Muse no. 13: Japanese Network ofMuseums for Peace
Newsletter: July, 2005

The Editorial Office: Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University56-1 Kita-machi, Toji-in, Kita-ku, Kyoto City 603-8577 Japan
Director: Ikuro Anzai.

Curator: Masahiko Yamabe

Editor: Kazuyo Yamane
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki
Tel: +81-075-465-8151. Fax: +81-075-465-7899.

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

The following is news on peace museums in Japan and Asian countries.

Mr. Masahiko

Yamabe, the curator of Kyoto Museum for World Peace, wrote news on big peacemuseums while Kazuyo Yamane of Grassroots House wrote news on small peacemuseums and other news.

We hope you will enjoy reading them.

The 5th Conference of Japanese Network of

Fax: 0258‐32‐2647

Museums for Peacechiharu@soutokukan.co.jp

The 5th conference will be held on December

Report of the 4 th Conference of JNMP

3rd and 4th at Kyoto Museum for World
University.

The 4th conference of Japanese Network ofParticipants are welcome to visit the peace

Museums for Peace was held on November

museum that was renewed.

There will be a

27 and 28 in Tokyo with the cooperation ofsocial gathering in the evening of December

the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall

3rd.

and Tokyo Document Center of Air Raids

Peace,

Ritsumeikan

The 35th National Conference of Association
ofRecordingU.S.

Air-raids

and

War

Damages
The 35th conference will be held in Nagaoka,
Niigata Prefecture from August 1st to ３rd.
Participants are welcome to enjoy Nagaoka
festival.
If you are interested in the conference,
please contact the following.
Tel: 0258‐32‐0106

erico
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and War Damages.

Association of Friends for Peace at

There were thirty-eight

Kyoto

participants.

Museumfor

World

Peace,

Ritsumeikan University, made a report
Mr. Shoichiro Kawasaki, the head of Peaceon a group tour to pease-related sites

Association of the Daigo Fukuryu

in European countries in May, 2004.

Maru

7. Mr. Yeongwhan Kim, the secretary

Foundaition Inc. ,greeted the participants.
Kazuyo Yamane who is in charge ofgeneral ofinternational exchanges at Grassroots

talked about war memory and youngHousepeople who think of Japan’s war

commemorated

Mr.

ShigeotheGrassroots

House,

responsibility.

Nishimori, the former secretary general of

8. Mr. Keiichiro Kaji made a report of thethe JNMP, who passed away on August

present situation and problems of

21st, 2004.

Tokyo Document Center on Air Raids
and War Damages.

The following is the reports at the9. Ms Kazumi Katayama of Association

conference.

of Friends for Peace, Kyoto Museumfor

1. Mr. Motonaga Futatsubashi of Nihon

World

Peace,

talkedabout

volunteer activities.

Kikanshi Kyokai in Saitama talked

10. Ms. Yoshiko Ohata of Volunteer’sabout how to train peace makers
through holding war exhibitions.

Society at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru

2. Mr. Tuyoshi Minemura in Nagaoka,

Exhibition Hall talked about activities

Niigata, talked about U.S. air-raids

as a volunteer and what she wanted tothere

convey to young people.

and

why

damageswere

11. Professor Toshifumi Murakami ofworsened.

Kyoto

3. Mr. Masafumi Ando who is planning toUniversityofEducation

make a peace center in Yamanashi

reported the sociological comparison

talkedbetween peace museums and military

about

the

peace

museummuseums.

project.
4. Mr.

KazuyaYasudaof

12. Professor Morio

Peace

Minami of

Aichi

Association of the Daigo Fukuryu

University of Education talked about

Maru

war exhibitions related to military inFoundaition Inc． talked about

Germany.

the 50th anniversary of the boat that

13. Emeritus Professor Hideo Fujita of

was exposed to radiation at the Bikini

Risshou

Atoll in 1954.

War/Peaceforcreating

Museum,talkedabout

learning of actions for peace.

5. Ms. Mina Watanabe, the secretary
general

University

Women’sreported

Participants visited the 5th Lucky Dragon

theprocess of realizing the peace museum

Display House

project.

Center on Air-raids and War Damages.

6. Mr. Yasuo Kawabata, the head ofand Tokyo

Document

It was decided that Tokyo Document
2

Center on Air-raids and War Damages will

Americans and Japanese were displayed,

be responsible as the head office of the

100 letters sent to Mr. Aikichi Kuboyama

Japanese Network of Museums for Peace

who wasin 2006.

caused by the U.S. nuclear test.

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Two traveling exhibits were made with theSummary of Reports presented for thecooperation of Kyoto Museum for World

Conference of Japanese Network for Peace

Peace,On November 27-28, 2004

History & Folk Museum, Japan Newspaper

driven to death due to the disease

Ritsumeikan

University,

Yaizu

Museum and marine correspondents labor

The following articles were submitted tounion.

Muse 13.

Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan

They were exhibited at Kyoto

University,

Kochi

City,

Itami

City,

The 50th Anniversary of the 5th Lucky

Kishiwada

City,

Kagoshima

City,

Dragon Boat

Nishinomiya City, Marugame City and soforth.

Kazuya Yasuda

There is a plan to exhibit them in

Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2005.

Secretary General of Peace Association of

the Daigo Fukuryu

MaruFoundation

The 50th anniversary was reporded byInc．

newspaper, TV, radio and magazines.

Itbecame clear that (1) it is important to
The Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall

preserve the 5th Lucky Dragon boat andis a public peace museum founded by Tokyo

exhibit it as well as people’s wish for peace,municipal government and run by Peace(2) it is possible to exhibit peace issues

Association of the 5th Lucky Dragon.

Therethrough art using the boat, (3) the museum

are various projects commemorating the 50th

makes people think not only the past but

anniversary of the 5th Lucky Dragon boatalso the present issues on war and peace, (4)that was exposed to radiation by the U.S.

it is necessary to exhibit the aftereffects ofhydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in

nuclear tests and nuclear issues, to collect1954.

related materials and to work together with

Exhibits were renewed so that young

young researchers.

people who don’t know about the hydrogenbomb effects on people will understand thehistory of the development of nuclear tests

Peace Trip to Europe in May, 2004

and the present situation.

Yasuo

An illustrated

Kawabata:thepresidentofbook of The 5th Lucky Dragon Boat by

Association of Friends for Peace, Kyoto

PhotosMuseum for World Peace Ritsumeikan

waspublished.

Six

special

University

exhibitions were held: an exhibition of daily
necessaries

of

the

crew,

two

photo

exhibitions on nuclear issues, a modern art

I attended a peace trip to Europe (Poland

exhibition in which art works by bothand Austria) organized by the Aushwitz
3Peace Museum Japan in Fukushima for aweek in May, 2004.

question is what to do in the future.

The museum wasfounded in 1998 in Tochigi Prefecture andActivities of Association of Friends for Peace,

was moved to Fukushima in 2004.

Kyoto Museum for World Peace

I amvery impressed by volunteers’dedicatedactivities for peace.

Kazumi Katayama

The concentration camps in Auschwitz and

The association was founded after the course

Birkenau showed inhuman actions andof training guides and the emphasis tends tothere have been many visitors including

be put on guiding activities at the peace

children.

museum.

The question is what to do so that

But we also have a study

we will not repeat the same mistakes in themeeting regularly and publish Newsletter of

future.

the association.

We also enjoy an annual

peace trip with Professor Ikuro Anzai, theWe also visited Peace Museum in Schlaining

director of the peace museum.

in Austria and I wanted to know if someexhibits we donated in 1998 during the 3rd

It is important to explain exhibits as guides,

International Conference of Peace Museum

but people who experienced World War II

held

are getting very old, and there is a problem

in

Japan

were

exhibited.

Unfortunately, they were not exhibited, butof the lack of the guides.

it was nice to know that we would be

exhibits on education and put an emphasis

informed if they are exhibited in the future.

on possibility of changing the Fundamental

I am in charge of

Law of Education. We have been helping
The exhibitions were very good in spite of

the peace museum as guides for ten years“
the lack of fund”: environmental issues

and it is time to think what to do in the next

were exhibited using some space in theten years.

castle.

What was impressive was the 4thInternational Peace Concert held downstairs

Preparation of Women’s War/Peace Museum:of the castle.

Tokyo

After we returned home, Mr. Yamada, theAlmost two years have passed since we

director of the Auschwitz Peace Museum

started a movement to create Women’sJapan, who also went to the peace trip, gave

War/Peace Museum in October, 2002.

a lecture at War Exhibition for Peace inhave collected related materials and making

Kyoto.

a network.

We

Several teams were createdthat are in charge of sexual slavery, violence
The trip to Auschwitz and Birkenau thatagainst women in conflicts today, Okinawa,

showed the cruelty of war and Peace

Matsui Library, video editing, and data.

Museum in Schlaining that show a cultureof peace were literally a peace trip.

We

The
4

also

learnedfromactive museum

movement in Germany: citizens’movement

26th, 1945.

to learn history by making commemorating
institution at the site of German aggression

There seem to be several reasons why

and making them the place to act for peace).

damages were worsened.

Many incendiary

We invited Mr. Thomas Lutz of Topographybombs were dropped.

There were manyof Terror Foundation in October, 2004 andpeople who run for shelter. A bridge washeld a symposium to discuss how the past

destroyed and people could not escape.

was overcome in Germany and how the

There were many wooden stores in Nagaoka

aggression was recorded, which is importantCity.

in our peace museum.

people after the air-raid.

The Women’s War/Peace Museum is gettingThe

more and more necessary because there is a

Fukushimatendency to change historical facts andEiji Azuma: the curator of Auschwitz Peace

violence against women is still used as a

Museumweapon.

It was impossible to treat injured

Auschwitz

Peace

MuseumJapan:We are planning to hold an

exhibition on sexual slavery and textbook

Auschwitz Peace Museum is a “
hand-madeissues and film festival in 2005.

museum by citizens”built on April 2003 inWe’
d liketo have your guidance and cooperation.

order to bequeath tragic history of Holocaust
to the next generation.

One of the main

The US Air-raids of Nagaoka: Niigata

purposes of this museum is to promote

Tsuyoshi Minemura, the author of The

respectful attitude toward “life and peace”

Testimony of 60 Survivors of the US

making up for the peace education of the

Air-raids on Nagaoka.

Japaneseschools.

As thepermanent

exhibition, there are two departments along
Nagaoka was air-raided by US bombers on

with the record of Auschwitz: “Anne Frank

August 1st, 1945.

department” andOver 80% of Nagaoka“
department

of

the

City was air-raided and over 1470 were

rescuers”. Every piece of display embodies

killed and over 5000 were injured.

the goal of this museum such as promoting

125

peace.

bombers dropped 925 ton of incendiary(Translated by Aya Takeuchi)

bombs.
245

MiwadaiShirasaka

There seem to be several reasons why

Fukushima 961-0835

Nagaoka was air-raided. Isoroku Yamamoto,Tel: 0248‐28-2108

Commander in chief of Japanese fleets, was

http://www.am-j.or.jp

from Nagaoka.

There were munition

muzeumau@maple.ocn.ne.jp

factories there.

Artery was cut and oil field

Shirakawa,Japanese Network Newswas destroyed, or it was air-raided to show
off America’s power because Japan refusedto accept the Potsdam Declaration on July
5

Pacific War History Museum: Iwate

Museum of History and Folklore, Saitama

Mr. Nobuteru Iwabuchi, the executive,

Peace Museum, Ground Self-Defense Forcetalked to the children and teachers who

History

visited the museum about the relationshipSelf-Defense Force Defense Museum at

between the WWII and the Iraqi War to

Utsunomiya, Treasure Museum of Gokoku

which Japan dispatched its Self-Defense

Shrine in Gunma, and Yushukan Museum ofForces. The number of children seems to be

Yasukuni Shrine. Mr. Sato also coauthoredincreasing who wrote in themuseumwith the members of the Association for

notebook that they want to take a strong

Studying Modern History of Miyagi a reportantiwar stance if war is so close to beginentitled “A Basic Investigation into thewhen they grow up.

Historic Sites and the Remains of Wars in

From 12 December, 2004, they made an

Museumat

Shibata,GroundMiyagi Prefecture”.

inspection tour to western New Guinea, and

The third volume of “
The Collection ofconfirmed the skeletal remains of Japanese

Research Materials”was published on 31

soldiers with Ms. Tomoko Abe (Social

March, 2005, which includes “Materials on

Democraticof

Military Officers Attached to the Schools

March,and the Military Drills at the Schools under

government officials also visited the State of

the Control of the Second Army Division (3)”Papua, Indonesia, for collecting the soldiers’

etc.

remains. The ashes are going to be laid toTel: 022-295-3956 Fax:022-257-6401

rest in the cemetery for dead soldiers at

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

Chidorigafuchi in Tokyo on 30 May. (Fromdex.html

Party),

Representatives

member.

House
In

the Newsletter of the Pacific War History
Museum, No.48 and 50)

Peace Museum of Saitama
We invited pictures and tanka poems

Tel: 0197-52-3000 Fax: 0197-52-4575

expressing the hope for peace from the
Sendai History and Folk Museum: Miyagi

residents of Saitama, and organized an

Investigation report No.23 “Folklore as
Seen

from

Local

exhibition

Viewpoints(13)” was

of

peace

culturefrom

18

December, 2004, to 23 January, 2005.

published on 31 March, 2005, in which Mr.

The second exhibition “
Withdrawal of

Masaya Sato, curator, wrote an article

Japanese

entitled “Folklore in Wars (3) ─WarDemobilization ― with Focus on the Case

Exhibitions in Japanese Museums”which

of Saitama―”was held at the exhibition

records information about the Museum ofroom from 5 February to 6 March, 2005. The

Coins of the Institute of Finance (Bank of

exhibition brought to mind again the fading

Japan), Peace Memorial Exhibition Museum,memories of war sufferings.

Showakan (Museum of Showa Era), PacificTroopsfromOverseas

andThe exhibition “
A Story of Dolls with

FukushimaBlue Eyes”was held at the exhibition room

Prefectural Museum, Hokkaido Frontier

from 23 April to 12 May, 2005. The

Settlers

exhibition introduced an original animation

War

History

Museum,Memorial

Museum,National
6

movie, €34
A Story of Dolls with Blue Eyes”and2005, which was the exhibition organized by

the background situations about the coming“
Cardia-kai”,

of those dolls to Japan, and displayed theheaded by Etsuko Mannen’yama.

materials donated by the residents during

self-purification

atelier,“
The Memorial Exhibition of Shota

the fiscal year 2004.

Fukuda, Shohachi Koto, and Norio Hara”,

The second concert for peace was held at

who were the members of the Japanese

the hall of the museum on 29 January, 2005.

Association of Artists of Asia, Africa andSakaidoGroup

Latin America and died recently, was held“
Canary”read aloud Noriko Ibaraki’s poemfrom 22 February to 20 May, 2005. (From“When I Was the Most Beautiful”, Akiyuki

theNosaka’s story entitled “
The Grave ofFoundation No.81 published on 25 December,

Fireflies”, and Kayoko Ebina’s essay entitled2004, and No.82 published on 22 April,“This Year’s Peony Flowers Are Good”. Then,2005)

Mieko Teshima performed a flute solo.

Tel: 0493-22-3266 Fax: 0493-24-8371

City

ConcertService

The following films were screened at the

News

of

MarukiArt

Museumhttp://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/top/kikak

hall; “Fly, Fly, Chick”and “Blue Memory”on

u.htm

11 December, 2004, “Angry Jizo, a Stone
Statue” and“Maya’s Lifetime” on

15

Tokyo Center of Raid and War Damages:

January, 2005, “Bye-bye, Scent of Mother’
s

Tokyo

Milk”and “White Flag Girl Ryuko”on 12“
The 3rd Symposium on the Air-raid on

February , 2005, “A Story of A-Bomb Dome”

Cities”was held at Fukagawa Edo Museum

and “Run, Ryu”on 19 March, 2005, and “
Fly,on 4 December, 2004, with three lectures by

Fly, Chick”and “
The Grave of Fireflies”on

Mr. Tetsuo Maeda, professor of Tokyo

April 9.

International

University,

about

“
The

The following films were also put on the

Beginning of Strategic Bombing in Asia”, Mr.

screen: “Harp in Burma”on 14 November,

Hiroshi Misawa “
An American Architect and2004 and “
Listen to the Sea God’s Voice”on 7

Tokyo Air Raids”, and Mr. Shin’ichi Arai,

May, 2005. (From the Newsletter of Saitma

professor emeritus at Ibaragi University,

Peace Museum, No.35 published on 15“
Memories of Air Raids in Germany”.

March, 2005)

Discussions took place after the lectures.
There was a gathering commemorating

Tel: 0493-35-4111 Fax: 0493-35-4112
http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacemu

the 60th anniversary of the Tokyo air raids

seum/

on 10 March, 1945, and the 3rd anniversaryof the establishment of the center was held

Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima panels:

at the Koto Ward Residents Center on 5

Higashi Matsuyama City in Saitama

March,‘
Exhibition on the Meeting of “Hearts”―

2005.

storywriter,Ms.

talkedToshikoabout

her

Takagi,work

Etsuko Mannen’yama and Her Associates,

entitled ”
Glass Rabbit”, and Mr. Katsumotoand the People Whom She Met ’was held

Saotome, director of the center, talked aboutfrom 28 November, 2004, to 18 February 18,“
60 Years since the Tokyo Air Raids and7

What I Think Today”.

same time a map that showed the places ofTel: 03-5857-5631 Fax: 03-5683-3326

residence and the attacked points of the air

http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~sensai/

raid victims was exhibited on the 1st floor.
The data of the map was based on an inquiry

Edo-Tokyo Museum: Tokyo

jointly made by the Edo-Tokyo Museum and

The 2nd special exhibition “
Sixty YearstheToshima

Ward

Local

Community

Never Forget That Day
A book “since the Tokyo Air Raids ― Lives of theMuseum.

Victims”was held from 14 January to 10− Drawings of the Tokyo Air Raids”was

April, 2005. This is the exhibition to makenow

clear the reality of the Tokyo air raid by

Publishing Company, which compiled thevisually showing the ways of evacuation ofdrawings collected in 2003 from survivors.

the victims, the articles left by them, andTel: 03-5619-7034 Fax: 03-3625-3431

the pictures and photographs in which the

http://www.city.sumida.tokyo.jp/~kyoudobunTokyoka/index.htm

air

Investigations

raids
to

were

revealcaptured.

the

ways

in

print

from

Kashiwa

Shoboofevacuation were the results of collaborative

Toshima Ward Local Museum: Tokyo

study by the Edo-Tokyo Museum, theThe exhibition, “60th Anniversary of

Sumida Local Culture Museum, and thethe Tokyo Air Raid”was held at the corner ofToshima Ward Local Community Museum.

the permanent exhibition room from 23

Tel: 03-3626-9974

April, 2005.

http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/

Toshima Ward on 13 April, 1945, drawings

Some articles of air raids onby air raid survivors, and military mails of
The 6 th Exhibition of Evacuated Children

Mr. Masayoshi Kaburagi were exhibited. A

Evacuatedlarger exhibition entitled “60th AnniversaryChildren”sponsored by the National Liaisonof the Tokyo Air Raid ― Memories andCouncilRecords”will be held from 27 July, 2005.

“
The

6th
for

Exhibition
EvacuatedofChildrenandco-organized by the Edo-Tokyo Museum was

The report of a survey by the Toshima

held in Edo-Tokyo Museum from 8 to 13

Ward Local Community Museum vol.17,

March, 2005. The exhibition took up the“
Letters from the Front(Ⅰ)”was publishedissues of the death of evacuated children

on 25 March, 2005. The book includes nearly

and orphans, and the pictures drawn by the

300 letters by Mr. Masayoshi Kaburagi tochildren.

his family. Mr. Kaburagi, former resident ofToshima Ward, got drafted and was sent to

SumidaHeritage

Museum : Tokyo

Manchuria, later re-drafted to the southern

The exhibition “
60th Anniversary offront, and finally died in Burma.
Research bulletin €Life
3 4 and Culture€35

the Tokyo Air Raid − Memories of 10th
March”was held at the planning exhibition(vol.14) was published on 1 December, 2004,

room from 22 January to 10 April, 2005.

which included the theses “
A Logic andThis exhibition showed the paintings of theHistorical

air raid drawn by the survivors.

Ridiculing the Kanto Air Defense Drill”by

At the8

Meaning

of

Kiryu

Yuyu’
s

Tetsuo Aoki, etc.

commemorate the 60th anniversary of theTel:03-3980-2351 Fax:03-3980-5271

defeat of the Pacific War. The event reflected

http://www.museum.toshima.Tokyo.jp/top.ht

on the last baseball game between Waseda

mlvs. Keio University (16 October, 1943), withfocus on a player named Kiyoshi Kondo, who

Minato

Local

Ward

Community

died in a Kamikaze attack at the age of 24. A

Museum: Tokyo

pictorial record of the exhibition was also

The exhibition “
Kafu Nagai and the

published.

Tokyo Air Raid”was held from 22 February

Tel: 03-5286-1814 Fax: 03-5286-1815

to 21 March, 2005. Exhibits were the

http://www.waseda.jp/archives/sub07.html

materials telling about the life of Kafu, adistinguishedwriter,includinghis

Kourai Museum: Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo

experience in the major air raid on Tokyo,

Exhibition “Japan, South Korea,

and those related to the Tokyo Air Raids andNorth Korea – Stamps and Paper Money”

the Pacific War.

was held from 27 February to 8 May, 2005.

Tel: 03-3452-4966

It displayed stamps and paper money fromhttp://www2.bun.co.jp/~kyoiku/kyoiku/shiseJapan, South Korea and North Korea,

tsu/kyodo/index.html

aiming at showing each country’s history
and culture, as well as the history ofParthenon Tama: Tokyo

relationships between these countries. A

Five lectures titled “Inheritancecommemorative lecture “Modern Japaneseand Extinction of Memory”were held from 6

History from the View of Paper Money”was

to 20 March, 2005. The first lecture was “Aheld on 27 February by Professor Emeritus

Memory in Media”by Associate Professor

Kan Tokuso, Shiga Prefectural University.

Keiichi Yano, Shizuoka University. The

Tel: 03-5272-3510 Fax: 03-5272-3510

second was “
A Memory and a Symbol€35by

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

Professor Naoyuki Kinoshita, University ofTokyo. The third was “
The Contemporary of

Bunkamura The Museum: Shibuya Ward,

A Memory of War” by Hajime Nogami,Tokyoassistant lecturer of Nihon Joshi University.

A photo exhibition “Children Living

Tel: 042-375-1414

on the Earth”was held from 5 February to

http://www.parthenon.or.jp/

21 March, 2005, which showed children’sphotos from 19th century to the present,

Waseda University, Historical Documents

thereby reflecting on happiness of children

Center: Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo

all over the world and the future of the earth.
A pictorial record of the exhibition was also

An exhibition “
1934 Late Fall: theLast Waseda vs. Keio Baseball Game”waspublished.

held from 25 March to 23 April, 2005, at theTel: 03-5777-8600

exhibition room on the first floor of Aizu

http://www.bunksmura.co.jp/

Yaichi Memorial Museum. It was held to9Japan Newspaper Museum: Yokohama City,

Philatelic Museum: Toshima Ward, Tokyo

Kanagawa

A special exhibition “
Stamps and
War Exhibition –Another History of the War

An exhibition “
War Depicted byin Showa Era” was held from 26 to 30

Photos”was held from 25 March to 26 June,

January, 2005. It vividly showed the period

2005, at the planning exhibition room,of war by displaying stamps and mails,

which displayed photos of the Sino-Japanesecomposed mainly from “Japan and the 15

War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War,Years’War 1931-1945,” one of the mostfrom “The NY Daily News”photo collection.

eminent works by Yosuke Naito, a postal

A pictorial record of the exhibition was also

scholar and an assistant director of the

published. A commemorative symposium

Philatelic Museum.

“
How Photos Depicted War”was held on 10

Tel: 03-5951-3331 Fax:03-5951-3332

April.

http://www.yushu.or.jp/museum/Tel: 045-661-2040 Fax: 045-661-2029
http://www. pressnet.or.jp/newspark/

National Diet Library: Tokyo
Yokohama Archives of History Museum ：The 135th permanent exhibition

Kanagawa“
Publication during War Time”was held at

Researchthe main building of the library in Tokyo

Journal

No.23

of

the

from 20 January to 15 March, 2005. It

Yokohama Museum Commemorating thedisplayedandOpening of Port was published on 31 March,

recommended books during war period, and2005, in which “
Diary of Unosuke Ohta (4) –publications before and after the end of theSecond Half of 1943” was introduced bywar.

Mr.Masashi

Tel: 03-3581-2331

Document Center of Waseda University.

http://www.ndl.go.jp/

Unosuke Ohta was a writer for Asahiapublishing

structure

Mochizuki,

Historical

Newspaper who stayed long in China in the
Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship:

wartime, and later worked for the General

Kanagawa

Headquarters of Detachment to China,
GeneralA photo exhibition “Afghanistan, aAssembly

of

the

East

Asian

Country of Dawn,”which showed Afghan

Federation, and the Economic Section of thepeople’s lives, and a painting exhibition of

Nanjing National Government.

Iraqi children were held from 8 to16 January,

Tel: 045-201-2100 Fax: 045-201-2102

2005.

http://www.kaikou.city.yokohama.jp/“
The

International

13th

Kanagawa

Childrens’

Biennial
Painting

Exhibition”was held from 23 April to 15
Kawasaki City Peace Museum: Kanagawa

May, 2005.

An

Tel: 045-896-2121 Fax:-45-896-2945

exhibition

“
The

World

of

Shinsuke Hashida, War Journalist” washttp://www.k-i-a.or.jp/plaza/

held

from

8

January,

2005.

Another

exhibition “
Let’s Think about Peace around10

Us – Children’s Right To Play”was held

was tightened through a number of eventsfrom 26 February to 6 March.

such as the 8th Japanese Constitution Forest

Tel: 044-433-0171

Day, the 16th Memorial Assembly for the

http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/25/25heiwa/hom

Korean and Japanese People Sacrificed ine/heiwa.html

the Construction of Matsushiro Imperial
Headquarters on 11 November, Symposium

Association

for

the

Preservation

Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of theofMatsushiro Imperial Headquarters: Nagano

ConstructionofMatsushiro

Imperial

Political attempts to change Japanese

Headquarters, etc., and sening messages toConstitution and Fundamental Law of

the people through mass media. Connecting

Education have been becoming active in

peaceJapan.

messages were strengthened.

The Association published a special

workersanddispatchingpeace

issue No.169 to focus on the aim of these

The Association obtained a position as

attempts by handing down to the next

an NPO in the projects for the activation ofgenerations the voices for renunciation ofNagano, and was given a subsidy from thewar sent by the remains of Matsushiro

City of Nagano.

Imperial

Headquarters.

The

newsletter

Plan for the memorial museum has

includes articles written by Kunihiro Haba,

almostone of the directors of the Association,

amendments for higher achievement in theentitled “On the Japanese Constitution”,

coming fiscal year.

been

completed

with

some

and a paper authored by Professor Tetsuya
Takahashi,

Graduate

Schoolofthe〈 Proposed Activities for the Fiscal Year

University of Tokyo, entitled “Fundamental

2005〉

Law of Education: Never Give up Peace andIn order to further promote the role ofEquality –What is Meant by the Crisis of

the movement, activities for strengthening

Japanese Constitution and Fundamental

our association are to be pursued in the year

Law of Education”.

of 60th anniversary of the end of the PacificRegular General Assembly of the

War and the construction of Matsushiro

Association was held on 27 February, 2005,

Imperial Headquarters, by connecting allwhich decided as follows;

the individuals and affiliated organizations
regarding the NPO to Construct Matsushiro〈Summary of the Activities of the Fiscal

Imperial Headquarters Memorial Museum

Year 2004〉

on

Cooperation with the residents of

the

basis

of

mutualreliance.

(1)Promotion of construction plan of thelocal community was promoted including

museumsetting up a reception desk for guidance at①Elaboration of the planthe “
Ecole de Matsushiro.” No concrete②Promotion of the negotiations with theprogress was made in building the memorial

city authorities mainly by the Project Team

museum, but the connection among thefor the Construction Practicepeople who are working for this movement③ Setting up opportunities to talk and11exchange information with the relevant

380-0928

sections of the city

Tel & Fax: 026-228-8415④Creating special committees on demand

http://homepage3.nifty.com/kibonoie/(2)Activation of local community by making
use of Matsushiro Imperial Headquarters

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka

and promotion of communication with the

A permanent exhibit “Children in War”was

local residents

exhibited from 18 February to 26 June.

① Vitalize our movement to invite more

Displayed were children’s life, evacuation

young people

and U.S. air-raids of schools.

②Promotion of cooperation with the local(“
For Tomorrow” Newsletter of Shizuoka

volunteers for protecting cultural properties

Peace Museum Project No. 61 published on1③Active participation in a number of events

March, 2005)

organized in “Ecole de Matsushiro” andTel:054-247-9641 Fax:054-247-9641

other parts of the city.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-heiwa/(3)Promotion of cooperation between theNPO, Association to Preserve Matsushiro

Preparatory Association for Establishing

Imperial

War Memorial Center for Peace: Nagoya

Headquarters,

Association

toConstruct Peace Memorial Museum, basedonthepublicinterests

andCity: Aichi

thesuccessiveness of the movement, having a

War Exhibition for Peace was held atview of the future.

Nagoya Citizens’
Gallery Yata from 27 April① Deepening the recognition among theto 8 May.

relevant member groups about the future

Establishing War Memorial Center foradministration of the association

Peace asked Aichi Prefectural Government② Efforts

toimprovethesystemforPreparatory Association for

and Nagoya City to create a war museum for

publishing newsletters and carrying out

peace since 1993.

practical activities

made for the museum at Aichi Prefectural(4)Obtaining

more

membersand

As a result, a design wasgovernment and war-related materials havestrengthening financial activities

been collected.

Efforts should be made to invite morewhen the project will be realized because of

members to the association by making

financial difficulties of both the prefecture

effective use of occasions of events, toand the city.

improve payment of membership fee and to

for Peace was held as a trial: a study

promote fund raising campaign.

committee for a war-related museum which(5)Efforts

administrative

was established by Aichi Prefecture andstructure and for steady promotion of

Nagoya City made a report on a modelplanned movements

museum.

tostrengthen

However, there is no telling

However, the War Exhibition

Association

for

the

Preservationof

Tel:052 - 962 - 0136 Fax:052 - 962 - 0138

Matsushiro

Imperial

Headquarters,c/o

http://www.memorial-aichi.jp/

Kibo-no-ie, 3-5-5, Wakasato, Nagana City
12

KyotoMuseumfor

World

Peace,

Osaka International Peace Center (Peace

Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto

Osaka): Osaka
The special exhibition “
How war was

Permanent exhibits were renewed

described”took place from 7 December, 2004,

in April, 2005: 15-year war and modern war

toare exhibited in the main hall and creatingexhibition room on the 1st floor, displaying

peace is exhibited on the second floor which

picture books, picture-card shows, paintings,

was newly opened.

haiku, novels, diaries, postcards, etc.

A room on media for

10 February,international peace was opened on the firstThe

floor in January.

special

2005,

at

the

specialexhibition “
Wars

and

Expositions”was opened from 22 February

Special exhibition commemorating

to 24 April, 2005, in the same place, which

50th anniversary of the sufferings due to US

displayed the historical change in the

H-bomb Tests in Bikini Atolls was held fromexpositions between mid-1920s to mid-1950s

28 October to 23 November at Nakano

with focus on the influence of wars on those

Memorial Hall.

expositions.

This was a traveling

The special exposition “
103 World

exhibit made by the 5th Lucky DragonChildren”

which

secretary general of the 5th Lucky Dragon

paintings

of

Peace

Seiichiro

countries was held from 17 May to 29 June,

Takemine, a graduate student of Waseda

2005, in the special exhibition room on the

University, gave a lecture on 28 October.

1st floor. At the year end of 2003, picture

Display House.

Mr. Kazuya Yasuda, theAssociation

and

Mr.

displayedchildrenfromoriginaldifferent

book writers talked among themselves about
Bulletin “
Peace Research at Ritsumeikan”

the possible means to send peace-oriented

No. 6 was published on 25 March, 2005.

messages by using their expression skills,

Included are an article on the Internationaland dicided to publish a picture book. At the

Symposium

Museums:

special exhibition this time, the wholeexchanges and cooperation and reports at

process of making this picture book was

the 4th conference of Japanese Network of

introduced, with the display of original

Museums for Peace such as Mr. Kazuya

pictures drawn by the writers.

of

Asian

Peace

Seiichiro Kuboshima, director of the

Yasuda’s article.

Shinano Sketch Museum and the Mugonkan
Yanagihara Bank Memorial Museum: Kyoto(museum for the art students who were sent
to the front and died in the war), made aAnexhibition“
Discrimination

againstspeech on 4 December, 2004, at the lecture

Koreans in Japan and its Movement ofhall on the 1st floor of the museum, which

Hyongpyongsa, Korean Organization, fromwas planned in commemoration of the1923 to 1935, was held from 4 March to 16

opening of the Pacific War on 8 December,

April, 2004.

1945.

Tel:075-371-8220

Kimi Koishi, a comedian, was invited

http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/yanagin/

to make a speech entitled “What Did Wars
13

Leave?”and a round table talk on “
Peace

Suita Peace

Memorial Center: Osaka

Monuments as Peace Message”was held on

The center has been showing peace

13 March, 2005, at the lecture hall on the 1st

films monthly. A Japanese film “
Humanfloor.

Wing”(1995) was screened on 13, 14, 27 andBun’yowell-known

28 November, 2004; an American film “Pearlphotographer, was invited to make a lecture

Harbor Attack” on 11, 12, 18 and 19

on “
War and Peace from Cameraman’s Eyes”

December, 2004; a Russian film “
A Story ofon 13 November, 2004, on the occasion of theSiberia”on 8, 9, 22 and 23 January, 2005; an

13th Seminar for Peace in the 21st Century.

American film “Overseas Correspondent”on

Hidero Fujita, assistant lecturer of Peace13, 26, and 27 February, 2005; a Japanese

Scienceof Hiroshima

animation film “Bare-foot Gen”(1983) on 12,

University, made a lecture on the theme

13, 26 and 17 March, 2005; and a Russian“
How International Community Carries out

film “Battleship Pochomkin”on 9, 10, 23 andPeace Activities?”on 30 January, 2005, in

24, 2005.

theTel: 06-6387-2593

14th

Ishikawa,

Research Center

Seminar,

and

Keiko

Sakai,

counselor of the Institute of Asian Economy,

http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/kobo/jinken/ptalked about the present situations in Iraq

age/000338.shtml

on 27 March, 2005, in the 15th Seminar.
A field work about the air raid remains in

Sakai

City Peace

Fukushima Ward was carried out with theMuseum: Osaka

guidance of Professor Emeritus Hitoshi

Anti-warandHuman Rights

cartoon exhibition for

Koyama, Kwansai University on 20 March,peace entitled “Imagine”was held from 1

2005.

April

to

31

July,

2005,

in

which

A forum for disarmament education

peace-oriented works drawn by 8 cartoonists

titled “Let’s Make Known Disarmament andunder the theme of “Imagine”sung by John

Talk about Disarmament Education” wasLennon were exhibited.

held on 20 November, 2004, at the lecture

Tel: 072-270-8150 Fax: 072-270-8159

hall on the 1st floor.

http://www.sity.sakai.osaka.jp/city/info/_jink

Arecitation

drama

“
Moonlight

en/index.html

Summer”was performed by the dramaticcompany Toen on 12 December, 2004, as

Peace and Human Rights Children Center,

Peaceful Stage 2004 at the lecture hall of the

School Textbook Museum: Sakai City, OsakaOn 22 January

museum.

2005,

a study

A movie film “Earth Symphony No.4”

meeting was held to examine the similarity

was screened at the same place on 4

and difference between the textbooks used

December, 2004.

in Manshu (north-east part of mainland(cited from “Peace Osaka”No.33 published

China) and those used in Japan then and

by Osaka Peace Center on 31 March, 2005)

now. Details are available in “
Grass-roots”

Tel: 06-6947-7208 Fax: 06-6943-6080

No.26. In addition, the City of Hong-Kong

http://www.mic.e-osaka.ne.jp/peace/

was introduced in the pamphlet No.26
14

entitled“
WatchingAsia

outsidethe

Suiheisha Museum: Nara

Sight-seeing Course.”

Suiheisha
The 8th special exhibition “

In a magazine “
The Night Before”,(Anti-discrimination)

Movementin

Mr. Han Hong-Ku, a Korean, told “
We learnt

Wartime”is open from 1 May to 31 August,more in small museums made by citizens’

2005. The exhibition displayed that, duringgroups rather than in large museums.

the wartime, the Suiheisha Movement tried

Especially in School Textbook Museum intoSakai City, Osaka, we were greatly shocked

activelyandarestructure, but that the movement was

exhibited in a jostling but neat manner. We

swallowed by the war policy and thefelt that the peace museums should be likeorganization and its movement disappeared.

this.”In addition to the nationwide situation, theTel: 072-229-4736 Fax: 072-227-1434

exhibition displayed the movement in Nara

moved.

Plentyofmaterials

dissolve

Burakudiscrimination

supporting

the

by

war-fighting

Prefecture. Some materials show that the
Himeji City Peace Museum: Hyogo
An

exhibition

of

the

Suiheisha activists were also cooperated

museumwith the war-fighting structure in the local

collection entitled “Life of Japanese People

community.

in the Wartime as Seen in Materials”was

235-2, Kashiwabara, Goze-shi, Nara-ken

held from 12 January to 27 March, 2005.

639-2244

Relating to this exhibition, Hideo

Tel: 0745-62-5588 Fax: 0745-64-2288

Takatani and Shin’ichi Tamichi told their air

http://www1.mahoroba.ne.jp/~suihei/

raid experiences on 11 February and 13
March, respectively.

Peace Museum of Air-raids on Okayama :An exhibition “Children’s Life in

Okayama

Wartime”was organized from 8 April to 3

Okayama Air Raid Peace Museum was

July, 2005, at the exhibition room on the 2nd

newly opened on the first and second floor offloor, with an aim to look back and hand

the Workers’Welfare Center at Kasugacho

down the tragic experiences of war throughin Okayama City. The museum is organized

the photographs and related materials about

by the Citizens’Council for Promotion ofchildren’s school

Peace,

life,

plays

and

their

an

NPO,

and

the

facilityforexhibition was provided for free by the

relation to war.
In connection to this exhibition, aOkayama City government. The precursor ofrecital by Maki Komada was held on 5 May,

the new museum, the Oyakama Air Raid

2005, and a lecture meeting of Kinuko Tada

Izushi Museum, was opened since 2002 atentitled “Talking about the Air Raid on

the Izushi Primary School which had been

Himeji”was held on 22 June, 2005.

closed. The museum was recently removed

Tel: 0792-91-2525 Fx: 0792-91-2526

to the new place on the occasion of the

http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/

redevelopment of the Izushi area.
The

museumexhibits

about

90

materials, including clothes in those days
15

and pictures of the ruins of air raids on the2005, at the Fukuyama City Human Rights

city.

A staff is usually stationed at theand Peace Museum. Drawings, paintings,

museum, and explains the exhibition to theand diaries of Asian children, which describe

visitors. Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., andtheir school life and playing, were displayed

closednational

at the exhibition.

holidays, and the end and the beginning of

Tel: 084-924-6789.

the year. Admission free.

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

Tel: 086-234-8323

nheiwashiryoukan

on

Hiroshima

Monday,Thursday,

Peace

Memorial

Museum:Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall

Hiroshima
A

For Atomic Bomb Victims: HiroshimaspecialNuclear Victim(Japanesetuna

exhibition,€The
3 4Third

A special exhibition of this fiscal year

Lucky Dragon No.5
fishingboat)“
Memories That Should Not Be Sealed Up:

andThe Realities of the Experiences of Atomic

Hiroshima€35, was held from 15 February toBombing”, is open from 1 April 1, 2005, to

30 June, 2005, at the fifth exhibition room ofMarch 31, 2006, at the National Memorial

the first basement of the east wing offor Commemorating the A-Bomb Victims in

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Hiroshima.

Tel: 082-241-4004 fax: 082-542-7941.

Tel: 082-543-6271 fax: 082-543-6273.

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

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

hpcf@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp
The Naruto German House: Tokushima
Hiroshima

Prefectural

Art

Museum:HiroshimaInaddition

exhibition

and

to

specialthepermanent

exhibition,theAnnual research journal No.8 of theGerman Museum of Naruto City organizes

Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum wasan event named “German Fest in Naruto”

published on 31 March, 2005. A diary of

every October.

Shozo Minami, a Hiroshima-born western

German-related sites around the museum

oil painter who was sent to central China assuch as German Bridge, memorials fora part-time officer of the army from 29

German POWs, €34
Bell of Bando”built in the

March to 21 May, 1939, appears at theprocess of cultural exchanges with German

journal with the editorial efforts of Ms. Aya

people,Fujisaki.

commemorating the first performance ofTel: 082-221-6246.

Beethoven’s Symphony

http://www1.hpam-unet.ocn.ne.jp

Please enjoy visiting these site as well.

andThere are a number ofastatueof

BeethovenNo.9 in Japan.

The museum will hold the following
Fukuyama City Human Rights and Peace

events this year:

Museum: Hiroshima

4-5 June:

A special exhibition “Asian Children’sSpecial exhibition introducing

the Bando POW’s CampWish€35
was held from 28 April to 12 June,

4 June:16

Evening party for tasting German

That Can not be Wiped Away, inviting awine
5-30 June:

victimSpecial exhibition of originalof

comfort.
These
women€35

pictures of the Grimm’s Fairy Talenation-wide activation were carried out by

9 July: German Lied recital

the initiatives of the youth who engage in

16 July: Star Festival Concert

the activities.

7 August: General assembly and the concert

At a rally in Kochi, shown were aof NPO “Naruto Association for

documentary film, Maldiyem: what occurred

Singing Symphony No.9”

in her life, which describes an Indonesian13-14 August: German Beer & Wine Festival

woman’s suffering as a “
comfort woman”,

1 October: National forum of German POWs

and slides on the issue of sex-slaves of thein JapanJapanese Army.

15-23

October:

SpecialexhibitionofAn exchange party washeld at the Grassroots House.

In spite ofwoodblock printings of the illustrations

heavy rain, about one hundred people, mostof Grimm’s Fairy Taleof them were youth, participated in the

30 October: German Festival in Naruto

event.

1 November, 2005 ─ 15 January, 2006:

Since the peace-loving constitution, theHansen and the Tokushima Orchestra: theConstitution of Japan, is being threatenedtruth

because of the increase of those who seek its

about

the

first

performanceof

Beethoven No. 9 in Japan

amendment, the Grassroots House began an

3-6 November: Academic exchange meeting

activity of “
reading the Constitution ofof German studies

Japan in various dialects” in order to

11 November to 25 December: German

popularize the Constitution in easier words.

Christmas & market fair

Reading a dialect-rewritten version of thePreamble and the Article Nine of the

Address: Aza-Higashiyamada 55-2, Hinoki,

Constitution, which was made by the late

Taima-cho,

Shigeo Nishimori, the former director of the

NarutoCity,

Tokushima,779-0225

peace museum, was warmly welcomed andTel: 088-689-0099 fax: 088-689-0909

actively

doitukan@city.naruto.lg.jp

dialect-rewritten version was read in the

http://www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/german

meeting

house/index.html

Association for the Protection of the Article

responded.
of

the

Kochi

Then,
branch

the
of

the

Nine.
Grassroots : Kochi

Members of the Grassroots House

General-Secretary: Yeongwhan Kim

protested against the Kochi branch of theJapan

PublicBroadcasting

Association

There was a rally for solving the(NHK) for its headquarters’tampering T.V.

problems of women who were forced to work

program due to political pressure. A member

as sex slaves by the Japanese Army during

read out a statement to NHK officials andthe WWII, which was called “
Nation-wide

had conversation with them on the issue for

and Simultaneous Assemblies: Memories

an hour.
17

organization will deeply appreciate your

Gunilla Cedrenius, a Swedish peacemuseum researcher, came to the museum,kind support and cooperation as before.

made a visit to war-related remains in Kochi,

Tel: 088-875-1275

and had exchanges with the members of theFormuseum.

Establishing Kitakyushu Peace

Museum ： Fukuoka

More than two years have passed since
the Iraqi War broke out. For the reaction

Preparatory Exhibition Room foragainst the war, the museum held a special

Kitakyushu Peace Museum was opened on

photo

17 February, 1996, and closed on 21January,

exhibitionof“InvasionandOccupation” in Iraq at Kochi Citizens

2004.

The exhibits and materials related to

Library from March 12 to 19, to which about

the past war were donated to Kitakyushu

600 people went and saw the exhibition.

City. On 1st August, 2004, about 150 ofMoreover, a special lecture was made by Mr.

them began to be exhibitedinthe“
Permanent

Hajime Kawaguchi, a lawyer supporting a

Exhibition Corner of Wartime Materials”insuit against the national government on thethe Municipal Center for the BuriedCulturalissue of sending the Japanese Self-Defense

Properties at Kaneda in Ogurakita Ward.

Forces to Iraq, some of whose accusers are

Tel: 093-771-5878

the members of the Grassroots House.
Every first, second, and third Friday

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum：Nagasaki(from 5p.m. to 7p.m.), and the last Sunday

Materials stored by Nagasaki Atomic Bomb(from 2p.m. to 4p.m.), the staffs andMuseum were exhibited at the Special

members of the Grassroots House continue

Exhibition Room from 4 February to 29

their peace activities and hold musicalMarch, 2005. Mr. Eiichi Matsumoto’s photoperformance for peace at Obiya-machi,

exhibition is now displayed until 31 August.

Kochi, for claiming against the invasion on

When Mr. Matsumoto was working for the

Iraq by the United States and the United

photo section of the publication department

Kingdom and demanding the withdrawal ofof the Asahi Newspaper, he entered

the Japanese Self-Defense Forces from Iraq.

Nagasaki and took photographs of the

The former director, Shigeo Nishimori,A-bombed city from late August to early

was buried in the tomb of the unknown for

September in 1945 for the special issue ofliberation movement, who worked hard for

the Asahi Journal of Science on atomic

peace, democracy, and social development atbombing.

the fifty-eighth mourning event, which was

exhibited this time.

About 70 photographs areheld in the Japan Youth Hall of Tokyo.
Thegeneralassemblyof

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

Grassroots House was held on May 14, andhttp://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bo

Mr. Masahiro Okamura was elected as the

mb/museum/new director.

New leading-members will

surely keep the line of Mr. Nishimori, theNagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall forfounder of the Grassroots House. The

Atomic Bomb Victims: Nagasaki
18

Commemorating the UN Disarmament

from Nagasaki Prefecture will go to Nanjing

Week，Photo Exhibition “
Nadya's Village”

for China-Japan friendship as the 3rd ‘wings

was held from 22 October to 4 November,of hope€31.

2004, at the lounge of the Peace Memorial

September 17th-24th : visit of 731 Unit

Hall. Mr.Seiichi Motohashi took

Museum (on Germ War) ~ ① A plan of thephotographs of the people living in theaffiliation with 731 Unit Museum ② Visit ofvillages which were contaminated by

9 ・18 War Museum

radioactivity due to the accident of

the actual situation of atrocities during

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986.

warfare③ the investigation of

October 1st : 10th anniversary of Oka
Tel 090-814-0055

Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum

http://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp

December 10th or thereabout : the 6th
annual event offers the opportunity to learn

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace

Nanjing massacre by a survivor, and a

Museum: Nagasaki

researcher.

Mr. Ihara, a financial inspector of the

Kumamoto and Hiroshima.

museum, visited €34
Unit 731€31
s War Crime

Address : 9-4 Nishizakamachi Nagasaki

Museum”and “
9 ・18 History Museum€35

City(museum on Manchurian Incident in1931)

Tel: 095-820-5600

in China, and deepened friendly

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

relationship.

html

On 3 May, 2005, in Nagasaki, “Japanese(With thanks to Mr. Yasunori Takazane, theConstitution: Article 9 Festa in Nagasaki”

director)

This will be co-hosted withwas held in a great success.

International NewsOn 13 May, 2005, the museum took part in
the organizing committee of the symposiumon ”
China-Japan Friendly Relationship ─

The 5th International Conference of Peace

In Search for Common Recognitions ofMuseumHistory.”
July 7th : the 1st meeting organized by the

The 5th conference was held form May 1st to

association aimed at learning from Mr.Oka’s

6th at Gernika Peace Museum in the Basqueexperience€31
was held.

Country.

①

The director reviewed Michi Hitosujini

authored by Mr.Oka.
②

Mr. Rong Wei mu(Chiniseanti-Japanese War History Association)
gave a memorial speech ,which wasco-organized with Kumamoto andHiroshima August 1st-18th: The fifth
goodwill visit to Nanjing: 2 undergraduates

Gernika Peace Museum
19There were eleven participants from Japan.

James makola (Africa)

The details will be available at the websiteof the International Network of Museums

Peoplefor Peace.

persons + the staff of the museum

attendingtheconference:129

http://www.museumsforpeace.org/
Nationalities: Spain, Argentina, Australia,
The following is from Ms. Iratxe Momoitio,

Belgium,

Cambodia,

ChzeckRepublik,the director of Gernika Peace Museum.

France, Germany, Irak, Italy, Ireland, Israel,
Colombia, Bangladesh, Japan, South Korea,
Malawi,

1. Members of the different committees:

Netherlands,

Pakistan,

Serbia,South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,
United Kingdom, USA , Uzbekistan.

General Coordinator: Peter van den Dungen
Advisory Committee:
Carolyn Rapkievian (North America)
Jean de Wandelaer (South America)
Clive Barrett (Europe)
Tomislav Sola (Europe)
Anne

CecileKjelling(Europe)(Tobeconsulted with her, as she didn’t attend theconference)
Ikuro Anzai (Asia)
Kazuyo Yamane (Asia)

Dr. Peter van den Dungen, the general

Anatoly Ionesov (Asia)

coordinator of the International Network ofWiliam Kelly (oceania)

Museums for Peace

Mike Gondwe (Africa)

Peace One Day
Executive Committee:“
You have proved that individuals can make
Gerard Lössbroek (Europe)a difference and if each of us does our bit

Iratxe Momoitio (Europe)collectively

Joke Lenten (Europe)

contribution.”

Roger Mayou (Europe)

UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan

we

will

make

a

major

Carol Rank (Europe)
Zulfiqar Ali (Asia)

The Peace One Day film project began as theMaria Sancho (Asia)

vision of one man, British filmmaker Jeremy

Kim Yeongham (Asia)

Gilley.

Steve Fryburg (America)

Peace One Day has gained the active

Joyce Apsel (America)

support20

Launched in September 1999,
of governments,UN

agencies,inter-governmental organisations, NGOs,

Jeremy Gilley is now in the process ofNobel

religious

producing a sequel to the Peace One Day

universities,

documentary focusing on the awarenessschools, key individuals, adults and young

raising process and the practical application

people alike.

of the Day throughout the world.

Peaceorganisations,

Laureates,
corporations,

On 7 September 2001, Peace

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Joanne Clark

hope that the exhibition will then be toured

IRIN Senior Information & Liaison Officer

from 2006 onwards, possibly at other Peace
Museums worldwide, and very importantly

IRIN, a humanitarian news service, is

in Japan itself. The actual 1st opening of the

producing a photo expose book on

exhibition is being planned at the Generalgender-based violence. We are looking for

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have

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Grassroots House in Kochi became theeditor of Newsletter of the International
Network of Museums for Peace at the 5thInternational Peace Museum Conference.
It will be available at the following website.
http://www.museumsforpeace.org/
Please send an article about 500 words to
the Grassroots House in English by August
31st.

It will be published in Newsletter of

the International Network of Museums for
Peace on its website.

Please write yourSend Posters and Other Materials of yourarticle not only about recent news but also

Museum to the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi

news in the past that was not published in

Minh City, Vietnam

the Newsletter of the International Networkof Peace Museums.

The War Remnants Museum has been promoting a
According to Ms. Hynh

Mr. Yeonghwan Kim is also trying to put

Ngoc Van, vice director, the museum is planningMuse that was published before at theto create a corner of the peace museums

website of Grassroots House.

drastic renewal project.

worldwide, and is expecting to collect posters andother related materials of as many museums as
possible.

Please send them to the address below.

Muse 15 in Japanese
Ms.

Hynh

Ngoc

Van,

Vice-director,

War

Remnants Museum: 28 Vo Van Tan St, District 3,Muse 15 in Japanese was published in June.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Special thanks goes to Dr. Peter van den
Dungen, Ms Iratxe Momoitio, Dr. Kate
Dewes, Mr. Ashley Woods who kindly sent
various news.
Special thanks also goes to Undergraduate

Student Volunteers of the College ofInternational Relations, Ritsumeikan
University and Ms Aya Takeuchi who has
just graduated from Kochi University forhelping translating articles into English.
Comments & Criticizm
Yeonghwan Kim, the secretary general of26

Your comments and criticizm of Muse and
The editor of Musepeace museums in Japan will be very

GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp

welcome.

http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishi
mori

Kazuyo Yamane＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

Peace Museums in Japan and Other Countries in the World
The following shows a list of peace museums in Japan and other countries in the world.

It isa part of Kazuyo Yamane’s paper for the 5th International Peace Museum Conference.

Since

there was a request to send it abroad, here are two tables though they are not complete interms that holocaust museums, resistant museums and some others are not included.

The

list was renewed with Ms Kyoko Kawamoto’s help of Kyoto Museum for World Peace when
this Muse was edited.

A list of peace museums in the world except Japan in chronological order of foundation
Name of Peace Museum

City

The International Museum of War and
Peace

CountryFoundedSWITZERL
LucernAND

1902

NETHERLA
Peace Palace and Library

The Hague

NDS

1913

Imperial War Museum

LondonU.K.

1917

Peace Memorial Museum

Zanzibar

TANZANIA

1925

International Esperanto Museum

ViennaAUSTRIA

1927

The IJzer Tower

Diksmuide

BELGIUM

1930

SWITZERL
League of Nations Museum

GenevaAND

1946

Gandhi Memorial Museum

Madurai

INDIA

1959

International Museum of The Red Cross

Mantova

ITALY

1959

National Gandhi Museum and Library

New Delhi

INDIA

1960

NETHERLA
Anne Frank House Amsterdam

Amsterdam

NDS

1960

Museum "Haus am Checkpoint Charlie"

BerlinGERMANY

1963

Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya

Ahmedabad

INDIA

1963

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Ho

Chin

War Remnants Museum

Minh

VIET NAM

1975

Peace Museum, Lindau

LindauGERMANY1980

Bridge at Remagen Peace Museum

RemagenGERMANY1980

Sievershaus
Anti-War House Peace Centre

en

GERMANY1981

The Peace Museum, Chicago

ChicagoU.S.A.

1981

Anti-War Museum, Berlin

BerlinGERMANY

1982

Peace Museum

MeederGERMANY

1982

Peace Library and Anti-War Museum

BerlinGERMANY

1984

Nanjing

CHINA

1985

Detroit

U.S.A.

1986

Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing
Massacre
Sword Into Plowshares Peace Center andGallery
International

Museum

of

Peace

and

UZBEKIST

Solidarity

Samarkand

AN

1986

Käthe Kollwitz Museum

BerlinGERMANY1986

The Independence Hall of Korea

Seoul

KOREA

1987

ResistanceBeijing

CHINA

1987

Caen Memorial

Caen

FRANCE

1988

Museum of the War of the Chinese People’sInternational Red Cross and Red CrescentMuseumSWITZERL
GenevaAND

1988

UZBEKIST
Children's Friendship Museum Tashkent

TashkentAN

1989

Museum of Compassion

New York

U.S.A.

1990

National Civil Rights Museum

MemphisU.S.A.

1991

The House of Sharing

Kwangju

KOREA

1992

Ostermiethi
Franz Jägerstätter House

ng

AUSTRIA

1993

First Austrian Peace Museum

Wolfsegg

AUSTRIA1993

Human Rights

VerdunFRANCE

1994

Prairie Peace Park

Lincoln

U.S.A.

1994

Peace MuseumNϋrnberg

GERMANY1995

The World Centre for Peace, Freedom and28

NETHERLAYi Jun Peace Museum

The Hague

NDS

1995

Peace Gallery

Bradford

U.K.

1996

SOUTH
Robben Island Museum

Bellville

AFRICA1997"In Flanders Fields" museum

Ieper

BELGIUM

1998

Gernika Peace Museum

Gernika

SPAIN

1998

Peace History Museum

Hindelang

GERMANY

1999

La

Vall

Peace Museumd'Uixó

SPAIN

2000

European Museum for Peace

Shlaining

AUSTRIA

2001

Community Peace Museums

Nairobi

KENYA

2001

Dayton International Peace Museum

DaytonU.S.A.

2004

Peace Museum in Japan listed by year of foundation(See also the map of prefectures)
Prefecture Name of Peace Museum

Year Founded

Hiroshima

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

1955

NagasakiNagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

1955

Saitama

Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels

1967

Okinawa

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum

1975

Tokyo

Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall

1976

Fukuoka

Peace Museum for the People

1979

Kanagawa

Soka Gakkai Toda Peace Memorial Hall

1979

MiyagiSendai Hukkou Memorial

1981

Hyogo

Kobe City War Damages Exhibition Corner

1981

Okinawa

Life is Treasure House

1984

Osaka

Liberty Osaka

1985

Hokkaido

Peace Memorial Center

1985

ShizuokaHamamatsu Revival Memorial Center

1988

Hiroshima

Okunoshima Poison Gas Museum

1988

Wakayama Teranaka Art Museum

1988

Kyoto

Maizuru Repatraition Memorial Museum

1988

Kochi

Grassroots House

1989

Okinawa

Himeyuri Peace Museum

1989

Kyoto

Tanba Manganese Memorial Hall

1989

29

TokyoNakano Ward Peace Exhibition Hall

1989

Nagasaki

Shoukokumin Museum

1990

Kochi

Kochi Liberty and People's Rights Museum

1990

Osaka

Osaka International Peace Center

1991

Wakayama Ishigaki Memorial Center

1991

Hiroshima

Mirasaka Peace Museum of Art

1991

Osaka

Suita Peace

1992

Kyoto

Memorial Center

Kyoto Museum for World Peace Ritsumeikan
University

1992

Kanagawa

Kawasaki City Peace Museum

1992

Hokkaido

No More Hibakusha Hall

1992

Tokushima The Naruto German House

1993

Saitama

Peace Museum of Saitama

1993

Okinawa

Sakima Art Museum

1993

Shizuoka

Shizuoka Peace Center

1993

Hiroshima

Human Rights & Peace Museum：Fukuyama

1994

Osaka

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights Museum

1994

NagasakiOka

Masaharu

Memorial

NagasakiPeace

Museum1995

KagawaTakamatsu Civic Culture Center：Peace Museum 1995

Hiroshima

Holocaust Education Center

1995

Iwate

Pacific War History Museum

1995

Tokyo

Setagaya Peace Gallery

1995

Aomori

Aomori Air Raid war & Damages Exhibition
Hall

1995

Hyogo

Historical Himeji Peace Center

1996

SaitamaOu Kounichi Anti-War Art Museum

1996

Hukuoka

Usui Peace Memorial Center

1996

Osaka

The Peace, Human Rights and Children Center

1997

NaganoMugonkan Art Museum for Peace

1997

Oita

Yawaragi: Peace Memorial in Saiki

1997

Kanagawa

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship

1998

Tokyo

Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center

1998

Nagasaki

Art Museum of Picture Books

1999

Gifu

Chiune Sugihara Memorial: Gifu

2000

Hyogo

War Memorial Maritime Museum

2000

Fukui

Yukinoshita Peace Culture Museum

2001

Tokyo

Kourai Museum

2001

Tokyo

The center of the Tokyo Air Raid war Damages

2002

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Gifu

Gifu Peace Museum

Hiroshima

2002

Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall For
Atomic Bomb Victims

2002

Iwate

Kitakami Peace Memorial Hall

2002

Hyogo

Nishinomiya City Peace Center

2002

NagasakiNagasaki Peace Museum

2003

NagasakiNagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall For
Atomic Bomb Victims

2003

Niigata

Nagaoka War Damages Center

2003

Okinawa

Tsushima-maru Memorial

2004

Okayama

Peace Museum of Air-raids on Okayama

2005

Executive Committee and Advisory Committee members of the International Network ofMuseums for Peace at the 5th International Peace Museum Conference31