Muse no. 7: Japanese Network of Museums
for Peace
Newsletter: June, 2002
The Editorial Office: Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University56-1 Kita-machi, Toji-in, Kita-ku, Kyoto City 603-8577 Japan
Director: Ikuro Anzai.

Curator: Masahiko Yamabe

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

Tokyo Document Centre on Air
Raids and War Damages

Address:

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp
1-5-4

Kitasuna,

Koutou-ku,

Tokyo
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

This center was opened on March 9th,

Open from the noon to 16:00

2002 in order to educate young people

Admission fee: 300 yen for an adult andabout Tokyo Air Raids by which about

200 yen for secondary school students.

100,000

peopleTel: +81-03-5857-5631.

Institute

of

were

Politics

killed.
andThe

Fax: 03-5683-3326

Economics

started a big campaign to make a peace

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/seikkkkeiken/peac

museum and citizens donated over 100

e2/Index2.html

million yen to construct it.

The director

Kourai Museum: Tokyo

is Mr. Katsumoto Saotome, a famous
writer.

There are three floors and thegross area is 260 square meters: the first

Kourai Museum was opened in Okubo,

floor is a room for materials and study,

Shinjuku-ku on December 7th.

the second floor is a meeting room with a

at a new museum where members cansmall art gallery and the third floor is forparticipate in activities, have exchanges

the exhibition and the storage.

of ideas and a dialogue.

Since

It aims

The aim will be

the scale is small, the emphasis is on

realized when Japanese citizens andTokyo air raids.

Korean citizens can truly understand one

There are photos,

articles left by the deceased and pictures

anotherto show the damages of the air raids.

according to Korai Museum No. 2.

Most of the materials were collected by

Director: Tomiko Sou

Association of Recording Tokyo Air Raids.

Address: 9F of dai 2 kannkaku Hiroba,

andrealize

peace

together

1-12-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo1

and Asue No. 50 published by the

Tel & fax: 03-5272-3510

Association for Making a Peace Museum
Yuki no Shita Peace Culture Museum:in Shizuoka on May 1, 2002.

Fukui

Pacific War History Museum: Iwate
Yuki no Shita was started in 1951 andthey had the fiftieth anniversary in 2001.

Forty-six remains of Japanese soldiers

Historical materials were opened onwere finally returned from western New

November

23rd.

Guinea that is a part of Indonesia

Many photos are used

to show its activities in the newsletter

accordingtoitsnewsletter

No.33.

called Kanpou and Yuki no Shita No. 391.

Nobuteru Iwabuchi played an importantrole in negotiating with people of New

The National Conference of Association ofGuinea.

He visited there five times last

Recording Air Raids and War Damages

year and said, “Japanese government’swill be held on July 26-28th at theposition is that the compensation issue ismuseum.

A film on its ten-year history

settled between Japan and Indonesia.

of the movement for building the museum

We need to make a new relationship atwill be shown then.

the grassroots level in order to have

Tel & fax: 0776-66-1564

Japanese remains returned to Japan.”kore.mitene.or.jp/-yukisita/yukisita@kore

according to Kawakita Shinpo on March.mitene.or.jp

30.

The details are available in the

newsletter of Senshukan Dayori of April

Gifu Peace Museum:Gifu

30, 2002.
Tel: 0197-52-3000 Fax: 0192-52-4575

Gifu Peace Museum was opened at a

Auschwitz Museum: Tochigi

corner of Gifu JR station on January 26,
2002.
to

It was built by Gifu City thanks

the grassroots

movement of the

1.5 million Jews were killed at Auschwitz

Association for Making a Peace Museum.

concentration camp and their articles and

The exhibitions were planned and held bymaterials were collected and exhibited at

the members of the Association.

The

Auschwitz Museum in Tochigi.

permanenttheit will be moved to Fukushima because

air-raids on Gifu by U.S. bombers.

Mr. Shinshin Aoki, the director, wasThere is also a corner where articles

asked to do so by the landowner.

donated by citizens are exhibited.

suffering from cancer, but asks for

exhibition

is

about

The

However,

He isentrance fee is free. It was introduced in

donation to keep running the museum.

its newsletter of Keisho No.20 published

Tel: 0287-45-2811

by the Association for Making War

muzeumau@maple.ocn.ne.jp

Memorial Center on February 4, 2002,
2

Peace Museum of Saitama

bomb test on March 1, 1954.

It was held

by Peace Association of the 5th Lucky
There was an exhibition on people ofDragon Boat on March 9th.

Professor

culture who evacuated to Saitama during

Yoshihiko

Shizuoka

World War II from October

23rd

YamamotooftoUniversity gave a lecture of “
The impact

December 2nd, 2001.

An illustrated bookof the Bikini Incident on Japanese

was also published.

An exhibition called

economy”. He put an emphasis on the“
School textbooks during the period ofimportance of the Bikini Incident in

confusion after the end of the War”was

Japan’
s post-war history: the incident

held from February 9th to March 10th.

reminded“
The Exhibition of Collected Materials”

importance of the Peace Constitution,

has been held since April 23rd and it will

and the economy based on the U.S.

last until June 23rd.

military intervention of Korea in theTel: 0493-35-4111.

Japanese

peopleofthe

1950s had to be changed into producing

Fax: 0493-35-4112

consumer

Http://villageinfoweb.ne.jp/~pms

goods,

notwar

supplies.

(From the newsletter No. 286 dated on
March 20)

War Exhibition for Peace by Citizens:
Saitama

Kanagawa Plaza for
Global Citizenship: Kanagawa

There has been War Exhibition by
citizens in Saitama.

Lectures for peace

were given on Saturday from April 27 to“International Cartoon Exhibition in New

July 13.

York”was exhibited from September 29(Why did Japan start WWII?

What did Japan do in Asia? Pacifists,

to October 14, 2001.

Okinawa and so forth) War exhibition“L
iving on the Beautiful Earth”and thewill be held from July 25 to 29.

aim

The

was

to

appealThe theme waspeopleofthepurpose is to convey the horror of war toprotection of the environment throughthe future generation.

cartoons, which was originally made inItisorganized

bytheExecutive

Kyoto.

Committee of War Exhibition for Peace in

before.

SaitamaExhibition called “
Hello, Dear Enemy”

Fax: +81-48-832-1645

was held and a photo exhibition on

It was exhibited in New YorkInternational

PictureBook

children of the world called “UNISEF and

The 5th Lucky Dragon
House: Tokyo

Display

Little Friends”was held from Feb. 26 toMarch 10, 2002.

According to Global

Citizen’s Report No. 12(Jan. 2002), theThere was an anniversary of the Bikini

number of the school that tries to

Incident in which Japanese fishermen

promotewere exposed to radiation of the hydrogeninternational understanding is increasing.
3

the

study

of

peace

and

The museum is ready to give an advice on

pupils in 16 schools went there in 1999.

the study for schools.

The number of pupils is highest from

Tel: 045-896-2121.

October to January because stories on

Fax: 045-896-2299

http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/osirase/plazwar are taught to 4-6th graders duringathis period.

Chiune Sugihara Memorial: Gifu

The exhibition on war in Shizuoka washeld for children from Nov. 16, 2001 to

It became possible to listen to Mr.

May 26, 2002.

Sugihara’s voice at the memorial.

on hibakusha (victims of radiation) in the

It wasThere was an exhibition

recorded when a TV reporter had anworld from Oct. 5 to Nov. 4, 2001.

Aninterview with him in Moscow in 1977.

exhibition on people’s life in Shizuoka

He talked about his experience of issuingviewed by a photographer downtown has

visas to Jews against the order ofbeen held since June 14 and will last

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs

until Sept. 27.

during WWII.

The number of thechildren use real materials and books,

visitors of the museum will be over

and also listen to the stories of people

50,000. (Kochi Newspaper on April 2)

who had war experiences for their study,

It is suggested that

research and homework in its newsletter
Mr. Madoka Nakamura, Mr. Sugihara’sdated on May 1st.

granddaughter, met Mr. Daniel Grynberg,

Tel & fax: 054-247-9641

an Australian lawyer.

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

His grandmotheraged 88 could escape to Australia thankswa

to the visa that Mr. Sugihara issued.

shizuoka-heiwa@nifty.com

Daniel expressed his gratitude to her at

Kyoto Museum for World Peace

Holocaust Education Resource Center inTokyo. (The Daily Yomiuri dated on Jan.
28)

There was a special exhibition of thenews photos that won a prize in a photo

Shizuoka Peace Center

contest held by World News Photographs
Foundation from Sep. 27 to Oct. 21, 2001.

The number of the visitors became over

The art exhibition of Vietnamese children

2000 in 2001 according to its newsletter

was held from Oct. 26 to Nov. 15, 2001.

of Asue (For Tomorrow) dated on Feb. 1.

The paintings were given a prize at an

667 pupils of 16 schools went to theart contest at Ho Chi-minh War Museum.

center in 1996.

The exhibition of real

The exhibition of students’letters writtenmaterials and talks on war experiences

during WWII and remains was held fromwere so impressive that the number ofDec. 4 to 8, 2001.

pupils and teachers is increasing.

photo journalist who was killed in Viet

1635
4

An exhibition of aNam war was held from May 16 to June

Prefecture. There was the art exhibition13.

on experiences of cartoonists in China
from Jan. 8 to Feb. 24.

The

Bulletinof

Ritsumeikan

The original

Peace

works are kept at Maizuru Hikiage

Research No.3 was published on March

Memorial that shows the history of the25.

people who returned to Maizuru of Kyoto

The feature article is Dr. Osamu

Tezuka whose exhibits were held in

after

spring, 2001.

exhibition on Osaka and

His comics have been very

popular in Japan.

WWII.

Held

was

a

specialMunitionsfactories during WWII from March 13 to
May 26.

Association of Friends for Peace
A course of peace studies was given five
A study meeting for peace has been held

times from Sep. 15 to March 2, 2001.

every month after Kyoto Museum for

Forum for Disarmament called “Peace inWorld Peace was founded.

They had thethe 21st Century: Make Clear Ways for100th meeting in April.

Its newsletterthe Abolition of Nuclear Weapons”on Oct.

has also been published every month and21, 2001.

Both directors of Hiroshima

No. 100 was published in March.

The

Peace Memorial Museum and Nagasaki

association members began to play a role

Atomic Bomb Museum attended it. Onof a guide at the museum in April.

Dec. 8 when Japan started the PacificTel: +81-075-465-8353

war, a former crewman talked about his
memory of the war.

Osaka International Peace Center

Seiko Tanabe, awriter, talked about “
The Air-raids inOsaka and I”on March 13.

There was a special exhibition on people
who tackle with issues that threaten

The Bulletin of War and Peace wasworld peace from August 1 to Oct. 14,

published on March 31.

2001.

The photo contest of “Peace:

articles on peace research for ten years as

Transcending Differences”was held fromthe 10th anniversary of the museum.

Oct. 23 to Nov. 25. They were awarded a

There is also a full list of articles in the

prize at the 23rd World Photo Contest

bulletin.

held by UNESCO Asian Culture Center.

http://www.mydome.or.jp/peace“Children’s Art Exhibition: Peace, Human

Liberty Osaka

There areFax: 06-6943-6080

Rights and Living Together” was heldfrom Jan. 8 to Feb. 24.
werepaintedby

The pictures
school

Korean women who were forced to work

children and junior high school students

as sex slaves during WWII from Nov. 20

duringto Dec. 16, 2001.

summerelementary

There was an art exhibition painted byvacation

in

Osaka
5

They live together atthe House of Sharing in South Korea.

number of the visitors in the 2001 fiscal

Fax: +81-6-6561-5995

year is 793.

It is 2363 including people

who saw the traveling exhibits.

The

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights

total number of the visitors since theMuseum: Osaka

foundation of the center is 11544 in five
years.

There was a peace rally on July 12 to
think

about

watching

variousstars

byissuesaenjoying

There

is

also

a

reportontheplanetarium,

International Symposium of “Peace andlistening to jazz music and watching

Human Rights in East Asia” held in

picture-story shows made during the war.

February at Ritsumeikan University.

There was also an activity to appeal to

About 500 people participated in it frompeople for peace through picture-story

South Korea, China, Taiwan, and various

shows from Nov. 1 to 10 according to its

parts of Japan including Okinawa.

newsletter No. 21 dated in March.

Fax: +81-72-227-1453

An exhibition of paintings by children in

Himeji Peace Museum: Hyogo

Kosovo refugee camps was held from Julyto Sep, 2001.

Volunteer activities in

There was an exhibition on sports andIndia was introduced from October to

war from Oct. 6 to Dec. 23, 2001, and an

December, 2001.

exhibition of the collection of materials

Cartoons in the world

were exhibited so that visitors wouldfrom Jan. 8 to April 7.

think of the precious earth and thethe evacuation of children during WWII

importance of life from January to March.

has been held from April 14 and will last

Fax: +81-72-270-8159

until July 14th.

An exhibition on

The purpose is to

educate children about the horrors of war
The Peace, Human Rights and Children

and the importance of peace using

Center (The School Textbook Institute):

articles, photos and images of children

Sakai City of Osaka

who were evacuated during the war.
Fax: +81-792-91-2526

There

was

an exhibition on school

textbooks at fifty-four places in eleven

Museum for Sunken Ship and Seamen:

prefectures (Ehime, Tokyo, Kochi, Kyoto,

Hyogo

Nara, Aichi, Osaka, Hyogo, Okayama andKagawa) according to Grassroots No. 17

It is said that 60,601 seamen were killed(Aprilduring World War II.

13).

“
Anti-war

&

Peace

for

There is Museum

SunkenShip

andTextbooks”was held at Higashi Honganji(Senbotsushita

Fune

to

temple in April in Kyoto.

Shiryokan) in Kobe City and photos of

Exhibition: the20thCentury in School
The total
6

SeamenKaiinnosunken ships are exhibited.

in Fukuyama No. 9 was published on

A collectionof photographs of sunken ships was

Marchpublishedissummary of the exhibition on “The

Senbotsusen Shashin-shu edited by the

Reality of Hiroshima in both Victim andmuseum.

Assailant Side”that was held from June

in

2001.

The

title

The newsletter of the museum

3,

2002.

Includedisthe

13 to July 29, 2001.

is also available in Japanese.

Fax: +81-84-924-6850
Address: 3-1-6 Kaigan-dori, Chuou-ku,
Kobe City 650-0024

Holocaust Museum: Fukuyama City ofTel: 078-331-7541. Fax: 078-331-8578

Hiroshima

Open: 10:00am –17:00pm from Monday
to Friday

An exhibit of “
A Brave Man: Chiura

Okayama Air Raids Museum: Okayama

Sugihara” was

made

by

Holocaust

Museum

Holocaust

Education

with

Resource Center.

Panels on his life were

Okayama Air Raids Museum was opened

also made for children; one has 75 panels

by Association for Building a Peace

and the other has 35.

Museum in Okayama City on June 11th atfor peace education and ethics class atformerSchool.

school.

It can be borrowed about two

180,000 signatures were collected by

weeks.

Please contact the museum if

citizens, but their proposal was refusedyou’
d like to borrow the exhibit.

by Mayor of Okayama City.

IzushiSmall Hand No. 9 dated on Dec. 20, 2001)

elementary

down

Fax: +81-849-55-8001

Izushielementary

schoolwasclosedThey can be used(A

because of the decrease of children andhttp://www.urban.ne.jp/home/hecjpnhecjp

two classrooms began to be used as then@urban.ne.jp/

peace museum though it would be rent

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

only for two years.

Articles relevant to

the U.S. air-raids on Okayama are

An exhibition of “
Sadako and Folded

exhibited.

Paper Cranes: Message of Life beyond

Admission: freeTime” was held until Dec. 16, 2001.

Closedon

Monday,Thursdayand(The term was extended.) Sadako diedholidaysbecause of leukemia ten years after she

Open from 10:00 am to 17:00 pm.

was exposed to radiation of the atomic(Akahata on June 19th )bomb.

The exhibition is about her lifeand how her story was spread in theMuseum for Human Rights and Peace:

world.

There was an exhibition of

Fukuyama City of Hiroshima“
Testimony of Hiroshima”that is about
atomic bomb victim’s experiences andA magazine of Human Rights and Peace

what really happened using the pictures7

drawn by the survivors and relevant2002).

articles.

Takamatsu City before it was air-raided

There is a plan to make a map of

by U.S. bombers with the help ofFive plans have been carried out to

Association of Recording Air Raids on

convey the atomic bomb experiences to

Takamatsu.

the next generation from 2001 to 2002.

exhibition of articles left by the deceased

1.

Strengthening peace educationin August.

2.

Support3.

schoolexcursionto

It will be displayed at the

Fax: +81-87-861-7981

Hiroshima

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

Using Sadako’s story and folded

iku/bunkabu/sbsenter/heiwa.htm

paper cranes
4.
5.

Using buildings and trees exposed toGerman Museum:radiation in 1945

Naruto City of Tokushima

Academic research of the atomic
bomb experiences

A barrack where German prisoners of
war had been interned during World War

There are also three basic plans to

I was discovered recently.

In 1914

promote peace education.

Japan

that

1.
2.
3.

The

investigation,collection

andattacked

Quingdao

had

become a leased territory of Germany insorting out relevant materials

1898.

To

interned in twelve places in Tokyo,

arrangetheatomicbombedAbout 4620 German POWs wereexperiences by a computer

Nagoya, Fukuoka and so forth.

To work in closer cooperation with

1000 POWs were interned in the camp in

NGOs.

Naruto City of Tokushima Prefecture.

(Peace Culture on Dec. 1, 2001)

About

The German POW had a hard time, but

Fax: +81-82-542-7941

German advanced culture and technology

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesitewas/symphony No. 9 was introduced for the

hpcf@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

first time in Japan.

introduced

there.

Beethoven’s

They will discus thepreservation of the barrack in the future.
Fax: +81-88-689-0909

Takamatsu Civic Culture Center Peace
Memorial Museum: Kagawa

Toyohiko Kagawa Memorial in Naruto
A class called “Comprehensive Study”has

City was opened on March 23rd, 2002.

been

ToyohikopromotedbytheMinistryofKagawa(1888-1960)

was

Education, and peace education at theChristian, a poet, a writer of 300 books, aclass of elementary schools and juniorrelief worker, an activist of farmers’andhigh schoolsislabor movement, the founder of Japan’sintroduced in its newsletter No. 5 (Jan.,

Cooperative Society, a peace activist, an

in Takamatsu City8

educator and so forth.

First, citizens

bills and create a culture of peace.

The

tried to make the memorial and about

government is trying to change laws in

100 million yen was donated.

order to support war that could be started

Narutocity became in charge of the managementby the USA.

of the memorial on April 1st.

There are

Festival, an exhibition on war and peace,

his memorial in other places like Tokyoa peace concert, a peace art exhibition, aand Kobe.

peace

The memorial was built near

German Museum.

There is also a plan

film

There will be Peace Star

festival,amini-theater,children’s gathering and a peace festivalof making German Village Park, so thesefor high school students.

places will be new sightseeing spots inpeace play festival and a play of “The

the future.

Summer for the Children: Hiroshima,

There will be aNagasaki and Kochi”will be put on.
(Ruhe,

thenewsletterofGermanA

documentary film on Japanese men who

Museum No. 3 published on May 25th andtalkedan article on German Museum in Peace &assailants during WWII will be shown.

about

their

experiencesas

War Museum Guidebook by Aoki Shoten)
A young Korean man named Yeong Hwan
The Grassroots House: Kochi

Kim started to work as the staff, andvarious exchanges among young people

A peace concert has been held four times

from Korea, China and Japan have beenin Kochi after the 9.11th event under thepromoted.

theme of “Let’s make all the weapons(buki)

musicalinstruments(gakki).”(There is a pun in Japanese.)

It wasMs Sukyung Lim who went from South
Korea

to

North

Korea

as

the

organized by Mrs. Keiko Tamaki, therepresentative of National Association ofvice-director of the Grassroots House.

Students in 1989 talked about her

Young people, especially musicians, haveexperiences at Kochi Liberty and People’sbeen playing an important role to send

Rights Museum.

peace messages by music.

go to North Korea, and she was arrested

It was illegal for her toand put into prison for three years and
In February Mr. Seiichiro Kuboshima,

four months in South Korea.

the diretor of Mugonkan Museum, talked

courageousabout his art museum where exhibited

encouraged many people who wish for theare paintings by college students who had

unification of North and South Korea.

been forced to die in vain in World War II.

Fax: +81-88-821-0586

visit

of

North

Her
Korea

http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nis
There are various programs in PeacehimoriWave from June to September in order to

GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp

protest against the emergency measure
9Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

Mr.

Sun

Hsueh

lan

who

survived

Nanking Massacre talked about his
H. J. Peterson’s photo exhibition was held

experiences.

from Oct. 11 to Dec. 20, 2001.

but he lost sight of his left eye because of

He tookHe was only three in 1937,

photos of Nagasaki as a photographer ofJapanese soldier’s cruelty.

the U.S. Army from October to November

was broken by Japanese military car

in 1945.

when he was eight.

An exhibition of materials kept

His right leg

He talked about his

at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum wasterrible experiences with tears.

held from Jan. 24 to March 28, 2002.

on Korean women who were forced to

A moviework as sex slaves for Japanese military
TorahikoOgawa’
s photoexhibition

was shown.

A Japanese woman in her

started to be held on May 9 and will lasttwenties wrote, “I thought that their life

until Set. 1.

was

The photos are about

Nagasaki after the atomic bombing.

toohorrible.

We

have

a

responsibility to convey their experiences
to the next generation.

There

was

a

symposium

on

peace

http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/-okakinen

education by Nagasaki Association for
Promoting Peace Education on March 9th

Okinawa Prefecture

at the museum.

Museum: Okinawa

Discussed were how to

Peace

Memorial

convey the atomic bomb experiences tothe next generation and what to do to

There was an exhibition on materials

motivate the young people to work for

kept by the museum from Oct. 10th to Nov.

peace

are

30th, 2001.

working for peace. (Peace Wing No. 94 on

published.

Fax: +81-98-997-3947

Himeyuri

Peace

including

students

who

The illustrated book was

April 27, 2002)
Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace

Memorial

Museum:Okinawa

Museum: NagasakiThevisitors

became10 million on

It was decided to make the museum a

February 11 according to the newsletter

corporate body and to increase theNo. 29 (dated on May 30th).

number of visitors to 10,000 in 2005

museum was opened 12 years ago.

The

according to its newsletter dated on Feb.
1st.

Peace Museum Projects

They made a plan to visit Nanking

with students and have more exchanges
with the Chinese.

Asakawa Association of Preserving theUnderground Shelter: Tokyo

There was the second meeting to connect
Nagasaki with Nanking on Dec. 8th, 2001.

Mr. Kenji Watanabe gave his lecture of
10

“
High

schoolNoborito

students

Instituteresearched

the number of people who visit there isof Japan’s army”

according to its newsletter No. 25.

increasing: 130,000 visitors in 2001.

A

He

course for training guides was opened

said that there might be a relationfrom December, 2001 to Aril, 2002.

between the anthrax incident in the USA

People who were trained as a guideand Noborito Institute, a part of Japan’sstarted to be a guide in April.

army where experiments on humana meeting with the new mayor, Mr.

bodies were done for a germ warfare.

Washisawa,He also said that an apparatus as a filter

preserve Matsumoto Headquarters as aof water was discovered by high school

precious property in Matsumoto City.”

students.

and

he

said,

There was
“
We

will

The filter could play a role of aweapon because it made it possible to live

The general meeting was held in Marcheven if the water is contaminated withand Mr. Obinata, the secretary general,

germs.

explained the policy of preserving the

There’s alsoconstruction

of

news

filling

on theuptheunderground shelter and making it as aunderground shelter and a mystery of ahistoric site for peace.

huge underground shelter.

on

the

promotionofHe also insisted
theacademic

research, the inspection with city officials
Hiyoshidai

undergroundshelterofKanagawa

was

as

the

museum.

headquarters of Japanese Navy.

It is

Fax: +81-26-224-1761

used

and working hard to make a peace

under the campus of Keio University andhttp://village.infoweb.ne.jp/-kibonoie

kept

kibonoie@mb.infoweb.ne.jp

by

the

university.

But

the

underground shelter that was used as theheadquarter of Japan’s Navy has been

Association of Recording Air-raids onfilled up under the management of

Yokohama: Kanagawa

Yokohama City.

Hiyoshidai Associationof Preserving the Underground Shelter

The association was made in 1972 andasked Yokohama City Assembly to do thethe meeting commemorating The U.S.

research of the shelter and use it for

air-raid on Yokohama was held on May

peace education, but it was rejected.

27th.

The details are in its newsletter inon Yokohama and Kawasaki became

Japanese.

available at the following website.

Tel: +81-45-582-0449

http://history.independence.co.jp/ww2/

Matsumoto Association of Preserving the

It is possible to have a link to B29

Imperial Headquarters: Nagano

Superfortress Then and Now, the website

The information on the air-raidsof Association of the U.S. Veterans of the
Air Force that used B29 bombers to drop

There were not enough guides because11

bombs on Japanese cities according to

China for a week in September.

Kaihou No. 40 published on May 25th.

will be a peace conference with Museums

Thereof 731 Unit on Sep. 18, the day when
The Conference of War Exhibitions forJapan started war against China.

Peace

is a plan to visit the Museum of 9.18
Incident,

Museumof

ThereVictimsin

The 2nd Conference for War Exhibitions

Pingtingshan and Museum of 731 Unit

for Peace was held on Jan. 26-27 in

and also to exchange opinions with the

Yokohama.

Chinese.

148

peoplefrom

14

prefectures participated in it and they

Fax: +81-3-3268-1993

exchanged opinions in four sectional
meetings.

The themes were “
How toVisiting War Remains: Kanagawa

convey war experiences to the next
generation”, “
The present significance of

There is a plan to visit war remains on

the movement of war exhibitions inJune 23, July 21, August 18, Sep. 29 andrelation to terrorism and the U.S. attack

Oct. 10 before War Exhibition for Peace isof Afghanistan”, “
A culture of peace andheld in Kawasaki and Yokohama.

the role of war exhibition”, and “YouthContact Ms. Atsuko Kameoka

session for making the

21stTel: 045-56-2758

century

peaceful.”
The Guide Map of War Remains in
It was discussed that it is urgent toOkayamarecord war memories and decide how toconvey them to the next generation.

It

A guidebookon war damages in

was also discussed that it is important toOkayama was published by Okayama

share and disseminate efforts for peace to

Association of Recording War and War

prevent war since the Hague Peace

Damages.

Conference in 1899. It was suggested toresearch and make exhibits together.
(Form

the

reportof Mr.

Fax: +81-86-224-3787

Motonaga

Futatubashi, the secretary general of the
Network of War Exhibitions for Peace.)

Publications

Fax: +81-48-832-1645
Flowers Without Mouths: The diary of a
The Future Plans

young Japanese man caught in WorldWar II.

Mr. Nirimitsu Takushima(1921-1945) Kichiyo Ishigaki ed., Kichiyo

The Peace Trip to China

Ishigaki and Paul Whitney trans.

This

has not only his diary but also comments

There is a plan to make a peace trip to12

by young people of the U.S.A., China,
Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

forth.

It is also

written in English.

Films

Association of Article 9

War in Okinawa that were not Taught at
School: Shoukou Awagon in Iyejima

There is an article of “Types of War andIslandArticle 9 of the Japanese Constitution”by

Okinawa-hen) by Eizou Bunka Kyoukai

Professor Mitsuo Okamoto, “
National(English version)(Oshierarenakatta

Sensou:Meeting of Civic Movement against therevision of Article 9”by Mr. Ken Takada

This film is available as a video tape andand so forth in Hiroshima newsletter No.

it is about the history of Okinawa and32.

Shoukou Awagon’s life, the battle of

Fax: +81-82-255-6580

Okinawa, the seizure of the land by the

fujii@jca.apc.org

U.S. military, people’s protest in Iyejima
Island,theU.S.

military

bases

in

The Second Conference of Japanese

Okinawa, the aim of the Security Treaty

Network of Museums for Peace will be

between Japan and the United States,

held on August 24-25 when theand Awagon’s peace museum.

6th

Conference of Preserving War Remains is

Fax: +81-45-981-0918

held in Yamanashi University.

5,000 yen and the postage

Discussed will be how to run a peace

War in the Philippines that were notmuseum, the movement of supporting

Taughtand developing peace museums and the

School:Invasion,“
Development”

andResistancemovement of making peace museums.

(Oshierarenakatta

Sensou:Phillipine

The themes could be children’s study at ahen) by Eizou Bunka Kyoukai

peace museum for comprehensive study,(English version)

study based on experiences and study

The film is about Japan’s invasion of thebased on research, how to decide thePhilippines and the present Japan’sthemes of attractive exhibitions, making

economic

exhibits together, traveling exhibits, thedevelopment assistance is not used foryouth’sthe real development, but used for the

involvement

exhibitions,

how

to

with

guiding

conveywar

interests

atinvasion.

ofJapan’
s official

Japaneseexperiences to the youth, the standards ofaccording to the flier.

the collection of materials, how to sort out

Fax: +81-45-981-0918

materials and data base efficiently, what

5,000 yen and the postage

to do with visitor’s access to books andmaterials, websites and their links and so
13

companies

International Newsto the Eagledale ferry landing.

Theysolemnly boarded the ferry Kehloken and
Bainbridge

Island

of

the

State

of

departed on a lonely journey with an

Washington: U.S.A.

unknown destination and fate."

On March 30th the 60th Anniversary of"They

WW II Japanese American Internment

Executive

and Exclusion was remembered with a

Exclusion Order No. 1 because they were

very

Nikkei--

specialMemorial

Dedication

were

exiled

Order

by

9066

persons

Presidential
andof

CivilianJapanese

Ceremony at the Bainbridge Island site

ancestry. With only six days notice, they

where it first took place on US west

were forced to hastily sell, store, or makecoast. A plaque on a granite stone wasarrangements for all their possessions,

unveiled at the former Eagledale ferrybusinesses and property.

landing

allowed to take only what they could

where

a

national

historic

They werememorial and interpretive site is planned.

carry or wear."

Dedication was attended by survivors"They were the first of more than 120,000

and honored all those forced to endure

Japanese-Americans

the injustice-- the name of each Islander

removeduprooted

experience

was

read

and

from

to

their
three

be

forcibly

homes

and

years

of

remembered…Congressman Inslee has aunconstitutional internment.

Bill before Congress to create a National

were interned. Some were drafted into

Memorial at this site, joining two others--theMinidoka (ID) and Manzanar (CA)-- asimprisoned, and some moved away-- but

National

all were forbidden to remain."Park

Service

Historicalmilitary,

some

were

Not allunjustly

Interpretive Sites. On world wide web,you can see photos and story of memorial"We dedicate this site to honor those who

dedication at either:suffered and to cherish their friends andhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/loc

community who stood by them andalnews/134428945_internment31m.html

welcomed them home. May the spirit ofthis memorial inspire each of us tosafeguard constitutional rights for all."or <www.seattletimes.com>"Nidoto Nai Yoni, 'Let it not happen
The Memorial inscription reads:

again'.""On the morning of March 30, 1942, 227

Gerald Elfendahl

Bainbridge Island men, women and

Bainbridge island (206) 842-4164

children, most of them United States
Citizens, were escorted by armed soldiers
14

The

International

Anti-Conscription

thepresent-day

Manifesto

againstMovement and a Campaign for an

Conscription and the Military System is a

Internationalsignificant document of world importance,

Convention

Eliminating

signedthe Conscription

byoutstanding

personalities

including several Nobel Peace Prizelaureates.

I would like to introduce the matter ofconscription

andcampaigns

for

its

world-wide abolition. This matter is often

I consider it valuable if any relations andneglected

co-operationanddisregarded,even by

on

the

topic

of

can

be

respectful international organizations foranti-conscription

protection of fundamental rights andestablished. If this initiative can be

freedoms.

inpromoted more - if you or anyone else isinternational movements and campaigns

interested - it will be highly appreciated.

for

the

As

I

abolition

amofinvolved

campaigns

conscription,

compulsory military as well as civilian

Avinty Lanaikey

service all around the world, I am highly

xnt@mail-box.cz

keen on promotion of these activities andseeking new connections.

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb
Exhibition: Wellington in Nuclear-freeTheconscription meansa shameful

New Zealand.

violation of civil liberties, personal andindividual rights: it's actually today's

A 16 member delegation from Nagoya,slavery. The conscription enslaves theincluding several Hibakusha (victims ofindividual, ruins personal life and privacy,

the atomic bombs), spent the first week ofenforces total loyalty of citizens to their

May taking part in thegovernments and regimes, involuntarily

Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb Exhibition

involves lots of conscripts in wars, causes

in Wellington, the Capital City ofmany victims, so it gravely threatens the

Nuclear- free New Zealand. The visit wasworld peace, liberty and democracy.

organized by the New Zealand PeaceCouncil.

International

manifestos,

such

as

Anti-Conscription Manifesto of 1926 andOn the evening of May 1, the group wasthat

invited by the Council of Trade Unions toAgainstConscription

and

the

Military Training of Youth of 1930, wereattend the May Day celebration where

signed by many outstanding personalities,

they entertained the gathering with afor instance by Albert Einstein, M.K.

traditional Japanese dance andGandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Toyohikoafterwards spoke about the horror of

Kagawa,Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Bertrand

Russell,RomainRolland, Sigmund Freud and others. Also

Several of

the group who were High School teachers,
15were invited to by the Post Primaryor someone else successfully made peace

Teachers Association (High school

where it was needed? If you do, pleaseteachers union) to attend their National

consider publishing, or republishing, it inConference, where they once again told of

an inspiring book about people who used

the suffering of Hibakusha. The leaders

the creative POWER of NON-VIOLENCE

of the group, Shoji Sawada, a professor

toemeritus of Nagoya University, andrelationships.

Miyuki Kamezawa, author of The

Soup for the Peace Lover’Soul will

Unforgettable Day, had the greatest

include true selections about people who

pleasure of a special meeting with thehave experienced peace-making.

resolveconflicts

andnurtureThe forthcoming Chicken

Prime Minister, Helen Clark. The Mayorof Nagasaki, Mr Itoh, also met with the

The short stories, poems, song lyrics,

Prime Minister.

quotes and cartoons included will havemulticultural

Two hundred people attended the official

peace-making

opening of the exhibition.

inspire readers.

Thousands ofexperiences
that

with

enlighten

andThe selections will be

people visited the exhibition and many

filled with emotion through personal orwere moved to tears by the stories of thewitness

Hibakusha. With U.S. threats to once

images created with use of the five senses.

more use nuclear weapons, the visit byTo

Hibakusha is even more important. The

company goals, please visit the following

message of Hibakusha must be taken

web site and read the sample stories theyseriously. They say there must never

have posted:again be anymore Hibakusha. They say

http://www.chickensoup.com/.

view

accounts.

They

Chicken Soup

will

includestoriesandthere must be the complete elimination of
nuclear weapons.

If your peace-making story is not yet

NO MORE HIROSHIMA'S!

written,NO MORE NAGASAKI'S!

Through publication, these stories will

NO MORE HIBAKUSHA! We have been

support others who accomplish similar

warned.

feats as well as help more people discoverthepleasenonviolent

considermethods

writingofit.

problem

The group will return to New Zealandsolving that will be illustrated withnext year to visit schools.

words.

Barney Richards, National Secretary,
New Zealand Peace Council.

See the SUBMISSION GUIDE:
http://peace-words.net/peace_stories/Stor

Peace Stories

yGuidelines.html
Feel free to submit more than one story. If

Do you have a true story about how you

you do not have your own, but have a16

favorite one written by someone else, it isPeace: 43 rue d'Assas, 75006 Paris,

also welcome.

FranceDo not forget to include

all contact information for the author andTel.

the subject of the story if it is not about

42.22.90.00

you.

E-mail: webmaster@mediapeace.org

Once we receive your submission,

we will send an acknowledgment of its(33-1)

46.34.23.51

Fax(33-1)

www.mediapeace.org

receipt. If your work is chosen for theupcoming Chicken Soup for the Peace

The Peace Museum in La Vall d'Uixó:

Lover’s Soul or any other publication, you

Spainwill be notified and your permission willberequested.

Pleaserealizethat

The peace museum in La Vall d'Uixó iscompiling a book is a time-consuming

functioning well and is growing day byprocess, so you may not be notified forday. It has had lots of success in andquite a while. We do not send rejection

around the town and is currently been

letters.

taken care of by a local teacher whobe

The literature you submit will

copyright

protected

duringits

himself together with his team are quite

evaluation for publication possibilities.

dedicated to the museum. Also, from time

Lovers of Peace Making

to time, students from the Master's

www.peacemaker.st

Program and the director (of the Master
Program in Peace and Development

The Interactions between Media, Conflict,

Studies) himself give seminars and talks

Peace and Security.

on themes related to peace in themuseum's building. A few months ago, a

We are a new institute of the United

three day session was organised by the

Nations-created University for Peace,team working in the museum together

specializing in the interactions between

with the staff of this program and the

media,UNESCO Chair under the guidance of

conflict,

peace

and

security.

Since you and we share some areas ofthe director.

common interest, we would like to link toartists were invited who exhibited their

you in our annotated "Resources" section.

art work related to peace.

If this were to suit your purposes as well,

Uzma Rehman

we would be happy if you would also

Student Coordinator

establish a link to our site to assist

International Master's Program in Peace

researchers in this field. Our URL is

and Development Studies

below.

Coordinación Servicios de los Estudiantes

Your comments and suggestions

In these sessions, several

are most welcome.

Maestría en Estudios para la Paz y el(Ms.) Nel Ruigrok

Desarrollo

Webmaster

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EspañaAPPRA Conference

Tel: +34-964-232551
Fax: +34-964-230212

The conference of Asia-Pacific Peace

E-mail: epd@uji.es

Research

Association

Tagaytay

City,

was

held

Philippines

in
from

Campaign to Build the Rongelap Peace

December 8th to 10th thanks to Sister

Museum: the Marshall Islands

Mary-Soledad

Perpinan,

Secretary General.

APPRA

Peace researchers,

Goal and Objective: Rongelap Peace

peace educators and peace advocates got

Museum will exhibit the damage andtogether from Korea, Taiwan, Cambodia,

effects of the nuclear test at Bikini, as

India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand,

well as the efforts of the sufferers, both

Malaysia, Japan and so forth.

Rongelap and Japanese, to overcome
It will thus encourage people to

The theme was “Reconstructing Peace

endeavor for a nuclear weapons-free

Theories and Practices in Asia-PacificPacific and nuclear weapons-free future.

Rationale”. The discussion was focused

It will also help to bring public attention

on

to

and

theoretically but also in practice. Whencontribute to the relief of the sufferers.

Kazuyo Yamane talked about the role ofThrough

these

will

peace museums, there were various

contributetoofopinions and questions such as “I’
d like tofriendship between the Rongelapese on

make a peace museum because it looks

one hand and the Japanese and people oflike a good means to realize peace.

other countries.

there a kind of a manual of making a

them.

many

unknown

sufferings

activities,
theitdevelopment

how

to

realize

peace

not

only

Is

peace museum?”, “I’
d like to take mystudents

Ground Breaking: August, 2003
Inauguration:

March1,

2004,

tomuseums.

50th

Japan and

visit

peace

Where

good

peace

are

Anniversary of ‘
Bravo’
Test

museums in Japan?”,“I’
d like the Filipino

Venue: Majuro, Republic of the Marshallyouth to have exchanges with JapaneseIslands

youth”and so forth.

Campaign and Management of Museum:

opinions were exchanged and it was

Mirar in Eaan Committee: P.O.Box 350,

reallyMajuro, Marshall Islands 96960

participants and became good friends.

Tel: 692-625-4306 Fax: 692-625-3879

appra@csi.com.phMirarineaan@yahoo.com

www.geocities.com/asiapacificpeace

great

to

get

Information and
to

know

the

Website: yet to be created(no more hiroshimas! Bulletin of JapanVFP Museum: Philippines

Council Against A & H Bombs. Vol. 45
Veterans Federation of the Philippines

No.2 June 2002)
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opened the museum in 1999.

The

Mr. Shoukou Awagon, the founder andpurpose is to tell the story of freedom

director of a peace museum called thefighters

toHouse of “Life is Treasure”passed away

Life-sizedtableaus,

the

young

generation.

photographs

andon March 21st, 2002.

audio-visual equipments are used.

He was born in1903 and emigrated to Cuba in 1925 andto Peru in 1930.

He returned home in

Veterans Center, Taguig, Metro Manila

1933.

Tel: +63-2-838-9148Fax: +63-2-838-6667

farmers, but the school that had been

He decided to open school foralmost completed was destroyed by the
Two Japanese Pacifists Passed Away

U.S. army during World War II.

His

land was seized by the United States forProfessor Sadao Kamata, the president of

its military base.

Nagasaki Peace Institute, passed away

found the peace museum to stop war.

on Feb. 26, 2002.

The peace museum was opened on

According to Asahi

Mr. Awagon decided toNewspaper dated on March 13, he

December 8th in 1984.

founded Nagasaki Peace Institute inbecause he thought that it was important

Nagasaki City in 1997.

to learn the cause of war in order to

He taught

He founded it

French literature at Nagasaki Sougou

realize peace.

University and had interviewed overshow war (for example, the U.S. bomb, a

1000 victims of the atomic bomb.

He

mock atomic bomb, iron wires), photos

made Association of Testimony of Atomic

that show their fight against the U.S.

Bomb Victims.

Army and also pacifists.

Professor Kamata was

There are exhibits that

not the victims of the atomic bomb, but he

He wrote books such as An Island wherevisited Nagasaki with his classmate who

Human Beings live: The Rocord of

was the atomic bomb victim.

Struggle over Land in Iejima”and Life is

He began

to know the sorrow and anger of theTreasure: Anti-War Mind in Okinawa.

victims.

（This is based onWar in Okinawa that

He founded Association of

Aiding Non-Japanese Victims of thewere not Taught at School edited by

Atomic Bomb in 1975 and helped Korean

Keiko Endo, Tatsuya Sato and Misako

victims go to Japan and have their body

Yokote and published by Eizou Bunka

treated.

Kyoukai）

He also investigated Dutch

victims who were prisoners of war.
Muse No. 7 in Japanese
His wife, Nobuko, helped him translate
and edit a journal.

She said, “I think heMuse No. 7 edited by Masahiko Yamabe

regretted that he couldn’t do so many

(Kyoto Museum for World Peace) andthings that he wanted to do.” Professor

Kazuyo Yamane(Grassroots House) was

Kamata was seventy-two when he passed

published by Kyoto Museum for World

away.

Peace) in June.
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It is available at thewebsite of Grassroots House.
http://ha1.seikyou.en.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishimori/
Editor’s Notes
Mr. Masahiko Yamabe, the curator of Kyoto Museum for World Peace, originally wrote
news on big peace museums in Japanese while Kazuyo Yamane of Grassroots House
wrote news on small peace museums and other news. We hope you enjoyed readingthem.

Contact addresses that were introduced before are not written in this newsletter.

We welcome your comments and questions on this newsletter.
I hope the following map will help you get to know various places in Japan.
With best wishes,
Kazuyo Yamane

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KyYamane@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp