Shibamata.”
Participants discussed air raid damages in

A summer program for parents andKastushika and fighter planes made inchildren was held every Saturday in July

Kanamachi.

and August. Picture book reciting, a talk of

Tel.03-3838-1101 Fax:03-5680-0849

air raid experience, a play of picture story

http://www.city.katsushika.lg.jp/museum/ishow and a musical were given in thesendex.html

programs. The participants also enjoyedhand craft workshops such as paper crane

Sumida Heritage Folk Museum: Tokyo

folding and picture letter drawing.

The special exhibition “Teruo Kano andTel.03-5857-5631 Fax: 03-5683-3326

Shojiro Horikiri, the two artists of air

http://www.tokyo-sensai.net/

raids: The heart to depict experiences” isheld from Jul.31 until Sep. 23, 2010 to

Itabashi Historical Museum: Tokyo

mark the 65th anniversary after the war.

The special exhibition titled “The 65th

The exhibition features the two artists,8

School, who evacuated to Nagano
Prefecture near the end of World War II,
and their families were exhibited. “Air-raid
Photographs and People‟s Life in Toshima”
included the photographs of the devastatedarea, as large as two third of Toshima Ward,by a policeman and photographer Koyo
Ishikawa.
The 2010 Spring Exhibition of theMuseum Collection was held on the same
themes from Apr. 1 to Jun. 23, 2010.
The museum bulletin, “Life and Culture”
No. 19, was published on Mar. 27, 2010,
which includes an essay by Tetsuo Aoki
concerning the air raids on Jin-machi and
Tateyama in Yamagata Prefecture inAugust 1945 and evacuated children.
The museum research report No. 21 Evacuation of Schoolchildren (10), “Dairies
and Letters IX – Gyoko Kokumin School(seq.),” was published on Jan. 20, 2010.
Tel: 03-3980-2351 / Fax: 03-3980-5271
http://www.museum.toshima.tokyo.jp/top.html

Teruo Kano and Shojiro Horikiri who losttheir family by air raids and endured thehardships of life after the war. Their“indescribable” memories are reflected on
the paintings that count more than 100
pieces respectively. With all their paintings
displayed, the exhibition explores thecharacteristics of their artistic expressions
and studies the messages and meanings ofthe pictures drawn by the survivors of the
air raids. The special lecture titled “TheTokyo Great Air Raid told by the artists of
air raid” will be held on Aug.15, 2010,
inviting Kano and Horikiri as a speaker.
On Aug. 8, 2010, a gallery talk and thePeace Memorial Concert will be held.
Tel.03-5619-7034 Fax: 03-3625-3431
http://www/city.sumida.lg.jp/sisetu_info/sir
you/kyoudobunka/index.html
The Fifth Lucky Dragon Display House:Tokyo
An art exhibition on the 5th Lucky Dragon,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Seitaro Kurada
was held from last fall to this spring. This
exhibition was also held from August 3rd to
15th in Nagasaki City last year. The Bikini
Atolls were designated as one of the World
Heritage Sites in August. It was used as asite for the development of nuclear weaponsand nuclear tests after World War II. It is
not possible for people to live there because it
is contaminated with radioactivity. There
will be an exhibition on the Bikini Atolls as a
World Heritage site from October 10th, 2010.

Meguro History Museum: Tokyo
The Spring Exhibition, “65 Years
after the War: Air Raids on Meguro andLife at the Home Front,” was held from Apr.
13 to Jun. 20, 2010. The exhibition
examined people‟s life in war time and therealities of the air raids, in order to remind
people of the historical facts and prevent
another tragedy. The exhibition provided agood opportunity to consider war and peace
today. Repeated air raids on Meguro areafrom April to May 1945 had caused deaths
and casualties among over 1,800 civilians
by the end of the war. Diaries andphotographs depicting terrible air raids
and household products during and after
the war, which reflected the hard life of thecivilians, were exhibited.
The exhibition consisted of several
themes. “Regulations in the Town”

Toshima Historical Museum: Tokyo
The 2009 Winter Exhibition of theMuseum Collection was held from Jan. 14
to Mar. 2010. The exhibition consisted ofseveral themes. At the “Wartime Children Evacuation of Schoolchildren” section,
letters between pupils of Gyoko Komumin
9examined the Women‟s Club activities.
Women took a pivotal role in thecommunity while men were sent to war.
The Women‟s Clubs took part in the
preparations for war and gave assistance tothe military. “Materials Control andSubstituteGoods”
examinedthemilitary-first policy on goods and rationing
system under the National Mobilization
Law. Ceramic and wooden substitutes for
metal
implements,
whichbecamecommonplace after the enforcement of theMetal Collecting Act in September 1941,
were exhibited in the section. “Meguro
under Air Attack” examined civil life andthe extent of damage under great air
attack in May 1945 through diaries,
documents, and fire-extinguishing tools.
“Life after the War” presented the road topostwar reconstruction. After the air raids
on major cities and the atomic bombings ofHiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan accepted
the Potsdam Declaration and greeted theend of the war. People faced serious foodand supply shortages, which gave rise to a
black market around the country. We
examined here how people survived andrecovered from the war.
Tel: 03-3715-3571 / Fax: 03-3715-1325
http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/shisetsu/s
hisetsu/bijutsu/kyodo/index.html

Tel: 0428-23-6859
http://www.city.ome.tokyo.jp/kyodo/hakubu
tsu.html
Hachioji City Historical Museum: Tokyo
The exhibition, “War and People‟s Lives,”
was held from Jul. 3 to Aug. 31, 2010.
Documents on air raids, air defense,
rationing, and war propaganda, andsubstituting goods were exhibited.
Tel: 042-622-8939 / Fax: 042-627-5919
http://homepage3.nifty.com/hachioji-city-m
useum/
Higashiyamato City Museum: Tokyo
The exhibition, “Pictorial History of theBattle Site of Tama,” was held from Jul. 17
to Sep. 20, 2010. The exhibition examined
the trace of air raids and military facilities
in Tama area captured in photographs, toremind people of the horrors and tragedy of
war and the importance of peace.
Tel: 042-567-4800 / Fax: 042-567-4166
http://www.city.higashiyamato.lg.jp/24,0,29
7.htmlFussa Local Material Hall: Tokyo
The Special Exhibition, “Wartime
Schools and Children – War Materials
Exhibition for Peace,” is held from Jul. 10
to Oct. 3, 2010. We hold the war-related
exhibition coinciding with the war-end
anniversary every year to remind people ofthe preciousness of peace today. The
exhibition this year highlights schools andchildren in time of war and examines thechild culture of the time through school
textbooks, the Imperial Rescript on
Education, illustrated books, magazines,
and games. The exhibition also includes
school air defense journals, ration tokens,
passbooks, picture postcards, and othermaterials. This year marks the 65th year
since the end of the Pacific War and the40th anniversary of the incorporation of

Oume-shi Kyodo Hakubutsukan (Ome City
Museum ): Tokyo
The
museum‟s
first
war-related
exhibition, “War and Life,” was held from
Jul. 3 to Aug. 22, 2010. The exhibition
presented the museum collection donatedby citizens including the playing card,
Manga, substituting goods, national
uniforms, and military equipment. The
exhibition passed on memories of painful
era, to renew our pledge not to fight a war
again, and to re-acknowledge theimportance of peace.
10Fussa as a city. With memories of the war
fading over time, the exhibition wasplanned to look at the history of Fussa andthe war on this occasion.
A lecture to commemorate the Hall‟s
Special Exhibition 2010, “Schools and theChild Culture,” was given by Prof.
Kakuichiro Hishiyama of the faculty ofeducation of the Meisei University on Jul.
31, 2010, which approached the childculture of the time through picture books
and picture-story shows.
Tel: 042-530-1120 / Fax: 042-552-1722
http://www.museum.fussa.tokyo.jp/event/0
3.htmlRaids, copies of schoolchildren‟s journal of
evacuation, and paper cranes wishing forpeace by Noriko Soma, who is participatingin the production of the Peace Objet in thegovernment office building.
The
exhibition, “War in Showa,” was held from
Jul. 31 to Aug. 15, 2010. Books published in
war time, documents on war damage, photo
albums, and other war-related materials
were exhibited.
A related lecture, “Reportage on the Last
Day of the War – The Truth of
Gyokuon-hoso (Imperial Rescript on the
Termination of the War),” of the Sumida
Cultural Lecture Series was given by
Tsuneaki Hibi, a researcher of history of
warfare, patent attorney, and chief of the
Hibi Patent Office, on Aug. 14, 2010.
Tel: 03-3631-4621
http://www.city.sumida.lg.jp/sisetu_info/lib
rary/info/sumidabunkakouza/index.html

Setagaya Art Museum Annex - Miyamoto
SaburoCommemoration
Fine
Arts
Museum: Tokyo
The exhibition, “Miyamoto Saburo
1940-1945,” is held from Jul. 31 to Nov. 28,
2010. Saburo Miyamoto (1905-1974) isfamous for his war painting, “Meeting of Lt.
Gen. Yamashita and Lt. Gen. Percival”.
The exhibition focuses on his works from1940 to 1945, the turbulent and confusing
time of war. Also included are the works
executed during his stay in Europe before
the war and from the war-battered period.
Books reflecting the social conditions of thetime, photographs taken in China andPhilippines where he joined an army are
exhibited together to retrace footsteps ofthe painter who confronted the changing
times.
Tel: 03-5483-3836 / Fax: 03-3722-5181
http://www.miyamotosaburo-annex.jp/

Tokyo
Hukko
Kinen-kan(TokyoRestoration Memorial Hall ): Sumida Ward
The Special Exhibition, “Photographs of
War Damage by Koyo Ishikawa,” was heldfrom Feb. 16 to Mar. 14, 2010.
Tel: 03-3622-1208
Aizu
Museum,WasedaUniversity:
Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
The 2010 Spring Exhibition of Waseda
University Archives, “Inejiro Asanuma andhis Historical Backdrop - Marking the 50th
Anniversary of his Death,” was held from
Mar. 25 to Apr. 17, 2009. Half a century has
passed since a politician Asanuma wasstabbed to death by a young extreme
rightist at a rally of three party leaders at
the Hibiya Public Hall. The exhibition
examined his 60 years of life and thehistorical backdrop, in an attempt toretrace his life as an energetic politician
nicknamed “human locomotive” who had
won public trust. The exhibition

Sumida Ward Midori Library: Tokyo
The exhibition, “Evacuation, Great Air
Raids and a Wish for Peace,” was held from
Mar. 5 to 25, 2010. The exhibition included
paintings of the bombed-out town by
Shoujiro Horigiri, aerial photos taken by
the US forces at the time of the Great Air
11consisted of five sections: 1. Hibiya PublicHall on Oct.12, 1960, 2. Days of Waseda,
3. For the Emancipation of the Have-nots,
4. Standard-bearer of Reform, and 5.
Becoming a Chairman and his Death”.
The exhibition catalogue is now
available.
Tel: 03-5286-3835 / Fax: 03-5286-1812
http://www.waseda.jp/aizu/index-j.html

the people who survived the war and thepost war period.
Books, videos, and photographs arecontinually presented at the lobby of themuseum.
The 22nd exhibition, “Great Tokyo Air
Raids by Shojiro Horigiri” was held from
Mar. 2 to Apr. 18, 2010. At the night of
the air raids, he was on watch at a
military arsenal and averted the disaster.
At first light, he wandered through burnt
ruins looking for his family in vain. He
had sealed off the painful memories until
one day he felt a sense of responsibility topass down the memories of the night andbegan painting. The exhibition presented
some of his works.
The
23rdexhibition,“Nobuaki
Muraoka–WashdrawingandCalligraphy of Great Tokyo Air Raids,”
was held from Apr. 20 to May 31, 2010.
Muraoka, who had experienced the GreatTokyo Air Raids, donated 19 works of oilpainting and 160 works of wash drawing
and calligraphy depicting his experience
to our museum on Mar. 10, 2010,
marking the 65th anniversary of the air
raids.
The
24th
Special
Exhibition
Commemorating the 65th Anniversary of
the War‟s End, “Magazines from the 20thYear of the Showa Era,” was held from
Jun. 1 to Jul. 19, 2010. The year 1945
was a turbulent year moving from thewar end to the postwar period. Only alimited number of magazines were
published in the year due to supply
shortage. The exhibition included the“Shukan Sho-kokumin” and “Asahi
Graph” of rarity value.
Tel: 03-3222-2577 / Fax: 03-3222-2575
http://www.showakan.go.jp/

National Showa Memorial Museum:
Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo
The Special Exhibition, “Museum
Collection – Life and Scenery in Block
Prints” Part 1, was held from Mar. 13 toApr. 11, 2010, and Part 2 from Apr. 13 to
May 9, 2010. The exhibition presented
block prints depicting people‟s life andscenery from the early Showa to postwar
era. Three drawings of air-raid disasterby Otohiko Muramatsu were exhibited
additionally. The exhibition catalogue is
now available.
The
Special
Exhibition
Commemorating the 65th Anniversary of
the War‟s End, “Losing families in theWar,” was held from Jul. 31 to Aug. 29,
2010. Families lived separately at thefront and behind the lines caring for eachother. Soldiers fought believing thevictory of the country. The national
government backed up the soldiers‟families as well as the families of the war
dead. People helped each other atworkplaces, schools, and in theneighborhood. Defeat in war on Aug. 15,
1945 completely changed people‟s lives.
Especially the families of the war deadwent through the mill with no one to rely
on. After days of struggle to carve new
lives for themselves, people survived andproceeded to a path toward postwar
reconstruction. The exhibition included
the newly-acquired materials on familiesof the war dead along with testimonies of

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship:
Yokohama City12

An exhibition organized by the volunteer
members was held from May 29th to August
31st to pass the horrible war memory to thenext generation. The title was „The 65th
anniversary of the Yokohama Air Raid‟ andthe real materials such as documents
regarding air raids and air defense, food atthat time, the photo of the Emperor, school
textbooks, army utensils and photos takenin the region including Yokohama wereshown. Lectures were also given from May
29th to June 4th.
Another exhibition named „Smiles‟ byfour professional photographers was heldfrom June 12th to July 31st. The
photographers, Robert Capa, Eugene
Smith, John Swope and Jun Miki, were
working for a magazine „Life‟ took photos inJapan just after the war ended. Though
they were taken 65 years ago, they madeviewer realize how dreadful the war was
and how Japanese people tried to rebuild
their life after the war. John Swope caught
a photo of a smiling Japanese who told the
feeling of relief. Kiyosato Photo Museum
owns all of the works and it published anillustrated book of the exhibition.
Tel:045-896-2121 Fax:045-896-2299
http://www.k-i-a.or.jp/plaza/
Kawasaki Peace
Prefecture

Museum:On March 27th, a talk gathering regarding
war time experiences along with musicalperformance was organized. And on 28th, ina symposium students of a local high school
discussed war history that they learned
from those who had firsthand experiences.
Tel:044-433-0171 Fax: 044-433-0232
http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/25/25heiwa/home/heiwa.htm
Sagamihara City Museum: Kanagawa
The museum held an educational
exhibition “Life during and after the War“from January 23 to April 4, 2010. The
exhibition introduced “Daily Life of Some
Years Ago”, displaying items selected fromour collections for school students. This
year‟s exhibition focused on the life of thedays and its change to understand the
feelings of people at that time.
The displays comprised of;
1. Origination of Sagamihara as
Military Capital: the relationship ofthe city and Japanese military
including items on army facilities
and the plan of the city developed asa military capital.
2. Soldiers
and
their
Families:
materials on soldiers going to the war
and the families sending them offand praying for safety, including
uniforms and thousand-stitch belts
which were embroidered by athousand women for good-luck.
3. Household
Articles:householdarticles which were drasticallychanged after the war displayed bythemes such as cooking, storing,washing, and listening to music.
4. Old Classroom: an old classroom
duplicated to introduce how students
were spending at the school,
including school lunches in the
different times.
Expository documents listing the main

Kanagawa

From March 13th to May 9th, an
exhibition named „A record of Kawasaki Air
Raid‟ was held to show the history of the
war time. The U.S. bombing on Kawasaki
City started at 10:03 pm on April 15th in1945. This exhibition displayed the realmaterials including a shell of an incendiarybomb, life utensils, records of war
experiences, pictures taken by the U.S.
army, clothes and documents. Many ofthem were borrowed from Showakan
Museum and Kawasaki City Archive.
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displays are available.
Tel: (81)42-750-8030, Fax: (81)42-750-8061
http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~sagami/

HAMADA Chimei (b.1917), who is active
not only as a print artist but also as asculptor. The exhibition included about 160
prints and 60 sculptures from the “Elegy of
the Recruit” series, in which he revealed
the tragedy of war and unjustness of thearmy, to works satirizing the lonelinessandabsurdity
wehavetoday.
Commemorating the donation of 128 prints
by HAMADA in 2008, the exhibition alsopresented
collectionsofKumamoto
Prefectural Museum of Art along withdeposited sculptures and our printcollections.
The prints included the “Elegy of the
Recruit” series and the later antiwar works,
and the sculptures included “Landscape”
depicting a girl standing still in a cityburned out from war and a piece inspired
from the Recruit series. Furthermore, thesketches of a battle front in China andraid-ravaged site in Kumamoto, and adrawing of Japanese military marchcollaged with faces of Chinese children
peering through the window are also
displayed.
Exhibition
catalogueispublished.
In association with that, Hidefumi HASHI,
a curator of the exhibition, lectured “Art ofHamada Chimei as a Printmaker and a
Sculptor” at the auditorium on August 7,
2010.
Tel: (81)46-875-2800
http://www.moma.pref.kanagawa.jp/public/
HallTop.do?hl=h

Hiratsuka City Museum: Kanagawa
The museum held a summer special
exhibition “Hiratsuka Air Raids: Citizens‟
Study” from July 7 to September 5, 2010.
Since 1989, a group of citizens, who havebeen gathering for recording the air raids
and war damages, has been collecting
witnesses and relative items of the air
raids. Marking the 65th anniversary of the
Hiratsuka raid, the exhibition introduced
the reality of the raids uncovered bycitizens and the relationship between
civilians and the war, in addition toachievements of the group and items
collected after the previous summer
exhibition held in 1995. Exhibition
catalogue is available.
The display comprised of;
1. Whole Aspect of Hiratsuka Air Raids,
2.U.S. Operation Plan Found in Documents, 3. Damage in Air Raids, 4. Other
Air Raids, 5. Toward Reconstruction, 6.
Review of Way to Air Raids.
In association with that, a forum titled“Hiratsuka Air Raids: Think with Victims
in Numazu and Toyama” was held on July17, 2010, which revealed the feature ofHiratsuka raids. On August 7, 2010, theformer director Hiroshi Doi delivered amemorial lecture “Why was Hiratsuka

attacked?”
Tel: (81)463-33-5111, FAX: (81)463-31-3949
http://www.hirahaku.jp/

Shizuoka Peace Museum: Shizuoka
The museum opened the exhibition
marking the 65th anniversary of the air
raid “Great Air Raid in Shimizu, Shizuoka:

The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama:
Hayama, Kanagawa
The museum opened an exhibition “TheWorld of Hamada Chimei: Elegy and
Humor in Prints and Sculptures” at ourContinuous Armed Conflicts in the World”
and “Takekazu OKAMOTO: Prints of Air
Raid” on June 4 to October 3, 2010.

Galleries 1-4 from July 10 to September 5,
2010. It was a retrospective of works by

Tel: (81)54-247-9641, Fax: (81)54-247-9641
http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-heiwa/
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Iwata City Historical Archives: Shizuoka
A special exhibition “Iwata and War inConscription Documents” is being heldfrom April 5 to September 30, 2010. This
year marks the 65th anniversary of the war
end and three quarters of the current
Japanese population are born after the war.
While the memories of the war are fading
away today, rare conscription documents
survived in Iwata are being shown to the
public for the first time to pass down theexperience of the war. It also displays apart of the tail of Type 1 land-based attack
aircraft that made a crash landing on the
Samejima Coast right after the war defeat
in landing back from the duty as asurrenderherald.
Itprovidedanopportunity to think about war and peace.
Tel: (81)538-66-9112, Fax: (81)538-66-972
http://www.city.iwata.shizuoka.jp/guide/58
7.html (Japanese only)in the air raid by 124 U.S. bomber B29s on
August 7, 1945. The exhibition included
items related to the war and soldiers
owned by former Mito Town along with ourcollections such as products and tools of thefactory, and houseware. Since 2007, themuseum has been collecting and showing
drawings of the naval factory done bypeople having experience of the war. This
attempt was begun because visual items
might be helpful to pass down the war
experience to the future generations.
Tel: (81)533-85-3775, Fax: (81)533-85-3776
http://www.city.toyokawa.lg.jp/tanto/bunka/museum.html
Yukonoshita History Museum: Fukui
A huge picture on the air-raids of Fukui
was exhibited at Fukui Prefectural Libraryfrom August 1st to 31st. Experiences of the
air-raids and literature on war were
exhibited there.
Tel: 0776-52-2169

Sakuragaoka Museum; Toyokawa City
Folk Museum: Aichi
As every summer, the museum held an
exhibition “Toyokawa Naval Factory” from
July 17 to August 29, 2010. This series ofexhibitions is to think about the war, which
existed also in our city, through knowing
the history of Toyokawa naval factory andthe war. It was decided to build the factory
beyond the border of three towns for
production of naval weapons in 1938, andlaunched on December 15, 1939. The
facility produced range finders, binoculars
and shooting equipments used on thebattle ships, as well as bullets andmachineguns, volume of which was thegreatest amount in Japan. The prosperityof the factory increased the population andstrengthened the tie among towns,
resulting in large effect on the origin anddevelopment of the city of Toyokawa. The
factory, however, was catastrophicallydamaged and over 2500 people were killed

Yokkaichi Municipal Museum: Mie
The museum held an educational
exhibition “Yokkaichi Air Raid and Lifeduring the War” at Salvia gallery (3F) from
June 12 to September 5, 2010. It was tointroduce the air raid in Yokkaichi and life
during the war through real items andphotos, including models of a bomb shelter
and a fire bomb.
Tel: (81)59-355-2700, Fax: (81)59-355-2704
http://www.city.yokkaichi.mie.jp/museum/Taki Town Folk Museum: Mie
The museum held a special exhibition“Iconography Created by War: National
Policy in Picture Stories” from January 7 toMarch 21, 2010. This year marks the 65th
anniversary of the end of the Asia PacificWar. While the number of people who
experienced the war is decreasing year
after year, we must always think back and15

pass down the war as important memories
to remember. The exhibition focused on the
iconography (pictures of a particularsubject) relating to the war that was
created at that time, and displayed picture
story boards for the national policy. Picture
story show has begun and gained much
popularity in the early Showa era(1925-1989). Taking advantage of it, they
began to create picture stories as apropaganda tool to make people cooperatewith the war. Those were named an“educational picture stories” at the time,
which now are called “picture stories for anational policy”. Most of them have been
discarded from fear of future trouble orforfeited by GHQ after the war. The display
included three picture stories donated lastyear and various iconographies drawn on
publications and objects to uplift people‟swill to fight and propagandize the national
policies. What story do the iconographies
tell us? The exhibition aimed to deliver an
opportunity to rethink about horror of war
and preciousness of peace. From April 14 toJune 25 in 2010, it was held also at Taki
Town Seiwa Folk Museum.
An exhibition “War and Illustrated
Postcards” was held from July 9 to
September 26, 2010. The exhibition showed
227 postcards issued in the early 20th
century, which are depicting battle site or
propagandizing the policy, aiming toexperience the people‟s life and feeling
during the war through them.
TEL: (81)598-38-1132

of the local citizens. This summer‟s theme
was mobilized teenage students. They wereforced to do harsh work by the government
to supplement the labor shortage in arms
industry and food production at the lastperiod of WWII after 1943. The exhibition
showed some 30 items including diary of
Mitsuko ADACHI, who was a 16-year-old
student of Kinomoto girls‟ high school,
written at the worksite from July 1944 to
March 1945, as well as a cannon ball madeby students of Hikone Technical HighSchool, mandatory student certifications,and uniforms of junior high school of theday. Although some parts of her diary showa hint of harsh life suffering from lice andhunger, there‟s no description as “painful”
or “terrible” because of the censorship.
In association with it, Takanobu
MIZUTANI, a teacher at Nagahamahokusei High School and the author of areportage “Record of Student Mobilizationin Shiga”, delivered a historical lecture
titled the same as his book at neighboring
Asai Library on July 31, 2010. On July 25,
a picture story “Children who Called for an
Elephant” was played by Maiha OKIMURA
from Otsu City who is active in telling war
experiences through picture stories andother forms.
Tel: (81)749-74-0101
http://www.city.nagahama.shiga.jp/index/0
00012/002487.html
The museum held the 85th mini
exhibition “Otsu, War, and Citizens” from
July 21 to September 12, 2010. Marking
the 65th anniversary of the end of the Asia
Pacific War, the memories of the war isfading away in time. The exhibition was tothink about the importance of passing
down the cruel war and the truth of civil
life to the next generation, through various
materials related to the war.
Tel: (81)77-521-2100, Fax: (81)77-521-2666

Asai Historical Folk Museum: Nagahama
City, Shiga
The museum held its 8th exhibition of“Memorial of War End: Days of Student
Mobilization” from July 22 to September 5,
2010. The series of exhibitions introduces
the history of war through remains ofsoldiers and their families and experiences16http://www.rekihaku.otsu.shiga.jp/

Tel: (81)75-344-1305 Fax: (81)75-344-1327
http://kyo-gakurehaku.jp/

Kyoto Municipal Museum of School History
The Museum is holding a special exhibition“MemoriesofCollective
Student
Evacuation” from June 25 to September 27,
2010. Facing the escalating Asia Pacific
War and imminent battle on the mainland,
the Japanese Ministry of Education had
encouraged students to evacuate to theplaces of their relatives. On June 30 in
1944, the Cabinet decided to have childrenof elementary schools to evacuate in groups.
Although the city of Kyoto had not planned
the evacuation initially, it began to carryout the first evacuation of students at third
grade and above after March in 1945,
because of the urgent situation such as the
air strike on the eastern part of the city in
January of that year. Rural towns orvillages in Kyoto prefecture were
designated by region as evacuation site,while temples, churches and hotels
supplied place to live. The evacuatedstudents attended the class with the local
children at the school of the reception areas,
and labored after the class such as plowing
thefield.
Sufferingfromhunger,homesickness and insect pests, theseven-month evacuation life without theirparents was so harsh for young childrenthat some of them ran away. Also forteachers, it was a strait period, being
entrusted the students‟ lives. Meanwhile,some of them still continue the interaction
with the people of the reception areas now,
keeping profound memories of the past.
Throughcollecting
thevaluable
experiences of those people and showing
the materials of the collective evacuation,
the exhibition helps to hand it down to the
future generations and feel preciousness ofpeace and human rights. Expository
handout and exhibition catalogue areavailable.

Osaka International Peace Center: Osaka
The museum held a special exhibition“Scorched Osaka: Air Raids on Photos” at
our special exhibit room from March 11 toJuly 11, 2010. Around the last days of the
Pacific War, Osaka experienced over 50 air
raids that reduced the center of the city toashes. The exhibition visually clarified
whole picture of Osaka air raids withphotos of the bombed city which wererecently discovered. It included about 100of photos and descriptions, many of which
are representing the reality of damage inOsaka air raids, and about 40 real items
such as broken pieces of 1-ton bomb,
helmets of civil defense units and Boku
Zukin (cotton helmets for air defense).
On March 13, Professor Yasunori ODA
from
Osaka
Electro-communication
University lectured at our auditorium as
an activity for peace and consolation.
Tel: (81)6-6947-7208, Fax: (81)6-6943-6080
http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/
Sakai City Peace and Human Rights
Museum (Phoenix Museum): Osaka
The museum held an exhibition “Sakai
Air Raids: Paintings and Photos” from
June 1 to July 31, 2010. Through paintingsof the war experience and documentary
photos, the aim of the exhibition is to think
about cruel war and preciousness of peace
as well as to remember that wars violate
human rights most. The Pacific War began
in 1941. After 1945, there were air raids ona number of cities in Japan. The air raids
in Sakai broke out on March 3 in 1945,
followed by four raids on June 15 and 26,
July 10 and August 10. Among them, thefourth raids in the early hours on July 10
killed 1,860 people and burned out morethan 18,000 houses at one night, which
17reduced the most of the historical urban
area into burnt ruins. After the tragedy,
already 65 years have passed now and wetend to forget preciousness of peace midst
the postwar peace and prosperity.
Tel: (81)72-270-8150, Fax: (81)72-270-8159
http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/city/info/_jinken/
index.html“Japan”: Learn about the colonial time1) What is a colony?
2) What is Annexation of Korea?
3) Did people in Korean Peninsula become
Japanese?
4) Didn‟t Koreans disapprove?
5) How did Japan govern in Korea?
6) What did the children study at school?
7) Which position Koreans take in the
Asia Pacific War?

Osaka Human Rights Museum (Liberty
Osaka): Osaka
The museum opened an exhibition forfamilies“A Hundred Years afterAnnexation of Korea: Learn the History” onJune 22 through August 29, 2010. This
year marks the 100th anniversary ofannexation of Korea that Japan colonized
Korean Peninsula. The exhibition was to goover to see the relationship between Japanand Korean Peninsula. The display wasarranged in question and answer format tolearn the relationship from ancient time up
to the present and the various problems
over Korean residents in Japan. It provided
children and families with an occasion tothink about what we need to do to build thebetter future relationship between Japanand the peninsula and to realize amulticultural coexistence society. Items
and toys for getting familiar with Korean
culture and play were at the experiencezone,

3. Japanese Rebellion to Joseon Missions toJapan: Learn about peace from anotherwar1) For what did Toyotomi Hideyoshi
dispatch troops in Korea?
2) What made Edo shogunate hurry to
restore relationship with Korea?
3) What kind of envoy was Joseon
mission?
4. Japan and Korean Peninsula: Learn
about its eternal history
1) What people were Torai-jin (the people
from overseas, especially from China and Korea,
who settled in early Japan ?)2) What caused the Battle of Baekgang?
3) What influenced Japanese culture?
5. Neighboring Countries: Learn about
relationship between South Korea andNorth Korea
1) What country is South Korea?
2) What country is North Korea?
3) Colonial time hasn‟t been over yet?
4) What is an abduction issue?
5) What can we do for the future of Japanand Korean Peninsula?
Tel: (81)6-6561-5891, Fax: (81)6-6561-5995
http://www.liberty.or.jp/

The exhibition comprised of;
1. People who connect Japan and Korean
Peninsula: Learn about Korean residents
in Japan
1) What people are Korean residents inJapan?
2) Why did they come to Japan?
3) How did they spend the life in Japan?
4) What did they do?
5) What kind of discrimination is there?

Rekishi-kan
Izumisano(IzumisanoMuseum): Osaka
The exhibition, “War and Peace – Life in
Wartime,” was held from Jul. 31 to Aug.

2. Time when Korean Peninsula was18

29, 2010. The exhibition provided an
opportunity
toreconsider
peace
remembering the horror of war on theoccasion of war-end anniversary of Aug.
15. Museum interns took charge of thedisplay work.
Tel: 072-469-7140 / Fax: 072-469-7141
http://www.city.izumisano.osaka.jp/ka/rekishi.html

The 25th Annual Exhibition,“Peace without Nuclear Weapons” washeld from Jul. 17 to Aug. 31, 2010. Since
the Declaration of the Nuclear-free Cityof Peace on Mar. 6, 1985, Himeji City has
been trying to raise citizens‟ awareness.
The annual exhibition was started in1986 to provide an opportunity to reflect
upon peace without nuclear weapons.
The exhibition included materials fromthe Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum,as well as paintings, calligraphy works,
and graphic design works by elementary
school children and junior and seniorhigh school students in Himeji city.
A concert, “Singing Peace Together,” by the Himeji City Children‟s
Choir was held on Aug. 1, 2010, and agathering to hear about experiences ofA-bomb survivors hosted by Nobuko
Nakamoto was held on Aug. 8, 2010.
Tel: 0792-91-2525 / Fax: 0792-91-2526
http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/

Himeji Historical Peace Center: Hyogo
The Museum Collection Exhibition, “Handmade Charms,” was heldfrom Jan. 9 to Mar. 28, 2010. Ourcollection mainly consists of materials of
the Pacific War period donated by local
citizens and others. We hold theexhibition of our collection on different
themes every year. The theme of thisyear was the handmade charms such as
Sennin-bari (thousand-person-stitches).
Materials donated in the course of thepast year were also included. The
exhibition presented the horror of war
and preciousness of peace. The contents
are as follows: 1. Expository Text –Folklore on Sennin-bari / 2. Handmade
Charms and Coins / 3. Acquisition of the
Past Year incl. gaiters, sashes, andemblems.
A related lecture “Prewar Life
and Air Raids on Himeji,” by Takayuki
Kono was given on Feb. 11, 2010.
The Spring Exhibition, “People‟s
Amusement,” was held from Apr. 10 toJul. 4, 2010. The exhibition presented
movies, music, and other entertainmentof the prewar and postwar periods, aswell as the Himeji city map introducing
entertainment halls, book-lending shops,
and radio shops.
Two storytelling sessions ofHimeji air raids was given by an actress
Maki Komada on May 5, and by Shinichi
Taji on Jun. 20, 2010 respectively.

Kakimori Bunko: Itami City, Hyogo
The Summer Special Exhibition,“65 Years after the War – To My Dearest
Wife: 900 Illustrated Letters from theBattlefield,” was held from Jul. 10 to Aug.
29, 2010. Some 1,000 illustrated lettersof a Japanese-style painter Michio
Maeda to his family and wife were
donated to the museum in 2003.
Commemorating the 65th anniversary of
the war‟s end, the exhibition presented
Maeda‟s cheery illustrations with warm
messages or haiku reflecting the
trajectory of the hearts of the young
couple who were closely bound togetherin spite of separation due to the war.
Letters were sent from China, Kanazawa
in Japan, and the Philippines where he
was on campaign. Also included were his
haiku poems on strips of paper,
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miniatures, and drawings. The catalogueof the exhibition includes the illustrated
letters that are not contained in the firstcatalogue of 2005.
A commemorative speech, “Froma Sheaf of Letters – War, Haiku andLetters,” was delivered by a haiku poet
Kiyoko Uda on Jul. 24, 2010. Related
lectures, “War and Haiku – Militarist
Boys, Anthology of Haiku on War Defeat
in Okinawa, Siberia Concentration Camp,and an Island with Military Bases,” by ahaiku poet Daiyu Kiwari and “65 Years
after the War – To My Dearest Wife: 900
Illustrated Letters from the Battlefield,”
by Koji Hirai were given on Jul. 10 andAug. 7, 2010 respectively.
Tel: 072-782-0244
http://www.kakimori.jp/

given by Lee Yongsik on Mar. 6, 2010.
The 13th Special Exhibition,“High Treason Incident and Burakumin(outcast people)
Issue – Featuring Kumano and Shingu
Groups,” was held from May. 1 to Aug. 31,
2010. Labor campaigns and earlysocialist movements started in full swing
during the period from the JapaneseSino War to the Japanese-Russo War.
Socialists upheld pacifist principles
against the Japanese-Russo War andresisted the annexation of Korea basedon colonialism and the aggressive policy.
The government tried to resolve theliving and financial impasse expanded by
the war - via rural reform movements
domestically, and the annexation of
Korea externally. The government
regarded socialists nothing except for thetraitors and fabricated the High Treason
Incident, an assassination plot against
the Emperor, in an attempt to repress
and eliminate them. It was no
coincidence that the apprehension ofsocialists started in the same year as theannexation of Korea. The exhibition
examined the connection between theincident and the Burakumin issue.
Tel: 0745-62-5588 / Fax: 0745-64-2288
http://www1.mahoroba.ne.jp/~suihei/

Suiheisha Museum: Gose City, Nara
The 10th Exhibition, “Tamba
Manganese Museum,” was held from Dec.
10, 2009 to Mar. 28, 2010. The museum
was opened by Lee
Jeongho, thesecond-generation North Korean inJapan, and his family on May 1, 1989 in
Kyoto as a monument for the kidnapped
fellow countrymen who died young inharsh working condition or havedispersed to nowhere. After the death of
the first director Lee Jeongho on Mar. 23,
1995, his third son Lee Yongsik took over.
However, as the operating budget was
privately funded without support ofpublic fund or anything, which amounted
to 6 to 7 million yen annually, themuseum was closed by necessity in May
2009. The Suiheisha Museum planned
the exhibition hoping the history of
Tamba Manganese Museum to beremembered by as many people aspossible.
A lecture, “Footsteps and Historyof Tamba Manganese Museum,” wasOkayama City Virtual Museum: Okayama
The 33th exhibition of “Records and photos of
War Damages in Okayama” was held from
June 4-30th. There were big U.S. air-raids on
urban districts all over Japan from 1944 to1945.
As for Okayama City, it was
air-raided from 2:43 a.m. to 4:07 on June 29th,
1945. As a result, about 63% of urban
districts were damaged and at least 1700
people were killed. What was it like andwhy did it happen? People who had war
experiences talked about them.
Burntmaterials, citizens‟ testimony, photos and20

videos taken by the U.S. military were used
to explain the air-raids on Okayama City.
The main exhibits are incendiary bombs usedon Okayama City and other artifacts thatwere actually used during World War II andphoto panels before and after the air-raids.
An illustrated book was published. Mr.
Youzou Kudo gave a lecture on the air-raids
from the U.S. perspectives on July 12th, 2010.

There is an exhibition of “Memory not to beforgotten: A Volunteer Army and Demolition
of Buildings (to avoid the spread of fires
resulting from incendiary bombs)” from April
1st to December 28th in 2010.
Many
volunteers were busy demolishing buildings
with students on August 6th, 1945.
Introduced are escaping volunteers after theatomic bombing, sending rescue parties,
families and colleagues‟ anxiety, and nursing
victims through records of experience. It is
hoped that visitors learn real facts of theatomic bombing, sadness, suffering andstrong wishes for peace of atomic bombed
victims and their families.

Tel:086-898-3000 Fax:086-898-3003
http://www.city.okayama.jp/okayama-city-m
useum/
Hiroshima
Peace
Memorial
Museum:Hiroshima City
The second photo exhibition of Yuichiro
Sasaki in the 2009 fiscal year was held as the60th anniversary of the establishment ofConstruction Law of Hiroshima Peace
Memorial City from January 3rd to July 12th.
The content of the exhibition is as follows:

Tel:082-543-6271 Fax:082-543-6273
http://www.hiro-tsuitokinenkan.go.jp/
Hiroshima Castle: Hiroshima City
An exhibition of “The Devastation ofHiroshima Castle! Reality of Damage” washeld from July 16th to September 5th.
Hiroshima Castle was used by the military
and an emphasis is put on damages by theatomic bomb. The castle tower and militaryfacilities were burnt down and totally
destroyed. Photo panels are used to show
the reality of the damage.

１．Hiroshima from a viewpoint of an atomic
bombed dome
２．What happened in Hiroshima? Recordsof devastation, days of suffering andchanging city
３ ． Realised peace: children and play,
festivals and events
４．Living with patience: solitude and anxiety,wounded body and mind
５．Sadness and resolution: Mourning victims,
remains even today, August 6th
６．What to do to convey what happened toHiroshima
tofuturegenerations:preservation of atomic bombed materials andthe atomic bombed dome
７．Wish for Peace in Hiroshima

Tel: 082-221-7512 Fax:082-221-7519
http://www.rijo-castle.jp/rijo/main.html
Tokushima Prefectural Museum: Tokushima
City
An exhibition of “American Dolls and theTime of War” was held from July 17th toSeptember 5th.
In 1927 there were
exchanges of dolls to promote friendship andpeace between Japan and the United States.
However, Japan began to fight against China,
the United States and so forth. A doll wassent from Tokushima Prefecture to theUnited States and it was exhibited in themuseum in order to think the preciousness of

Tel:082-241-4004 Fax:082-542-7941
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/
Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for
the Atomic Bomb Victims: Hiroshima City21

peace. An American doll and a Japanese dollare exhibited as well as life before the war,
battlefields, life during the war and U.S.
air-raids on Tokushima. An illustrated book
was published.
A symposium on “War in Modern Shikoku
Community” was held on July 25th in 2010.
There was also a concert on an American doll
and a lecture of “A Blue-Eyed Doll called
Alice” by Kazumi Harada, a writer ofchildren literature on August 1st.

around June 19th when Fukuoka was
air-raided. An emphasis was put on people‟slife supporting the war such as air defense
drills.
Tel:092-845-5011 Fax:092-845-5019
http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/
Ohmuta City Miike Karuta History Museum:
Fukuoka
A peace exhibition was held from June 8th toAugust 29th, 2010. Over sixty years havepassed and we live a peaceful and affluent
life. War memory has been forgotten andmost of the children do not know about war.
War-related materials and cards used during
World War II were exhibited so that thestupidity of war and preciousness of peace
would be understood. (Japanese karuta(cards) is originally from carta in Portugal in
the 16th century.)
Tel＆Fax:0944-53-8780

Tel 088-668-3636 Fax:088-668-7197
http://www.museum.tokushima-ec.ed.jp/defa
ult.htm
Takamatsu Civic Culture Center: Peace
Museum: Kagawa
A photo exhibition on U.S. air-raids on
Takamatsu was held from June 26th to July
11th, 2010.
Paintings by citizens who
experienced the air-raids were also exhibited.
An exhibition on war remains were exhibitedat Takamatsu City Hall from July 26th to
30th.

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum: Nagasaki
City
An exhibition of atomic bombed materials
was held from March 2nd to May 10th. They
were collected and preserved after the atomic
bombing and played an important role inconveying experiences to the next generation.
A photo exhibition of Shuji Aihara washeld from June 15th to September 30th. He
produced a film of “The Influence of theAtomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
and published a book of “Before and After the
Atomic Bombing” which is a collection of
atomic bombed survivors‟ experiences. They
were donated by Saitama Peace Museum in2007.
Tel:095-844-1231 Fax:095-846-5170
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bo
mb/museum/Tel:087-833-7722 Fax:087-861-7724
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/1794.h
tml
German Museum: Tokushima
There are various events besides thepermanent exhibition such as German
Festival in October, an art exhibition, aconcert, a film festival, a beer festival, awine festival and so forth. The details areon the website both in Japanese andGerman.
http://www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/conten
ts/germanhouse/about.html
Fukuoka City Museum: Fukuoka
A 19th exhibition of “War and Our Life” washeld from June 15th to August 15th.
War-related materials have been exhibited

Nagasaki Peace Museum: Nagasaki City
A photo exhibition of “From Above in22

Nagasaki” by Paule Saviano was held from
June 29th to July 19th. He was born in New
York and began to use a camera when he wastwelve. He majored in Visual Media andpolitics. He worked as a photographer after
he graduated from college and his works
have been introduced in magazines in theworld. He started a project called “FromAbove” in 2008 and showed it in Tokyo in
March, 2009. He will also show portraits ofvictims of air-raids on Dresden in Germany
and Tokyo at the same time in 2011.
In Nagasaki, he showed twenty-one
photographs of eleven atomic bomb victims in
Nagasaki and six victims of the U.S. air-raidsof Tokyo.

Naha City Tsuboya Pottery Museum:
Okinawa
An exhibition on the recovery in Okinawa is
described above. Nearly 90% of Naha City
was burnt down by the U.S. air raid on
October 10th, 1944. The battle in Okinawa
started on April 1st, 1945 when the U.S.
military landed the beach of Yomitan and
Kadena village.
Shuri, the capital of
Ryukyu Kingdom, Naha, the capital of
Okinawa were destroyed by the air raid on
October 10th and the ground warfare. On
the other hand, 103 ceramists began to makehousehold utensils such as china bowls andjars. People had to use a half bottle ofCoca-cola and cans, so they were happy touse pottery. The recovery in Naha started
with making pottery in Tsuboya and this wasintroduced in the exhibition.
Tel:098-862-3761 Fax:098-862-3762
http://www.edu.city.naha.okinawa.jp/tsuboya/

Tel: 095-818-4247
http://www.nagasakips.com/
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial
Museum: Itoman City, Okinawa
An exhibition on memory and pray for peacein poetry was held from December 25th in2009 to January 9th in 2010. An exhibitionof new collection was held from june 15th toJuly 31st.
Tel:098-997-3844 Fax:098-997-3947
http：//www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp

Nago Museum: Okinawa
An exhibition on a monument for consolingthe spirit of the deceased in Nago of Yanbaru
was held from June 12th to 27th, 2010. There
are such monuments in twelve towns andvillages and they were introduced in photo
panels and rubbed copies of the monuments.
Tel:0980-53-1342 FAX:0980-53-1362

Naha City History Museum: Okinawa
An exhibition on the destruction of Naha andrecovery was held from May 13th to June 30th,
2010. It was held both by Naha City History
Museum and Tuboya Yakimono (pottery)Museum.
Naha was air raided anddamaged by the United States and the U.S.
military. But Naha began to recover bymaking pottery in Tsuboya, the home ofpottery. Naha before the war, the air raid,
and the battle in Naha were shown in photo
panels and materials.
Tel:098-869-5266 Fax:098-869-5267
http://www.rekishi-archive.city.naha.okinawa.jp/

http://www.city.nago.okinawa.jp/4/3628.html
Iemura Local Museum: Okinawa
An exhibition of “The Pacific War and Iejima
island” was held in June, 2010.
Tel:0980-49-2906
Ginowan City Museum: Okinawa
An exhibition of “The Battle in Okinawa:
Ginowan that became a battlefield” was heldfrom June 16 to July 4th, 2010. Ginowan
became one of the sites of a hard-fought
battle 65 years ago. People‟s testimony,23

photos, U.S. military uniforms and so forth
were exhibited. A lecture on the war in
Ginowan was held on June 19th and people
visited war remains on June 20th, 2010.
Tel:098-870-9317 Fax:098-870-9316
http://www.city.ginowan.okinawa.jp/2556/25
62/2563/2564/1419.html

Under
the
Mongolian
Government
resolution, this Museum was founded on
October 6, 1993 in the house where Prime
Minister P. Genden had lived and worked
in 1930-1936, who was then executed in1937 by KGB in Moscow.

Uruma City Ishikawa History & Fold
Museum: Okinawa
An exhibition on the battle of Okinawa washeld from June 15th to July 11th. The factthat shells that still remain in the sea wasintroduced.
Tel＆Fax:098-965-3866
http://www.city.uruma.lg.jp/1/201.html

The Museum was officially opened in 1996
on the Day of Politically PersecutedVictims, September 10.
The Museum‟s mission is to inform
Mongols about this unprecedented tragedy,
to commemorate those suffered, and to
inspire visitors to contemplate the moral
implications of their civic responsibilities.
Thousands of innocent were arrested, faced
false political charges, dishonored asrenegades of their Motherland and own
people,andassassinatedbythetotalitarian communist regime, which
infringed on the human rights.
Contact details:
BEKHBAT Sodnom, Director of theMemorial Museum of Victims of Politicalpersecutions
Tel: (976) 70110915
Email: info@memorialmuseum.info
http://memorialmuseum.info/

A Peace Museum Project in Okinawa
A U.S. fighter crashed Miyamori elementary
school in Ishikawa City in Okinawa on June30, 1959. Eleven children and six people
were killed. Yoshio Taira, the 2nd grader atthat time, became the principal of the school
and founded a peace museum project.
About 300 articles were donated. The nameis Ishikawa Miyamori 630 Museum. They
ask people to donate money.
http://www.miyamori630.net/

Overseas News
Pegge Patten Singer‟s Art Works
Memorial Museum of victims of politicalpersecutions: Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia
The Museum is initiated by Dr. G.
Tserendulam, daughter of Prime Minister P.
Genden. She was the first director of thisMuseum.
The Memorial Museum is dedicated topresenting the history of politicalpersecution and murder of thousands ofinnocent victims of the totalitarian regime
from 1922 to 1960s.
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"L=FJE (6)"aka: "Love is Freedom, Justice, and Equality
Maximized - version 6"
pen and ink on inking board
9" x 7"? 2009P. Patten

companion piece to "Seminal Ethics".

"L=FJE (6)" was created to depict the conceptof "Love is Freedom, Justice, and Equality
Maximized," conceived by American ethicist
Mark S. Singer. It is a crystallization of thephilosophical ideas of his work titled"Seminal Ethics" and is in use for a special
presentation for academics and peace
researchers during 2009-2010. Approximately 10,000 presentations have been
e-mailed, with over 600 enthusiastic
respondents from 58 countries.
My design goal was to create a concise image
to convey the meanings and implications of"Love is Freedom, Justice, and Equality
Maximized" without trite symbolism orconfusing imagery. Typography design waschosen because it is the purest art form forthe concept's ethereal ideas.
Lettering, form, color, and placement reveal
important aspects of the relationships andcharacter of the parts of the composition, as
they relate to the whole. Because the color's
qualities are an important visual element formeaning, the original rendering, "L=FJE(1)" ? 1997, was color corrected digitally toarrive at "L=FJE (6)". The gold pen work,with the brick-red color emerging from it, is areference to gold leaf with the undercoat
showing through. This link to a techniquedating back to illuminated manuscripts
helped emphasize the universal ideas in theconcept and keep the design from having onlya modern appeal.
My design approach encourages the ideas in
the ethical presentation to be impressed upona person's mind through a potent,
compressed design, making it the perfect"Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr."11" x 14"
gouache; pen and ink on illustration board? 1995
P. Patten"Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr." is an
illustration about an iconic man and a unique
day in world history. As leader of theAfrican-American Civil Rights Movement,
his unforgettable message of peace and hopein his "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963, is abeacon of hope for all time.
My illustration was created using atechnique called layering. The first layer has
gouache paint applied by sponge to theillustration board, and the second layer has
all the line work done on acetate using pen
and ink.
Layering proved to be favorable for fusing
two elements into his portrait: his likeness,and the elation of the massive crowd
attending his "Dream" speech. Like thelayering that produced this piece, thatparticular day linked the hearts of the people
with the mind of Dr. King.
There is no way to separate the faces of thecrowd from the portrait, as there is no way toseparate the people from his message

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Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

Refugees Museum, it has been visited bymany distinguished guests' visits. On Oct.14
1993, the former Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin paid a visit to the Museum.
former Ohel Moshe Synagogue. He left thesewords in the guestbook, "The Jewish People
were protected by Shanghai People when
they were murdered and driven out by Nazis
and wandered in the world. The Israeli
Government, Jewish People and I thank fortheir help from the bottom of our heart."
Being an important part of Shanghai Jewish
Heritage, on Jan. 13 2004, the former Ohel
Moshe Synagogue was acknowledged as an
excellent historical building and the People's
Government of Shanghai's Hongkou District
declared it to be a protected cultural relic site.
Now, converted into the Shanghai Jewish
Refugees Museum, the three-storey househas been restored to its original state. Its
walls are painted grey barred with lines of
red bricks. Walk into the quiet main hall, andyou will find the ornamentally engraved
doors wide open for visitors. It is very quiet.
The walls and pillars of the baroque,stone-arched door way have been repainted.
The old stuff was gone, except the only thefloor tiles are original, from the time of theJewish occupation, the chairs and thependant lamps being newly added in the hall.
The chairs in the front of the hall arearranged as a place of worship. The Old
pictures of Jewish halls and many houses
built by Sassoon (a wealthy Jewish
merchant) hang on the walls. The decorations
and furnishings in the building create a
serene and auspicious atmosphere.
Entrance Fee: CNY 50
Opening Hours: 09:00-17:00
Subway: 1. Take Subway Line 1 and get off at
Ren Min Guang Chang Station (People's
Square), take bus No. 921 at Xi Zang Zhong
Lu Station and get off at Ti Lan Qiao Station
and walk about 400 meters (437 yards) to themuseum.

Located on Changyang Road in the Hongkou
District, the Shanghai Jewish Refugees
Museum was built in memory of the time
during the Second World War when Jewish
refugees sought sanctuary from massacre. It
is housed in the former Ohel Moshe
Synagogue where the Jewish refugees
gathered for religious activities. The museum
holds many scrolls and other cultural relics.
Built in 1927, the former Ohel Moshe
Synagogue (the prototype of Shanghai
Jewish Refugees Museum) was also theheadquartersoftheJewishYouthOrganization. Between the year 1937 and1941, Shanghai has received 25,000 Jewish
refugees and became the only metropolis in
the world which did not refuse Jews. The
number of Jewish refugees that Shanghai
took in was equal to the total taken in by
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India andSouth Africa. "Ohel Moshe Synagogue"
became a synonym for "rescue" and "refuge".
The Jewish refugees lived a free and peacefullife around the former Ohel Moshe
Synagogue. Between the end of the Second
World War II and 1960's, many left China
and emigrated to all parts of the world one
after another. But the life in Shanghai was somemorable, and they considered Shanghai as
theirsecondhometown
andcalledthemselves "Shanghai Jews".
In the autumn of 1986, a group ofJews who had taken refuge in Shanghai
revisited the place. Feeling an immense
gratitude towards the people of Shanghai for
their help, they presented a plaque to thePeople's Government of the Hongkou District,inscribed, "20,000 Jewish refugees were
survived in Shanghai during the Second
World War. To all the survivors and friendly
Chinese people we dedicated this plaque."Ever since the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue
was approved to become the Shanghai Jewish
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2. Take Subway Line 3 and get off at Bao
Shan Lu Station, take Subway Line 4 and get
off at Da Lian Lu Station and walk about 550
meters (601 yards) to the museum.
Bus Route:take bus No.13, 135, 155,
875, 922 and get off at Ti Lan Qiao Station
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/s
hanghai/jewish-refugees-museum.htm

Chinese infants were named "John", or"Dora" (after Mrs. Rabe). Rabe left Nanking
on February 28, 1938, and returned toGermany, where he continued to work for
Siemens AG until 1945, and attempted to
publicize events in China. He was arrested by
the Russians, and the British, but was
cleared of any wrongdoing. His last years
were spent in relative poverty, and he was
reduced to living on donations sent by the
Chinese government. His wartime actions
were documented by Iris Chang in her 1997
book, "The Rape of Nanking". (bio by: Bob
Hufford)

John Rabe House
Birth: Nov. 23, 1882
Hamburg State, Germany
Death: Jan. 5, 1950, Germany
Businessman, Humanitarian. Sometimes
called the "Oskar Schindler of China". An
employee of the Siemens AG China
Corporation, Rabe went to China in 1908,
eventually settling in Nanking, where he had
numerous Chinese employees and developed
a deep mutual respect with the Chinese
people, which his later membership in the
Nazi Party did not deter. With the coming of
the Japanese invasion in 1937, he wasadvised to leave for safety, even by theJapanese; he refused, citing his longstanding
association with the Chinese. On November
22, 1937, Mr. Rabe organized the Nanking
International Safety Zone in the center of thecity, to protect and feed Chinese civilian
refugees. Over the coming days, he used his
own workers to stock it with as much food as
possible, even sending an appeal to Hitler for
help, which was never answered. When theJapanese invaded Nanking on December 13,
1937, Mr. Rabe stood his ground; over the
next six weeks, he was responsible, with help,
for saving as many as 200,000 Chinese. Often,
he personally intervened to stop atrocities byJapanese soldiers, who were afraid of his
Nazi armband, sometimes even having toresist soldiers who invaded the safety zone.
Attempting to provide some normalcy, heprovided monetary gifts to the parents of new
babies born in the zone; many of these

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Anne Frank house in guided online tour
The museum that includes the house
where Anne Frank hid and wrote her diaryduring the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam
is launching an online virtual tour of thesecret rooms.
http://www.annefrank.org/
Published: 10:11PM BST 28 Apr 2010
Telegraph (UK)The well-known first diary of Anne Franksits on display in the Anne Frank House
Photo: REUTERS For two years, Anne
Frank, her family and other Jews hid in a
cramped clutch of rooms tucked into theback of a canal house in Amsterdam.
Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp in 1945 but lived on
through her famous diary, described inpoignant detail what life was like hidingfrom the German secret police during the
Nazi occupation.
Now, 50 years after the opening of theAnne Frank House museum, which has
more than 1 million visitors every year, the27

museum is launching an online virtual tourof what life was like at the back of 263
Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. The tour
captures in graphic detail photographs on
the wall, the print on the bedspreads andtiny kitchen in the cramped space where
eight people lived in daily fear of beingcaught.

but his legacy of quiet diplomacy andinternational pace and cooperation still
lives on today. United States President
John F. Kennedy called Dag Hammarskjöld“the greatest statesman of our century.” Heremains the only person to be awarded aNobel Peace Prize posthumously.
In 2009, Sweden celebrated 200 years ofpeace. It is a remarkably long period ofpeace, and one of the themes of theexhibition at the museum is how Sweden
went from a warring nation to a peacefulcountry. Few other countries in the world
have experienced such a long period ofpeace, and we hope to raise the question
why Sweden has remained peaceful for solong and if there is anything we can learn
from Sweden‟s history of peace when it
comes to creating peace worldwide. Other
topics the exhibition covers are the life of
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish participationin peacekeeping forces all over the world
and a general introduction to the conceptsof peace, war and democracy. In addition tothis, the Peace Museum has displayed anumber of temporary exhibits throughout
the years, focusing on a wide range of
topics such as the lives of Mahatma Gandhi
or Anne Frank, the persecution of the
Romani people during WWII, sustainable
development in South Africa andpeace-building and reintegration in
post-conflict societies.

A tip-off from an informant, led to thearrest of Anne, her sister, parents and theothers living in the house in August of1944.
Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only
one of the family to survive andposthumously published his daughter'sdiary.
Earlier this year, Miep Gies, the last
survivor of a group of people who helped
the family hide, died at age 100.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew
s/europe/7646314/Anne-Frank-house-in-gu
ided-online-tour.html
The Peace Museum in Uppsala: Sweden
The Peace Museum in Uppsala is Sweden‟sfirst peace museum. It opened its doors in
December 2005 and has since welcomed
tens of thousands of visitors. The museum
prides itself on being a museum of peace.
While many museums focused on the topics
of peace and war tend to focus more on war
than on peace, the Peace Museum firmly
believes in the importance of focusing on
the concept of peace and how to achieve
peace globally.

The Peace Museum is more than amuseum however. We offer schools in
Uppsala and neighboring cities theopportunity to come to our museum andlearn more about human rights, racism,discrimination, prejudice, moral courageand conflict resolution. Furthermore, we
also go out in schools and performrole-playing games with the students.
These games are about topics such as how

The museum is located in the UppsalaCastle and dedicated to the memory of Dag
Hammarskjöld, Sweden‟s first Secretary
General of the United Nations, who lived in
the castle as a child. Dag Hammarskjöld
died in the plane crash in Zambia in 1961,
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sons
On whose name the family would be run

you would run the country if you were aminister, how to handle a nation-wide
power outage and how to create
sustainable development. Our hope withthese activities is to teach youths how tostand up for what they believe in, to makethem aware of the issues their generation
have to face and to give them the tools
needed to solve conflicts, both small andlarge, peacefully.

Her brothers never treated her withrespect
The never thought about her future
prospects
At her in-laws‟ house, she was treated as aslave
Despite living in a big house, she felt as if
she was living in a darkened caveSince opening, the museum staff has met
with thousands of high school kids in
Uppsala and the surrounding region. We
hope to have made a difference in theseyouths‟ lives by teaching them about peacebuilding, conflict resolution and how tofight prejudice, discrimination and racismin their everyday lives.
Fredsmuseum | Uppsala slott, Slottet ing
H, 752 37 Uppsala - Telefon: 018-50 00 08 |info@fredsmuseum.se

Then one day, the inevitable occurred,
She was thrown out of her in-laws‟ house
where she had never prospered
She could not return to her father‟s home,
She would have to spend her remaining lifealone
She set up a hut made of palm leaves andwooden sticks,
In her heart, the seething memories of thepast still prick

A poem by a girl in Pakistan
A WEEPING WOMAN
By Syeda Rumana Mehdi(15 year old, a student of O-II Cambrdige,
AES School for Girls, Karachi, Pakistan.
Em address: rumana.mehdi@yahoo.com)

Today, she has grown old,
Even to spend such a shabby life, she had
to sell all her gold
She lay dying on a ragged bed,
Forgiving everyone for what they had said

Sitting in a thatched hut, cursing her life,
Existing in different forms: as a mother,sister and wife

Till her last breath, she weeped
Into the pillow, her tears seeped

A woman cries her heart out,
Feels alone even amongst a crowd

She finally slept peacefully everafter,
The woman who didn‟t know the meaningof laughter

She was ruled over by males in thispatriarchal society
She was never looked upon as a sign ofpurity and piety

06 June 2010
A film of “Hiroshima”
Ippei Kobayashi of

Her father considered her inferior to his
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A film of “Hiroshima” was produced bydonation of teachers so that such a tragedy
will never be repeated. It is said that there
are about 7500 nuclear weapons. Many
people do not know this film in Japan and theworld. It is important to know the truth andact for the abolition of nuclear weapons. I
hope that the film will be seen by many
people including children.
E-mail; kobayashi@kurosio-bottle.org
Ippei Kobayashi of Kuroshiomonogatari
Genkinakonokai
1-22-25-605 Nakaizumi, Komae City,
Tokyo JAPAN 201-0012
http://www.kuroshio-bottle.org/index.htm
lPublished by Palgrave Macmillan: New York(2010/9/28) Kazuyo Yamane wrote an articleof “War Renunciation and Abolishment by
Japan”.

Acknowledgement
The editors would like to thank Ms. Eriko
Ikeda, Ms. Terumi Imai, Ms. Hisako
Masuda, Ms. Atsuko Takeda, Ms. Yuriko
Taki, and Ms. Yoshiko Tanigawa fortranslating
Japanese
into
English.
Thanks to their great efforts, non-Japanesereaders will enjoy knowing what is goingon in Japan.
Notice
The unsigned articles were written up on
the editor‟s responsibility, but the sighed
ones do not necessarily express the same
opinions embraced by the head office of theJapanese Network of Museum for Peace or
the editor of this newsletter.

Publications
Transitions Volume 5 Issue 1 2010
Earth & Peace Education International(EPE)
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Overseas news that used to be published inMuse will be available in Newsletter of the
INMP (International Network of Museums
for Peace).
http://www.museumsforpeace.org/

Security Without Nuclear Deterrence
Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy
(Ret‟d)„One of the best informed and mostsearching critiques of the central strategic
doctrine of the nuclear age – nuclear
deterrence – that I know of.‟
Jonathan Schell, author of The Fate of the
Earth, Yale University
Publication date: May 2010
ISBN: 987-0-473-16781-3
15cm x 23cm
272 pages illustrated paperback

Peace Philosophy in Action edited by
Candice C. Carter and Ravindra Kumar

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