Muse no. 18
Japanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter:February 2008
The Editorial Office
The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages
Masahiko Yamabe
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
Translator: Risa Ikeya & Kazuyo Yamane
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki

The following is news on museums for peace in Japan and other countries.
capability still exist including ammunition from
nuclear weapons to guns, starvation, poverty,
discrimination, oppression of human rights, social
inequality, environmental destruction, poor sanitaryconditions, and inadequate education.

The Sixth International Conference ofMuseums for Peace
Peace Museums as Spaces for Creating Peace:
Building “Peace Literacy” for Global Problem-Solving
Dates
October 6th – 8thSites
Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University

9th
th

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Kyoto University of Art and Design
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Organizing Committee

Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto University of Art and Design
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Tohoku University of Art and Design
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Mission Statement

Erico

Regardless of the world’s wish for the 21st century
to be “The Century of Hope,” unfortunately theworld is still filled with violence. Numerous
social obstacles that limit enhancement of humanWe plan to meet to engage in transborder efforts on
a global scale searching for solutions to addressthese problems.
1The world has experienced a tremendous number ofwars and violence. To face the past with integrity, tolearn lessons from history, and to act on theselessons are extremely important for us. Personal
experiences can be easily lost with the passage oftime. We need to pass these personal memories
from generation to generation and to positively
utilize them in peace-building. The peace museum
movement is an effective means to achieve thispurpose and record the misery of wars and violence,the preciousness of life, and how irreplaceable
peace is must be conveyed to the younger
generations who will join in building a community
in the future.

Together, we can make peace museums a source of
new ideas, sites to collect new knowledge about
peace, and new sites for the creation of peace. Pleasejoin us in this great and exciting venture!

Program (Tentative)
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Registration
Monday, October 6, 2008

(Ritsumeikan University)• Opening ceremony with keynote speech(keynote speaker: Ms.Sadako Ogata, director,
International Cooperation Agency, tentative)• Special-interest group sessions• Tour of Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University• Reception

A peace museum should not limit itself as a place todisplay the horrible realities of all past and present
violence. It should also serve as a space to sharespirits and wisdom to create society where people
believe in humanity, overcome differences and join
together, to imagine and conquer all sorts ofviolence that inhibits self-realization, exercise theirfull potential, and move in a lively way towards
respective goals. It is important for the museums
that engage in our activities for peace to exchange
experiences, share wisdom, formulate creativemeans, encourage each other and employ more
effective activities than ever.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Ritsumeikan University)• International Network of Museums for Peace(INMP) general assembly meeting• Keynote speech by Kazuo Inamori (Honorary
President of Kyocera Corporation) - tentative• Special-interest group sessions

The international conference of peace museums has
been held in the UK, Austria, Japan, Belgium, andSpain approximately every three years since 1992
and has achieved important results. The third
meeting held jointly in Osaka and Kyoto in 1998
was supported and joined by a large group of people
and produced a significant result. Ten years after
the third conference, the 6th international
conference of peace museums will be held again in
Kyoto and Hiroshima in October, 2008.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

(Ritsumeikan University)• Commemorative symposium• INMP general assembly meeting• Special-interest group sessions• Excursion (Hieizan Enryaku-ji Temple, 1200 yr

old mother temple of Japanese Buddhism) tentative
Thursday, October 9, 2008
and Design)

How do peace museums and network can contributeto nurture and disseminate ‘peace literacy’(education for peace-building)? This conference
will engage in discussions and presentations toaddress critical issues that take an interest in
humankind’s life-or-death situation such as
international conflicts and global environmental
problems. We request your active support,cooperation, and participation to deepen our
knowledge of the issues and to share our different
approaches.

(Kyoto University of Arts

• Keynote speech by Hiroshi Senju (President,

Kyoto University of Arts and Design)• Celebrating Japanese culture (Kyo-gen,classical Japanese drama at Shunju-za Theater)• Special-interest group sessions• Special exhibitions on art and peace• Reception
Friday, October 10, 2008 (Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Museum)2

• Tour of A-bomb Dome and Hiroshima Peace

Eisaku Sato, Japan

Memorial Museum• Special Poster Exhibition on the Atomic
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki(available for traveling exhibition throughout theworld)• Keynote speech by Tadatoshi Akiba (Mayor,
City of Hiroshima)• Testimonials of A-bomb victims• Commemorative symposium• Closing assembly• Reception

9thBirthday of late John Lennon; World Post Dayth10

Day of opening of the Umekoji SteamLocomotive Museum which is located at theplanned target site of the first atomic
bombing in Kyoto
Venue
Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University603-8577

Japan

Phone: +81-75-465-8354
Fax: +81-75-465-7899

Saturday, October 11, 2008

E-mail: 6peace-m@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

Departure
Exhibitions and Special-interest Group Sessions

Call for Papers
The International Conference of Peace Museums accepts

Theme: Peace Museums as Spaces for Creating Peace

all submitted papers for presentation.

An in-advanceapplication and a written report are required forSpecial-interest group sessions will be held under thepresentation.

following themes: (tentative)

The paper should be in A4 format andshould not exceed 5 pages.
feasible.

1. Presentation of peace museum activities (by region)2008.

2. The war in Iraq as projected in peace museums

English is preferred when

The deadline for the written paper is June 30,

Each paper is allotted 15 minutes for presentation.

3. The gap between peace museums and war museums
Call for Posters

4. Achievements and prospects of virtual museums

A special poster presentation session for introduction to

5. Leading edge technology in exhibitions at peace

exhibition of participating museums and museum projects

museums

will be held at the Kyoto Museum for World Peace,

6. Supporting the establishment of peace museums

Ristumeikan University.

world-wide

Please provide the necessary

information (Name of the institution, address, year of

7. The link between utilization of peace museums andestablishment, activity information - no more than 400

peace education

words -, and photos) to be displayed.

8. Integration of peace museums, peace studies and peaceeducators

Fees
Participation fee is tentatively 50,000 Japanese Yen. The

Extra Interesting Activities
Every day during

the conference, thefeeOrganizing

materials,

room,board,

will consider financial assistance with the participation fee

with each day as suggested below:
7th

informationtransportation and excursions. The Organizing Committee

Committee prepares extra interesting activities associatedOctober 6th

coversand travel expense to the participants with economic

International Cooperation Day

hardship from developing countries.

77th birthday of the Most Reverend Dr. Desmond

Tutu
8

th

Pre-registration

Nobel Peace Prize decision day to Prime Minister

Interested parties should contact the secretariat via e-mail3

or regular mail by June 28, 2008.

Those who

pre-registered for the conference will receive a programand a final registration form when they become available.
The deadline for the final registration is planned to be endof August 2008.

Should you have any questions orrequests, please do not hesitate to contact the secretariat.
Distribution of Museum Goods
Distribution of museum goods such as badges, posters,souvenirs, postcards, etc. by the participants will bepermitted during the conference.

Transactions should be

handled on individual’s own responsibility.
Conference Language
The official conference languages are English and Japanese.
Simultaneous translation as well as consecutive
interpretation between English and Japanese will be
provided.

International Network of Museums for
Peace: Board Meeting in Rome, 27th-28th
October 2007

A translation service for Chinese and Korean

speakers will be facilitated as much as possible.

Peter van den Dungen

Publication
Collected papers for presentation will be available in abound printed volume at the conference. A

On 27th-28th October 2007, a meeting of board members

comprehensive conference report will be published after
and advisory committee members of the International

the conference.

Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) was held in Rome
Recruitment of Planning Committee Members andto discuss and take forward various issues related to the

Volunteers

management of the network and also to learn about the

To make the conference more productive, we are recruiting

plans for the forthcoming, sixth, international conference

those who wish to contribute to the conference planning
and/or to cooperate as a translator.

(Kyoto & Hiroshima, 6th-10th October 2008).

Please contact thesecretariat if interested.
It was convenient to arrange a meeting at this time, andSecretariat of the Organizing Committee

venue, because of the participation of Ikuro Anzai and

c/o Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan

Kazuyo Yamane in the opening of a Hiroshima andUniversity603-8577

Nagasaki A-bomb exhibition and symposium in the city.

Japan

Phone: +81-75-465-8354

Executive Board members Joyce Apsel, Steve Fryburg,

Fax: +81-75-465-7899

Gerard Loessbroek, and Iratxe Momoitio as well as

E-mail: 6peace-m@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

Advisory Committee members Ikuro Anzai, Anne C.
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Kjelling, and Kazuyo Yamane participated, together withinvited to submit, by the end of 2007, a logo for thePeter van den Dungen (General Coordinator) and Lucetta

conference.

Sanguinetti (who provided assistance with the local
arrangements, and informally represented the Italian

3. MEMBERSHIP

network of museums for peace). The following is a brief

It was agreed that there was a need to introduce a formal

report on the meeting.

membership system. Prospective members, which can be
institutions as well as individuals, will be asked to fill in an

1. CONSTITUTION

application form, which can be downloaded from theMost of the time was taken up by a discussion of the Draft

website. It is envisaged that the formal registration of

Statute, first submitted in early 2006 by Ikuro Anzai.

members

Agreement was reached on a revised statute which will be

Membership will also involve the payment of annual dues

posted on the website, and which will be submitted at the(the amount of which will be detailed in the regulations,general assembly of the network which will take place atreferred to above).

willcommence

at

the

next

conference.

the 2008 conference for approval by the membership.
4. WEBSITE
In the meantime, work is proceeding on a set of draft

Following a review of the current website, ideas for its

regulations which will deal with such issues as thedevelopment were adopted, including (a) making a new andintroduction of a system of membership fees.

more attractive opening page; (b) providing a translation of
the home page in several languages; (c) a re-arrangement of

2. LOGOthe list of member organizations in such a way that peace

None of the logo designs submitted at the fifth conference

museums are given priority.

in Gernika (or before, or afterwards) were found to be
acceptable. It was agreed that a competition would be

5. SECRETARIAT

opened and announced on the website, and that all entries,

A request by the International Bureau of the government ofor a selection, would be displayed on the website, as well

the city of The Hague for the network to consider moving

as at

its secretariat to a city building dedicated to NGOs withthe forthcoming 2008 conference in Japan. The winning

headquarters in The Hague was accepted. In order to makedesign would be chosen (or would have to be approved) bysuch a move feasible, the city is promising to provide

the attendants of the general assembly.

material support for the secretariat during the first few
years of its relocation.

Staff and students of the Kyoto University of Arts &Design, and of its sister institution, the Tohoku University

The General Coordinator will be writing a letter to theof Arts & Technology - which are both members of themayor of The Hague, informing him that the network is

Organising Committee of the 6th conference – areinterested in moving its secretariat, and that such move will

especially encouraged to participate. They have also been

be conditional on effective support by the city, at least in5New Peace Museums in Japanthe period of transition.

Shimari Museum for Peace: Hiroshima
In order to further assist in this move - which has great

Shimari Museum for Peace, History and Literature (Fureai

potential for the professionalization and development of the

Heiwa Salon Rekishi to Bungaku no Yakata Shimari in

network - Professor Ikuro Anzai generously promised toJapanese) was opened in Hiroshima in May 2007.

make available a sum of $ 10,000 (dollars) from the Ikuro

place is Kobatake, Kougen-cho, Jinseki which was

The

described in a novel of Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse. The

Anzai Peace Fund.

theme of the novel is the suffering of the atomic bomb
victims and the model of the main character is the late Mr.
6. LEGAL INCORPORATION

Shizuma Shigematsu.

The legal incorporation of the network as a non-profit

Association of Shimari which is founded by local people.

organization is likely to take place in The Netherlands, as

Mr. Shigematsu’s memorandum and letters are exhibited.

part of the proposed relocation of the secretariat to The

Tel: 81-847-85-2808（Kochi Newspaper dated November 22）

Hague. It is anticipated that advice and assistance regarding
incorporation

will

be

forthcoming

from

the

The museum is run by thecity

Chuhkiren Peace Memorial: Saitama

administration as part of the relocation process.

Chuhkiren is an abbreviation of Chuhgoku Kikansha
Renrakukai(Association of Returned Soldiers from China).
The Peace Memorial was opened on November 3rd in 2006.
The association was founded by former Japanese soldiers＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

who were sent to China and interned in Siberia and put into
Chinese prison for Japanese war criminals.

The aim of

the association is anti-war, peace and friendship between
Japan and China.

The former Japanese soldiers weretreated humanely at the prison in Fushun and regretted theircruel acts in China during World War II.

They began totalk about their cruel experiences in China and how they
began to recover humanity because Japan’s aggression has
been hided by the government for a long time.
There are 20,000 books donated by the Late President
Masami Yamazumi of Tokyo

Metropolitan University.

It is open from 10:30 to 17:00 on Wednesday and Monday.
Please call the museum if you’d like to visit there the day
before your visit.
1947-25 Kasahata, Kawagoe City, Saitama 350-1175
Tel: 81-49-231-9706*************************************
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The 7 t h National Meeting of the
Citizen’s Network of Museums for
Peace

There was an accounting and business reporting of the
Network.

As for our project, we are planning to make aguide book on peace museums.

Masahiko Yamab eMuse Newsletter is shownat the website of Grassroots House, but there is not much

The 7th national exchange meeting of the Japanese Citizens’
Network of Museums for Peace was held On Dec. 1, 2007
from 1:00 p.m. to 6:10 p.m. and Dec. 2, 2007 from 9 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. at Peace Aichi. There were 32 participants andthey were welcomed by Ms. Mikiko Noma, the director ofPeace Aichi. Mr. Kazuya Yasuda of Daigo Fukuryu Maru
Exhibition Hall and Ms. Eriko Ikeda of Women’s Active
Museum were the chairpersons. The speakers were as
follows: Mr. Masahiko Yamabe (the secretariat of theJapanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace),
Professor Morio Minami of Peace Aichi, Mr. Daisuke
Miyahara of Peace Aichi, Tamotsu Asakawa of Yamanashi
Peace Museum, Ms Eriko Ikeda of Women’s Active Museum,
Kazuya Yasuda of Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, andKazuyo Yamane of Grassroots House. A social gathering
was held on Dec.1 evening.

Mr. Kazuya Yasuda, Mr. Tamotsu Asakawa and Mr. Daisuke

On the second day, the speakers were as follows:

International Conference of Museums for Peace will be held

Mr.Keiichiro Kaji of The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War

on October 6 to 10, 2008.

space.

A new website will be considered for Muse

Newsletter.
The secretariat will continue to be at The Center of theTokyo Raids and War Damages.

The members of thesteering committee are Ms Eriko Ikeda, Mr. Keiichiro Kaji,
Miyahara.

Muse Newsletter No. 20 and 21 will be

published in Japanese, and the English Muse No. 18 and 19
will be published.

The editorial members are Mr. Masahiko

Yamabe, Professor Ikuro Anzai and Ms.Kazuyo Yamane.
The next meeting will be held in the afternoon of October 8th,
2008 at Kyoto Museum for World Peace when the

Damages,Professor Ikuro Anzai of Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, Mr. Hitoshi Nagano of Wadatsumi-no-koe

Ms Mizuho Fukushima, the party leader of Social

Memorial Hall, Mr. Ariyuki Fukushima of Study

Democratic Party, happened to visit Peace Aichi and she

Association of Peace Museums and Mr. Tsutomu Kaneko

gave a short speech.

of Peace Aichi.
There were also speakers from the floor: Mr. Nobuteru
Iwabuchi and Ms. Chikako Hanaoka (Pacific War History
Museum), Professor

Summary of Reports at the 7th Meetingof the Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace

Masayuki Yamada(Auschwitz Peace

Museum), Professor Ryotaro Katsura(the vice-director of
Kyoto Museum for World Peace) and Ms. Junko
Kanekiyo(the curator of Kyoto Museum for World Peace),

1. The trend of war related special exhibition at

Risa Ikeya(Kyoto Museum for World Peace), Professor

museums for peace in 2007

Hideo Fujita(Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall) andMasahiko Yamabe

others.

New peace museums were founded as a result of citizens’
There was an active discussion on exhibits on Japan’s

movement, which is a trend of peace museums since theaggression and the difference between peace museums andlast meeting. Wadatsumi-no-koe Memorial Hall (Museum

war museums.

There was an opinion that resistancefor the Students killed in the war) was opened in December,museums and holocaust museums should be included in2006 and Peace Aichi and Yamanashi Peace Museum weremuseums for peace.

opened in May 2007. There was an exhibition on U.S. airraids on Yamanashi in May and an exhibit on the regiment7

There are various

was held at The Folk Museum of Higashimurayama,

An exhibition on manuscripts

Kameoka Muicipal Museum of Cultural Property, Joyo

by students killed in action was held at Edo Tokyo Museum

Historical and Folklore Reference Center, Saiku Historicalby the Wadatsumi-no-koe Memorial Hall The Center of theMuseum , Kuwana City Museum and so forth.

in Kofu was shown in November.
exhibitions in Peace Aichi.

Tokyo Raids and War Damages was enlarged and exhibits
were renewed: there is a special photo exhibition on scars

A special exhibition on war remains is characteristic thisby U.S. air raids on Tokyo.

year such as at Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum,Museum on Japanese Private Houses in Villages and soforth.

An exhibit on the description of “comfort women” in achronology at Peace Museum of Saitama was criticized by
the governor of Saitama Prefecture.

Donated materials by citizens a long time ago were

The description of
Recently the

introduced in a special exhibition at Jiyu Minken Insttute ofdescription on “comfort women” was changed into a

Machida City ,Toshima Historical Museum, Peace Osaka

description that “there are arguments on Japan’s war

and so forth.

Nanjing Massacre was covered up.

responsibility such as comfort women issues during the
As for Nanjing Massacre, both expression of

An exhibition on war was held at universities for the first“Nanjing Incident” and “Nanjing Massacre” were used, andtime in Doshisha University in Kyoto. A record of the

Mr. Moriyasu Murase’s photos on Nanjing Massacre began

exhibition on war held last yearwas published in Meiji

to be shown again.

University and Kyoto University.

As for a special exhibition on Japan’s war at peace

2. Report of the Board Meeting of the International

museums, a characteristic in 2007 is that there were special

Network of Museums for Peace and Announcement

exhibitions on the misery of war at Peace Museum ofof the 6th International Conference of Museums for

Saitama , Sakai City Museum for Peace and Human Rights

Peace

war.”

Director, Kyoto Museum for World Peace,and Human Rights Museum.

Ritsumeikan University : Ikuro Anzai
In history museums, there were special exhibitions based

On the 27th and 28th of October, 2007, the Board

on former research and exhibits at Fussa Municipal Hall

Meeting of the International Network of Museums

and Kamifukuoka Historical and Folklore Museum Special

for Peace was held in Rome with the attendance of

exhibits on war continued to be held at history museums

9 executive and advisory committee members

except two museums: Azai Museum of History andincluding

Folklore and Museum of Ohmi Hino Merchant In Museum

University), the general coordinator of the network,of Ohmi Hino Merchant ,the director was changed andand Kazuyo Yamane and I who had a chance toexhibits were also changed: war experiences werevisit Italy to participate in the peace tour

displayed by paintings and dolls, and real materials began

throughout the northern parts of the country which

to be used.

In Azai Museum of History and Folklore real

had been prepared by peace-loving Japanesematerials and war experiences based on interviews used toresidents such as Ms. Sanae Yokota and Mr. Shigeo

be exhibited, and the whole picture of documents on war

Nishimura.

Peter

van

den

Dungen(Bradford

was displayed this year.
Main agenda of the Board Meeting were (1) statute,
Special exhibitions on war were held at history museums(2) logo, (3) website, (4) finance, (5) secretariat ofthis year, and a special exhibition based on the community

the network, and also (6) the 6th International
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Conference of Museums for Peace. Intensive

day of the opening of the Umekoji Locomotive

discussions were carried out especially with regard

Museum near Kyoto railway station which isto the statute of the network based on a draft

located on the very spot of the planned first target

proposed by myself about two years ago, and almostof atomic bombing in human history.

attained an agreement on the tentative draft to be

Detailed

submitted to the open discussion among the peace

introduced in the website of the International

museum workers throughout the world. The

Network of Museums for Peace and also in thestatute will finally be decided in the general

MUSE, but a website devoted to the Conference

meeting

6th

will be coming soon in late February through which

International Conference of Museums for Peace

you can get more detailed information and alsoscheduled from 6th to 10th of October, 2008 in Japan.

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Committee: c/o Kyoto Museum for World Peace,

Conference which is being prepared by joint efforts

Ritsumeikan University, 603-8577 JAPAN. Tel:of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto University of Arts

+81-75-465-8354, Fax: +81-75-465-7899,

and Design, Tohoku University of Arts andE-mail: 6peace-m@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

I introduced an overview of the plans of theTechnology, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum,and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. It will be

The Organizing

held at Kyoto Museum for World Peace attached tomore than 100 participants from

Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto from 6th to 8th ofabroad, and 300 domestic participants who

October, then at Kyoto University of Arts andcan attend, not all, but some of the essions

Design also in Kyoto, and finally at Hiroshimathat interest them.

Committee is expecting to have

Peace Memorial Museum with full of interesting
programs under the main theme of “ Peace

3. Wadatsumi-no-koe Memorial Hall:Tokyo

Museums as Spaces for Creating Peace: Building

Hitoshi Nagano

Peace Literacy for Global Problem-Solving.” In

The museum was opened on December 1st and there are

addition to the meetings for exchanging views andabout 100 visitors a month. The entrance fee is free, but

experiences about peace museum activities, there

we set a donation box, which was really successful. The

will be a number of sessions and workshops that

supporting mebership fee is 10,000 yen and theserve deepening and broadening theoretical andmembership fee for maintaining the museum is 2,000 yen.

practical attainment of peace-related museums.

It is urgent to increase these members.

The Organizing Committee is now negotiating withexhibition at Tokyo Edo Museum on August 14 – 16 as

a number of noted figures in order to be able towell as showing a film and holding a lecture.

invite as attractive keynote speakers as possible.

3000 visitors because the exhibition was reported on NHK

Every day during the Conference, there will be

TV on Augstu 14th.

extra interesting programs associated with eachof “War and Peace seen through Slovenia” and Mr. Shinichi

day, i.e. October 6 is the International Cooperation

Yukiyama gave a lecture of “German Unification for

Day, October 7 is the birthday of the Most Reverend

Citizens in East Germany”.

We had a special
There were

Mr. Takechi Takahashi gave a lecture

Dr. Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize Lauriate,
October 8 is the decision day of Nobel Peace Prize

4. The Significance of the Opening of Yamanashi Peace

to late Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Japan, OctoberMuseum9 is the birthday of late John Lennon and the World

Head of the board of directors

Post Day, and October 10 is the commemorative

Tamotsu Asakawa
9The Network of War Remains in Yamanashi was founded

women who were forced to work as sexual slaves andon August 8, 1998.

compensate them at the House of Representatives in the

War Remains in Yamanashi was

United States at the beginning of this year.

published by Yamanashi Nichinichi Newspaper Bureau on
July 15, 2002.

Yamanashi Peace Museum Project began

in July 2003.

It was opened on May 26th 2007 and 130

people attended the opening ceremony.

(It wasth

adopted on July 30 .)Over 600

There have been interviews and visitors from abroad andindividuals and groups donated 38 million yen.

activities for solidarity not only in Asia but also in Europe
and Australia.

The purpose, activities and the content of exhibition are as
follows:

An exhibition on women who were forced to work as* The collection, preservation and exhibition of materials

sexual slaves in East Timor was held from Dec. 2006 toon WWIIMay 2007. A project was made to send panels made by* Introduction of life and ideas of Tanzan Ishibashi who

the WAM to East Timor after translating Japanese into

worked hard for peace, human rights and freedom.

Tetun.

* The emphasis is on citizens’ participation in the museum
such as in“My Exhibition Corner”.

An exhibition on sex slaves in China will be held from June

* Informing people of the significance of the Peace

2008 at the WAM as well as a memorial in Shanxi Province

Constitution, war and peace.

in China at the same time.

This is the first time to havesuch a large-scale exhibition abroad though panels in
There is an exhibition on war such as the US air raids on
Kofu and the Regiment in Kofu on the 1st floor.

English and Korean were exhibited abroad.

There isan exhibition on life and ideas of Tanzan Ishibashi on the

In September there was a seminar on sex slaves during the

2nd floor.

war at a memorial for women’s concentration camp called

There are four corners in which materials by

citizens can be exhibited.

Ravensbrueck Memorial Museum in Germany.

A report

by WAM was included there.
Six months passed since the museum was opened. The
first exhibition was the reality of the US airraids on Kofu.

6. Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall : Tokyo

An exhibition on the Regiment in Kofu was held in
November.

Kazuya Yasuda
Sixty years have passed since Daigo Fukuryu Maru (the 5th

A lecture was given once a month and there isa meeting to listen to testimony by war victims and a study

Lucky Dragon boat) was built.

meeting.

boats were built after World War II because there was afrom

An opening symposium of “What we can learn

TanzanIshibashi”

was

held

Newsletter was published twice.

inNovember.

lack of food.

There were 1,300

Many wooden fishing

There were about 800 boats that were

exposed to the US hydrogen bomb test in 1954, and Daigo

visitors from Yamanashi Prefecture and other prefectures.

Fukuryu Maru is the only one that exists today.

How to make attractive exhibitions and attract younger
generation is important as well as running the museum

Such a big wooden boat whose length is thirty meters will

financially.

never be built in Japan. A special exhibition of “Skills
and Works by Shipwrights” was held from April to
September 2007.

5. Women’s Active Museum: Tokyo
Eriko Ikeda

A film on the structure of the boat andworks by shipwrights was produced based on repairing the

Sexual slave issues have been focused on internationallyboat twenty years ago to preserve it.

because it was argued that Japan should apologize toexhibits such as tools of shipwrights and a miniature of a
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There were over 100

wooden boat built seventy years ago.

meeting is held once in two months.

Former shipwrights

There are quite a few

and people who were involved with shipbuilding also

peace museums, but surprisingly its research is not done

visited the museum.

much and the place to discuss peace museums is very

There was an opinion that “I have a

different idea on issues on atomic bombs and hydrogen

limited.

The purpose of this study group is to have a placebombs exhibited here, but I hope that efforts continue to be

to discuss peace museums.

made to preserve the wooden boat.

five times.

There are about ten members and their major

is various.

It is possible that this study group will be

So far we had a study meeting

Forty years will pass in 2008 since people started todeveloped because I met young researchers who arepreserve the boat protesting against atomic and hydrogeninterested in peace museums unexpectedly.

bombs for peace.

become an association in the future.

We have a plan to make an exhibition

This may

Until then we’d liketo continue to study peace museums even if the group ison the meaning of the preservation of the boat in 2008.

small.
7. Peace Aichi: Aichi
Daisuke Miyahara

9. Photo Exhibition, Symposium and Monument on

Before the opening of the museum in May, we were busy

Damages by Defoliant used in Vietnam War

preparing for making exhibits and looking for volunteers.

The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages:

In May we had an opening ceremony and Mr. Katsumoto

Keiichiro Kaji

Saotome, a writer, gave a lecture as well as having a

A photo exhibition by Goro Nakamura will be held at JICA

concert.

Yokohama exhibition hall from June 15th to July 15th in2008.

In summer we had an exhibition on war experiences,blue-eyed dolls that were sent to Japan for goodwill and a

There is a project of making a monument based on a photobag of Hanna who was killed at a concentration campof a boy in withered mangrove both in Vietnam and Japan.

during WWII.

The boy became 38 years old and has been suffering from

In fall there was an art exhibition on Costa

Rica. There were eight seminars on Okinawa issues fromserious paralysis.

September to December.
There were 4.8 million people who were influenced by
A guide for the museum for children was made as well as adefoliant and 2-3 million people had damages and most ofleaflet by Braille.

them already passed away.

The most known man is called“Viet” whose body was united with his brother and he
A special exhibition on war and women’s dress was held inpassed away when he was 26 years old. There are 13,000

February and March 2008.

patients who have been treated at hospital by the aid of thegovernment.

There were 9,000 visitors since May including 58 groups
and 16 schools.

10. Peace Education Symposium in NY and Swords

There are 206 members and over 253,000

into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery in

yen as donation to the museum.

DetroitGrassroots House: Kazuyo Yamane

8. Peace Museum Study Group: Kyoto

A Symposium on Peace Education was held at theAriyuki Fukusim
Most

United Nations on August 8-10.I had a workshop onof the members are graduate students in their 20s and 30s

peace museums with Dr. Joyce Apsel of New York

who are interested in exhibits at peace museums.

University.

A study group of peace museums in Kyoto is small.

A
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It was pointed out that peace education atschool is not enough and it is necessary to promote peace

exhibits on Japan’s aggression began to be removed toeducation in communities.

some extent.

This is what has been done atpeace museums, but it seems that the role of peacemuseums has not been recognized by peace educators.

On the other hand, peace museums have been created,

Therefore, it is important to inform peace educators of theespecially private ones.

role of peace museums in peace education not only at

glorify war have been created or renewed by Self Defense

school but also communities.

Forces and local government and there are many visitors

However, war museums thatsuch as Kanoya Museum ,Sasebo Sail Tower, Yushukan
Museum at Yasukuni Shrine, Yamato Museum, etc.

A graduate student of Colombia University emailed measking for books on peace museums.

This made me feelthat it is necessary to publish a book on peace museums

During this period, Self Defense Forces got involved withbecause basic information has not been published as a bookthe U.S. war against Afghanistan and Iraq under the namewhich is available to ordinary readers.

of “back support” and “humanitarian aid for recovery”.
The next move would be Japan’s participation in battle ledby the U.S.A.

After the symposium, I visited Swords into Plowshares
Peace Center and Gallery in Detroit.

It was impressive to

see art exhibition there including photo panels of

There is an exhibit on the dispatch of the SDF abroad as

Hibakusha that were sent by Grassroots House with paper“contribution to international peace” at Peace Museum of

cranes in 1995.

Saitama and others.

Supporters of the Peace Center gotth

to consider how to deal with such a situation.

together on August 14 and I talked about peace museums
in Japan and the world.

It is necessary for museums for peace

It was wonderful to get to know

people who have been working hard for peace there.
11. The Trend of War-related Museum after the
Middle of the 1990s＊ Other Reports＊

Aichi Kyouiku University: Morio Minami
The history of war-related museums can be divided as

The following is articles by those who could not attend thefollows:

meeting held in Nagoya.

1945 to the mid-1950s: no museum for peace

1. Matsushiro Peace Museum Project: Nagano

The mid-1950s to the mid-1980s: the emphasis was put on

Takako Kitahara

Japan’s victim side of the war

The establishment of Matsushiro Headquarters Memorial

The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s: many peace museums

has not been realized though many people have been

were establishedsupporting the project.

An exhibition is held at a

The mid-1990s to the present: there have been conflicts

community center once a year so that people in the

between war museums and peace museums while they also

community will support the peace museum project.

coexisted.
The exhibition on underground shelters was held on
There was anti-peace museum campaign started by a report

December 8th and 9th and there were over 150 visitors.

on peace museum by the Liberal Democratic Party

Impression of visitors of the shelters and paintings by highmembers of the House of Councilors in 1996.

school students were exhibited

As a resulta peace museum project in Tokyo came to a deadlock andRecord of the shelter by

Tominosuke Sakaguchi was most impressive because it had
12some illustrations of Koreans who were forced to work

Roman Balabas aged 21 started to work at the museum on

there and also U.S. air raids.

September 12th and will work for 11 months.

He is from

Germany and a conscientious objector.

Janek Dann

It is hoped that the peacemuseum will be created as soon as possible.

worked at the museum and returned to Germany.

Roman

Balabas is fluent in speaking Japanese and he already

2. Grassroots House: Kochi
Ayumi Hiwatashi“Peace Wave” started in Kochi this year again.

started to exchange opinions with high school students in a

About onepeace group. He was introduced in a TV program (NHK)million paper cranes were decorated downtown which hadof “Good Morning Japan” on October 30th and the museum

been destroyed by U.S. bombers on July 4th 1945. An

became well known thanks to him.

exhibition on U.S. air raids started in 1979 and there are

German government because he was recommended byvarious events in Peace Wave in Kochi: a memorial

Japan-German Peace Forum.

meeting for the victims of the US air raids on Kochi,

solidarity with the forum to follow the late Makoto Oda, aanti-nuclear concert for peace, an exhibition to think of war

famous writer and peace activist.

He was sent by

I hope to strengthen

and peace, a solidarity meeting with Asian people, agathering at the Constitution Forest, a peace film festival,

Two Chinese men went to Fukuoka in Japan to attend aetc.

trial on October 28-31.

It was for Chinese who wereforced to go to Nagasaki and work there during WWII.
In Toyo Town of Kochi Prefecture there was a plan to keep

They demanded they negotiate with Mitsubishi Material

nuclear waste by the government, but people refused to do

Company by which they were forced to work and aso.

memorial be built for Chinese atomic bomb victims by

Such a problem was also exhibited this year.

Nagasaki City.

acted with them together.

A jazz concert was held using shakuhachi, a Japanesebamboo flute at a temple.

We supported their demand wholly andNot only adults but also

children are very busy these days.

A meeting was held on November 23 to commemorate Pak

It is hoped that their

Mingyu who passed away on November 21 2006.

stress was reduced at the concert.

will be published in memory of him.

A bookHe was the last

speaker as a Korean atomic bomb victim and supported this

3. Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum
Director: Yasunori Takazane

museum well.

We are very sad that he passed away.

I’d like to inform you of our activities and plan in the
The 13th general meeting will be held.

future.

The financial

situation is serious as before. This is because there are not
A college student went to Shanghai, Nanjing and Tianjin on

many high school students who visit this museum as a

August 13-19 to promote friendship between Japan andschool excursion.

China.

thThis was the 5peace trip to China.

It is necessary to attract more schools.

First astudent applied for going to China, but his or her parents

The International Conference on Nanjing Massacre will be

did not agree on it.

held on December 12-14 and I am planning to attend it.

We could manage to find one student

who could contribute to promoting friendship with China.
This made me think of young people’s indifference about

4. The 11th National Symposium for Preserving War

the history and the relation between Japan and China.

Remains in TokyoJapan’s politics and education is responsible for such
The 11th National Symposium for Preserving War Remains

indifference of young people.

in Tokyo was held by the National Network of Preserving
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War Remains on August 17-18 at Hitotsubashi University.

than one million ex-Japanese soldiers are still left behind at

The theme was “War Memory and Today’s Perception ofold war theatres in the South Pacific Islands in spite that

History.”

over sixty years elapsed since the end of WWII.

Two TV

programs were produced and broadcasted nationwide in
Professor Yutaka Yoshida of Hitotsubashi University gave a

August, while the Asahi, one of three major newspapers in

lecture of “War memory and war responsibility in modern

Japan widely and emphatically publicized the alarming

Japan.”

news on the forgotten war heroes, for whom none of theJapanese ever cared in the past sixty years while politicians

There were three subcommittees.

created international skirmishes by paying visits to the(1) The present situation of preserving war remains andcontroversial shrine in Tokyo.

some challenges(2) The way of investigation of war remains and how to

As a result of these excavations, human remains totaling

preserve them

115 returned to Japan on November 9th, 2007 with a(3) Peace museums and how to convey war remains toJapanese Government’s official delegation including Mr.

younger generation

Nobuteru

Visitors went to Shoukei Kan museum on soldiers who

Museum, who visited Indonesia between October 28th andwere wounded and got sick, Yushu-kan in Yasukuni

November 9th, 2007 together with two officers of Ministry

Shrine, Woman’s Active Museum, Wadatsumino-koe

of health, welfare and labor.

Iwabuchi, President of Pacific War History

Memorial Hall , The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War

Damages, etc .

Prior to the above government mission to Indonesia,(From the website of the National Network of Preserving

exhibitions of evidential photographs of soldiers’ remains

War Remains)lying at a war theatre of

http://homepage3.nifty.com/kibonoie/isiki.htm

Osaka office of the Asahi Shinbun, Ritsumeikan University

Biak island were held at thein Kyoto and also Sabae, Fukui Pref.
Peace Museum of Saitama:Higashimatsuyama, Saitama**********************************The third theme exhibition ‘Saitama’s Dining Table in War

Japanese Network NewsTime’ is held from Oct. 20 to Dec. 26, 2007.

This

exhibition gives an introduction to food situation of pre andduring war periods in Saitama as an agricultural district.

Pacific War History Museum: Iwate

The purpose of the exhibition is to think about peace and theCommemorating the 6oth anniversary of repatriation of themisery that war brings through poor condition of wartime

Japanese armed forces from New Guinea、in June anddiet.

July,2007

1.

respectively,

PACIFICWAR

History

Food tasting of wartime snacks was held on December
Leaflets of the exhibition are available.

Museum-Japan organized two non-government excavatingteams to Republic of Indonesia in search for remains of the

The first gallery exhibition `Drawings by EvacuatedJapanese soldiers fallen at Biak island.

Children’ was held from Sep. 15 to Oct. 28, 2007.
The first meeting with people who had war experiences was

The teams were accompanied by news reporters fromheld on Aug. 15, 2007 and the second meeting was held on

Osaka and a TV filming crew from Iwate with a view to

Nov. 10, 2007.

bringing it to the attention of the Japanese people that more

war experiences and to think about the importance of peace.
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The purpose of the meeting is to listen toexhibition ‘Travels filled with war’, wrapping papers forlunch boxes sold at railway stations and rail tickets were

The first reading for peace was held on Aug. 4, 2007.
Readings of war and peace with BGM were conducted.

displayed. Main subjects of the topic exhibition wereThe

second reading for peace was held on November 17, 2007.

all-out mobilization of national spirit, Tripartite Pact, Fall of

In addition to the readings, a choral singing by a reading

Hankou, etc.

group from Kawagoe was performed.

Tel: 81-48-432-2477

Commentary leaflets are available.

URL: http://city.warabi.saitama.jp/rekimin/index.htm
An animation movie ‘A Zoo without an Elephant’ was shownon Nov. 14, 2007.

The animation is about those animals

Fujimino Municipal Kamifukuoka Historical andthat were killed during wartime in order to prevent them

Folklore Museum :Fujimino, Saitama

from escaping from zoos during air raids and an elephant that
The 22nd Special Exhibition ‘The 1st Tokyo Military Plant’came to a zoo after the war by children’s appeal.

was held from Sep. 29 to Nov. 25.

Since 1983, the museum

The display of Nanjing massacre in the permanent exhibition

has conducted interviews, collected original materials,

section is remodeled with revised text information andpublished research reports and held small exhibitions of thefurther information on the photographs.

plant and this special exhibition is a grand sum of these

Tel: 81-493-35-4111

efforts.

Fax: 81-493-35-4112

URL: http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacemuseum

Photographs, about 300 original materials, andinformation of the plant were displayed. Picture records areavailable.
Memorial lecture ‘A real picture of the 1st Tokyo Military

Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels:

Plant’ was held on Oct. 14, 2007 followed by narrative

Higashimatsuyama, Saitama

lecture series of personal experiences at the plant that took
The second planning exhibition ‘Antiwar and antinuclear

place on Oct. 28 and Nov. 18.

activities today’ was held from Sep. 15 to Oct. 30.

Tel: 81-49-261-6065

The exhibition ‘Japan Visual Journalist Association presents

URL: http://www.city.fujimino.saitama.jp/

Japanese News Photographers – From Global Battlefields’ isheld from Nov. 4 to Dec. 15, 2007.

The exhibition

The Center of the Tokyo Raid and War Damages:

introduces pictures of humans in combat fields worldwide

Koto-ku, Tokyo

that are taken by the members of Japan Visual Journalist
Association.

A symposium ‘The origin of random bombing - looking into
raids from Gernika to China’ was held on Oct. 8, 2007.

The 62th Hiroshima A-bomb Memorial at Maruki Gallery

Lectures on Gernika raids, civil war in Spain, Rif War, urban

was held on August 6, 2007 with attendance by approx.

air raids in Asia, and Chongqing raids were held.

2,000 people.

Tel: 81-3-5857-5631

Tel: 81-493-22-3266

Fax: 81-3-5683-3326

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

Fax: 81-493-22-8371

URL: http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/top/kikaku.htm
Museum on Life in Showa Era:
Ota-ku, Tokyo

Warabi Municipal Museum:Warabi , Saitama
Summer exhibition ‘The 18th Memorial Exhibition for Peace

A special exhibition ‘War remains in Koizumi residence’– Recollection of 15 year war and livelihood in war andwas held from Aug. 1 to Sep. 2, 2007.

postwar periods’ was held from Aug. 1 to 31, 2007.

exhibition to remember the war and to promote anti-war

At an
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This is an annual

campaign.

Picture diaries, thousand-stitch belts, substituteCenter for the History of Meiji University

goods, etc. were displayed.

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Tel & Fax: 81-3-3750-1808
The 28th center report was published on March 31, 2007.

http://www.digitalium.co.jp/showa/index.html

The report especially covers the exhibition ‘Students at Meiji
University and student soldiers.’

The Folk Museum of Higashimurayama :The report also contains

comments on the exhibition by the experts.

Higashimurayama, Tokyo

Tel: 81-3-3296-4448

Fax: 81-3-3296-4365

URL: http://www.meiji.ac.jp/museum/An exhibition ‘Memory of those days – Higashimurayama
air-raid and student evacuation’ was held from Apr. 28 to Jun.
24, 2007.

Military facilities and factories existed in the area

Gifu Peace Museum: Gifu

and therefore the area was attacked and damaged during thewar.

The area also had students who evacuated from theAn exhibition ‘Schools also had a rough time – Jr. Highmetropolitan Tokyo.

School students’ diaries’ was held from Jul. 22 to Aug. 5,

Tel: 81-42-396-3800

2007.

URL:http://www.city.higashimurayama.tokyo.jp/~kakukawe

through diaries of students, cartoon panels and informationb052000/index02.htm

materials.

The exhibition introduced school life of the time
Students had to give up schools, worked like

adults and became soldiers.

A special lecture on student

labor was held on Jul. 27, 2007.

Fussa Municipal Hall:Fussa, Tokyo

Tel: 81-58-268-1050
A special exhibition ‘Footsteps of the modern wars and Fussa
in wartime – Exhibition on War for Peace’ was held from
Aug. 4 to Oct. 8, 2007.
related to the war.

Shizuoka Peace Museum: Shizuoka

Modern history of Fussa is closely
An exhibition ‘Weapons of Evils – landmines, cluster bombs

This special exhibition displayed thecollection of the center to inform visitors of the living of theand depleted uranium bombs’ is held from Nov. 16, 2007 to

citizens including children’s school life in wartime.

Mar. 31, 2008.

A

The exhibition introduces the damages

memorial lecture on Tokyo and Tama war damages was heldcaused by these weapons and the efforts to eliminate theon Sep 8.

bombs.

Tel: 81-425-53-3111

Tel & Fax: 81-54-247-9641

URL:http://www.city.fussa.tokyo.jp/town/m005/32iopi00000

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

04uv7.html
Saiku Historical Museum:Meiwa, Mie
Higahiyamato City Museum:Higashiyamato, Tokyo
An exhibition ‘War remains in the area’ was held from Aug.
Lobby exhibition ‘Photo exhibition of war remains in Tama’

1 to 31, 2007.

was held from Aug. 3 to 31, 2007.

unit and shooting training facility were located in the area

Higashiyamato had aDuring the Pacific War, a communication

bombing strike in February and April in 1945 and the cityand this exhibition displayed information materials related tohas kept a bombed military plant as a cultural heritage.

them, most of which are personal belongings rented to theThe

exhibition aimed to provide an opportunity to revisit the war.

museum for the exhibition.

Tel: 81-42-567-4800

Tel: 81-596-52-3800

URL: http://www.e-yamato.or.jp/city/museum/

URL: http://www.pref.mie.jp/saiku/HP/index.htm
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Fax: 81-596-52-3724

Kuwana City Museum: Kuwana, Mie

Mukou City Museum: Mukou, Kyoto

A learning support exhibition ‘Living in wartime’ was held

Summer lounge exhibition ‘War in daily living – Soldiers at

from Jun. 27 to Sep. 9, 2007.

the front and children’ was held from Aug. 11 to Sep. 30,

This is the fist time to cover

war in the exhibition.

2007. Correspondences between homeland and the

Tel & Fax: 81-594-21-3171

battlefield were mainly displayed.
Tel: 81-75-931-1182

Fax: 81-75-931-1121

Museum of Ohmi Hino Merchant: Hino, Shiga

URL: http://city.muko.kyoto.jp/shisetsu/shiryokan.html

The 27th special exhibition on the Pacific War was held from

Ohyamazaki-cho Museum of History:

Aug. 1 to 30. By newly appointed director’s policy,

Ohyamazaki, Kyoto

original information materials were displayed instead of
reproductions.

A small exhibition ‘The 9th Exhibition of the Foundation for

The exhibition focuses on children’s

experiences including evacuation.

Peace’ was held from Aug. 7 to 26, 2007.

Tel: 81-748-52-0007

pictures from pre and during wartime were displayed.

Fax: 81-748-52-0172

URL: http://www.town.hino.shiga.jp/hino-s/

Postcards with

Tel: 81-75-952-6288
URL: http://www.kiis.or.jp/rekishi/kyoto/yamazaki2.htm

Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto

Peace Osaka: OsakaA special exhibition ‘World Press Photo Exhib- ition 2007’

Special exhibition ‘Give a thought to modern war andwas held from Oct. 11 to Nov. 11, 2007 in Shiga and Kyoto.

weapons through Two Tales to Reflect Atomic Warfare’ was

The exhibition displayed winning news photos of annual

held from Sep. 27 to Nov. 18, 2007.

contest by the global news photo foundation.

consisted of the following presentations: 1) Panels of two

A special talkby a Japanese journalist was held as a part of exhibition.

This exhibition

tales, Escaped King and A Sword to Break a Sword;
2) Photo panels of the deluge of small weapons; 3) Photos ofAnother special exhibition ‘Drawings of Kunio Iizuka’ isand relate materials to child soldiers; 4) Photo panels ofheld from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, 2007.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima;5) Photos and artifacts of modern

Iizuka’s father is an

A-bomb victim from Nagasaki and Iizuka set the themes of

weapons.

his work as civil war, massacres, poverty, hunger and

On Nov. 3, 2007, Steven Lloyd Leeper, Chairman of the

refugees.

Board of the Directors, gave a talk in relation to the special
exhibition.

A small planning exhibition ‘The front in New Guinea – aphoto exhibition of the defeated island’ was held from Oct.

A new special exhibition ‘Messages from Children in North

13 to 21, 2007.

Pakistan – from quake-hit zone in Pakistan and Afghan

The exhibition displayed photographs ofbones of skull, helmets and the battlefield that were taken by

refugee camps’ is held from Nov. 27, 2007 to Jan. 27, 2008.

survived families of fallen soldiers in 2007 when they visited

This exhibition displayed photos of the quake-hit area

New Guinea to confirm remains of 14 soldiers.

focusing on children taken by Kenjiro Sato, a photojournalist

Tel: 81-75-465-8151

from Asahi Newspaper, and thank you drawings by Afghan

Fax: 81-75-465-7899

URL: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

children at refugee camps for peace-packs (stationeries forschools) that had been sent by Japanese girl scouts for 10
years since 1994.
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and it will finish on March 30,2008.

The period is divided

On Aug. 12, a war-end anniversary program ‘My comics andinto ancient time, the Middle Ages, modern time and today

war experience – salvage from Manchuria and my wish forand themes such as race, gender, handicapped people, thepeace’ was presented by a comic artist.

outcast, etc, are exhibited so that visitors can understandwhat kind of discrimination existed in each period and how

On Dec. 8, 2007, war outbreak anniversary program ‘Wars

they are related to today’s issues of discrimination. The

reflected in kimono pattern’ will be held.

background of Japan’s discrimination issues is dealt with inrelation to Asia and the world.

thst

The 28 Seminar for Peace in 21 Century presented a(Newsletter of Liberty Vol. 39

documentary film Gaia Symphony No. 6 on Nov. 18, 2007.

Tel:81-6-6561-5891

2007.10.1.）

Fax:81-06-6561-5995

http://www.liberty.or.jp/
Barefoot Gen and The Grave of the Fireflies were presented
as parts of Weekend Cinema Program on Aug. 18, 19, 25 andHistorical Himeji Peace Center:Himeji, Hyogo

26, 2007.
Tel: 81-6-6947-7208

Fax: 81-6-6943-6080

Exhibition ‘The war deprived students of learning – daily

URL: http://mic.e-oska.ne.jp/peace/

lives of working students’ was held from Oct. 5 to Dec. 24,
2007.

The exhibition consists of the followings: 1) Fallstudents at factories in Hikkaido, Nagoya and Tokyo; 2)

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights Museums:

Working students and Osaka air raid; 3) Working students

Sakai, Osakaand Hiroshima A-bomb; 4) Working students in Himeji; 5)
Special exhibition ‘Wish for peace told by drawings –Testimonials by working students.

Kenichi Ota’s Work’ was held from Nov. 1 to 11, 2007.

On Nov. 3, 2007, a lecture by persons who experienced air

Ota’s work is based on his own war experience at the front

raid was held and on Aug. 5, 2007, a community singing wasthat conveys his wish for peace and preciousness of life well.

held.

Tel: 81-72-270-8150

held.

Fax: 81-72-270-8159

On Aug. 19, 2007, a talk by an A-bomb victim was

Tel: 81-792-91-2525

URL: http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/city/info/_jinken/

Fax: 81-792-91-2526

URL: http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/
Suita Peace Memorial Center: Suita, Osaka
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum:Hiroshima
Special exhibition ‘Children’s War – Student evacuation
through picture diaries and war that picture letters tell’ was

The exibition 2007 ‘Foreign Aid and Support for the Victims

held from Aug. 21 to Sep. 2, 2007.

and Wish for Reestablishment’ was held from Jul. 25 to Oct.

This exhibition was acollaboration effort by Peace Osaka and Peace Memorial

31, 2007. The exhibition presented both domestic andProject 21.

international victim support activities by a wide range ofTel: 81-6-6387-2593

people from various points of view.

URL:http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/kobo/jinken/page/00033

Tel: 81-82-241-4004

8.shtml

URL: www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

Osaka Human Rights Museum : Osaka

Human Rights and Peace Museum FukuyamaCity:

Fax: 81-82-542-7941

Fukuyama, HiroshimaA

specialexhibitionof“Japan’s

HistoryandDescrimination Issues“ began to be held on July 24,2007

An exhibition ‘Fukuyama Air Raid and Living in Wartime’18was held from Jun. 27 to Aug. 31, 2007. Another planning

andgry and they began to insist on the abolition of

exhibition held from Sep. 6 to Nov. 18 was about Saori-ori

extraterritoriality.

(special woven fabric) and peace, and weaving

Such petition in Kochi was led by Liberal Party anddemonstrations and lessons were also held.

influenced people in other places in Japan.

There was a

People whoflute concert and a talk on Nov. 11, 2007.

worked hard for freedom and human rights were introduced

Current exhibition is Human Rights and Peace Citizen’s

in the exhibition.
（“Light of Freedom“ Vol.61 2007 Oct ）Photo Exhibition that is held from Nov. 20 to Dec. 14, 2007.
The photos used for this exhibition is collected from citizens.

Tel: 088-831-3336

Tel: 81-84-924-6789

URL:http://www.minken.city.kochi.kochi.jp/

Fax: 81-84-924-6850

Fax: 088-831-3306

URL:http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/jinkenheiwashi
ryokan/Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum:Nagasaki

Takamatsu City Cultural Center , Peace Museum :Art show of the museum collection was held from May 16 toJul. 12, 2007.

Takamatsu, Kagawa

Tel: 81-95-844-1231

Fax: 81-95-846-5170

URL: http://www1.city.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/An exhibition was held from Aug. 22 to Sep. 2, 2007 anditems from the collection that were donated by citizens andphoto panels of the battles of Okinawa were displayed.

Sendai History Museum:Satsuma-Sendai, Kagoshimath

The 17 Takamatsu City War Memento Exhibition was heldfrom Jul. 30 to Aug. 3.

Small exhibition ‘War-end memorial exhibition’ was held

War Damages in Takamatsu and A-bomb Photo Exhibition

from Aug. 7 to 26, 2007.

was held from Aug. 6 to 10, 2007.

Tel: 81-996-20-2344

A lecture on peace education for teachers and staff was held

URL: http://rekishi.sendai-net.jp/index2.htm

Fax: 81-996-20-2848

on Aug. 28, 2007.
Tel: 81-87-833-7722

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum: Okinawa

Fax: 81-87-861-7724
The 8th Special Exhibition ‘The Battle of Okinawa and War

URL: http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/1794.html

Remains – To pass along the facts’ was held from Oct. 10 toDec. 16, 2007.

Kochi Liberty and the People’s Rights Museum: Kochi

The same exhibition will be held at

Yaeyama Branch of the museum from Jan. 16 to Feb. 24,
An exhibiion on People in the Movement for Freedom and2008.

People’s Rights in Kochi was held from November 2nd to

As a part of special planning program ‘The Battle ofDecember 2nd as the 120th anniversary of the three

Okinawa,’ a lecture by Prof. Shinobu Yoshihama frompetitions.

Okinawa International University was held on Nov. 4, 2007.

There was a movement for the reduction of tax,

freedom of speech and assembly and equal treaty with

Tel: 81- 98-997-3844

foreign countries in 1887 because people suffered from

Fax: 81-98-997-3947

heavy tax, and their freedom of speech and assembly was

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

oppressed. There was Normanton incident in which a shipcalled Normanton sank and British captain and sailors
could survive while Japanese passengers were not saved
and drowned in 1886.

＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

There were two trials, but it was

ruled that the captain was not guilty, which made people
19International Newsand Afghanistan, a memorial for the hundreds of thousandsof civilian causalities, and special memorial for the known
suicides of military personnel after their return home.

Yi Jun Peace Museum: The Netherlands

project is a moving tribute to those who have died and a

Commemoration Ceremony for Yi Jun and Internationalth

Peace Conference on Korea was held on the 13 and 14

The

th

thoughtful reminder of the cost of any war.

It will be

July 2007 in The Hague. Yi Jun is one of the most honored

installed in Grand Circus Park from September 21 throughfigures in Korean struggle for independence movement, who

September 26.

thdied on 14(The details are in Harbinger.)

July 1907 in The Hague, while the Second

Hague Peace Conference was held.

He went to The Hague

as a member of Korean Delegation which had failed,

Celebrating Paul Robeson: Athlete, Artist and Activist for

however, to gain admittance to The Conference due toJustice and World Peace

Japanese objection.

Exhibition Opening
Saturday, January 19th. 2008

1:00-4:00pm

Jun Yi(1859-1907) was born in Bookchung, SouthHamkyung province in North Korea.

He entered

Paul Robeson (1898-1976) has been virtually erased fromgovernment service as a public prosecutor.

He was a

American history books. People born after his death havemember of the Independence Club and played a leading role

little of his impact on labor, justice, the arts, sports, and theinstruggles of people around the world. Celebrating Pauldemonstrating

againsttheconclusion

Korean-Japanese Agreement Letter in 1904.

of

the

He also took

Robeson:Athlete, Artist and Activist for Justice and Worldthe lead in presenting written memorials to the King in order

Peace; a multi faceted project commemorates the 110th

to prevent the Eulsa Annexation Treaty from being

anniversary of Robeson’s birth.

concluded in 1905.

He was dispatched to The Hague as a

special envoy in 1907, but died without achieving his

The Exhibition: January 19 to April 12, 2008, is comprised

purpose.

of selections from the collection of James L. Wheeler and(This is from a leaflet of “Centennial Anniversary of Special

will include posters, playbills, books, videotapes, and other

Envoy to the Hague.)materials

Yi Jun Peace Museum

Robeson’s life as an actor, singer, athlete, activist for peace,

Wagenstraat 124A, 2512 BA The Hague, The Netherlands

labor and justice, the devastating effects the government’s

yijunpeacemuseum@hotmail.com

actions had on his career, and have a special section on the(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)time Robeson spent in Detroit.

Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery:

Retrospective Film Series:

Detroit

Detroit, MI on Saturday, Jan. 26, Friday, February 29 and

The following is an article of “Midwest Arlington Project” inSaturday, March 22.

Harbinger: Autumn 2007.

documentary and one of Mr. Robeson’s best films. Tickets

Along with other members of the Detroit Area Peace andare $10 for each evening or 3 for $25.00.

Justice Network, including Central United Methodist Church,

begins at 7:00pm. Reservations are requested.

from thecollection,highlighting Paul

to be held at 1515 Broadway,
Each evening will include a
Each evening

the Peace Center/Gallery is honored to participate in bringing
the Midwest Arlington Project- The Human Cost of War, toYouth Day, February 16, 2008,

Detroit.

Created by the North West Ohio Peace Coalition,

present original musical and written pieces by area youth.

the Midwest Arlington Project is composed of over 3600

These works reflect the student’s response to Robeson’s life.

tombstones representing the military who have died in Iraq
20

from 1:00 to 4:00pm will

Remembrance Day, Saturday, March 29 from 1:00 to 4:00pm
at the Peace Center, will be the sharing of Detroit area people

Mission: To contribute to a local, national, and international

who knew Paul Robeson, and participated in activities with

culture of peace through exhibits, activities, and events thathim,

focus on nonviolent choices.

will share their experience.

This will be an afternoonof intimate memories by Robeson’s contemporaries.
audience is encouraged to ask questions.

A permanent exhibit on Sister Dorothy Stang.

The

Reservations arerequested

The Peace Museum honors Dayton-native Sister Dorothy
Stang with an exhibit in the Dayton room. Sister DorothythTribute Concert: Saturday, April 12 , 2008.

Renowned

spent half her life in Brazil and the Amazon, starting in 1966.

entertainers, William Broyles and sons will present The

She joined the religious order of the Sisters of Notre Dame

Legacy Continued: A Tribute to Paul Robeson at 8:00 pm at

de Namur in Cincinnati in 1948, and remained active in theCentral United Methodist Church. A special afterglow withorder until her brutal killing on February 12, 2005. Her

the entertainers will be at the Peace Center/Gallery. Tickets

message was nonviolent throughout her life. She worked tofor the concert are $25 or $40 for the concert and afterglow.

save the Amazon from deforestation by lumberjacks, wealthy

Reservations are required.

cattle ranchers, and soybean farmers. Brazil exports theseproducts at growing costs to the earth's environment.

Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery

Dorothy Stang led a movement of peasants for a sustainable

33 E. Adams, Detroit, MI 48226

use of the rain forest. The exhibit will remain as part of our313.963.7575

permanent collection.

http://www.swordsintoplowsharesdetroit.org/index.htm

208 W. Monument Ave.
Dayton, OH 45402
937-227-3223(22PEACE)

http://www.daytonpeacemuseum.org/index.html

Dayton International Peace Museum
After two years of planning, the Dayton International Peace
Museum opened its
permanent doors at 208 W. Monument Avenue in downtown
Dayton, Ohio on October 14th, 2005. By 2006, the Museum
had attracted more than 100 volunteers who had donatedtheir time, energy, ideas, labor and personal funds.
The Museum has already made monumental strides toward
establishing itself as an important cultural and educational
institution not only locally, but regionally and eveninternationally. Two years of successful exhibits, events andeducational initiatives have focused on bringing peace andthe ways to peace into the public consciousness. During thistime, the unpaid staff and volunteers have worked incredibly
hard to ensure that the Museum will take deep root in the

The King Center: Atlanta, Georgia

hearts of the community it exists to serve, by serving in a
way that fosters lasting community transformation throughEstablished in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Centerinter-racial, inter-cultural, inter-religious, and inter-personalis the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement

peace and harmony.

of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of21

America’s greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality

interpretative text.

and peace.

Upcoming exhibit is as follows:More than 650,000 visitors from all over the world are drawn"Southwest Alaska: A World of National Parks and Wildlife

annually to the King Center to pay homage to Dr. King, view

Refugesunique exhibits illustrating his life and teachings and visit the

The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum

King Center’s Library, Archives, his final resting place, his

An Aperture Traveling Exhibition

birth home, gift shop and other facilities.

December 22, 2007 - April 13, 2008

Located in

Atlanta’s Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, The
King Center utilizes diverse communications media,

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

including books, audio and video cassettes, film, television,

441 Freedom Parkway

CDs and web pages, to reach out far beyond its physicalAtlanta, Georgia

boundaries to educate people all over the world about Dr.

Telephone: 404-865-7131

King’s life, work and his philosophy and methods of

Fax: 404-865-7102

nonviolent conflict-reconciliation and social change.

Email: carter.library@nara.gov

30307-1498

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/museum/In the web pages, you will find invaluable resources to(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)become informed about Dr. King and the ongoing efforts tofulfill his great dream of the Beloved Community for
America and the world.

Children's Peace Center: Georgia, USA

With your support, The King

Mission Statement

Center will make a major contribution to preparing coming

Encourage and equip children of all ages to develop

generations of Dr. King’s followers to carry forward hispeacemaking skills that enrich their lives and those aroundunfinished work into the 21st century.

them.

The King Center

Description

449 Auburn Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30312

A children's museum and resource center that teaches

Tel: (404) 526-8900

peacemaking skills and helps develop good character traits

information@thekingcenter.org

through Character Education. We have a traveling Outreach

http://www.thekingcenter.org/tkc/index.asp

program that takes those skills to schools, churches, camps,(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)etc. or through Field Trips. Included are fun, hands-on
interactive exhibits, activity sheets, arts and crafts, discovery

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

workshops, puppets, and storytelling activities that help

Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library andchildren learn alternatives to violence, respect for each otherMuseum is part of the Presidential Library systemand themselves, and how to enrich their own community andadministered by the National Archives and Records

see the beauty of different cultures around them.

Administration, a Federal government agency.

Address: P.O. Box 379

TheMuseum of the Jimmy Carter Library includes photographs

4831 Cove St

and historical memorabilia from the Carter presidency (1976

Acworth, GA 30101- 1981). An exact replica of the Oval Office and gifts

Contact: Andria Melham (President)

received by the Carters are also featured. A permanent

Phone: (770) 917-8815

exhibit of significant events occurring during Jimmy Carter's

Fax:

life

Website:andpolitical

careerincludesphotographs

with
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(770) 974-4602
http://www.childrenspeacecenter.org

Gandhi Institute of New York, and India, from 8 November(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)2007 through 8 July 2008. The diverse arrangement of
The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center: Ohio

painters, photographers, jewelry artists, experiential artists,

Our Mission:

sculptors, poets, authors and musicians, will dedicate a

Through all appropriate means, but especially through arts

substantial portion ofand literature, the Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center of

their authentic and original art, to support a project to build a

Bluffton University promotes the study of peace and justice,school for children in India, named in honor of Sunanda

cross-cultural understanding, and nonviolent responses toGandhi, wife of Arun Gandhi, and mother of Tushar Gandhi.

the proceeds from the purchase of

conflict with an emphasis on these themes for children.
Director: A. Louise Matthews

Conceived in association with InBusiness4Good Enterprises

Our Program:of New York, San Francisco, and Hawaii, this demonstration- Providing resources

project intends to raise 1 million USD to support the- Programming for children

foundation of the initial project, as envisioned by Arun

- Integrating programs with Bluffton University curricula

Gandhi, long time founder of the US based Gandhi Institute.

- Offering training opportunities for professionals working

By leveraging the dynamics of online auctions, in association

with children

with Givingworks.ebay.com and the unique merchandising- Welcoming visitors to browse the collections and enjoy thefrom Cafepress.com, this model will provide a wide variety

art workof options for those appreciators of art, that also align withthe principles of Ahimsa and Satyagraha.

Our Collections:-5,600+ volumes of children’s literature

Each Artist4Peace will be represented by a support center,-

1,000+ references and curriculum guides

where the merchandise of collectibles will bear an image-

135+ pieces of art (children's book illustrations, children’s

from their original art, along with the campaign motif. Eachof the Artists4Peace will also be provided an ‘Artists Select’art & fine art)-

support center, to support a special organization of their

The William Keeney Peace Reference Collection for

adultschoosing. Each of these support centers are intended to be-

Dr. John Roger Howe Memorial Music Collection

customized to the particular organization of interest, and as-

The Honda Outdoor Peace Sculpture Gardensuch, represent a specialized merchandising system, that can
support any internationally focused Peace agency or group.

Bluffton University
1 University Drive
Bluffton, Ohio 45817

The Gandhi Institute will benefit from the purchase proceeds

419-358-3000 / 800-488-3257

profits, with a percentage of those as designated by the artist,

http://www.bluffton.edu/lionlamb/

averaging 20 to 33% of the profits. Accordingly, the Institute(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)website will be displayed on all merchandise, thereby
creating a de facto promotional device, circulating around theworld as purchases are made.

Artists4Peace Campaign Announces Year Long Online
Auction Event to Benefit Gandhi Institute of New YorkThis new business model is intended to provide any and all

and India
Chief Encouragement Officer

Peace organizations with a clear path of expanding both their

Patrick Michaels

operating budgets from the diversion of retail spending, andAn international group of artists, covering 8 areas ofalso the promotional aspects of the merchandise, with aexpression, are coming together to honor the work of the

return web address, to create an awareness of their
23

leading factor in how cultures develop around thecommitment to Peace & Non-Violence.

world, energy sources and the effects of energy
increase our knowledge of the global community.

For additional information on this campaign, we suggest you•

visit one of these sites:

Children’s Tolerance Exhibit, sponsored by The
Gluck Family:

http://www.kauaikeepsakes.com/artists4peace/This exhibit will introduce issuesof bigotry and bias, acceptance and appreciation of
Artists4Peace Main Campaign Siteothers, and taking personal responsibility for

http://www.gandhiinstitute.net

actions.
TCNJ undergrad students majoring in Education teach andGandhi Institute Website

interact with children visiting the Tolerance Museum andhttp://inbusinessforgood.blogspot.com

undergraduate psychology students assess students before
and after their museum visit. Volunteers from the campus

In Business4Good Blog/Diary/History

and community are continually coordinated by The Bonner

Personal contact information:

Center for Civic and Community Engagement.

Patrick MichaelsCEOThe Tolerance Museum is now open to bookings from both

InBusiness4Good Enterprises

elementary and middle school groups, Scouts, leadership

Inbusiness4good@yahoo.com

groups, clubs, day camp groups and Sunday schoolgroups.......at (609) 581-0239. A tour of the college campus
can also be provided.

Kidsbridge Tolerance Museumat The College of New Jersey

Lynne Azarchi: Executive Director
In January 2006, Kidsbridge Children's Museum finalized thelynnekidsbridge@aol.com

creation of a Tolerance Museum a.k.a. learning lab on

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 4561 Chambersburg Station,

campus at The College of New Jersey — a highly accreditedTrenton, NJ 08611

college in New Jersey. The Tolerance Museum features

Tel: (609) 396-4300“Face to Face: Dealing with Prejudice and Discrimination,”

Fax: (609) 581-0293

an exhibit created by the Chicago Children's Museum that

http://www.kidsbridgemuseum.org/main/

focuses on diversity appreciation and tolerance.
Global Art Project 2008:
Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum and The College of New-Artists Join Worldwide to Promote Peace-

Jersey (TCNJ) are collaborating to create a cutting edge
partnership to teach diversity appreciation and character

Tucson, Arizona, USA, January 15, 2008. The Eighth

education to elementary school children.

Biennial Global Art Project for Peace invites participantsaround the world – groups and individuals – to join in aThis exhibit, in 2006, reached more than 1000 children, 125

multicultural celebration of global unity through art. Anyone

TCNJ elementary undergraduate education majors, 25

can participate.

undergraduate psychology majors, and other partners in thegreater Mercer County community.

In March/April 2008, participants around the world will
create, exhibit and exchange art expressing their ideas of a

The following is a part of museum exhibits.
•

peaceful global community – resulting in thousands ofmessages of peace and goodwill simultaneously encircling

Science and Energy, sponsored by PSEG: A
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April 1-22: Local community exhibitions/performances of art

the Earth during the week of April 23-30.

created.
Since its beginning in 1994, the Global Art Project for Peace

April 23-30: Worldwide art exchange.

has linked 78,000 participants on seven continents.

Ongoing after April: Community exhibitions of art received.

Nominated for a UNESCO Peace Prize for Tolerance andNon-violence, the Project connects people of diverse cultural

A 15-minute Global Art Project DVD may be purchased tobackgrounds, providing exposure to new ideas and a feelingshow to groups and schools.

of connection to the Whole. 180 Regional Coordinators are
currently helping to organize Global Art Project activities in

Visions of Global Unity: Inspired Images from the Global

their area of the world. Project organizers are soliciting

Art Project a postcard book of 30 images from the first

additional Regional Coordinators to distribute informationexchange in 1994 is sold at the United Nations Bookshop,and organize participation in their local communities.

NY and through the Global Art Project.

Participating groups include art councils, artist cooperatives,

Images on the Global Art Project website atmusic and dance groups, churches, corporations, libraries,

www.globalartproject.org may be downloaded for

Big Sisters, Boy Scouts, environmental and community

publication with this press release.

groups, hospitals, women’s clubs, youth and senior programs,

images may be requested. Interviews with individuals and/or

and YMCAs.

groups and further documentation of the complete project are

Hundreds of schools in locations around theworld are participating and will involve thousands ofavailable upon request.

students from kindergarten through graduate programs.

Contact:

Higher resolution

Katherine Josten
Founder/Director“The purpose of the Global Art Project is to joyously create

Tucson, Arizona, USAa culture of peace through art. The Project gives participants

1-520/628-8353

in local communities an opportunity to join together to create

peace@globalartproject.org

a cooperative global community. It’s an opportunity for

www.globalartproject.org

people to seed the future with visions of peace,” ProjectFounder/Director, Katherine Josten.

'The Nuclear Dilemma exhibition'
A comprehensive photographic exhibition on the history of

The Global Art Project for Peace is a 501(c)3 non-profit,

nuclear technology, from the discovery of radioactivity ingrass-roots organization. Organizers invite donations and1895 by Henri Becqurel, to the present day proliferation

sponsorships to support the Project. For additionaland energy crisis.

information about the Global Art Project for Peace and how
to get involved by participating, volunteering and/or funding

I would like to introduce you (if you are not already aware)

the Project, visit www.globalartproject.org or send ato The Nuclear Dilemma exhibition due to be presented at

self-addressed, stamped envelope to Global Art Project, PO

the prestigious International Red Cross and Red CrescentBox 40445, Tucson, AZ 85717, USA. 1(520) 628-8353.

Museum, Geneva from the 27th February - 29th July 2008.

peace@globalartproject.org.
The exhibition is co-produced by REAL Exhibition
2008 Global Art Project for Peace Time-Line

Development, a non-profit organization established by

February 29: International Registration for participation

myself in 2007 and the International Red Cross Museum,

postmark deadline.

Geneva, a member of the International Peace Museum

March: Creation of art expressing global unity (anyNetwork. The exhibition is supported by the following

medium—visual, literary, performance, etc.)

international non-governmental organizations: IPB, IPPNW,
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SGR, INES, the French Peace Movement, Mayors for
Peace, Swiss Energy Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree

International Nuclear Disarmament Conference

Charitable Trust.

Int Red Cross Museum auditorium
19h00 - 29th April 2008
Reception: 18h15 - 19h00

To coincide with this years NPT conference and incollaboration with IALANA and Mayors for Peace, we

The Best in Heritage 2008:

are pleased to announce that will be hosting an important

DUBROVNIK, CROATIA

international conference on nuclear disarmament on
Tuesday, 29th April at 19h00 (food and drink reception

25-27 September 2008 (7th year)

from 18h15 - 19h00). We request that you mark this date in

Under the patronage of ICOM, UNESCO (BRESCE),

your calender and inform others who may wish to attend. If

Europa Nostra, ICOMOS, ICCROM, WFFM, IFLA andyou require more information about this event please do not

City of Dubrovnik

hesitate in contacting me.

2008 programme at:www.thebestinheritage.com/event/programme.php

If you are able to announce the exhibition on your web sites

Details about Poster Session at:(or elsewhere) I would be more than happy to provide

www.thebestinheritage.com/event/poster.php

images. Otherwise any assistance you can provide in

To participate, please register at:

promoting this event would be most appreciated.

www.thebestinheritage.com/event/prijava_eng.php

Following the Geneva opening the show will set off on a 5

Anything you do to spread the news about the event would

year international tour. Immediate presentations include

be much appreciated.

Gernika Peace Museum, Spain (Sept - Jan 2009) and theWorld House of Culture, Berlin, Germany (March - May

RenewalOpening2009).

Memorial Museum

of

the

Nanjing

Massacre
Ikuro Anzai

I do hope that you appreciate this exhibition and lookOn the very day of the 70th anniversary of theforward to meeting you all in Geneva for the opening or for

Nanjing Massacre Incident on the 13th of December

the conference.

2007,

drasticallyrenewedNanjingMemorial

Museum of the Victims Massacred by Japanese
Ashley Woods

Invaders, so-called Nanjing Massacre Memorial

President

Museum, was opened in Nanjing, China, with the

REAL Exhibition Development

total area of 74,000 m2, the building area of 25,000

ashley@realexpo.org

m2 and the exhibition area of 9,800 m2. The shapeof the museum symbolizes “a peace boat”. But its

Contact information;side view also implies a broken sword, and its

www.nucleardilemma.org

bird’s-eye view suggests a motion for turningswords into plowshares. According to the guidebook,International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum,the museum is identifying itself as “a history

Genevamuseum established on the relics”, but it seems to

In-Security, The Nuclear Dilemma exhibition

be aiming to serve as “a history museum for27th February - 29th July 2008

reconciliation and peace”.
Exhibits

Opening reception: 18h30 - 26th February
26

of

the

museumhavebeendrastically modernized based on the fruits ofacademic investigations and research activities inrecent years. The museum also displays thetestimonies of Japanese soldiers who took parts in
Nanjing

military

operationin

1937-38,

thefavorable decisions of relevant law suits in Japan,
and the activities to promote friendly relationshipbetween China and Japan, therefore visitors to themuseum could have a chance to think aboutreconciliation and cooperation for future peace,
insteadofmerelyenhancinghatredagainstJapanese people.
Recently in Japan, three books about
Nanjing Massacre Incident were published, i.e. ①“History of Disputes on the Nanjing Massacre
Incident” by Tokushi Kasahara, Heibonsha, ②“TheRape of Nankin” by Iris Chang and translated into
Japanese by Shoko Fu, Dojidaisha, and ③“Reading‘The Rape of Nankin’” authored by Shoko Fu andcommented by Masayuki Yamada, Dojidaisha.
According to the above-mentioned Kasahara’s book,Publications

the number of publications about Nanjing Massacre

Handbook on the Marshall Islands: Culture, History andIncident in Japan since 1960 is as follows;

Politics of the Small Island Country by Seiichiro TakemineYears Affirmative/Negative/Fewer Victims
1960s
1
1
0
1970s
14
3
0
1980s
27
6
3
1990s
30
11
1
2000s
12
20
2
Total
84(64.1%) 41(31.3%) 6(4.6%)& Satoe Nakahara.

Published by Gaifuusha in 2007. (inJapanese)
IPSHU English Research Report Series No. 21
The Policy of Ethnic Enclosure: A study of the Role of
Language in Ethnic Rivalries in the Caucasus by Vladimir

As is clearly suggested in the above table,

Rouvinski

young students nowadays have grown up in the era

Oct. 2007/12/09 Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima

when they had more chances to find books that

University (English)

negate the existence of the Nanjing Massacre
Incident. Newly opened Nanjing Massacre

Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory andMemorial Museum is expected to serve as a social

Narrative in the Armed Conflict by Neloufer De Mel. Sage:

facility to develop impartial understanding

2007of this important historical incident and to promote
peace-oriented cooperation between Chinese andJapanese people.
Thousands of people visited the museum on December 13,
2007. (photo by Anzai)27