Muse no. 16: Japanese Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: January, 2007
The Editorial Office: The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages
1-5-4 Kitasuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0073 Japan

Masahiko Yamabe
Tel: 03-5857-5631

Fax: 03-5683-3326

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/seikeiken/peace2/Index2.html
Editor: Masahiko Yamabe, Kazuyo Yamane, Ikuro Anzai
Translator: Risa Ikeya

Illustrator: Erico Tosaki

The 6th Conference of the Japanese

Asakawa, a retired teacher, talked about

Network of Museums for Peace in Tokyohis peace museum project.

The conference was held at Waseda(3) A War/Peace Museum in Aichi is

University in Tokyo on November 11 &planned in Aichi Prefecture and Ms

12th.

Mikiko Noma and Mr. Daisuke Miyahara

Professor Sumio Obinata of

Waseda University gave an opening

talked about their plan.

speech.

Masahiko Yamabe(Secretariat of theJapanese Network of Museums for Peace)

It was found that three peace museums

talked about the present situation ofwould be founded in the future.

museums for peace in Japan.

He alsotalked about the renewal of the Center of(1) Wadatsumino Koe Memorial was

the Tokyo Raids and War Damages andopened on December 1st by the Japanthe inauguration of Institute on War

Memorial Society for the Students Killed

Damages.

in the War(Wadatsumi Society) according

Professor Hideo Fujita (Daigo Fukuryu

to Mr. Shigehiro Okayasu.

Maru Exhibition Hall) talked about peace

Professor

Ikuro Anzai gave a lecture at the opening

museums as study centers.

ceremony.
Office:2-28-431, Shimomiyabi-cho

Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0822 JAPAN
Tel/Fax: (+81) 3-3269-8071(2) A Peace Museum will be created in
Yamanashi Prefecture.

Mr. Tamotsu

1movement.
Ms Eriko Ikeda, Kazumi Yamamoto andMayumi Kodaka(Women’s War & Peace
Museum) talked about peace museums
movement in backlash.
erico

Mr. Hiroshi Kitamura (the Center of theMr. Kim Yeongwhan(Grassroots House)

Tokyo Air Raids and War Damages)

talked about peace museum movement intalked about peace museums and their

East Asia.

public character.
Mr. Tsutomu Shouji (Korea Museum)
Professor Ikuro Anzai(Kyoto Museum fortalked about activities at the museum.

world Peace) talked about nuclear tests
by North Korea and the role of peace

People also attended from Himeyuri

museums.

Peace Memorial and Shoukei Museum.

Mr. Kazuya Yasuda (Daigo Fukuryu

It was decided that Ms Mina Watanabe ofMaru Exhibition Hall) talked about the

Women’s Active Museum will be in30th history of the Daigo Fukuryu Marucharge of making an emailing list.

Exhibition Hall.

Kazuya Yasuda will make a guide onMr.

peace museums in the network.
Mr. Eiji Azuma(Auschwitz Peace
Museum) talked about activities at the

Activities of the network will be promoted

peace museums.

by Mr. Masahiko Yamabe, Ms Eriko
Ikeda, Mr. Keiichi Kaji, Mr. Kazuya

Ms Chikako Hanaoka and Mr. Terunobu

Yasuda and Ms Mikiko Noma.

Iwabuchi (Pacific War History Museum)talked about the investigation of

The members of the network enjoyed

Japanese soldiers who had not returned

visiting Women’s War & Peace Museum

home after WWII from a perspective withon November 11th.

an emphasis on the respect of life.

the director, guided them.

Ms Rumiko Nishino,
They also

enjoyed having a party in the evening on
Ms Kazuyo Yamane(Grassroots House)

11th.

talked about the exhibition on Bertha vonMusuem and Shoukei Museum after the

Suttner, mother of European peace

conference.

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Some of them visited Korean

Nations and North Korea must be
Director’s statement on the press reportrebuked in the same way as the United

regarding North Korea’s nuclear test

States government was criticized for(October 10th, 2006)

going to the war on Iraq.

Ikuro Anzai, Director, Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, Ritsumeikan University(2) The information about North Korea’s
nuclear test bears uncertainty.

The

Reportedly, North Korea held the firstestimated magnitudes of the bomb

nuclear test in northern part of thefrom measured seismic waves bycountry at 10:35 a.m. on October 9th, 2006

Korea, Japan and US are 3.58, 4.9(Japan time).

and 4.2 respectively, which shows

I make a strong protest

against this outrage and cordially request

great variance among them, andthat all the countries with nuclear

tentative yield of

weapons beginning with the United

estimated from the magnitudes

States, the world biggest and strongest

ranges from 0.1 to 16 kt. (e.g.

nuclear power, to abandon the idea ofHiroshima: 16kt.; Nagasaki 21kt.)

security guarantee by nuclear weapons

In order to make a final judgment,

and to exert their powers to the abolition

additional information is neededof all nuclear arms.

including right or wrong of North

explosion

Korean source’s announcement of(1) World commencing with Japanese“the success of the nuclear test.”

Atomic-bomb victims
I express strong protest with all my(3) According to Korean information

might against North Korea’s forcible

source, there was no radioactive

nuclear test that was held despite

contamination caused by the nuclear

people’s concern.

The test not only

test; however, if the test was done in aadded further destabilizing factor tocave hall style nuclear testing facility

peace and security in Northeast Asia but

in mountain area, the integrity ofalso increases the danger ofshelter density, which is important tomilitarization of the world including

seal thepossession of nuclear weapons.

determined.

Also, theradioactivity in, cannot be
Allegedly, among 723

fact that the test was forcibly

underground nuclear tests that were

implemented in disregard of Unitedimplemented after the conclusion of

Nations Security Council chairman’s

the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963,

warning statement is a unilateralism act

12 cases (1.65%) had unexpectedthat harms substance of the Unitedradioactivity leakage and 9 cases3

(1.24%) detected radiation release

security issues of Northeast Asia

including radioactive noble gas a few

must be resolved basically through adays later. Radioactive leakage needs

multilateral body like Northeast Asia

to be monitored.

Security Council, which is theprospective body of six-party talks,(4) Considering that the test may haveand right political decision must be

been a low yield underground nuclear

made so that Japan will not move

explosion, it is rare that a large

ahead on militarization including

amount of radioactivity is released

nuclear armament by the North

into environment.

Korean nuclear test.

However, under

the current situation, where enoughinformation is missing, monitoring(6) At the same time, the proliferation ofradioactive contamination of

nuclear weapon is accounted for theenvironment and foods must be

United States’ self-righteous security

continued, and unsparing effort topolicy that relies on nuclear weapons

allow scientific criticism is essential.

and yet does not admit atomic

In a case like this, harmful rumor

weapon development and possession

about marine products from the areas

by other nations.

along the Sea of Japan can besimilar to the case where a father who

anticipated and therefore it isis a heavy smoker preaches his son

important that the extent of

not to smoke because it is unhealthy.

radioactive contamination evaluatedThis logic is fundamentally

based on scientific surveillance isinconsistent and not convincing at all.

informed to the general public with a

I continuously request that a drastic

central focus on the contamination ofchange in security measures being

air, sea water, indicative sea products,

made and insist that the world makeimported goods from North Korea.

further effort to remove nuclear

This pattern is

weapons. The number of nations(5) By the nuclear test, the existence ofthat stick to nuclear armaments is“an insidious neighbor” is registeredvery small, and they are

and it is concerned that the public

overwhelmingly isolated in theopinion that supports militarization

United Nations.

such as nuclear armaments and

New Agenda Coalition and Middle

constitutional acknowledgement ofPowers Initiative have been

self-defense military may be

expanding their influence and NGOs

encouraged.

throughout the world started raising

Even with difficulty,

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In recent years,

voice that asks for denuclearization.

warfare, needs to appeal inhumanity

I redouble every effort to promoteof nuclear weapons and to work

peace museums’ role in supporting

aggressively on requesting these

these voices to be intensified.

nations to get rid of the political ideas
on security that relies on nuclear(7) Japanese government depends on theweapons including North Korea’s

United States’ extended nuclear

nuclear arms possession.

deterrence policy and takes security
measures that depend on a nuclear(9) I think that peace museums in theumbrella. Such political measure isworld have social obligations to makeabsolutely inappropriate for the only

a cooperative effort to transmit thecountry that experienced agonies ofactual picture of damages caused by

nuclear warfare, and it is thenuclear weapons in Hiroshima andunderlying cause for Japanese

Nagasaki and to create the 21st

government’s disfavor for the United

century without nuclear armaments.

Nations’ resolution to ban the use of

Kyoto Museum for World Peace,

nuclear weapons andRitsumeikan University, is

uncompassionate support policy for

determined to work on this issue by

A-bomb survivors.

uniting both domestic and foreign

I firmly believe

peace museums.

that Japanese government’s
abandonment of security measures
based on nuclear armaments is

The Future of Japanese Peace Museum

absolutely imperative to drasticallyfor the Development of the Culture of

criticize the possession of nuclear

Peace
Hideo Fujita

weapons by other countries including
North Korea without hesitation.

Professor (Em) of Rissho University
Vice President of Peace Association of 5th(8) South Korea that takes conciliatory

Lucky Dragon

policy and China that has a stake in

Chair of Japanese Association of the Culture of

North Korea on national interest

Peace

What are Peace and War Museums?

basis are under pressure to make a

Among peace museums in Japan,

difficult political decision by theNorth Korea’s nuclear test.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum andNevertheless, Japanese national, as

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum are theonly people who have sufferedinternationally best-known museums ofdamage and after-effects of nuclear

all. As comprehensive peace museums,

5there are Kyoto Museum for World Peace

In short, it describes that Japanese past

(Ritumeikan University in Kansai region)

wars was considered to be just wars andandResource

the thought is “honor publicly for theCenter in Kanto region. Again, as myminds, sprits of the war”. But it isinvolved museum, there are Display

impossible to affirm the facts of theHouse of the Fifth Lucky Dragon in Tokyo

aggressive wars by this theory. This goesregion and, The Center of the Tokyo Raidagainst

Murayama’sand War Damages and Women’s Active

narrative”

inMuseum of War and Peace (WAM) which

Japan-DPRK

was opened last year.

September of 2002.

Again, there are war museums other

War museums praise the solders as war

than those peace museums in Japan andvictims of their own countries. So it goes

the

is

for war in the affirmative opinions

Yusyukan of Yasukuni Shrine. It could be

without the recognition of inhumaneven clearer about the meanings of peace

activities.

museums by knowing about Yusyukan.

facilities. So from the educational point of

The address of the forward on the head ofview, war museums participate positively

Yusyukan Picture Record of Yasukuni

in future wars and achieve making brave

Shrine is written as follows.

fighters.

From the view of world historical events,

On the other hand, peace museums

our past wars themselves were inevitable

convey the true stories of wars andto have achieved for freedom and peacefulmilitary expansion. At this point, theyworlds regardless colors of skin against

are standing for the general citizen sides

minds, sprits of the war dead and therather than armed force, and to make

Emperor, for the establishment of modern

clear

states, and for our self-existence andvictims from a neutral standpoint ofself-defense.

views. Educationally, the purpose is to

In the difficulties, …the contributions ofbring up people to create peaceful world

ultimate-sacrifices and dead of arms wereby the confliction against wars.

Kawasaki

most

City

Peace

representative

exampleAugust“minister’sof

Pyongyang

1995

and

Declaration

Museums are the educational

betweensides victimizers

andthe sprits of the war in Yasukuni Shrine.
It is our mission to throw light on theirMuseums for Peacehidden virtue and to make it clear theJapanese Pease museums have held

truth of the time they had lived.

annual meetings for the exchange of
information

6

andopinions,

based

on

networkbyindividual

accessions.

anothermemorial

house

will

be

International conferences were held once

constructed to show the thought andin several years. In 3rd International

activities of Tanzan Ishiabshi lived forconference (in Osaka and Kyoto) theJapanese disarmament and Asian peace..

definition of peace museum was debated.
It is not always easy to keep unified

But the policy for the amendment of themeaningofthedefinition

Japanese Constitution and participations

museumbecause

the

of

peace

meaningofto war will reconsider its roles or“peace“ as adjective is not the same bymeanings

individuals. The definition was accepted

considered to be necessary to maximize

by saying “museum for peace” instead offor the functions of Japanese museums“peace museum” by my opinion. Thisfor peace.

of

peace

museums.

It

ispoint was again accepted in Guernica
conference.
purposes.

My

approach

had

two

The Meaning of Museums for Peace

The first purpose was that,

Museums for peace have the roles to beinternational terms such as in Uniteduseful for research and education at large

Nations, it becomes more understandable

like the other type of museums.

bybecomesrole of its research is to collect and

Education for Peace and Peace Culture

preserve resources, and present new facts

becomes Culture of Peace as formal

and ideas. Many of Japanese museums

manner. Another purpose is the roles offor peace are to convey the facts about

museum

Asia

what

Peace

for

Education

peace

becomeclearer

Pacific

War(1931-1945).

The

The

definitions by finding out the roles ofimportant resources about this time are

education for creating peaceful world.

likely to be scattered and lost. The
significances of those must be very large.

In Japan, there are more than 60
museums for peace and its number is byMuseums

far large as internationally while most

donations of resources from people incases are 2 or 3 museums in othereach place of Japan. For example, thecountries. And that, there is a resource

resources by donations in the Center ofcenter on Hanaoka incident is underTokyo

construction

Damages have been increased as I visit

in

Oodate

city,

Akita

for

peace

MassedAirconsist

Raid

of

and

the

War

prefecture. Again, Memorial Society for

and

the

enlargement of the buildings by necessity.

Students

Killed

in

the

war

it

is

now

in

preparationfor(Wadatsumi Society) is about to constructmemorial museum in Tokyo. In Koufu city,The

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importanceisespeciallytheeducational role here. These museums forhistorical facts. Especially for children

peace are to convey the true stories ofand adolescences, these stories are very

Hiroshima,

old tales. So the studies of these facts are

Nagasakivictims

andanother war experiences. At this point,

involved in history education.

the museums in Japan try to convey bycontents, which should be learned as thethorough realism according to the opinion

peace education, are the current subjects

of Peter Van Den Dangen known as theandrepresentative of international network

important for us to know what we shouldof museums for peace.

do. History education is essential for use

futureproblem.

Again,

The

it

is

for them because it helps us to image
About 20 years ago, I have insisted thewhat will happen in the future.

aim of education for peace is to bring up
people for the creation of peaceful world

Japanese cannot live without thinking(Introductory of the learning for Peace bysuch past, and the historical recognition

Hideo Fujita,1988). Its aim is to improveof modern history is very basic study inindividual learners as active people

the education for peace. From such points

instead of acquiring the knowledge aboutof view, it is important to use museums

people. Here the meaning of action isfor peace in order to convey the facts ofvaried such as to vote, to put signature, towars.

attend meetings or demos to convey theindividual opinions. But its activities

But, will individuals who have learned

must be based on idea of nonviolence

the facts become people who act for peacesince it is peaceful action.

in natural manner? Human being has
repeated war knowing the wretched state

UNESCO made the Declaration of “theof wars. The number of the dead by

Right to Learn” in 1985. It said “the act ofmachine guns and poison gas in WWI

learning, lying as it does at the heart ofbecameall educational activity, change humanRegardless of the knowledge of the facts

beings from objects at the mercy of eventsof that, another war called WWII began.

more

than

ever

before.

to subjects who create their own history.”
It is also because of the same idea that

Learning for Actionpeace

Human right education and environment

museumsshouldbecalledmuseums for peace.

education is to learn about what weshould do as well as learning about the

Asia Pacific War (1931-1945), genocide

facts of destruction of environments orin Aushiwitz, and H-bomb test are thehuman right suppression. In the same8

way, education for peace is also to learn

mentioned previously. It addresses theabout what we should do for peace and its

importance of sense of values, behaviors,

practice helps to create peaceful world

attitudes, and way of living for peace.

and block the entrance of war movement.
The first lesson of the education is toAgain it is also necessary to consult on

learn about current subjects and what

“War Exhibitions for Peace” in many

will happen in the future. The second

communities in Japan because theselesson of the study is to learn the way ofactivities exhibit todays’ peace issues, e.g.

conflict resolution. The third lesson is towars in middle east, problems of U.S.

learn about motivations, approaches,

military bases in Japan and Japanese

attitudes, and way of living for actions forConstitution..

peace. The fourth lesson is to learn about
how to act for peace. About this point, it isLearning from people who have lived fornecessary

peace

to

study

about

positive

nonviolence.

Today, the most important factor forpeace is the moral for peace as mentioned

In 1999, for the peace of 21st century

previously. The effective way is to learn

there are two international agreements

about thoughts and actions of people.

that were made. One is “Hague Agenda

Talking of Japan, it is to learn from Senji

Century.”

Yamamoto, Kanzo Uchiyama, Tanzan

for Peace and Justice of

21st

And another is the resolution of UN

Ishibashi,

about “the Culture for Peace”. Here,

Shoukou Awagon. These people are being

world peace is expected to be realized byforgotten since schoolteachers do not

the actions of world people more thanteach on them. There is Sakuzou Yoshino

world political leaders. So we are making

Memorial Museum in Furukawa city,

appeal for educational movements for

Miyagi prefecture. Yoshino was leader topeace and for action aiming for aachieve democracy in Taisho Era innonviolent world. Again Hague Peace

Japan. But simultaneously, he criticizedAppeal Citizen Social Meeting announced

Japanese invasion to Korea and asked for“10 Principles for World Order in Justice”

cooperative motion of Japanese andand in its 1st principle, a law such as

Chinese people in 5-4 movement andArticle 9 of Japanese Constitution should

realized a visit to Japan of professors andbe made in each country and it isstudents

addressed as compulsory subjects forestablishededucation for peace. ”the Culture of

Meeting (Gunbi Shikusho Dooshikai)

Peace” is to apply for the action for peacewith Ikuo Ozaki and strictly criticized the9

Kamejirou

of

Beijing

Senaga,andUniversity.

Disarmament

He

Fellow

increased military power. The affiliation

bombs.

with this memorial museum and otherpeace museums should be positively

Gravely aware of this sacrifice and agony,developed. There is a house reserving thethe Government of Japan has establishedsourcesin

Peace Memorial Halls for the Atomic

Hanayashiki (Flower House) in Uji city.

Bomb Victims in the cities of Hiroshima

Today, we can look inside if we contact

and Nagasaki. At these halls all those“Uji Yamasen Meeting”, but it should be

who lost their lives in the atomic

regularly open for people who do notbombings

know about him.

From such ideas, it isinformation on the realities of what

desired that museums for peace should be

happened in the bombings is sent out toreconsidered to be more open without

the world. By passing on knowledge tobeing constrained.

the generations to come, the halls also

of

Senji

Yamamotoaremournedfor,andserve to memorialize eternal peace.
A Proposal
BombingforHolding

Exhibition:

an

The

AtomicNagasaki

One of the roles of the Peace Memorial

National Peace Memorial Hall for theHall in Nagasaki is to engage in activities

Atomic Bomb Victims

related to international cooperation andexchange, and since 2005 we have

The Nagasaki National Peace Memorial

sponsored overseas exhibitions on theHall for the Atomic Bomb Victims would

atomic bombings which aim to tell people

like to ask you to consider holding thearound the world about the realities of2007

the bombings and the feelings of those

Hiroshima-Nagasaki

AtomicBombing Exhibition in your country.

who survived them.

Introductory statement:

The merits in holding such an exhibition:

In August of 1945, when World War II

1. An exhibition which tells the realities

was in its final stages, the two atomic

of what happened in the atomic bombings

bombs that instantly ravaged the cities ofwould

Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined tohistorical facts, but also to provide atake the lives of over 200,000 people.

cultural contribution to your country inThose who managed to escape death

the way of educating children about

suffered mental and physical wounds

peace.

not

only

serve

to

introduce

which would stay with them for their
entire lives, as well as health defects

2. In general, costs related to exhibition

caused by the radiation released by thedisplays and publicity will be covered by10

our Memorial Hall, and there will be no

survivorfinancial burden on your facility.

An opening ceremony will be held on

3. With several thousands of visitors

the first day of the exhibition, during

anticipated for each exhibition, yourwhich an atomic bombing survivor

facility can expect to see an increase inwill give a speech to all those invited.

museum attendance.

We

will

also

considerholdingspeeches at schools or other locations
4. Advertisements for the exhibition willin the community during the course

introduce and promote public awarenessof the exhibition and will be gratefulof your facility.

for any introductions you can give us.
The atomic bombing survivor and our

We pray that these exhibitions will help

staff members will be available on

bring about a world free of nuclear

location for a period of about one

weapons at the earliest possible date. We

week.

very much look forward to meeting you.
At the 2005 exhibition in Chicago
The Nagasaki National Peace Memorial

speeches were given to students ofHall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Kelly High School, Northwestern
University and DePaul University,

Previous overseas exhibitions sponsoredand in 2006 a visit was made to

by our Memorial Hall:

Cozine Elementary School in Las
Vegas.

2005: The Peace Museum in Chicago
http://www.peacemuseum.org/② Photographic panels

3000 people visited

1. The mushroom cloud

2006: The atomic Testing Museum in Las

2. The cities of Hiroshima andVegas, U.S.A.

Nagasaki

http://www.atomictestingmuseum.org/

bombings (panorama photos)

5000 people visited.*

3. The construction of the atomic

before

and

after

the

bombs

*Based on estimates made on Aug 8, 2006

4. A synopsis of the destruction
Detailsonthefeaturesofthe

5. Conditions immediately after theexhibition:

bombings

The exhibition is comprised of six

6. Damages caused by heat rays

parts:

7. Damages caused by the explosion① Speeches by an atomic bomb

blast

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8. Damages caused by the extreme

confession in the chapel of Urakami

heat of the fires

Church,9. Effects to the human body

cathedral in the Orient. When the

10. The story of Sadako and thechurch collapsed in the explosion all

folded paper cranes

members were crushed under the

11. From disaster to reconstruction

debris and killed. Afterwards a few of

12. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki ofthe rosaries of these followers wereToday

discovered, but most were later lost.

13. Prayers for Peace

An exposed roof tile

14. The start of the nuclear era

The surfaces of all roof tiles directly15.

hit by the heat rays of the bombThe

debateabout

nuclear

restraint16.

thelargestCatholic

boiled and became covered with

Introductions

to

the

peace

bubbles, leaving the pattern uniquememorial halls of Hiroshima andto atomic-bombed tiles. The larger

Nagasakibubbles on tiles that were closer to

17. Messages for peacethehypocenter

horrifying③ Disaster artifacts

exemplify

nature

of

the
the

unfathomable heat rays.

The disaster artifacts are belongings
or articles of clothing that those

A clock exposed 900 meters from theexposed to the atomic bombing had

hypocenterwith him at the time of the explosion,(donated by Katsuyuki Fukumoto)and as such they provide actual proofof the catastrophe. The exhibition isThis piece was donated by a man

usually accompanied by twenty or sowhose father rode into Nagasaki City

piecesofon an emergency relief train one day

Hiroshima City and Nagasaki City.

after the bombing, on August 10.

The following are examples of such

Found inside a bomb shelter, thisartifacts:

watch is presumed to have been

from

the

collections

scorched black by fires that broke out
A rosary exposed 500 meters from thein the nearby bombing ruins. The

hypocenter

entire area had been ravaged by the(donated by Ichiroh Fukahori)

blast and heat emitted by the atomic

At the time of the atomic bombing

bomb.

Father Nishida and a group of more

④ Video materials

than ten followers were preparing for

12AnimatedfeaturesandFrequently asked questions:documentaries which explain about

Who will supervise and finance thethe atomic bombings in an easy to

exhibition?

understand manner run continuallyThis exhibition is organized by thein the exhibition hall.

Nagasaki National Peace Memorial
A list of video titles

Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. In-Give Us Back Those Lives!

principal all costs related to displays,-The Boys and Girls of Nagasaki

video material and artifacts, along-The

introductory

video

of

the

with advertising expenses, will be

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall
-The

introductory

video

of

covered by our Hall.
theNagasaki Peace Memorial Hall

What should our facility do in way of-Others

support?

⑤ Paper Crane Folding

Your facility will be asked to handle

Folding and collecting together paper

the following:

cranes creates a feeling that our
prayers for peace are transcending-The obtainment of an exhibition hallboundaries. Completed cranes will be

and a space for the opening ceremony

displayed in the exhibition hall, after-The

which they will be taken back to theprovision of cases for artifacts andNagasaki Peace Memorial Hall andequipment

placed in the Remembrance Chamber,materials

where victims of the atomic bombings-Advice and assistance with publicity

are mourned for.

-Storage and safeguarding of theexhibitionforlayoutandshowing

thevideo

atomic bombing artifacts for the⑥ Messages for Peace

length of the exhibition

In this section visitors can makeHow long will the exhibition run for?

messages that reflect their feelings
upon viewing the exhibition. Thesemay be displayed at the exhibition

The exhibition will run from two tohall and will later be sent to thefour weeks

Nagasaki

Peace

Memorial

Hall,

How large must the exhibition andwhere they will be preserved.

lecture halls be?

13The exhibition can be displayed in a

We look forward to hearing from you.

room 60 m² in area and a lecture hallthat can hold thirty to sixty peopleThewill be sufficient.

Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb

NagasakiNational

Peace

Victims
Steps leading to the staging of theNagasaki-shi, Hirano-machi 7-8

exhibition:

852-8117

1. Contact our office and express yourPhone number: (81) 958-14-0056

intentions of holding the exhibition

E-mail: ina-t@peace-nagasaki.go.jp

2. Ask us whether or not it will be

A-bomb trees – Hiroshima’s narrator

feasible to hold an exhibition (A final

without voice
Sanae Kimura

decision will be made about half a“Do not look away from the history” - I

year before the opening date)learned this word when I was studying
3. Our staff will visit the site of yourhistory as a college student.

facility

re-stroke me when I saw the photos thattodiscuss

displays

andThe words

captured the aftermath of the atomic

publicity

bomb in Hiroshima in Paris where I
4.

Photographic

pamphletswill

panelsbecompletedstudied photography.

andAt the moment I

realized that I never paid close attention(2

to the tragedy happed to my country,

months prior to opening).

Japan, and promised myself to look into
5. Panels and pamphlets will be sent

Hiroshima with my own eyes.

I believeto your facility (1 month prior tothat facing the fact, which may not be an

opening)easy task, is essential to learn the history
and to move forward to the better future.

6. Commence with publicity (1 or 2

Unfortunately, my study of photography

weeks prior to opening)

in

Paris

ended

suddenly.

I

losteverything that I had, including the7.

Participants

in

the

meaning and direction of my life. I was

opening

ceremony (the speaker and staff

confused.

members from our Hall) will arrive

Hiroshima I saw in the photo in Paris, I

on site (3 days prior to opening)

started to think about finding my own

14

When

I

remembertheanswer in Hiroshima.

world, people reconsider the danger of
war and atomic bombs and a power which

It was said that no tree would grow increates strong will for peace is generated.

Hiroshima for 75 years after the bomb.
But when I heard the story that trees in

Exhibition at Saitama Prefectural Peace

Hiroshima came back to life, budded andMuseum in danger – The effect of

bloomed in spring, and encouraged people

Governorto live, I was greatly touched and felt the“comfort woman.”strong power of life and nature.

Kazumi Yamamoto, steering committee

Kiyoshi

Ueda’sdenialofmember, Women’s Active Museum on War
Wounded trees by the bomb still exist in
Hiroshima City.

and Peace

Trees with exposed

scars caused by heat, tilted trees by the“Get out of my way” – the only word camebomb wave that incline towards theoutepicenter, dead trees in spite of people’s

afternoon of October 3rd, Ms Yong-Soo Lee,care and love for them – many trees area former “comfort woman”, and a local

still surviving in Hiroshima with us.

citizen’s

Eachexpression.

assembly to question the governor Ueda’s

Individual tree tries to live to its

denial of “comfort woman”, requested the

maximum by itself.

Although trees dogovernor to hold a meeting; however, thenot speak, I feel that they are trying togovernor rejected the request saying thatconvey messages for peace to us.

he would have a meeting if it was with

tree

has

its

own

My

of

Governor’sgroup,

mouth.

prefecture

In

the

liaisonthe President of Korea.

wish for peace can be realized by passing
their massages onto people throughWhen Ms. Lee approached the governor

photographs.

to greet as one of the victims as he was
I hope that many people will deepen their

heading to the council, the governor

knowledge of A-bomb trees and feel the

shouted “Get out of my way” and then hestrength

went

and

importance

of

life.

into

the

conferenceroom.

Everything existing in this world has aReporters who were there for a media

meaning of its existence and its existence

conferenceis simply wonderful.

incident and the incident appeared on the

We shall realize

afterwards

witnessedthefollowing day’s newspapers.

that we are blessed with love when we
recognize that we are alive and think how
I hope that when

During the meeting on that night, Ms.

compassion is spread throughout the

Lee said “It (the governor’s attitude) was

precious life is.

15not your fault.
bePoliticians like him musttroublesome

for

you.”

The

The content of the exhibition which

coordinator for the conference, Rumikobrought controversy was a part of a

Nishino, suggested that it be extremely

chronological table, “1999 – there were

important to listen to victims’ words, who

frequent

actually experienced the history, andgovernment’s responsibility such as thecriticized the governor’s behavior as“comfort woman” issue.”politician.

At Saitama Kaikan, “Photo

took the particular part and said “ThisExhibition – Think of Comfort Woman,kind of wrong information must be

Peace Museum, and Peace in Asia” wascorrected.”

held and the WAM displayed about 30

on his remark, the governor released his

panels to inform the fact about “comfort

statement on July 3rd in writing thatwoman” system.

Approximately 150

reads “There is no evidence that any

people visited the museum during 3 days

woman was conscripted by the military.”

discussions

on

Japanese

The governor

Regardless of much criticism

exhibition period.
SaitamaPrefecture

Peace

Museum

Ms. Lee’s visit was primarily initiated as

immediately rearranged the schedule anda reaction to the Governor Ueda ofheld steering committee meeting on July

Saitama

the

25th.

The

WAM submitted a written protest to thegovernor made the following remark on

governor and a request to the Director ofJune 27th during the prefecture council in

Saitama Prefecture Peace Museum tohis answer to a question addressed by apass the historical fact onto the next

representative

generation.

Prefecture’s

denialexistence of “comfort woman”.

from

the

of

LiberalIn order to make the meeting,

Similar appeals were sent

Democratic Party: “There was no suchto the museum by others but they were

things as comfort women who were hired

not referred at the meeting at all.

by the government to serve troops

WAM

exclusively while there may have been an

meeting as a hearer, visited the museum

existence of comfort women hired by

to see the exhibition and noticed that a

privatedescription

dealers.

Itisabsolutely

representativeandattended

photosofA
theNanjinimpossible that the government ordered

Massacre were covered by white papers.

“comfort women” to accompany soldiers

Discussions

at the war front.” Then, he added “It is

including descriptions in the exhibition

important to learn the true history andwere postponed to the next committee

the actual position of Japan without

meeting in October.

creating masochistic emotions.”

that we have is the museum’s renovation

16

onindividual

issuesAnother concern

plan after 13 years of its establishment.

AVOCO Bldg. 2nd Flr.

There may be a possibility of deletion of

2-3-18 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo

certain descriptions in the exhibition and

169-0051

entire change in the exhibition policy

Phone: 03-3202-4633 Fax: 03-3202-4634

itself.

Exhibitions at a public museum

E-mail: info@wam-peace.org

have

a

URL: www.wam-peace.org

great

influenceonhistory

education. It is important that we keep
paying close attention on the movement
Grassroots House: Kochiof the museum.

Kim Yeongwhan
Interested in holding an exhibition using

Various evens called Peace Wave wererental special exhibition panels fromheld from July 1 to August 26: Peace Star

WAM?

Festival(1 million paper cranes decorated

Since its opening in August 2005, WAM

downtown), 28th exhibition on war andhas held three special exhibitions.

The

Peace, memorial of victims of the US

about

air-raids on Kochi, peace concert, rally forInternational War Criminal Court forthe solidarity with Asian people, peace

Women”, the second exhibition was “Themarch, peace art exhibition, Professor

Work of Yayoi Matsui”, and the third

Masaaki Noda’s lecture on Article 9 of theexhibition was “Korean Comfort WomenJapanese

Left behind in Foreign Countries”

festival, etc.

All special exhibition panels are for rent.

There is a plan to build an apartment at

WAM encourages you to use the panels tothe site where remains of U.S. air-raids

hold exhibitions using available space forwere discovered.

special exhibitions, schools or community

bicycle is one of them and they were

centers.

exhibited at the exhibition on war andfirstexhibition

was

“All

Constitution,

peace

film

For example, a childpeace.
Special exhibition panel package comeswith 30 A1 size panels and rental fee for

Paintings by Korean children and Iraq

up to two weeks is 50,000 yen + shipping.

were also exhibited and visitors wereA sample panel can be viewed on WAM

impressed to see them.

website.

woman wrote, “I am very glad that

Fee and rental period are

An 80-year-old

negotiable. Please be encouraged to use

children’s paintings were exhibited.

this service.

was healed to see cheerfulness of Korean

Inquiries should be addressed to:children.

17

I

I could see hope thoughpaintings by Iraqi children were dark.”
On October 27th and 28th, a delegation
Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peacefrom The Memorial Museum of Chinese

Museum: Nagasaki Yasunori Takazane

People's Anti-Japanese War in Beijing

visitedourmuseumasa

primaryThis is a report on our major activities

destination of their trip to Nagasaki.

and future activities plan as of October

Reform2006.

remains as a critical matter regardless of

Dr. Peter van den Dungen (Prof. of Peacethe

Studies at Bradford Univ.) visited our

Growth of nationalism is another concern

museum on August 8th and on the 9th, andand our wish is contribute to expand andmade an impressive address at an early

deepen the friendship between China andmorning memorial service for the Korean

Japan.

a-bomb victims in Nagasaki.

ofChina-Japanchangeoftherelationshipprime

minister.

The visit ofDr. van den Dungen is a sign of our

The 12th annual conference will be held

growing recognition internationally andon November 23rd.

we are very much encouraged by the fact.

which was planned as a joint friendship

Legation to Harbin,

program with the Unit 731 War Crime
On September 1st, Janek Paul Dunn (19),

Exhibition Museum, has to be postponeda conscientious objector who refused todue to conflict with the conference.

serve military duty, started working athope to send the legation either in spring

our museum to substitute the duty

or fall next year.

requirement for 11 months.

We

Mr. Dunnvisited our museum two years ago andThis year’s Testimonial Meeting of thehis appointment at our museum wasSurviving Victims of Nanjing Massacre isactualized based on his will and Germanscheduledgovernment’s approval.

Mr. Dunn was

researcher is expected to be present at

warmly welcomed by the staff of thethe meeting but discussion session among

museum and also by the local community.

the members of this summer’s “Wing of

Mr. Dunn’s existence promotes reflection

Hope”, Mr. Dunn, and the surviving

over the difference in views on peace

victims is planned.

between Japan and Germany. Exchange

meeting will be more vital than ever thisbetween Mr. Dunn and local communityyear.

has already started in many different

January until March.

forms.

on

December

12th.

No

We hope that the

There is no big event planned from

A donation program to support
Our museum is experiencing decrease in

Mr. Dunn has successfully started.

18

number of visitors due to decreased

a paper fan stirs

number of student visitors on school

the stillness

excursion to Nagasaki.

Tom Painting（the USA）

However, there

is a tendency that more adult visitors are
visiting our museum than before.

We

Exhibition

are trying to find a way to keep this

Hiroshima

positive phenomenon.

An exhibition on Bertha von Suttner wason

BerthavonSuttner:held from November 9th to 14th at
The 40th National Congress on Haiku

Hiroshima

against Atomic Bombs

University.
Yuriko ShimanoInternational

Gakuin

It was organized by Mr.

Katsukuni Tanaka of Hiroshima Austria

The 40th National Congress on Haiku

Association,

Austrianagainst Atomic Bombs was held: theHiroshima

International

chairman is Professor Ikuro Anzai andUniversity.

Kazuyo Yamane gave athe secretariat is Kyoto Museum for

lectureBerthaWorld Peace.

697 poems from 177

on

November

13th.

EmbassyvonandGakuinSuttneron

The music of Mozart

people were sent in Japanese while 133

was performed to celebrate his 250th

poems from 133 people were sent inbirthday.

English.
The traveling exhibit on Bertha von
The following poem was awarded a grandSuttner is available at the Austrianprix.

Embassy in Japan.

A panel on therelation between Suttner and Japan was
They wrecked the bridges

added to the original one made by Austria.

one by one --- I still pray

It is hoped that the exhibition will be heldby the riverat many peace museums in Japan.

by Svetlana Bjelica（Montenegro）

Network NewsThe following poem was awarded a prize
Of Kyoto Museum for World Peace.

The Pacific War History Museum: Iwate
According to Museum News Vol. 56, an

Crater of grenades:

essay written by Mr. Nobuteru Iwabuchi

tonight I flinch at moonlightis published in a special issue, “Handing

on pond lilies

down stories of war from generation to

Doreen King（England）

generation”,

inAugustnumberofInformation on Disarmament Problems.

peace prayer
19

Accumulated

result

of

war

site

for World Peace).

Students asked many

investigation has contributed to collection

questions in English.

of remains by the government.

245 Shirasaka Miwadai, Shirakawa-shi,Ajournalist from Tokyo News was guided to

Fukushima Pref. 961-0835

the site and the scoop later influenced thePhone: 0248-28-2108

remain collection program and three staff

URL: http://www.am-jor.jp/index2.htm

Fax: 0248-21-9068

from the museum participated in theremain collection project in Jayapura andPeace Museum of Saitama:

Biak in January 2006. (Museum News,

Higashi-Matsuyama City, Saitama

Vol. 57)

Theme exhibition II, “Fashions during

Phone: 0197-52-3000

war time – What the Japanese wore backFax: 0197-52-4575

then”, was held from July 22, 2006 to
Auschwitz Peace Museum: Shirakawa

September 24th, 2006.

The exhibition

City, Fukushimaemphasized

regulation

A special exhibition on Chiune Sugiura,

clothing was not completely exercised.

an active consul of Japan at Lithuania

Illustrated books are available.

that

the

on

who issued visa to Jewish people in orderfor them to escape from oppression by the

The first meeting of year 2006 with

Nazis in 1940, will be held from Octoberpeople who experienced the war was held

2006 until December 2006 at Auschwitz

on

Peace

Museum.

November

4th,

Schindler–aChiuneAugust

and

13th

the

lecturer,

On

Saturday,

Chiyokichi Kuroda, gave a talk titled

movie“Japanese“The

Sugiura

Story”

first

year

military

serviceexperience”.

(Starring Takashi Sorimachi and Naoko
Iijima, Yomiuri TV Production) was

A message from our museum, “We

played in the first session and in thecontinue our effort to appeal the cruelty

second session, Prof. Sylvia Smoller fromof war and importance of peace.” can beAlbert Einstein Medical School, who fledviewed on our homepage.

to the United States via Japan using

Phone: 0493-35-4111

Sugimura

URL:

visa,

gave

a

specialFax: 0493-35-4112

presentation “The visa that saved me”.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeace

Prior to the event, Prof. Smoller lectured

museum/

150 students and citizens in peacestudies class at Dept. of Int’l Relations,

MarukiRitsumeikan University (Instructor: Prof.

Panels::Ikuro Anzai, Director of Kyoto Museum

Saitama

20

Gallery

For TheHiroshima

Higashi-Matsuyama

City,The second exhibition in 2006, “Today’s

were displayed.

Antiwar Exhibitions 2006” was held fromavailable.

September 9th to October 21st.

Phone: 043-486-0123

The

exhibition was a continuation of “WarA picture record is

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

Exhibition” that was held at Ginza
Chikyudo Gallery for over 20 years andNational Museum of Japanese History:

then transferred to and reorganized at

Sakura-City, Chiba

Maruki Art Museum in summer 2005.

SpecialPhone: 0493-22-3266

Regiments and the Age of War” was held

Fax: 0493-24-8371

exhibition“The

SakuraURL:

from July 4th to Sep. 3rd.

http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/top/kik

illustrated

aku.htm

regiments with the local area and thetheassociation

reality of the war.
Warabi Municipal Museum: Saitama

The exhibition
ofthe

Fallen soldiers,

military service hardship, and Japanese

17th Peace

offense in the Japanese-Sino War such as

Memorial Exhibition – From War Time to

the Port Arthur Massacre were also

Posrwar Time” was held from August 1st

displayed.

Summerto

31st.

exhibition“The

The purpose of the exhibition

Picture record is available.

Phone: 043-486-0123

was to tell the fact of war and memories

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

to the next generation in order not to
The contents of the

The Center for Documenting the Tokyo

exhibition were: “15-year war period”;

Raids and War Damages: Koto-ku, Tokyo“Story of August 15 by writers”, “NewsResearch

articles around the end of the war”;(Yutaka Yoshida, Director) has held

“Soldiers’

monthly

repeat the tragedy.

hardshipassociatedwithCenterworkshop

of

War

and

Damages

has

issuedreturning to home country”; “Living aftermonthly News with report and discussion

the war” etc.

summary since June 2006.

Newspapers, call-up

The first

papers, thousand-stitch belts、collection

workshop was held on June 11 at The

of

flag,

Institute of Policy and Economics and

Year

2600,

Tadahito

control

tools,“Re-investigation of war strategy, area

information on soldiers about returningand relationship among individuals –to main land from foreign soil, suminuri

Reading “Air Raids and Area” by Satoshi(blackened-out) textbooks, information

Ooka and Ryuichi Narita” and Satoshi

about new constitution, substitute goods,

Ooka responded to the presentation.

writings

ontheinformationonImperial

dentan(flyers),

lightnational

duralumin products, skin magazines, etc.

21

Yamamoto

presented

The second workshop was held on July 9th

Edit:

at Hitotsubashi University and Tadahito

Makoto Wada; Publisher: Shueisha Inc.)

Yamamoto presented “Rescues by thein fall 2006.

civilian sector during Tokyo Raids.”

seven drawings from Daigo Fukuryu

ArthurBinard;Bookbinding:

26 drawings from the book,

Maru Peace Association’s collection will
The third workshop was held on Augustbe

9th at the Department of Law of Nihon

replications will be also displayed on the

University and Masumi Ueno presented

deck board.

“Research on Disabled Soldiers anddisplayed

Exhibitions at Historical Materials Hall

October 7th, Arthur Binard gave a talk infor the Wounded and Sick Retired

association with the exhibition.

Soldiers etc.”

Phone: 03-3521-8494

displayed

along

the

boat

and

(The originals will be

until

October

15th.)

On

Fax: 03-3521-2900

URL: http://d5f.org
The

forth

Septemberworkshop
4th

at

was

The

held

on

Centerfor

Korea Museum, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

Documenting the Tokyo Raids and War

Special Exhibition “I will not die until

Damages.

Atsushi Kijima presented

Japanese government apologizes! – First“Evolution of air raids and recording

generation Korean in Japan” was held

movement of war damages in 1970’s –from August 12th to October 15th.

Focusing on Society for Recording thePhone: 03-5272-3510

Tokyo Raids.”

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

Phone: 03-5857-5631

Fax:03-5272-3510

Fax:03-5683-3326

URL: http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~sensai/Museum on Life in Showa Era : Ota-ku,
Tokyo

Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall:“War Remains in Koizumi House 2006”

Koto-ku, Tokyo

was held from August 1st until September

Special Exhibition, “Ben Shahn’s Daigo

3rd.

Fukuryu Maru” is held from September

exhibition has been held every August

20th until November 20th.

since

Ben Shahn

To insist “No more War”, thistheMuseumwasestablished.

diaries,militaryleft 11 paintings of Lucky Dragon Series

Picturethat illustrate Daigo Fukuryu Maru andthousand-stitch belts, substitute goods,

Bikini Nuclear Test and 30 sketches.

writing words of good wishes and namesThis

on cloth for soldiers, monpe-style pants,

exhibitionisatie-upwith

publication of a picture book “This is the

etc. were displayed.

house – Ben Shahn’s Daigo Fukuryu

Phone & fax: 03-3750-1808

Maru” (Drawings: Ben Shahn; Text &

URL:

22

mails,

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

Phone: 0426-22-8939

html

URL:http://homepage3.nifty.com/hachiojicity-museum/

Hachioji City Historical Museum: Tokyo
Special Exhibition, “Records of Hachioji

Fussa Municipal Hall: Tokyo

after war taken by citizens” was held

Special exhibition “War Exhibition forfrom August 1st to September 10th.

Peace” was held from July 1st to October

The

2006.

The

historyfromthespecial exhibition was photo exhibition

1st

and main display was a collection ofJapan-Sino War, which was the start ofphotos of burned-out Hachioji city by U.S.

modernair raids taken from March 1946 until

introduced through local collections from

August 1946 by Akira Fuchigami, aFussa Area.

Junior-highAcollection of dispatched troops such as

hand-drawn map by Mr. Fuchigami,

military mails, thousand-stitch belts,

commentary by the museum, a map oflabarum,shooting points, and photos of current

passbooks to purchase household goods,

views of the city taken from the samematernity notebook, extra edition on theangle as Mr. Fuchigami’s photos werecoup d’état on February 26, 1936, airalso displayed.

In addition, photographs

defense daily report, afflicted certificates,of Hachioji City taken by the US militaryburnt-down house certificates, gas masks,

45 days after the air raids, tendered by

and firebombs.

Yoshishige Okuzumi, were displayed.

facilities and war damages concentrating

Pictureon Fussa area” as well as materials

schoolrecord,teacher.

“Departure

from

war,

to

PacificWar

was

Displayed materials wereetc,

children’s

livingware,Also, “a map of militaryassociated with Tama Aviation Groundburned-site” is available.

such

as

buildings

andunearthed

In association with the exhibition, ainformation,

walkie-Talkies,

vases,

seminar, “War and citizens’ life” was held

maintenance tools, maps were displayed.

in a meeting room on the second floor andPhone: 0425-53-3111

a museum attendant served as a lecturer.

URL:

The first session was “Citizens’ life during

http://www.city.fussa.tokyo.jp/town/m005/

the war” held on September 9th, and the

32iopi0000004uv7html

second session, “Diet during the war,”
was held on September 16th.

The third

Higashiyamato City Museum: Tokyosession was “Hachioji Air Raids andPhoto panel exhibition “War remains in

Recovery after the war” that was held on

Tama” was held from August 4th until 31st

September 23rd.

in the first floor lobby. “Displayed photo23

list” and “Maps of war remains in Tama”

announcements to the students who

were distributed.

finished induction, bulletin boards with

Phone: 042-567-4800

military training on campus, poster toURL:celebrate teachers and students going

http://www.e-yamato.or.jp/city/museum/campaigning, photos of students who

Meiji University Museum: Chiyoda-ku,

were on military supply ministry’s vehicle,

Tokyo

Mr. Kobayashi’s departure for war front,

The first exhibition by the university

and send-off party for student soldiers at

history

Jungu Gaien.

information

center,“MeijiUniversity students and student soldiers”

Phone: 03-3418-9610

was held from July 1st to August 19th.

URL:

The theme of the exhibition was the

http://www.komazawa-u.ac.jp/~zenbunka

student soldiers from Meiji University/

Fax: 03-34189611

and materials from the center focusing on
the information of Mr. Masunori Takeishi,

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship

who was a student of Politics and(Earth Plaza): Yokohama-City, Kanagawa

Economy at Meiji Univ., were introduced.

The exhibition, “108 faces on Earth –Phone: 03-3296-4448

Worldprocessor by Ingo Guenther” was

Fax: 03-3296-4365

held from September 30th to November

URL: http://www.meiji.ac.jp/museum/3rd in the Exhibition Room on the third
The Museum of Zen Culture and History,

floor. The exhibition displays 108 globes,

Komazawa

which represent 108 problems that exist

University:

Setagawa-ku,

on the earth now and in the future.

Tokyo
The

5th

Special Exhibition of “War andPhone: 045-896-2121

University” was held from July 3rd until
September

29th.

Fax: 045-896-2299

URL: http://www.k-i-a.or.jp/plaza/

Displayed materials

were leggings and gloves for Judo andThe

Kendo practice used by Mr. Katsumi

Yokohama-city, Kanagawa

Sakakibara, who was a student at

The exhibition “Scene of Showa History –Komazawa University, a flag of rising sun

Tsuneo Enari Photo Exhibition: “Pseudowith a collection of writings for Dosen

Manchuria – Island of Kikoku” How

Nakanishi,asKanagawa News reported “War”” wasstudent soldier, sent by faculty members

held from August 1st to September 24th.

from Komazawa University such as

In

Sokuo Eto, Kodo Sawaki and Kodo

Gallery Talk by Tsuneo Enari was held on

Kurebayashi, notice of volunteer labor,

September 17th.

whoservedmilitary

24

Japan

association

Newspaper

with

the

Museum,exhibition,

Phone: 045-661-2040

Fax: 045-661-2029

caused by war, lost precious lives andURL:voices of the victims once again.

http://www.pressnet.or.jp/newspark/
Grand Pictorial Diagram was created by
the members of Yukinoshita Cultural
Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa

Association in their 30s and 40s in 1985.

The exhibition “Yonosuke Natori and

The concept was to send a message ofJapan Craft Center 1931-45 – Press

peace to generations without experiencephotography and graphic design’s youth”

of war.

was held from July 8th to September 3rd

diagram,in an exhibition room. The exhibition isexperienced the war and informationa part of road show that started from thereferencing were done to capture theexhibition held at Fukushima Prefectural

reality of the night of the air raid.

Museum of Art from February 11th until

dimension of the grand pictorial diagram

March 26th.

is 2.4m by 50m. The pictorial diagram is

Phone: 044-754-4500

assembly of drawings of people who are

URL: http://www.kawasaki-museum.jp

escaping

Upon creation of the pictorial
hearing

from

from

the

people

raid

in

who

The

severallocations such as in front of Fukui Station,
Yukinoshita

Peace

CultureMuseum:in front of Darumaya Department Store

Fukui(currently

Fukui Air Raid Grand Pictorial Diagram

Store), Tsukumo Bridge, etc.

Exhibition (dimension: 2.4m x 50m) was

portions of the diagram were displayed inheld from July 15th to 17th at Fukui

the past, this is the first time that thePrefectural Hall.

Description of theentire diagram is exhibited in 21 years

exhibition is posted on the Museum’s

since the diagram was created in 1985.

homepage as follows:(From Museum News No. 166, June 26,

Fukui

Seibu

Department
Although

2006)
In the last stage of WWII, on the night ofPhone & Fax: 0776-52-2169

July 19th, B-29 fighters attacked Fukui

E-mail: info@yukinoshita.net

City, burned 96 percent of the urban area,
and killed approximately 1,600 people.

Nagano Prefectural Museum of History:

61 years has passed since the attack.

NaganoAnother anniversary is coming soon andFall Exhibition “Children at War Time –our hope is to recognize the importance ofFifteen Years’ War in Shinshu” was held

peace which is the foundation of ordinary

from September 30th to November 12th.

daily life by thinking about disasters

Phone: 026-274-2000

25

Fax:026-274-3996

URL: http://www.npmh.net/

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

Association for Preserving Matsushiro
Imperial Headquarters: Nagano
As parts of Matsushiro workshop 2006,
following sessions are scheduled: “Report

Museum of War and Peace (Tentativeon hearing investigation from Chinesename): Aichi

24th;“The Preparatory Commiittee for the“Hitler and the members of The White

Memorial Center for Peace” had a board

Rose” by Shoichi Miyazawa on Octobermeeting on February 19th and following

28th, and “Studying the Constitution” by

topics were discussed: 1) Basic design

25th.

plan of the building facility and selection“Preservationof the designer; 2) Naming of the facility;

people” by Izumi Kondo on June

Kunihiro
Please

Haba

refer

on

to

NovemberNews

Campaign” for further information.

3)

Kibo no Ie, 3-5-5 Wakazato,〒380-0928

Starting

timingandmethodofcollecting donation.

Nagano-shi
26th,

photosofwar

Phone & Fax: 026-228-8415

On

URL:

materials (a military uniform, a helmet,

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

photos, war posters, etc.) from Mr.

E-mail: kibonoie@nifty.com

Hideyuki Tabuchi’s private collection

February

were taken in digital format and the
Shizuoka Peace Center : Shizuoka

photos were used to create homepage of“The Exhibition of Original Drawings ofthe museum that has been uploaded.

Shimizu

Air

Raid

and

Naval

Bombardment” was held from July 7th to

On March 6th, Mr. Masahiko Yamabe of

October 8th 2006.

Kyoto

Over 20 drawings ofMuseumfor

World

Peace,

Museumwasinvited.

the air raid and naval bombardment

Ritsumeikan

created by the citizens who experienced

Exchange of opinions and suggestions onthem as well as giant Japanese cinnamon

basic concept of the museum and display

tree from Okamachi Hachiman Shrine

methods were made by Mr. Yamabe.

that was damaged by the war are

February and March, following exhibition

displayed.

groups“War experiences expressed

heldreviewby Senryu(17 syllable poem)”. “Japaneseindividually:

Constitution

1) Air Raids in Aichi Group

createdfromwar

experiences” etc. were also exhibited.
Phone: 054-247-9641

In

meetings

2) Entire picture of Fifteen Years’ War

Fax: 054-247-9641

Gr.

26

3) Life during the war Gr.

No.3” was issued.

4) War in nowadays Gr.

On September 22nd, “Museum of War and

On April 1st, “Museum of War and Peace

Peace (Tentative name) Construction(Tentative name) Foundation News No.1”

News No.1” was issued.

was issued.

(http://www.memorial-aichi.jp/sumi.htm)

On May 14th, the 6th board meeting was

Address: 1-60 Shirakabe, Nagoya-shi

held and following issues were discussed:

Phone: 052-962-0136

1)

Proposals for the 4th regular general

Fax: 052-962-0138

E-mail: npo@memorial-aichi.jp

meeting2) Methodon

selectingbuilding

Yokkaichi Municipal Museum: Mieconstructor

The Exhibition “Yokkaichi Air Raid and3) Establishmentof

fund-raisingLife during the War” was held from June

committee

17th until August 20th as a part of

On May 25th, “Museum of War and Peace

regularexhibition.

(Tentative name) Foundation News No.2”

photos,panels,was issued.

displayed.

andPhone: 0593-55-2700
On May26th,

the first street donation

May

until

materials,

modelswere

Fax: 0595-55-2704

URL:

collection campaign was held.
From

Real

http://www.city.yokkaichi.mie.jp/museum

August,Yasu

monthlyCity

Hitorical

andFolkloric

administrative meeting was held each

Museum Dotaku Museum:Shiga

month.

The exhibition “History of women inShowa Period – Documents of Takagi

Each project groups such as construction,

Women’s’ Association” was held in thetreasury,

Entrance

publicrelations,

etc

held

Hall

September 3rd.

meetings individually as needed.

records

have

from

July

20th

to

In Takagi, Yasu-City,
been

kept

since

the

In August, general affairs team wasestablishment of the women’s association,

established to oversee holistic plan andandpresent situation.

presented from the records which showsomereferencematerials

were

the development and activities of local
On June 29th, the 4th General Meeting

women’s association during the war.

was held.

Also thousand-stitch belts and a cross

On August 10th, “Museum of War andbrace

Peace (Tentative name) Foundation News

displayed.

27of

women’s

association

werePhone: 077-554-2733

Fax: 077-554-2755

the

war

–

Tsuruga

Regiment

for

URL:

Conscription” was held on the first floor

http://www.city.yasu.shiga.jp/map/24.htm

from July 23rd to August 27th.

lmaterials were: mementos of the war
dead,

Tsuruga

Regiment

Displayed
information

Ritto History Museum: Shigamaterials such as conscripted soldier’s

The exhibition “Cornerstone of Heisei

documents, information about Tsuruga

2006” was held from July 23rd until

Air Raid such as damaged materials, aAugust 27th.

The purpose of the

red sash of a post man at war front,

exhibition was to think about war andsoldiers’ letters sent to their families

peace by tracing the war that was

rightexperienced by people in Ritto and theinformation about student evacuation at

life

the

Anmyo Temple, trousseau during the war,

This

a

duringwar

time

throughmaterials provided by citizens.

beforedray,sumi-nuri

year’s exhibition featured on the posters

textbooks,

created during war time.

children,coversfromcall-up

Exhibition
orders

to

going

into

field,(blackened-out)

picture-stories,
substitute

the

toys

materials,

for
daily

goods, etc. Testimony of war experience

Japanese-Sino and Japanese-Russo Wars

was also exhibited.

and materials from Fifteen Year’s War
such as substitute goods, firebombs, crossPicture records of the 2003 exhibition

braces of women’s association, ration“The anniversary exhibition of the end oftickets for clothing, picture-story shows,

WWII – Memories of war to be passed on

consolation

badges,to our children” and the 2004 exhibition

dismissal memorial sake cup, etc. were

The anniversary exhibition of the end of

displayed.

WWII –

picturecards,

Picture record was not

memory of war: father returns”

published this year and only leaflet withare available.

a list of exhibition showpieces has been

Phone: 077-554-2733

published.

URL: http://www.city.nagahama.shiga.jp

Phone: 077-554-2733

Fax: 077-554-2755

Fax: 077-554-2755

URL:

Ohmi Hino Shonin Kan (Museum of

http://www2.city.ritto.shiga.jp/hakubutsu

Ohmi Hino Merchant): Shigakan/

The 19th “Hino and the Pacific War”
exhibition was held from August 1st to

Azai Museum of History and Folklore:

30th.

Nagahama-City, Shiga

soldier farewell; receiving ashes of deadThe anniversary exhibition of the end of

bodies; evacuation training; fire-safety

28

Exhibition items were: school life;

training; labor service; clothing; foods;

Phone:clay

0748-52-0172

dolls;

drawings;

textbooks;

0748-52-0007

Fax:

sugoroku(game); call-up of junior highURL:

school students’ labor service; military

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

education documents; writings on the

Kyoto

national flag; thousand-stitch belts; an

Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto

apprentice

A special exhibition of “122 Picture

bag;

red

sash;

women’s

Museumfor

World

August 15th,

1945

by

association’s materials such as sash;

postcards

substitute

goods;

caricaturists” was held from June 20th totools;

July 20th, 2006.

clothing

articles;tickets;

rationed

light

controlon

Peace,

Three cartoonists called

speaking trumpets; defender hoods; gas

Jun Ishiko, Kenji Morita and Eikomasks; emergency bags; alert notice

Hanamura gave a lecture on theirboard

memory of Autust 15, 1945, the end of theof

air-raids;

memorial);

airchukonhi

defense(war

war on June 25th, 2006.

exercise;photographs of evacuated students from
Osaka to Hino; farewell notes; mementos;

A small exhibition on a Peace Statue fora diagram on the numbers of victims byChildren in the World was held from Julyarea.

11th to August 10th, 2006.

The exhibition was held to put our

The statue

wish for peace on firm basis and not towas made in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima

repeatbyand activities for making the peace statue

introducing the life that people in Hino

were shown with sketches of the threeexperienced in the Pacific War throughstatues.

theinhumanemistakes

photos and documents.
A small art exhibition by Mr.TomoeIn

conjunction

with

the

Ishikawa was held from August 15th toexhibition,“Session – hearing war experience” wasSeptember 24th.

held on August 12th.

Manchuria and his life as an internee in

Nakanopresented

Ms. Chiyoko“Mother’sheart

Siberia: he started learning how to paintthinking of the dead son”, Mr. Tatsuo
Yamamurapresented“Miracle

It is about fighting inafter he retired from a textile company.

of

hairbreadth escape – Bloom of youth atA

war front”, Ms. Kiyo Matsuda presentedRose(Sophie Scholl ? Die letzten Tage)”“Elementary school during war time –was shown on July 17th, 2006.

athletic ground made into potato field”,

Ikuro Anzai and Professor Jun-ichi Inoueand Mr. Norihide Wakabayashi presented

had a talk related to the film.

“My war experience”.

29

film

of

“Prayer

of

the

White

Professor

A film of “Peace One Day” was shown on

writers’ thoughts, etc. were displayed.

September 23 as the 50th anniversary of

Phone: 075-931-1182

Japan’s joining the United Nations andURL:

also theanniversary of opening a

50thlibrary on the UN in Kyoto.
attendedit

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

120 people

includingFax: 075-931-1121

students.

Professor Anzai explained the film of

Ohyamazaki-cho Museum of History:“Peace One Day” and the Japanese

Kyoto

subtitles were shown: it was translated

The Small exhibition “the 8th peace

into Japanese by Ms Tae Takita, Mr.

cornerstone” was held from August 10th to

Shiro Sato and Mr. Kenji Mizuno and Ms

27th.

Maki Morishita showed the translation

to think about the venerableness of peaceon the screen.

through pre and post war items that were

The purpose of the exhibition wasdisplayed.
A symposium of “Citizens’ Power to MovePhone: 075-952-6288

the UN” was held and Mr. Mitsuhiro

URL:

Saotome from the Ministry of Foreign

http://www.kiis.or.jp/rekishi/kyoto/yamaz

Affairs, Mr. Tatsuya Yoshioka of Peaceaki2.html

Boat,

Ms

Maki

Ishihara

oftheDepartment of International Relation

Osaka International Peace Center (Peaceand Professor of Akihiko Kimijima gave a

Osaka)

speech.

Special exhibition “Lost Ship by War” wasTel: 075-465-8151

held in the special exhibition room from

Fax: 075-465-7899

July 19th to September 10th in 2005.

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

Almost all the privately owned ships andMukou City

Museum: Kyoto

sailors were drafted during the war, but

Summer lounge exhibition “War in daily

due to the lack of security guard, manytoships were attacked and about 60,000

life ‘06” was held from August
September 24th.

12th

The purpose of thesailors were killed.

This exhibition was

exhibition was to trace people’s life

held to tell the true story of such aduring the war by displaying materials

disaster by the war.

Theme of thecontributed by the citizens.

Apprentice

exhibition

wasduring-,bags and military notebooks, which were

post-war

marinetaken to the field, newspaper about Pearlexhibits

were

Harbor Attack, cartoons on military life

damages during the war.

from entrance till dismissal, diaries with

were models, photos and drawings of

30

pre-,

transport

about

the

and

and

the

draft

and

Main displayssunken ships, a map of the Pacific Ocean,

The exhibition “Citizens’ life during thedeath notices, etc.

war” was held from July 1st to September
29th 2006.

This exhibition was held forSpecial exhibition “Children living in

the visitors to think about the importance

Africa – slaves, soldiers, AIDS, povertyof finite resources, the misery of war, andand the future” was held from September

the importance of life through photo

22nd to November 12th.

panels and actual materials by reviewing
the daily life in war time, especially the

As a Peace Memorial Project on the endof the war on August
presentation

“The

15th,

Pacific

troubles associated with daily necessities

a lecturesuch as foods and clothing.

War

Phone: 072-270-8150

andFax: 072-270-8159

Japanese Marine Transport” was held in

URL:

the first floor hall on August 13th 2006.

http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/city/info/_ji

Mr. Osamu Watanabe from Association

nken/

for Recording Sunken Ships presented“Ex-sailors’ life during and after the war”,

The Peace, Human Rights and Children

and Mr. Yukihiko Miyata from Sunken

Center: Sakai, Osaka

and

Group

The 10th assembly was held and it has

Japanesebeen decided that the center would

Capturedpresented

Ships“Destruction

Study
of

become the School Textbook Institute.

commercial ships and its process”.

An article “The Peace, Human Rights and
The 22nd “Seminar to think about peaceChildren Center greets its 10th year, thein the 20th century” was held in the firstnumber of visitors exceeds 20,000” wasfloor hall. Nifar Ansary presented a field

published in the June volume of Volo.

report titled “Sri Lanka Story by Shohei

For futher information , please refer toMozu”, Shohei Mozu presented “TheKusanone Dayori Vol. 30.

effect of Indian Ocean Tsunami on Peace”,

Phone & Fax: 072-229-4736

and a mini concert from Sri Lanka washeld by a Japanese woman named

Osaka Human Rights Museum(Libarty

Mayumi.

Osaka)

Phone:

06-6947-7208

The exhibition of “The survivors of theFax:

06-6943-6080

fifteen year war – with a focus on

URL: http://mic.e-osaka.ne.jp/peace/museum collection” was held in the firstfloor special exhibition room from July

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights

25th to August 27th.

Museum: Osaka

traces the footpath of the fifteen year war

31

The exhibition

survivors through information materials.

children’s books back then – from picture

Many materials were donated by the local

books to textbooks during and after thepeople who supported the concept of thewar” was held in the special exhibition

human rights museum.

room on the 8th floor from June 14th to

The mainexhibits are information materials of Mr.

August 28th.

Kuniharu Manno from Habikino who

children’sbooks”,“censorship”

andserved in Manchuria and Korea as an“A-bomb”

corners

were

andarmy soldier and Mr. Osamu Maeda fromchildren’s books from Prange Collection

Nishinari who served in Rabaul as a navyatsoldier.

Also, many war-time posters todisplayed.

Also,

in

elevate will to fight were displayed.

Hikarino

Kuni,

Furthermore, photographs taken by Mr.

Newapaper, etc. published after the war

Norio Watanabe, who served militarywere displayed as local publications andduringandin Textbook corner, the struggle withphotos of the battle

creating new textbook using American

memories in Okinawa after its return totextbooks after suminuri (blackened-out

Japan.

textbooks) and tentative textbooks wastheBattlecontinued to takeof Okinawa

Information materials of theCorners on “History ofPrinston

set up

University,

etc.

were

Osaka

corner,

KodomoOsaka

termination of the war on August 15th as

introduced.

well as people’s reactions to the war end

children’s

were exhibited.

From the museum

activities in Okinawa, which was undercollections, photos that recorded war

US administration until 1972 and had

memories in afflicted areas such as

different situation from the main island,

Tsuneo Enari’s photos of war orphanages

were exhibited.

in Manchuria, photos of Korean A-Bomb

Phone: 06-6946-5728

survivors taken by Koji Ito.

URL: http://www.mus-his.city.osaka.jp

records are available.

PictureGovernmental policy on
cultureandpublication

Fax: 06-6946-2662

In association

with the exhibition, a lecture “Telling the

Kashiwara-City History Museum: Osaka

story of Air Raids in Naniwa-ku” wasSpringgiven

thememories – History of 2000 years” was

Association of War Victims and Bereaved

held in a special exhibition room fromRelatives on August 20th, 2006.

March 25th to June 11th.

Phone: 06-6561-7173

were selected from a standpoint of

by

Ms.

TakakoIgaofFax: 06-6561-3572

URL: http://www.liberty.or.jp/

planning

exhibition“War

The exhibits

Kashiwara’s involvement with the war
through the history from Yayoi Era,

Osaka Museum of History

Kofun

Special exhibition “There were such

Taiheiji Battle, Second of the Sieges of

32

Period,JinshinDisturbance,

Osaka Castle, Japanese-Sino/Russo Wars

The 1st special exhibition in 2006 “Theall the way to the Pacific War.

Entrusted

Past

Phone: 072-976-3430

Materials

DonatedandFuture
for

-

the

New
60th

Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings” isHistorical Himeji Peace Center: Hyogo

held from July 20th, 2006 to July 10th,“Anti-nuclear Exhibition for Peace” was2007 in an exhibition room on the first

held in the second floor exhibition room

floor basement in the East Building.

from August

16th

to

31st

and works ofPhone: 082-241-4004

students from elementary, junior highFax: 082-542-7941

URL: http://222.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/

and high schools as well as A-bomb
information and photograph panels were

Human

displayed.

Fukuyama City : Hiroshima

In association with the

RightsandPeace

Museumexhibition, “Chorus concert, sing peace

The exhibition appealing for peace andtogether” by Himeji Parnassus Choral

Hiroshima Nagasaki exhibition were held

Group and Himeji Children Choral Group

from August 4th to 17th and works withwas held on August 6th, and Yoshimi

hope for peace that were contributed by

Shuto, former president of Association of

citizens were displayed.

Himeji A-Bomb Victims, gave a talk.
The exhibition “We are all humans on theFall special exhibition “Let’s pass on war

earth – spread our wish for peace to thememories to children and grandchildren!”world” was held from September 14th towas held in the second floor exhibition

December 10th.

room from October 1st to December 20th,

103 Japanese picture book writers’ works,

andand drawings of children in Fukuyama

picture

cards

with

varietyof

A picture book made ofthoughts that still exist deep inside of thetitled “Hope for Peace” are displayed.

heart after 60 years from the end of thePhone: 084-924-6789

war were displayed by cooperation of

URL:Japan Etegami Society.

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

Also, lectures

Fax: 084-924-6850

nkenheiwashiryokan/

by people who experienced the air raid
were given on November 3rd.
Phone: 0792-91-2525

Fax: 0792-91-2526

Takamatsu Civic Culture Center, Peace

URL:

Museum: Kagawa

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

From June 1st to September 30th, 23o/paintings on efforts for rescuing Atomic
Bomb victims in Hiroshima created by

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Shunsuke Makino from Tsuyama-city,

33

Okayama pref. and 10 exhibits including

in conveying the misery of war andbookletsbyimportance of peace” and “a lecture on

MuseumTakamatsu air raid experience” wasfor

Hiroshima

peace

Peace

study

Memorial

madewere displayed in the “corner for new

given by Kiyoshi Yoshida.

collection” in the permanent exhibition

Phone:

room.

087-861-7724

087-833-7722

Fax:

URL:
“PeaceMemorial

Room

Collection

http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/179

Exhibition” was held in the 1st floor lobby

4.htmlat Takamatsu Civic Culture Center from
August 23rd to 31st.

Along with the

The Naruto German House: Tokushima

collection donated by citizens, photo

Many activities were held as follows:

panels of the Battle of Okinawa wereJune 3rd : Evening for German Wine

displayed.

June 10th and 11th: FIFA World Cup“Takamatsu-city

War

Germany Kick-off Event

Mementos

Exhibition” was held from July 31st to

July 1st to 30th: The real picture of Honju

August 4th at the first floor hall of

Matsue, Director of Bando

Takamatsu city hall, and in order toDetention Camp, Tokushima

convey the misery of war and people’s

July 15th: Tanabata Concert

hope for peace, war information materials

August 6th to 26th: “Paradise in Barthou”

donated by citizens, living goods of war

Children’s Drawings Exhibition

time and photos of air raid damages were

August 13th and 14th: German Beer anddisplayed.

Wine Festival
August 20th: 61 years since thenThe 12th peace concert in Naruto“Takamatsu War Damages and A-bomb
Photo Exhibition” was held from AugustAugust 26th: Symposium “Investigation

7th to 11th in the first floor hall aton Hoju Matsue, Director of Bando

Takamatsu city hall to inform people ofDetention Camp, Tokushima”

the misery of war and preciousness of

September 2nd to 24th: German tourism

peace.

poster exhibition
September 9th and 10th: German wood

“Lecture on Peace Study for Teachers”

engraving workshop

was given at Takamatsu Civic Culture

October 7th to 29th: Luneburg-PaletteCenter on August 25th and lectures by Mr.

Association Art Show

Shozo Nakajima were titled “Teaches’ role

October 15th: The 13th Deutosche Fest in

34

Narutofrom June 23rd to July 9th and the same

November 3rd: Let’s play “Martin

exhibition was held at Yaeyama Peace

Festival”

Memorial Museum from July 12th to 22nd.

November 3rd to December 24th:“The

German Christmas Market Fair

Okinawa” was held from May 9th to July
17th.

ChildrenandtheBattleof

The exhibition “Think about

November 18th to December 24th:environmental problem” was held forGerman Christmas Market Exhibitionchildren from September 11th to OctoberNovember 19th: Liederabend by Yoshiaki

15th.

KomodaNovember 26th: Chorus 9 “Mozart concert”“Testimony for Peace – the war told byDecember 16th: MardiGras

the(Source~URL:

published in March 2006.

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

testimonies from the 4th exhibition room

who

experienced”

was

Selectedand exhibited video were published in the

germanhouse/index.html)
Phone: 088-689-0099

peopleFax: 088-689-0909

book. The contents of the book are: air

Email: info@doitsukan.com

raids;

thebattleof

Okinawa;

war

experiences at overseas; and messages.
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum“Atomic

Bomb

Museum:Phone: 098-997-3844

the

10th

URL:

Anniversary Special Exhibition” was held
28thfrom June

to August30th.

Fax: 098-997-3947

http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jThep

exhibition set out the history of peaceInternational News

operations by the Atomic Bomb Museum
and Nagasaki City from the constructionofInternational

CulturePeace

Center,Projectof

Neve

Shalom-Wahat al Salam: Israel.

predecessor of the museum, to present.
Phone: 095-844-1231

MuseumFax: 095-846-5170

URL:

Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam (NSWAS)

http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na(Oasis of Peace), a village between-bomb/museum

Jersualem and Tel Aviv-Jaffa in Israel,
started this year a peace museum project

Okinawa

Prefecural

Peace

Memorial'Reconciliation Rooms and Reconciliation

MuseumWays'. NSWAS was founded in the early
from1970's by Bruno Hussar. Its inhabitants

children and students’” in 2006 was held

are both Jews and Palestinian Arabs of“Exhibition

-

Peace

messages35

Is rae li c itize ns hip. It ado p ted anpeace.

educational system that includes
bilingual, binational schooling. So, it uses

Wed.,

Hebrew and Arab in teaching of all the

Remembrancechildren, 90 % of which come from

Sat., Sept. 19 Milton Rogovin Exhibit

surrounding Arab and Jewish

opens

Aug

9,2006

Nagasakicommunities. NSWAS realised a Schoolfor Peace in favor of peace education. And

Sat. Sept. 22 Kitty Donohue – CD Releasealso a Pluralistic Spiritual Centre inConcertmemory of its founder Bruno Hussar.
Annex to this Centre is planned a House

Sat., Oct. 21 Treasure Sale / Silentof Silence (Bet Doumia-Bet as-Sakinah).

Auction

The new peace museum project'Reconciliation Rooms and Reconciliation

Oct/Nov Matt Watroba / Rev. Robert

Ways' has got as subtitle 'The historical

Jones Concert

triangle Germany - Israel - Palestine'.
Historical advisor for the project is Dr.

Sat.,

Reuven Moskovitz, co-founder of NSWAS,

Embroidery Openingorganisator of study travels through33 E. Adams · Detroit · Michigan · 48226

Israel and active for many years in· (313) 963·7575

Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation andhttp://www.swordsintoplowsharesdetroit.

German-Israeli reconciliation.

org/index.htm

Cooperation partner for the project is Pax

Email:

Christi Augsburg peace museum

swordsintoplowshares@prodigy.net

Nov

2

Cuadros/

S.

AfricanFriedensraeume (Peace Roo ms) in
L i n d a u / G e r m a n y,

Peace Museum Project: Irans e e

www.friedens-raeume.de. For more

The SCWVS(Society for Chemical Weapons

information on the peace museum project,

Victims Support) was initially establishedask info@nswas.org and see

to address the suffering of the survivors ofw w w . n s w a s . o r g .

chemical weapons attacks and their(With thanks to Gerard Lossbroek)families but later we realized that inorder to avoid more conflicts and victims

Swords into Plowshares Peace Center &in the world, we need to learn lessons

Gallery: Detroit

from the tragedy of war and chemical
attacks in our country and to start an anti

The following is various activities forwar movement by conducting peace36

programs including peace exchanges

survivors of war

between citizens of Iran and the rest of- organizing art events including

the world, people to people contacts,children's peace drawing

peace education program for children andcompetition/Exhibition

students,…

- meetings with the gas attacks survivors
and providing opportunity for ordinary

To this end we established a temporary

people and students to listen to theexhibition in April 2006 which consideredeyewitness accounts about the horror ofas a seed of a peace museum, later we

war and chemical attacks

converted it to a tiny peace museum and- Peace exchanges with people and NGOs

many visitors including internationalfrom all around the world

delegations (including people from
Hiroshima, US, Europeans,..) visited it

If you require more information, peaseover the past couple of months.

feel free to contact me.

Recently the museum has been moved to

Shahriar Khateri M.D

a new place - in the same building - with aHead, International relations branch & vice

new design and more materials.

Director

The main focus in this museum is:Society for Chemical Weapons Victims- showing the cruelty of war and WMD -Support SCWVS

including the A-bomb attack of

19615-616 Tehran-IranHiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the

Phone: +98 21 22417327

Chemical weapons attacks by Saddam

Fax:+98 21 22412502

against Iranians-

email: khateri@scwvs.org- talking about the importance of peaces_khateri@hotmail.com

and the possible ways to achieve world(With thanks to Gerard Lossbroek)peace- introducing the peace activists, peace“The Global Peace Museum” (ATL)

NGOs and related universities to ourvisitors

Greatly- introducing the international network ofinspired

by

Mayor

ShirleyFranklin’s leadership in purchasing Dr.

Peace Museums to our visitors

King’s Historical Papers, and to honor- organizing peace tours to the areas

Corettaaffected by war and chemical attacks

Scott

King'speace

legacy,Partnerships In Peace and Atlanta: City

especially for your people to understandof Peace announce plans for:about the long lasting consequences of“The Global Peace Museum” (ATL)

war and to show their solidarity with the37

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and Needed…

Encouragement 25[Have ideas for logo? Please forward

European Heritage 26

them]

Global thinking - Globalization 27
Peace – no Utopia 28

www.GlobalPeaceMuseum.org

What is a Peace Museum? 29(Website under construction)

First Austrian Peace Museum 30/31(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den(An introduction for visitors)

Dungen)Franz

Deutsch,Graben20,

A-4902

Wolfsegg, Tel. ++43-7676-7271
FIRST AUSTRIAN PEACE MUSEUM

http://www.friedensmuseum.at.tf/

Franz Deutsch
Leaflets for peace

Transitions: U.S.A.

Impulses for conversation

Transitions, the e-newsletter for Earth

LISTOFCONTENTS

and(some samples)International (EPE) focuses on our global

Preface 3

community’s progress towards a culture

Peace Pamphlets – what for? 4/5

of

List of contents 6

i.e. a society of institutions and norms

Migrating Birds of the Future 7/8

based

Why I always get into a fight? 9/10

sustainability,

A Makabre Joke 11

intergenerational

All is vanity 12

participatory decision-making. It aims to

History – a Schoolmarm? 13

create an understanding of the reciprocal

Getting rid of prejudice and distrust 14

relationship between social and ecologicalThat's the way they are 15/16

peace - a prerequisite to effectively

Comradeship 17/18

responding to social peacelessness andTesting Tolerance 19

ecological degradation.

Peace

Education

Associates

peace,
onnonviolence,ecologicalsocialjustice,equityandHate of Foreigners 20
Actio - Reactio 21

You are invited to join the global network

Evolution 22

of educators working to bring about thisThe most numerous movement in thetransition. The newsletter provides theworld 23

following guideposts to help you along the(Part from a letter to an English Peace

way:

Friend)•Globalization:

Perils,and prospects (p. 2)

Lack of Peace – a lack of communication?

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promises••

A guest interview on a planetary

Sciences (1970-1985), the Peace Palace

ethic (p. 4)

Library

Resourcesforvalue-based learning
•

News

about

integrative

International(p. 7)(1988-2002).

educationalsociety organizations(1985-1988)

and

Court

of

the
Justicecivil(p. 12)

Province•

A poem plea (p.14)

JUDICAP operates from an essentially•

Contact information (p.14)

interdisciplinary

approach.

Attheinvitation of ministeries and embassies,
You are invited to contribute to future

local authorities, university centres andissues and to distribute the newsletter tomusea and art galleries at home andyour lists and like minded colleagues.

abroad, JUDICAP arranges permanent

It is available on the EPE website

expositionwww.globalepe.org

international exhibitions and multimedia

Anita Wenden, Editor

presentations which travel all over the

Wenden@rcn.com

world.

centres

JUDICAPandproduces

publishesbooks,

catalogues, brochures and factsheets,
JUDICAP: The Hague

develops

Aims

lectures and powerpoint presentations

JUDICAP is a research centre andboth at the expert academic level and to

publishing firm on internationalism inserve

the widest sense. Its province are the

JUDICAP emphatically seeks to bridge

history, current state and aspirations of

the gap between the world of learninginternational

and the interested layman.

law,international

databases,

wider

and

educationalarranges

purposes.

organization and peace studies. As thename JUDIcial CAPital suggests, its

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JUDICAP was founded in 2003 by Arthur

www.judicap.com

Eyffinger.

(With thanks to Gerard Lossbroek)Dr.

Eyffinger(1947)

isclassicist and (legal) historian and former

Publications

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We’d like to express our deepest gratitude

Press 2005 $12.95～a book on Japanese

to Ms. Risa Ikeya who translated Muse

American history, racial discrimination,

Newsletter from Japanese into English as

gender, war experiences by an Angloa volunteer.

American woman writer
DVD:

Come

JapaneseSeethe

Americans

Paradise

on

put

into

We welcome your comments on
Muse Newsletter.
Have a Happy New Year in 2007!

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Notice
The unsigned articles were written upon
the editor's responsibility, but the signed
ones do not necessarily express the same
opinions embraced by the head office ofJapanese Network of Museums for Peaceor the editor of this newsletter.
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