Muse No. 29: Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: February 2014
The Editorial Office: Daisuke Miyahara at Peace Aichi
2-820 Yomogidai, Meitoku, Nagoya City, Aichi 465-0091
Tel/Fax: 052-602-4222 http://www.peace-aichi.com/
Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translators: Atsuko Takeda, Mairead Hynes, Yoshiko Tanigawa, Kazuyo Yamane
Illstrator: Erico Tosaki

Museum Wadatsuminokoe

which

Taketomo Takahashi
ofJapanese

attracted

manypeople.

However, the number of such former

2013 is the 70th anniversary of thedeparturealso

student

university

soldiers

decreasing,

and

is
it

undoubtedlyisbecoming

anstudents for the front. Exhibition andimportant subject for our memorial toresearch work of “Voices of Wadatsumi

reconsider

Memorial” deal with both students who

exhibition. It is also necessary to researchwere sent to the front before 1943 andKoreanthose who were conscripted between 1943

discriminated against and sent to the

and

front

1945

based

on

legal

ground.

ouractivitiesstudents
aswhoJapanese

includinghadsoldiers.

been
Such

(Wadatsumi linguistically means “Seaanniversary was reported in media to

God” but the word is used to meansome extent, but it is noteworthy that“student soldiers who were driven to

exhibitions and events were held atdeath in the battle fields.) Sending

various universities such as Waseda,

students to the front is substantially the

Keiou, Housei, Kyoto, Tokyo, etc.

abolition of opportunities for higher

Dr. Viv Golding of University ofeducation, and 2013 could be a year for us

Leicester visited the exhibition twice

to reconsider the significance of thisthough the period of stay was short.

historical event. We planned all theactivities in 2013 in consideration of thiscontext. Many people listened to thelecture by Mr. Atsushi Shirai, professor
emeritus of Keio University, which wasentitled “Rethinking Commemoration of
the War Dead by Universities” which wasorganized in cooperation with Wadatsumi
Association.

We

also

organized

erico

an

exhibition on writings and mementos leftby deceased students for three days insummer at Edo Tokyo Museum Hall,
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Women’s Active Museum on War andPeace (wam)highly evaluated, the exhibition has beenrequested to be held on demand in one

Eriko Ikeda, President

place after another. We also conducted an

Under the Abe government, Japanese

exhibit focusing on the Chinese andsociety showed a tendency toward thenative Taiwanese women victims, theRight in 2013. Prime Minister Sinzo Abe,scars left by Japan’s colonialism in

who has been insisting that “Comfort

Taiwan, and a long time workshop to

Women” were not forced by Japanesesupportgovernment, enacted the notorious Secret

At the same time, the news of the“Comfort Women” victims’ death reported

by international society. Back in May,

one after another made us rush to solve

since Toru Hashimoto, Mayer of City ofthe problem while they are alive.

Osaka, addressed that the system of

Last November, “wam” was given the 4th

Comfort Women was indispensable, we

Peace

immediately demanded him an apology,

the

Peace

Studieswhich highly evaluated our sincere andincident

dauntlessincreased the number of interviews on

efforts.

We werestrongly

encouraged by winning the award andthe issue and visitors to “wam”. In

decided to keep our activities against

addition, many special projects such as

current adverse situations.

exhibits about Beate Sirota Gordon, who
drafted a section of Japanese constitution

Yamanashi Peace Museum, celebrating

concerning gender equality, and about

the 6th anniversary

school textbook issue made us very busy

Tamotsu Asakawa

throughout the year.

Six years have already passed since
Yamanshi Peace Museum commemo-

From June 2012 we held a year-longrating Tanzan Ishibashi opened in May

exhibition on Okinawa issues both in2007. In the past six years, twelve special

Tokyo and Okinawa. It focused on the

exhibitions were held and the number ofnumerous military brothels establishedandofin the field of “Comfort Women” issue

in cooperation with lots of other women’s

WW2

Prize

Association of Japan for its contribution

withdrawal of his words and resignation

duringyear

January 2014.

Shrine in December, which was criticized

this

Last

screening sessions will be started in

He visited the controversial Yasukuni

Ironically,

women.

consecutive seminars were held and video

Information Protection Act.

associations.

thosesexualvisitors

violence

reachedten

thousandin

November 2013. More than 70 lecturescommitted by the U.S. forces which haveand symposiums were given and many ofbeen stationing there after WW2. Being

them were reported by the media.
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On June 16th, a memorial event was

Eastern

successfully held with a famous historian

Fukushima Nuclear Accident as well as

Daikichi Irokawa as a guest speaker. In

energy policy making are also regarded

front of 160 audiences, Mr. Irokawa spoke

as a part of peace education-related

about the future course of Japan and theissues.

Constitution of Japan.

The projects conducted at the museum in

The museum established a Tanzan

2013 were as follows:

Ishibashi Peace Prize in 2012. Last year,
juniorandseniorhigh

・ “Retrospective

concentrationof Japan are expected in 2014.

◇Traveling Exhibition:
・“World Photo Exhibition 2014” at Kyoto,

University

Shiga

commemorated ①the 80th anniversary of

under

the

the

nationalisticlotsemphasistheandGeneralMobilization

war time
・81st September 14 ~ October 6: 20th

revision of the Constitution of Japan. It isto

Promoting・80th July 27 ~ August 25: Slogans during

disputes, historical education and a
time

For

taken by Hiroyuki Togashi

ofproblematic matters such as territorial

the・ “EYES, EARS and WAR ―・79th April 13 ~ May 8: Photos in Tibet

ment of Wadatsumi Statue (1953). In
faces

~

◆Mini Exhibition

and ③the 60th anniversary of establishJapan18

December 15

Students’ Departure for the Front (1943),

days,

September

Raising Fighting Spirit” October 23 ~government, ② the 70th anniversary of

these

Oita

◇Autumn Term

which a progressive professor, Osamu
from

and

December 15

the Kyoto University Incident (1933) inuniversityofMay 14 ~ July 20

Maki Torii

removedcamp

・“Art of Suma Maruki ― Focus on Life”

Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto

was

TsutomJapanese-American and 9・11

Kyoto Museum for World Peace at

Takigawa,

Jimmypainter who had gone through both thewon the prize. Entries from every corner

Ritsumeikanof

Mirikitani” ― A defiant and homelessAmong them, Mr. Yuichi Ikeda of Osaka

2013,

and

◇Spring Termschoolstudents from all over the country.

In

Earthquake〈Special exhibitions〉

there were entries of 26 adults as well as
114

Japan

anniversary of Friends for Peace

peace

・82nd October 13 ~ December 20: Peacephilosophy and friendly relationship with

Education in the attached schools to

Asian nations, which Japan has built

Ritsumeikan

after WW2. To support the reconstruction

・83rd January 11 ~February 2: “Good-bye

process of the areas hit by the Great
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Luxurious Couples” from a photo weekly

and Mr. Keisuke Okada talked about his[Small Exhibition at the Lobby

visit to Fukushima in February, 2013.

・ Picture for Peace UNOY: works by

He appealed that, in order to overcome

young award winners

the issues such as Fukushima nuclear

・The 70th anniversary of Departure ofdisaster, recovery from the Great East

students for the front

Japan Earthquake damage[Lectures

military bases in Okinawa, it is most・April 23 The 8th Consecutive Seminars

important to respect the Constitution offor World Peace and Human Rights:

Japan, especially its preamble and the

“For

Peace

in

Asia:

Association

of

East

Searching

and

US

for

Article 13 (All of the people shall be

Nations”

respected as individuals. Their right to life,

dialogue between Dr. Johan Galtung andliberty, and the pursuit of happiness shall,

Director Monte Cassim.

to the extent that it does not interfere with・August 3, 31

the

Asian

Ritsumeikan Saturday

publicwelfare,bethesupremeSeminar “The 70th anniversary of theconsideration in legislation and in otherdeparture of students for the front andgovernmental affairs.) It was also reported

the 60th anniversary of the establishmentthat some members visited Fukushimaof Wadatsumi Statue” and so forthand had interviews with people there. Mr.

・Seminars for the volunteer guides of the

Okamura’s photos (about 50) and somePeace Museum by Dr. Ikuro Anzai, Dr.

materials can be used as traveling

Atsushi Fujioka and Ms. Eriko Ikeda (theexhibits.

director of the Women’s Active Museum)An annual peace culture events called

Sessions for school children and their

Peace Wave in Kochi were held from June

parents and for school teachers were also

11 to August 31: the 31 Peace Tanabataorganized.

Festival (June 29 to July 31), the 35th
Exhibition on War and Peace (July 4 toGrassroots House Peace Museum in10), the 30th Peace Art Exhibition, theKochi

30th Peace Film Festival, The 30th
Secretariat: Mana Abe

Anti-Nuclear Peace Concert, the 19th

Mr. Kenichiro Okada gave a lecture on

Peace Rally for the solidarity with Asianthe political situations to amend thepeople, the 7th Concert at an emplace-

Constitution of Japan on May 18 in 2013

ment of airplanes, etc. Many elementaryat Kochi Junior College. The meeting was

and junior high school teachers asked

cosponsored by the Kochi branch of Japan

Grassroots House to send speakers for

Scientists’ Association and was attended

peace and they went to various schoolsby 42 participants.

with peace related artifacts.

General assembly was held on May 11

Kou Makimura, an anti-war poet from4

Kochi, is exhibited at Grassroots House.

antitled “Himeyuri” became available in

His life was put into a play by someEnglish in August, 2013:

members of the Grassroots House andhttp://youtu.be/eW9Ro2G_kUc

Director Masahiro Okamura and otherIn summer, 2013 a former student who

members put on a play enthusiastically

suffered from the battle of Okinawa

on 4 September 2013 at Kochi Art

talkedMuseum.

animation was shown and was explained

There was a governmental plan of joint

by a person who had no experience of war.

exercises between Japan and the USA to

But many people listened to the talk“protect” people from big earthquakes ineagerly.

October.

However,herexperiences.

The

organizations

An exhibition of paintings on Himeyuri

including Grassroots House protested

has been shown from Dec. 16 to March 31,

againstPrefectural

2014. Sixteen paintings were made based

government to stop military exercises on

on war experiences of each survivor. It

September

24.

organizations

was not easy to testify their experiences,including

Grassroots

House

also

but paintings were drawn in order toprotested against dangerous US Ospreys

convey the cruelty and horror of the war.

seen on October 16. They also protested

They were favorably evaluated because it

against the Ospreys again on January 22.

isSuch activities of protest have been

experiences through paintings beyond

introduced in our newsletter.

words. We hope that visitors will learn

itasking

15

about

Kochi

Three

the
Himeyuri Peace Museum

easierhorrortounderstand

of

the

war

hard

and

war

the

preciousness of peace through Himeyuri

An animation called Himeyuri(30 min.)students’ war experiences.

was shown in July, 2013 in Naha City,

Tel:098-997-2100 Fax:098-997-2102

Okinawa Prefecture. (note: Himeyuri

http://www.himeyuri.or.jp

Students, sometimes called “Lily Corps”
in English, is the name of a nursing unit

Citizens’ Network Newsfor the Imperial Japanese Army during
the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Women
who went through the battle in Okinawa

Historicaltalked their hard experiences. A picture

Honbetsu : Hokkaido

book of Himeyuri was read aloud and the

A special exhibit “7/15 U.S. Air raid on

animation was shown. A participant said,

Honbetsu and the War Site left in“I learned the misery of war andTokachi” was held from July 2nd to

preciousness of peace through various

August 30 by displaying about 100

means of expression.” The animation

artifacts such as a part of building wall
5

Folkway

Museumof:with bullet marks and melted glass by

Sendai City Museum of History andbombing.

The

exhibition

been

Folkore : Miyagi

annually

held

to

the

A record “The 31st issue of the research

victims and the damages caused by thereport: Grassroots Folk History vol. 21”

air raid since 2001.

was published on March 31st 2013. It

Tel:0156-22-5112

includeshttp://www.town.honbetsu.hokkaido.jp/to

Manchurian Incident and the policy to

wn/cat/post_21.html

promote the development in Tohoku area

has

commemorate

field

diariesduringthein the war time. The 11th issue of theKamaishi Historical Materials Display:materials booklet was published at the

Iwate

same time.

From July 13 to September 8, a special

Tel:022-295-3956 Fax:022-257-6401

exhibition “Reconstruction Work after

http://www.city.sendai.jp/kyouiku/rekimi

the WW2 in Kamaishi from the damages

n/index.html

caused by the U.S. Naval Bombardment”
was held to commemorate the U.S.

Minamisoma Public Central Library:attacks on July 14 and August 9 in 1945.

Fukushima

It showed how the ironworks, railways

From August 10 to 18, an exhibition toand markets in the areas recovered fromshow the materials related to the U.S.

the devastation.

Air raid on Haramachi (August 10, 1945)

Tel＆Fax:0193-22-2046

was held. Forty of the pictures painted

http://www.city.kamaishi.iwate.jp/kyoudoby the survivors reproducing how the/index.html

Haramachi station was largely damaged
were displayed.

Sendai City Memorial on War Damage

Tel:0244-23-7789 Fax:0244-24-6986

and Recovery: Miyagi

http://www.city.minamisoma.lg.jp/index.c

An exhibit titled “Materials related tofm/23,html

The U.S. Air raid on Sendai City
recorded by the U.S. Forces” was held

Ryugasaki City Museum of History andfrom July 5 to 15. In addition to the

Folklore: Ibaraki

displays of the documents and photos,

A photo exhibition on the Battle ofevents such as a talk session by the

Okinawa was held from August 2 to 16

survivors, a relief market and a concert

wishing a society in eternal peace.

were also held.

Tel:0297-64-6227 Fax:0297-64-6360

Tel:022-263-6931 Fax:022-262-5465

http://www.ryureki.org/

http://www.stks.city.sendai.jp/hito/WebPa
ges/sisetu/sensai/index.html
6Peace Museum of Saitama: Higashi-

Fujimino

Municipal

Matsuyama City

HistoricalandSaitama Peace Museum was remodeled

Saitamaand re-opened on October 20. The name

From June 15 to August 18, the first

was

Peace

special exhibit “A Military Arsenal in theMuseum” and there is no charge forTown” was held to display the model ofadmission now.

the arsenal and the materials about it.

New displays such as a big wall painting

Tel:049-261-6065(18 meter wide and 8.5 meter high) for

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

world peace and a section showing

ty/bunkasports/siryoukan/index.html

changedto“Saitama

Kamifukuoka

Folklore

Museum:Fax:049-269-4817

projects to build a peaceful society wereadded and a part of the standing

Warabi Municipal Museum : Saitama

exhibition has also been renewed.

The 24th Peace Exhibition “Children and

From October 20 to December 1, a

War”

special exhibition “Reconstruction: Let’s

September 29. This year the school life

Revive Again and Again” was held toand toys of the children at that time

display about 150 items including efforts

were focused to convey the importance ofof recovery from the damages in thepeace.

Second World War, the Great Kanto

Tel: 048-432-2477

Earthquake and The Great East Japan

http://www.city.warabi.saitama.jp/hp/me

Earthquake. A pictorial record was

nu000000200/hpg000000120.htm

was

held

from

July

27

to

published. Two people who had war time
experiences gave a talk on November 17.

The Center of the Tokyo Air Raids andTel:0493-35-4111

War Damage: Koto Ward

Fax:0493-35-4112

http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeace

A special exhibition “People’s life shot bymuseum/the photographers of Tohosha” was heldfrom July 31 to September 8. Tohosha

Iruma City Museum ALIT: Saitama

was a photo publishing company under

The 17th Peace Exhibition was held fromdirect control of the Japanese military

August 1 to 11. This year it displayedauthority advertising the government

the materials rent from Hiroshima Peacepolicy to the overseas. There were photos

Memorial Museum with peace cranes.

suchTel: 04-2934-7711 Fax:04-2934-7716

advertising

http://www.alit.city.iruma.saitama.jp/

children drilling, Chinese and South Eastasstreetsthefilledwithposterswar

time

slogans,

Asian people’s life under the Japanese
occupation, which had been taken to raisenational
7

morale.

Whileanti-Japanslogans and cartoons as well as those who

their views on peace, two exhibits suchseemed to be reluctant to obey theas “The U.S. air raids on Nakano” (Junemobilization

photo-

4 ~ 24) and “Photos of A-bombings ongraphed. This exhibition aimed to ask theHiroshima and Nagasaki” (August 20 ~visitors to give them a critical look to

September 1) were held.

review what the wartime life was like. A

Tel:03-3228-8987 Fax:03-3228-5476

booklet was published. On August 3,

http://www.city.tokyo-nakano.lg.jp/dept/1

lectures related to the photos taken at the01500/d002433.html

order

were

wartimewere

given.

parents

joinedthealsoChildrensummerandholiday

Adachi Museum: Tokyo

special programs including a kamishibai

From July 23 to September 16, a special(picture story show) performance and a

exhibition “The wartime life and movies

survivors’ talk session.

early in the Showa period” was held toTel:03-5857-5631 Fax:03-5683-3326

show the restricted life of the citizens

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

during the wartime. It focused on how
school children in Adachi Ward were

Setagatya Peace Gallery : Tokyo
Setagaya Peace Library was closed on

evacuated to the safer places and how
the war affected the people. Revived

June 30, 2013 and it was moved to

8-mm films on the war time society were

Setagaya Ward Education Center. From

screened.

August 1 to 31, a special exhibition“Wishes for Peace” was held.

Tel:03-3620-9393 Fax:03-5697-6562

By

http://www.city.adachi.tokyo.jp/hakubuts

courtesy of The Center of the Tokyo Air

ukan/chiikibunka/hakubutsukan/index.hraids and War Damage, photos of the lifetmlof the youth, women and children during
wartime as well as damages caused by

Sumida Heritage Museum : Tokyo

the U.S. air raids and A-bombings were

A special exhibition on “Government

displayed. The standing exhibition ofControlled Kamishibai - Picture Cards

Setagaya Peace Library was re-opened on

Story Telling - and Sumida” was held

September 1.

from May 3 to August 25. In late 1930s,

Tel:03-3429-0811 Fax:03-3429-2844

kamishibai, one of the most popular

http://www.city.setagaya.lg.jp/kurashi/10

reading cultures for children in Japan,

7/157/749/750/d00005024.html

was used to enhance the national mode
to promote war. The exhibition focused

Nakano Ward Peace Exhibition Hall:on kamishibai’s played in war timeTokyo

influenced the local citizens.

To provide citizens a chance to broaden

Tel:03-5619-7034 Fax:03-3625-3431
8http://www.city.sumida.lg.jp/sisetu_info/s

documents related to their lives at

iryou/kyoudobunka/index.html

Sansen-Ryo Villa were displayed.
Nishi-Ikuta Momorial Hall also held an

Toshima Historical Museum: Tokyo

exhibit on the same theme.

The 22nd issue of the museum research

Tel:03-5981-3376

bulletin

http://www.jwu.ac.jp/unv/library-building

“Life

and

Culture”

waspublished on March 31, 2013, which/naruse_memorial/index.html

includes a paper about evacuation ofschoolchildren by Mr. Tetsuo Aoki.

Fukuzawa Memorial Center for Modern

Tel:03-3980-2351 Fax:03-3980-5271

Japanese Studies - Keio University:

http://www.city.toshima.lg.jp/bunka/shiry

Tokyo

okan/

A special exhibition “Keio University and
War Part 1: Keio Students in 1943” was
held

at

both

University

Library

Museum on Life in Showa Era: Ota(December 2-26) and University Art

Ward, Tokyo

Space (November 25 ~ December 18). As

An exhibition “Children and War” wasthe first one of a series of threeheld from August 1 to 31. Aiming to tell

exhibitions,the importance of peace education, it

Fukuzawa Memorial Center for Modern

showedJapanese Studies – Keio University tohowchildrensurvived

all

it

was

commemorate

patriotic they were in accordance withanniversary of the end of WW2 in 2015.

theWhen Japanese government revoked thepolicy

and

war

time

forthcomingbyhardship during the war time and how
national

theorganized

70th

education.

rule exempting university students from

Tel＆Fax:03-3750-1808

military service in 1943, Keio students

http://www.showanokurashi.com/

over twenty-year-old were conscripted
into the army. This exhibit aimed toJapan

Women’s

University,

Narusereview how Keio University was during

Memorial Hall: Tokyo

the war time and to never repeat the

An exhibit “Summer Life in Karuizawa

ravage of war again.

Sansen-Ryo Villa during the War Time”

Tel: 03-5427-1603 Fax:03-5427-1605

was held from June 14 to July 14 at the

http://project.fmc.keio.ac.jp/

main building in Mejiro. Leaving theirparents in Tokyo, in August 1944, theCenteruniversity attached school children had

University: Tokyo

evacuated to Karuizawa and had stayed

To commemorate the 70th anniversary ofat the villa for 15 months. Photos anddeparture of students for the front, an
9

of

the

History

for

Hosei

exhibition “From School to Battle Fields”

Shanghai in 1937. There were gatherings

was held from December 9 to 20. Afterto share the stories of those who

the W.W.Ⅱ, Hosei University has been

experienced the war and kamishibai, asincerely reflecting the past war andpicture story telling performance on

peace

August 16 and 17.

building.

It

held

a

specialgraduation ceremony for the family

Tel:042-622-8939 Fax:042-627-5919

members of the fallen student soldiers in

http://www.city.hachioji.tokyo.jp/shisetsu/

1990 and built a peace monument in

28254/028261.html

1995. This time, the exhibition showed
the result of the oral surveys from the

Folk Museum of Higashimurayama:

alumni, who went to the front to review

Tokyo

the issue of war and peace. On December

An exhibition “The Memory during the16, a public symposium inviting those

War Time in Higashi-Murayama” was

who had been through the battle asheld from August 1 to September 23 tostudent soldiers was held.

hand the war time memories to the next

Tel:03-5212-4108 Fax:03-5212-4109

generation. The exhibits included panels

https://www.hosei.ac.jp/kyoiku_kenkyu/kabout “The local voluntary guards and air

enkyusho/another/daigakushi.html

raids” and “Education during the war
time”

National Archives of Japan: Tokyo

Tel: 042-396-3800

The third consecutive exhibition in 2013

http://www.city.higashimurayama.tokyo.j“The record of the air raids ― a nationalp/tanoshimi/rekishi/furusato/index.html

map of the major cities damaged bybombings” was held from August 12 toFussa Local Material Hall: Tokyo

September 20. The maps were edited in“A War-related materials exhibit for

December 1945 by the Ministry of thepeace” was held from July 6 to September

First Repatriation showing about 130

16. Every year around the anniversary ofcities and towns all over Japan.

the termination of the war, an exhibition

Tel: 03-3214-0621

has been planned. It focused on the

http://www.archives.go.jp/

Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese
War and the Asia Pacific War to reflect on

Hachioji City Historical Museum: Tokyo

the war history and Fussa Town.

An exhibit “Young Teachers who went

Tel: 042-530-1120

through Japanese-Chinese War” washttp://www.museum.fussa.tokyo.jp/

held from July 19 to September 1 to show
the mementos of local teacher Mr.
AkitomoWachi,

who

was

sent

to
10

Kawasaki

City

Peace

Museum:by the director Akira Yamada was given

Kanagawa
Supported

on November 1.
by

the

Peace

Studies

Tel&Fax:044-934-7993

Association of Japan, a special exhibition

http://www.meiji.ac.jp/noborito/index.html“Peace and Environment” was held fronNovember 15 to December 18. It showed

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship:

panels on global warming as well as

Yokohama City

energy problems from a view point of the

A special exhibition “Citizens’ Life andpeace issue. Presentations by young

War” was held from May 23 to September

participants and lectures were also given.

1. About thirty photos taken in 1945 justTel: 044-433-0171 Fax:044-433-0232

after the Great Yokohama Air raid were

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

displayed beside the ones taken recently

home/heiwahome/at the same places.
Tel: 045-896-2121 Fax: 045-896-2299

Meiji University Noborito Museum for
Peace

Education:

Kawasaki

http://www.earthplaza.jp/

City,

Kanagawa

Institute for the

A special exhibit in 2013 on “The Unit

Folk

731”

Yokohama City

was

held

on

August7~24,

Culture,Study of Japanese
Kanagawa

University:

September 4 ~ October 26. The 4 th

The second open exhibit “Kamishibai,

exhibition “What was going on at the

picture story show, as an instrument ofNoborito Institute before the battle on

promoting national policy during the war

the mainland” was also held fromtime” was held from November 27 toNovember 20, 2013 to March 8, 2014.

December 11. Kamishibai (picture story

To avoid the U.S. air attacks and prepareshow), which is based on the Japanese

for the coming battle on the mainland,

tradition of audiovisual culture and had

the Noborito Institute was divided toas much influence as other mass media

evacuate in the spring of 1945. The

such

exhibit focused on the role of the institutebroadcasting, was used by the war time

and

the

government to educate the children andNoborito Institute and Nakano School (aadults to promote its nationalistic policy.

training center of military intelligence) toThough most of this type of War-related

develop the weapons for the secret battle

Kamishibais were lost after WWⅡended,on the mainland. The exhibit was held inthis research center collected 241 of themboth Ikuta and Nakano. In 2013, Nakano

by courtesy of a Kamishibai collector Mr.

campus was newly established where

Tomio Sakuramoto. He gave a speech

once Nakano School used to be. A lecture

titledtherelationshipbetween11

asnewspaper

“What

was

and

National

radio

PolicyKamishibai like?” in a study meeting at

Aikawa Local Museum: Kanagawa

Kanagawa University Library. Some of

A special exhibit “A Memory of War: after

the Kamishibai story shows were given.

68 years” was held from July 21 toTel: 045-481-5661

AugustFax: 045-413-4151

31.

Lots

of

war-time

real

http://www.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/research/inmaterials were donated by the local

stitute/japan_folk_culture/center/citizens after the exhibition “A Memory ofWar” was held twice in the past years.

The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura

This year the exhibit was divided into

& Hayama: Hayama Town, Kanagawa

four sections such as” the Sagami Army

An exhibit “War and Art between 1940

Airport”, ”Soldiers sent to the battle

and 1950” was held from July 6 tofields”, “The life of the home front” andOctober 14 aiming to review Japanese art“Reconstruction efforts” by displaying thehistory before and after WW2. Works by

newly contributed items.

Shunsuke Matsumoto, Kan-emon Asai

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and others, were displayed along with the

http://www.town.aikawa.kanagawa.jp/shi

war-related materials. Five successive

setsu/cul/cul_01.html

lectures on art such as art criticism,
modern history and photography wereJapan Newspaper Museum: Yokohama

given by specialists during the time of theCity , Kanagawa

exhibition.

Commemorating the 120th anniversary

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Fax: 046-875-2574

of establishment of Ryukyu Shimpo, an

http://www.moma.pref.kanagawa.jp/publi

Okinawan local newspaper, a special

c/HallTop.do

exhibit“OKINAWA,

42

years

of

turbulence: Shot by a news photoHiratsuka City Museum: Kanagawa

grapher” was held from June 22 to

An exhibition “Hiratsuka Air raid” wasAugust 18. After the U.S. domination

held from August 1 to September 5

ever since the land battles during WWⅡ

showing the true state of the bombing

had ended, Okinawa was eventually

and

the

reconstruction

processbyreverted to Japan in 1972. However, vastmaterials.

A

areas of Okinawa are still occupied by thebooklet which records the experiences of

U.S. bases and accidents such as plane

the Hiratsuka air raid survivors wascrashes and crimes committed by the

published in April 2013.

U.S.

Tel:0463-33-5111 Fax:0463-31-3949

Ryukyu Shimpo photographer Hiroaki

http://www.hirahaku.jp/

Yamashiro has been taking photos of thephotographs

and

real

soldiers

have

been

continued.

reality of Okinawa for the past forty-two
years since the Okinawa’s reversion to
12

Japan. About 200 of his works wereactivities at the town reduced to ruin

displayed and talk sessions were also

were displayed. Twenty-eight of them

held.

were confirmed to be the same as a photo

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collection owned by a former U.S. soldier

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Mr. Kelly, who stationed at Fukui.
Tel:0776-22-4675 Fax:0776-22-4694

Nagaoka War Damage Center: Niigata

http://www.pref.fukui.jp/muse/Cul-Hist/

Exhibits were opened as follows:“Pictures of Air raid Experiences” from

Matsumoto City Museum: Nagano

April 13 to May 19, May 25 to June 30

A special exhibit “War and Peace; When a“Center’s Collections on War” from May 1

soldier of the special attack unit departed

to December 29– From Matsumoto to Chiran” was held

“The Portraits of the Air raid Victims andfrom July 6 to August 25. Since UNCDI

the Maps of Burnt-down Residential

was held in Matsumoto City, every

Areas” from July 7 to August 31

summer exhibitions related to war and

On May 25, a gathering to listen to thosepeace have been opened. This year about

who experienced the air raids was held. A

a hundred materials on the special attack

bookletcorps

commemorating

the

tenth

stayedat

Matsumotowereanniversary of establishment of Nagaoka

displayed.

War Damages Center was published.

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Tel:0258-36-3269 Fax:0258-36-3335

http://www.matsu-haku.com/maruhaku/i

http://www.city.nagaoka.niigata.jp/kuras

ndex.html

hi/sensai/siryoukan.html
Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural

Gifu City Peace Museum : Gifu

History: Fukui

A special exhibit “Materials for Peace for

A photo exhibition “Photographs of Fukui

Children” was held from July 20 to

Air raids” was opened from August 16 toAugust 2. Newly found pictures of Gifu

September 1 focusing on a photo album

Air raid were displayed.

recently found at a local residence. It

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contained

http://gakuen.gifu-net.ed.jp/~contents/tyu

photostaken

byformerJapanese military embedded cameraman_shyakai/jinbutu/sensou/siryousitu.htm

Norio Kawasaki at the time of the U.S.
bombing. Thirty three photos including

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka City

Kawasaki’s portrait, a B-29 bomber on

An exhibition “War Time Government-

Fukui City at the night of July 9th 1945, a

made Posters” was held from June 7 tocollapsed gate of Fukui shrine and relief

August 11. The posters remained and13collected at Achi village in Nagano

unkakyoiku/sakuragaokamuseum/Prefecture were loaned out to display.
Another exhibit “War and Animals” wasYokkaichi Municipal Museum: Mie

openedAiming

again

from

August15

totosupportthechildren’s

secondpeace

September 1. From September 13, 2013

learning,

exhibition

to January 26, 2014, “Siberia Internment“Yokkaichi Air raids and People’s Life”– Sixty Thousand Lives Lost at thewas held June 15 to September 1.

Frozen Ground” was held in cooperation

Materials related to Yokkaichi Air raids

with the former returnees living insuch as remnants after the bombing,

Shizuoka City.

firsthand accounts, materials on children

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and schools, models of an air raid shelter

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and substitute utensils were displayed.

wa/Tel: 059-355-2700
http://www.city.yokkaichi.mie.jp/museum/Yaizu City Folk Historical Museum:
Shizuoka

Taki Town Folk Museum : Mie

A special exhibition “Lives during theA

War Time – Yaizu and the War” was held

Propaganda of Militaristic Nations” wasfrom May 31 to September 29. People’s

opened from July 9 to September 22. In

hard daily life including strict restriction

the modern wars, civilians behind theof every commodity and requisition offront lines were also dragged into andmetals were explained by photographs

forced to assist the war. This exhibit

and real materials.

mainlyA guide book and a list of the items

materials including fliers, magazines,

displayed were published.

and newspaper advertisement published

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between 1941 and 1943, which was the

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specialexhibitshowed

“Home

about

150

front

–

printedhttp://www.city.yaizu.lg.jp/rekimin/index.

time just before the strictest order of

html

restriction started.
In 1937, when the government began a

Sakuragaoka Museum: Toyokawa City,

movement for the general mobilization ofAichi

the national spirit, it intended to restrict

As Sakuragaoka Museum was underamusements and to educate citizens to berebuilding, instead at Toyokawa Culture

more patriotic by means of militaristic

Hall, an exhibit on Toyokawa Navalmusic and movies. However it must be

Arsenal was held from August 7 to 16.

better and more peaceful time comparing

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to the time following, in which everything

http://www.city.toyokawa.lg.jp/shisetsu/b

was controlled.
14

Tel: 0598-38-1132

exhibitintroduces

Army

and

Navy

http://www.town.taki.mie.jp/contents_det

establishments and civilian life duringail.php?co=kak&frmId=183

war, through historical materials andphotographs, in order to encourage us to

Shiga Peace Museum: Shiga

think deeply about peace.

The fifth exhibit “A story of Evacuation ofTel: 077-521-2100

School Children – Children coming fromhttp://www.rekihaku.otsu.shiga.jp/

Osaka” was opened from June 29 to
September 29. It focused on the life of the

Azai Museum of History and Folklore:

school children evacuees from Osaka

Shiga

City, who lived in many places within“11th War-End Memorial Exhibition: The

Shiga to escape from frequent bombings‘Nomonhan Incident’ in One Soldier’s

on Osaka City. They were separated fromWords” took place on July 30 - September

their parents and lived in a group. Real7, 2013.

materials

we

such

as

pictures,letters,

During last year’s exhibition,acquiredtheburneddiaryofalbums and toys telling the story of

Yoshikazu Nomura, a soldier who waschildren evacuees were displayed.

killed during the Nomonhan Incident.

The sixth exhibit “War Records in Shiga”

This exhibit was made up of Yoshikazu

was held from October 5 to December 23

Nomura’s diary, letters, albums, andby displaying the history of WWⅡ, U.S.

family photographs.

air raids on Shiga, children’s life during

the letters were provided with thethe war time. A museum summer schoolsupport of Bukyo University’s Keiichi“Peace School AKARI” was opened from

Harada and his seminar students.

July 28 to August 31 so that children

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from age nine to fifteen could learn andhttp://www.city.nagahama.shiga.jp/sectio

experience the war time life.

n/azairekimin/Transcriptions ofTel: 0749-46-0300 Fax:0749-46-0350
http://www.pref.shiga.lg.jp/heiwa/heiwa
museum/Ritto History Museum: Shiga
Otsu City Museum of History: ShigaAn

The museum’s 107th Mini-Exhibition,

Foundation 2013 – War and Life” was"Wartime Otsu," took place on August 13

held from July 27 to September 1- September 8, 2013. It looks back on aaccording to the peace city declaration oftime when the beautiful scenery of Otsu,

Ritto

from Lake Biwa to the mountain greenery,materials provided by the local residents,

fell under the dark shadow of war. Thisthe15

annualCity.
museumspecialBy

exhibitdisplaying

has“Peacethereconstructed

real
the

circumstances of the life during the war

2013. It emphasized the value of peace

time to confirm the importance of peace.

through a retrospective of the Pacific War,In 2013, about 130 items including

showcasing

mementos with war memorial designs,

historical materials such as guides of

military uniform, banner to celebrate a

Sugoroku and Korean cities.

soldier

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leaving

for

the

front

and

pre-warandwar-erapaper-made washbowl were shown. Flags

http://www.town.oyamazaki.kyoto.jp/soshof patriotic organization of industry was

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displayed to represent the theme “The

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Asia

Pacific

Warandpatriotism.”

Pictures of the exhibit were uploaded on

Muko City Museum: Kyoto

the website.

Muko City Museum’s Summer Mini-

Tel:077-554-2733 Fax:077-554-2755

Exhibition “Ordinary Life during War

http://www2.city.ritto.shiga.jp/hakubutsu-Natural Disasters and War in thekan/Modern Era” was held on August 10 September 8, 2013. Every summer, theKyoto University Archives: Kyoto

museum holds an exhibition of historical

The exhibition entitled “War-Era Kyoto

materials related to war, in order toUniversity - 70 Years After the Student

encourage consideration of the tragedy ofMobilization” was held in the History

war and the value of peace. This year,

Exhibition Room on the first floor of

the exhibition included items donated by

Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial

local citizens, such as blackout electricHall, from 12 November 2013 to 19

light covers, air defense handbooks,

January

Student

warning notices, air raid drill manual,

Mobilization, many young men were sent

and air raid hoods. Since this year marks

from Kyoto University to the front. This

the 90th anniversary of the Great Kanto

exhibition

examinestheStudent

Earthquake,

Mobilization

andwar-era

Kyoto

2014.

During

the

which

took

place

on

September 1, 1923, the exhibition also

University through a variety of historicalincludedmaterials, in order to explore the reality

earthquakes and natural disasters, suchof war.

as illustrated magazine articles about theTel:075-753-2651

Fax:075-753-2025

materials

relating

toGreat Kanto Earthquake, journals andhttp://kua1.archives.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/

logs of the Nobi and San Francisco
Earthquakes, and disaster relief donation

Ohyamazaki-cho History Museum: Kyoto

rosters from the Tajima and Kitatango

The

Peace

Earthquakes. The exhibit was designed

Exhibition" took place on August 6 - 25,

to offer us a chance to look back on the

15th"Foundationsof

16

influence that natural disasters and war

June 30, July 16 to October, and Oct. 29

had on our region.

to Dec. 27.

An explanatory

pamphlet is also in progress.

of

The topic was further considered in the

Vietnam and Japan on August 4 andSunday Colloquium held on August 18,

there was a lecture and songs.

2013. During Sunday Colloquiems, thewas a symposium on US air raids on

staff of the Muko City Cultural Museum

Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka on Sep. 15 andchooses a theme from their research or

those who went through air raids talked

from recent exhibitions to explore in

about their experiences.

depth with the participants. To fit withfor the renewal was made public on Nov.

the

27.

theme

of

this

SummerMini-

theThere was 40th anniversary

deplomatic

relation

betweenThere

A basic plan

It is concerned that exhibits on

Exhibition, the August 18th Summer

Japan’s aggression would be deleted in

Colloquiem looked at how to use thethe future.

materials that remain to us to imagine

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the thoughts and behavior of people who

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FAX:06-6943-6080

experienced extreme circumstances, suchas war or natural disasters.
Tel: 075-931-1182

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights

http://www.city.muko.kyoto.jp/shisetsu/shMuseum : Osaka

iryokan.html

Those who contributed to international
peace were awarded Sakai Peace Award.

NantanCity

Hiyoshi

Hitorical

The third recipient was exhibited from

Museum: Kyoto

April 2 to June 29. The purpose was to

The exhibit "Nantan and War – The

educate citizens about the importance ofRemaining Records" took place on Augustinternational cooperation and contribu-

3 - September 8, 2013. The relatedtion to peace. Photos were exhibited toexperiential course “Experiencing Daily

show

Life in Times of War” was held on May 24,

weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

2013.

from July 2 to Sep. 29. An exhibition on

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the battle in Okinawa was held from Oct.

http://www.be.city.nantan.kyoto.jp/hiyosh

2 to Dec. 28. Over 200,000 people werei-shiryokan/

killed by US military and girl students

awfulcatastrophes

ofnuclearwho worked as nurses were featured.
Osaka

International

Peace(PeaceOsaka) : Osaka City

Center

The aim was to inform people of thedisastrous war and precious life.

Artifacts in the peace center were

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exhibited in three periods: April 16 to

http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/city/info/_jinken/
17Suita Peace Memorial Center: Osakathat citizens will learn hard life during

An exhibition on Anne Frank was held

the war and precious peace.

from July 23 to August 25.

exhibition in 2013.

Panels

It was 24 th

45 artefacts were

showed Anne Frank and the time whenexhibited such as ration tickets, tools forshe lived through and a girl called

restriction on lighting, textbooks andMachiyo who was atomic bombed inmagazines

Hiroshima.

Students

from

Tel:06-6876-7793 Fax:06-6873-7796

Konan

University

http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/home/soshi

University

ki/div-jinken/jinken/_56228.html

artifacts, how to make an exhibition andduringthe

Bukkyolearnedwar,

University,

and
how

etc.

Koshientoselectso forth to become curators.
Hirakata City Peace Gallery : Osaka

Tel:072-723-2235 Fax:072-724-9694

An exhibition on Anne Frank was held

http://www.city.minoh.lg.jp/kyoudo/kikakfrom August 10 to 20.

utenji

The theme was

Anne’s roses which her father, Otto
Frank, donated to Japan in 1972 andKobayashi Ichizo Memorial Museum :1976.

Ikeda City, Osaka

Her diary, 30 panels and aminiature of her house were exhibited

There was the 10th special exhibition onwith cooperation of Anne Frank Museum

Osaka after WWII dreamed by Ichizo

in Nishinomiya City.

The Reverend

Kobayashi, the president in charge of

Seiji Sakamoto who is the director of therebuilding war damaged cities fromAnne Frank Museum gave a lecrue on

April 6 to Sep. 16.

Autust 10.

were air raided by US bombers during

Tel:072-841-1221 Fax:072-841-3039

WWII and were damaged seriously.

His

http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/

image of Osaka was introduced.

Mr.

Main cities in Japan

Toru Inoue, an editorial member of
War Section for Peace in Neyagawa City

Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Japan Economy

Comprehensive Center : Osaka

Newspaper) gave a lecture on Ichizou

New artefacts on war were exhibited

Kobayasi’s dream of rebuilding cities

from July 30 to August 16.

and failure.

Tel:072-824-1181 Fax:072-825-2638

Tel:072-751-3865 FAX:072-751-2427

http://www.city.neyagawa.osaka.jp/

http://www.hankyu-bunka.or.jp/sys/info/art
icle/58

Minoo City Museum of Folk : Osaka
Artifacts on life during World War II

Kobe City Central Library: Hyogo

were exhibited from Autust 2 to Sep. 2.

An exhibition on war damage was held

Such exhibition is held every year sofrom August 13 to 18.
18

Materials on war

damage and war experiences have been

City declared itself nuclear free oncollected since 2008 so that they would

March 6 in 1985 and such an exhibition

not be lost.

They are introduced on thehas been held every year since 1986: 32

It is not enough to see them on

artifacts on atomic bombing, 75 photowebsite.

the website and it is important to see

panelsreal artifacts so that citizens would be

paintings for peace and caligraphy, 29able to think of precious life and peace.

paintings by high school students and so

Featured are US air raids on Kobe andforth.

about 50 artifacts were displayed suchchildren’s choir on August 11 andas fragments of incendiary bombs, a gas

visitors listened to hibakusha on Augustmask and so forth.

15 2013.

There were also 20

panels on US air raids on Kobe.

Some

There

on

hibakusha,

children’s

There was a peace concert by

was

an

exhibition

on

art

clothes used in a film based on a novel

activities during the war from Oct. 5 tocalled A Boy called H was also exhibited

Dec. 23 2013.

with a panel on a scene from the film

art and literature by local artists,

because the film was about a family who

phylosophers, novelists, etc.

went through WWII in Kobe.

photos and 100 artifacts were displayed.

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There was also a meeting for listening toFax:078-371-5046

An emphasis was put on
About 50

http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/information/ins

war experiences on US air raids of

titution/institution/library/top/index.html

Himeji.
Tel:079-291-2525

Himeji Historical Peace Center : Hyogo

Fax:079-291-2526

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

Students’ lives during WW2 were
exhibited from April 13 to July 7.

They

Nara Prefectural Folk Museum: Yamato

had a hard life during the war, which

Koriyama City, Nara

was shown by their personal accounts,

An exhibition on life during the war was

about 100 materials and about 30

held from August 3 to Sep. 1.

photos.

book, a bamboo spear, clothes, a gas mask,

Many students were forced to

A picture

work instead of studying and they lostetc. were displayed.

their schools because of US air raids.

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In relation to this, records on US air

http://www.pref.nara.jp/1508.htm

raids on Himiji were read aloud on May
5 and there was a meeting where those

Nara Library and Information Center: Nara

who went through US air raids spokeCity

their experiences on June 23.
Anti-nuclear

peace

The combatants’ code was read using cards

exhibition

held from July 13 to August 31.

wasfrom March 30 to June 27.

Himeji

The code wasoriginally made for strict enforcement of19

military rules and abolition of malpractice in1943.

Kurayoshi Museum and Kurayoshi History

For example, one of them is that asoldier should not live as a prisoner of war.

& Folk Museum: Tottori

The cards were made to spread the codeAn exhibition of cartoons on war drawn byamong people widely.

Shigeru Mizuki was held on July 13 to 24.

There was an exhibition on cards on

Shigeru Mizuki was sent to New Britain

Japanese history from June 29 to August 29.

during WWII and drew his war experience inChildren were forced to memorize many

cartoons.

things and it made visitors think of history

newspaper articles at that time.

education before and during WWII.

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There was also an exhibition on cards

They

were

exhibitedwith

Fax:0858-22-4415

http://www1.city.kurayoshi.lg.jp/hakubutsu/

related to war from October 3 to Dec. 27 2013.
It was a good chance for visitors to reflect on

Okayama City Museum: Okayama

the war using cards called karuta.

The 35th exhibition on records of war damages

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in Okayama with photos was held from June

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14 to July 7.

Children were forced tocooperate with waging war during WWII.
Nichinan Town Art Museum : Tottori

The atmosphere of war is reflected on

An exhibition on war memory was held from
August 9 to October 6.

children’s

47 art works by

Military drills were introduced so that children

also exhibited including their postcards, letterswill become good soldiers: they had to practice

Shuseibamboo spears, etc. An exhibition on US air

Kobayakawa from Nichinancho is a wellraids on Okayama is held with photos every

known artist who drew a painting on the war.

year. An exhibition room on US air raids on

His paintings, postcards and materials on his
war experience were also displayed.

Mr.

SeiichiroofKuboshima,

thedirectorschoolbe used because of the shortage of goods.

87 artifacts wereto their families and sketches.

Substitutebackpacks, school supplies and clothes had to

student soldiers rented from Mugonkan art
museum were displayed.

paintings.

Okayama was opened on the 5th floor of
Okayama City Museum in October, 2012.
The first exhibition in the room was held with

Mugonkan, gave a lecture on August 10, 2013

an emphasis on children in Okayama during theand a drama called “Blue Sky in August” waswar.

played.

A related lecture was given by Mr.

Masahiko Yamabe, a researcher of the Center

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of Tokyo Raids and War Damage on June 15,

http://culture.town.nichinan.tottori.jp/bijyutuka

2013. The tipic was “Records of photos onn/bijyutukan.top.html.htm

US Air raids: Materials of

Tohosha andNational Defense Photo Team”. The 5th peace
concert with songs of love and peace was held20

on the same day.

military service and evacuation, a monument

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by students of Hiroshima Commerce High

http://www.city.okayama.jp/okayama-city-muse

School, original drawings of Barefoot Gen andum/index.html

comics in foreign languages.

A catalogue

was made on the exhibits.
Hiroshima

Peace

Memorial

Mr. Kouichiro Maeda, the former director

Museum:Hiroshima Cityof Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, gave

An exhibition on original works of Barefoota lecture of “What should be conveyed to the

Gen was held from July 19 to Sep. 1.

next generation?” on August 3.

Barefoot Gen is a cartoon based on atomic

about his memory of Mr. Keiji Nakazawa ofbombed experiences of Keiji Nakazawa, aBarefoot Gen and his thoughts on the atomic

cartoonist in Hiroshima.

bombing and peace as the former director.

Gen Nakaoka, theHe talked

main character, lost his family by the atomic
bomb in Hiroshima like the cartoonist, but he

Human

lived through the disaster vigorously, which is

Fukuyama City :Hiroshima

well depicted in the cartoon.

The year of

Reproductions of drawings of Barefoot Gen

2013 was the 40 anniversary of the comics

were exhibited from August 13 to 31

which began to be published in serial form in aremembering Mr. Keiji Nakazawa who passed

weekly magazine called Weekly Boys’ Jump.

away.

His original drawings were displayed so that

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visitors would feel cheerfulness, strength,

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gentleness of Gen, his family and friends, andeiwashiryoukan/thRightsandPeace

Museum:Fax:084-24-6850

their anger toward the atomic bombing, thewar and their courage to live through theMuseum of theTown of Tadotsu: Kagawa

disaster positively.

A war exhibition was held from August 1 to

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31. It is held every August to convey the

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

misery and stupidity of war and preciousnessof peace. Exhibited were about 200 materials

HiroshimaCentralCity

Library

donated by citizens such as ration tickets for:food and clothes, substitute goods such as

Hiroshima
An exhibition of “Hiroshima Seen byceramic foot warmer, pan made of shell, paperChildren” was held from July 20 to Sep. 1.

helmet, etc. (metal had to be supplied to the

Many citizens became atomic bombed victims

government), a bag for soldiers at the front

including many children.

with candies and a doll, materials on

Displayed werechildren’s essays on their atomic bombedevacuation of children and so forth.

experiences, materials on children’s situation

Youdai Ishii, the head of Kagawa Prefecturesuch as wartime mobilization of students for

Association of History Teachers, gave a21

lecture on nationalistic textbook on August 17.

June 19, the day when Fukuoka was air raided

Food called suiton eaten during WWII wasbytasted by visitors.

entertainment during WWII were made such

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as film posters, records, story-telling pictures,

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etc.

ndexkikaku.htm

The government censored entertainment andUSbombers.

Exhibits

related

to

They are powerful in influencing people.

sent national policies and messages to people.
Usui Peace Memorial, Center: Kama City,

This was a good chance to know war time life

Fukuokathrough entertainment during the war.

An exhibition on children and war was held

Tel:092-845-5011 Fax:092-845-5019

from July 20 to September 1. Materials related

http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/

to children during the war were displayed suchas education, play and life. Three speakers

Miiketalked about their war experiences on AugustMuseum:Omuta City , Fukuoka

3.

A

Tel:0948-57-3176

karuta(cards) during and after WWII was held

http://www.city.kama.lg.jp/info/prev.asp?fol_id

from July 2 to Sep. 23.

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the times are reflected on Karuta just likepeace

textbooks.

PlayingCard

exhibition

on

Memorial
textbooks

andSocial conditions of

Textbooks during the war and thePeace Museum for the People:Kotakecho:

end of the war were displayed.

Fukuokaof the school textbooks were changed and it

An exhibition on anti-war ideas was held fromwas a good chance to think of war and peace

May 3 to 31.

knowing differences of textbooks of the past

30 materials of Mr. Saburo

Endo（1893〜1984）were displayed. He wasand the present.

a lieutenant general of the army, but he insisted

Tel＆Fax:0944-53-8780

on the importance of demilitarization and the

http://三池カルタ・歴史.com/

The contentsConstitution after the war. Two navy soldiers’
farewell notes to their parents and 140 artifacts

Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History ＆were shown for the first time from August 9 to

Human History: Fukuoka

September 10.

An exhibition on US air raids on Kitakyushu

Tel:09496-2-8565

was held from July 1. Paintings such as theone on US air raids on August 20 weredisplayed.

Fukuoka City Museum: Fukuoka

Tel:093-681-1011

There was an exhibition on war and our life

http://www.kmnh.jp/

from June 11 to August 18.
exhibition was held 22

ndSuch antimes before or after22

Fax:093-661-7503

Nagasaki

AtomicBomb

Museum:linked to the ruin of old Urakami

Nagasaki

Cathedral. It consists of the records of old

The museum held the 1st exhibition ofhouse of Siebold, Kwassui Gakuin (girl’s

2013 from July 10 through August 28.

school), Oura Cathedral and Suwa Shrine.

Since it was established in 1955, theThese pictures are not only valuable

museum has been donated materials byrecord of Nagasaki, but also materials

more than 1000 people. The materials

that can tell us where the tourists at that

include mementos of the victims andtime visited, what books they read andobjects collected near the epicenter. The

how they felt about them.

donors must have carefully stored themTel: 095-844-1231 Fax: 095-846-5170

with various kinds of feelings till the

http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/pe

contribution. These feelings also have toace/

be passed on to the future. All materials
donated from July 2012 to June 2013

Nagasaki City Museum of History andwere displayed.

Folklore: Nagasaki

The

2nd

of

From June 20th through August 25th,

Nagasaki ― Journey six years after the2013, the exhibition on the wartime

bomb” was held from September 5, 2013

livelihood was held. Toward WWII, Japan

to January 30, 2014. This exhibition wasplungeddesigned based on the photos by Mr. Shu

Sino-Japanese war that broke out in 1937.

Ikeda who visited Nagasaki in 1951,

Nagasaki City was damaged by thewhen six years passed after the atomic

atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, which

bombing. Mr. Ikeda was born in 1889 andinjured or killed half of 240,000 Nagasaki

was 62 when he took the pictures. Having

citizens. In those days, people were undera son who graduated Nagasaki Medical

the government control and had to live aCollege and was in practice there, hehumble and frugal life. It was hard to get

visited Nagasaki twice in 1947 and 1951

daily commodities and many substitutewith will to record Nagasaki’s tragedy

goodsfrom the bombing. All of the photos are

exhibition aimed to give an opportunity

taken from August 6th to 22nd, whichto think preciousness of peace comparing

captured the scene of Nagasaki six years

with today’s affluence. About 150 articles

after the A-bomb. The display begins with

were on display.

theTel & Fax: 095-847-9245

print

exhibition

of

the

“Restoration

bell

of

UrakamiCathedral that is on the first page of his

into

and

wartime

foods

were

regime

made.

after

The

http://www.nagasaki-city.ed.jp/siryoukan/

photo album, followed by the scenes of
Urakami district. We can see that the

Usa City Peace Museum: Oita

image of damaged Nagasaki is deeply

Usa City Peace Museum was launched on
23June 29th, 2013. Back on October 1st 1939,

from June 13 through July 31, 2013. It

Usa Naval Air Corps was made as an

aimed to express gratitude for the donors

operational fleet. At the last period of theand to show the newly added properties

Pacific War when the U.S. Forces began

to the public.

air raiding, the site became the base of

The 14th special exhibition “War seen bysuicide squad from which many young

Japanese-Hawaiians and Okinawa” waspeople flew off southwardly. There areheld from October 10th through December

still many war-related ruins in the city

11th, 2013. It was to transmit “Okinawanthat are projecting misery of the war. As aspirit” (people love peace and will neverplace to learn preciousness of life andlet a war happen again) by featuring

peace, Usa City Peace Museum displays

Okinawa immigrants to Hawaii who had

articles on the history of Usa Naval Air

deeply involved with both Japan and U.S.

Corps, the air raids on Usa, the suicide

throughout the war.

squad that flew from Usa and theTel: 098-997-3844 Fax: 098-997-3947

war-related ruins. In addition, a full-scale

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

Zero Fighter plane type-21 is on display
in order to make visitors feel its size

Tsushima

firsthand.

Naha City

Tel & Fax: 0978-33-1338

The 20th special exhibition “War andhttp://www.city.usa.oita.jp/soshiki/43/109

Animals” was held from August 10

64.htmlthrough September 10, 2013. It included
displayMaru

onMemorial

Higashiyama

Museum:Zoo

that

Sendai History Museum: Kagoshima

protected an elephant, the animals underA small exhibition “Postwar Recovery”

the wartime and the animals that camewasto Okinawa after the war.

held

from

July

30th

through

September 29th, 2013.

Tel: 098-941-3515 Fax: 098-863-3683

Tel: 0996-20-2344 Fax: 0996-20-2848

http://www.tsushimamaru.or.jp/

http://rekishi.satsumasendai.jp/index2.htm
Naha City Museum of History: Okinawa
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial

The exhibition “The Battle of Okinawa ―Museum: Itoman City

Lost Schools” was held from June 8

The 1st Children’s exhibit “War andthrough July 3, 2013. The abolishment of

Textbook” was held from June 3 throughan elementary school in Naha City was

July

what

decided in December, 2012, for the firsteducation Japan gave to the children

time ever after the war. There used to beduring the wartime.

eight unique elementary schools in old

The New Collection exhibition was held

Naha City, many of which were closed

7,

2013,

which

showed24

due to the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. The

group was held on June 23 to address

exhibition introduced the establishment

topics like “War and Peace” and “The War

and events of the schools and the history

on Kumejima Island.”of school abolishment because of the war.

Tel: 098-896-7181 Fax:098-896-7182

Tel: 098-869-5266 Fax: 098-869-5267

http://sizenbunka.ti-da.net/

http://www.rekishi-archive.city.naha.okinawa.jp/Ginowan Municipal Museum: Okinawa
Between June 19, 2013 and June 20,
2013, the Ginowan City Museum held a

Uruma City Ishikawa Museum: Okinawa

photo exhibition and memorial called

The“Ikusayunu

exhibition

“War

in

Uruma

―

Jinon

(World-War-Era

Education and Children in Tempestuous

Ginowan).” It considered themes of war

Period” was held on June 21-30, 2013.

and peace through photo panels depicting

School education in Uruma City restarted

Ginowan and the Battle of Okinawa.

soon after the landing of the U.S. Forces

Tel:098-870-9317 Fax:098-870-9316

on Okinawa. The exhibition tracked the

http://www.city.ginowan.okinawa.jp/orga

children and families messed by the time,

nization/shiritsuhakubutsukan/1419.htm

following the educational change in

l

Uruma

from

abolitionofHaihan-chiken
feudaldomains(theandNago Museum: Okinawa

establishment of prefectures in Japan,

Nago

Museum’s1871) through the wartime. It was to

Exhibition “War in Nagoya and Yanbaru:

think about peace through the witness of

Prisoner-of-War

history by retracing the people’s lives

between June 14, 2013 and June 30, 2013.

that had gotten caught up in the warfare.

During the battle of Okinawa, in which

Tel & Fax: 098-965-3866

the

http://www.city.uruma.lg.jp/1/201.html

damage, places such as Taira, Sedake,

American30thCamps”

Army

Anniversary
took

inflicted

place

major

Ourazaki, and Kushi were used as
Kumejima Museum: Okinawa

prisoner-of-war camps. Especially in the

Kumejima Museum’s “Peace Exhibition”

area around Kushi, most settlements

took place between June 8, 2013 andwere converted into camps, which held

June 23, 2013. In addition to materials

soldiers

who

from

had

surrendered
had

to

the

museum’scollection,

theAmericanforces, or who

been

exhibition

includedmessagesandcaptured.

Through pictures and maps,

materials on the theme of peace createdthis exhibition introduced the conditions

by Kumejima High School students. To

at the prisoner-of-war camps, and showed

conclude the exhibition, a discussion

the process of post-war recovery.
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Tel:0980-53-1342 Fax:0980-53-1362

kyouiku/syougaigakusyu/hakubutsukan/i

http://www.city.nago.okinawa.jp/4/3282.h

ndex.html

tml
Miyako Islands Taira Library Northern
Miyakojima

Municipal

Museum:Building: Okinawa

Okinawa

The “Peace Exhibition” at the Miyako

Miyakojima’s

timed

Islands Taira Library Northern Building

memorial exhibit “Children and War” wastook place between June 16, 2013 andon display from June 19, 2013 to June 30,

June 29, 2013.

2013. It features photographs borrowed

materials,

from

Peace

videos relating to the Battle of Okinawa,

Memorial Museum, subjects such as theas a memorial for the souls of the soldierscity of Naha, which was destroyed by

who lost their lives in the war, and to

American bombing, American warships

show hope for everlasting peace.

that

Tel:0980-72-2235 Fax:0980-3-1136

Okinawa

were

specially

Prefectural

responsibleforextensive

It included written

photographs,

panels,andbombardment, a young girl approaching

http://www.city.miyakojima.lg.jp/soshiki/

the front with a white flag, and Japanese

kyouiku/syougaigakusyu/tosyokan/index.

prisoners of war.

html

The exhibit also

includes a total of 95 items dating from
the Manchurian Incident to the end of the
Pacific war, with materials relating to
pre-

and

post-wareducation

Articlesandevacuation, conscription panels, military

Ex-US POWs Active for Peace

uniforms,

called

Yuka

kits,

“US-Japan Dialogue on POWs”

military“Thousand-Stitch

tokens

Belts,”

mess

Ibuki,In

evacuation

notices,

approximately 35,000 Allied POWs were

notifications,andAmericanPacific

Representativerequisition letters, Japanese military yen,
Killed-In-Action

the

Tokyo

Theatreof

WWII,

militarytransported to Japan proper, and weremaps of the Miyako Islands. The exhibit

used as slave laborers in mines, docks,

aims to introduce the atmosphere infactories and so on, being held in morewhich children lived during this era, andthan 100 POW camps all over the country.

to demonstrate the value of life and the

Althoughbrutality of war, in order to encourage

Convention in 1928, because of theviewers to think about the importance of

opposition by both the Army and Navy, it

future peace.

was impossible to ratify it for WWII. A

Tel: 0980-73-0567

part of the Field Code, issued in 1941 by

http://www.city.miyakojima.lg.jp/soshiki/

Minister War Hideki Tojo, “Never invite
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Japan

signedthe

Genevathe shame on you by being captured as a

Back in 2000, as a high school teacher of

POW” was indoctrinated to the men ofEnglish, I met Dr. Tenney at thethe Imperial Japanese Army. The fanatic

Commonwealthmilitary having no sense of human rights,

Yokohama, where he was invited as thecommitted atrocities on the Allied POWs.

speaker of the year at the annual“US-Japan Dialogue on POWs” is a

Memorial Service for the Allied POWs.

bilingualandHis great personality of coming over torepresented by Kinue Tokudome since

talk to Japanese people deeply impressed

2004, and serves as an excellent sourceme as a special human being. Please readabout the issue of the US POWs. In

his POW Story in the website, which tells

March 2009, then Prime Minister Taro

how I started meeting with other POWs,

Aso recognized the facts and extended anlistening to their stories, learning a lot

official apology in the Diet for Japan’s

about the IJA, remembering my own two

maltreatments of the Allied POWs in thecousins, who were sent to the Pacific War

Pacific War. That happened following theand died.

meetingAs

website,ofthefoundedthenJapanesetheWar

CemeteryGovernment

invitation

near

has

Ambassador to the US, Ichiro Fujisaki,

promoted communication between thewith Lester Tenney, who was the last

POWs

Commander of the American Defenders

companies and local governments acceptof the Bataan and Corregidor (ADBC), anthem to listen to their experiences, andorganization of former POWs of theareJapanese,in

history for a better future. In some cases,

2009,

previously negative local atmosphere

Ambassador Fujisaki extended an official

about the POW issue has dramaticallyapology at the last convention of thechanged through the visit and meeting

ADBC, which he attended after acceptingwith ex-POWs.

an invitation by Tenney. For ten years

In 2010, one of the first six men who

since 1995, the Japanese Government

graciously

financially supported the projects for

Ministry’s Invitation was Mr. Edward

ex-POWs

other

Jackfert, a past commander of the ADBC.

theDuring their stay in Japan, he and Mr.

“PeaceJoe Alexander, another former POW andinWashington,ofCommonwealth
Netherlands,

November
DC.

the

In

2008

May

UK,

some

countries,
throughtheandFriendship Exchange Initiative”.

andJapaneseinterested

inpeople,remembering

accepted

the

more

the

ForeignIna past commander of the ADBC, visited

2010, it started the “Japanese/POW

and talked with Mr. Tokio Watanabe, who

Friendship Program”, and invited thewas engaged in the 1942 Battle of Bataan.

American and Australian ex-POWs toPlease read the unique experiences ofJapan.

these gentlemen, in the sections of the27

POW Story and Essay of the site.

write this article for Muse, Newsletter of

Mr. Jackfert sent me a speech he gave atthethe Brooke County Public Library inMuseums for Peace, of which she is anWest Virginia on the POW/MIA Day 2013,

editor. The donation with message fromwhich I was allowed to translate to be

Japanese is put in a Post Office account,posted in the site. He published hiswhichbiography in 2006, and donated to this“Educational

library all the precious materials he had

Understanding”, on the occasion of thecollected and written about his POW days,

publication of the Japanese version of his

including two handwritten notebooks hebook in 2003. Commemorating the tenth

kept during the war. Other members ofanniversary of this account, the first

the ADBC followed suit, because they

donation was sent at Christmas 2013. I

knew this facility would make the most ofhope the joint effort goes on for Peace on

the precious documents, photos andboth sides of the Pacific, sharing andartifacts, by making them available forlearning from the facts of the war.

Japanese

Citizens

LesterNetwork

Tenney
Fund

named

for

of

as

US-Japanall the researchers who visit it. During
the 2nd Convention of the Descendants'Empire of the Sun' internment campGroup( DG) ADBC in Pittsburgh in 2011,

forgotten in China

participants visited the ADBC Museum

The main building of Shanghai Highsection situated in this library. It was

School was used by the Japanese as agreat to meet and talk with a large

prison camp known as Lunghwa campnumber of US citizens who work on aduring World War II. No public memorial

voluntary basis to sort out enormous

marks the former Shanghai internment

amount of the materials. The ADBC

camp made famous by JG Ballard's novel

Museum needed to expand its building,"Empire of the Sun", where more thanbut the public grant was not available. It

1,800

was a great disappointment naturally.

Japanese during WW2.

However, Mr. Jackfert’s Speech showedMore information:

his determined efforts for the cause. I

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strongly support this appeal for peace,&int_new=67986#.UwFYb_l_v_G[/url]

based on his broad view, and wanted to

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join the project from Japan. I started
distributing his speech among friends.
Some trusted money with me, and Prof.
Kazuyo Yamane, vice director of Kyoto
Museum for World Peace affiliated with
Ritsumeikan University, invited me to28

foreigners

were

held

by

the

The 8th International Conference ofMuseums for Peace

Editor’s Notes＊ We would like to express our deep
gratitude to Ms. Yoshiko Tanigawa,Ms. Atsuko Takeda and Ms.
Mairead
Hynes
for
their
painstaking work to translate
many articles into English.
＊ It is certainly impressive that
Professor Ikuro Anzai and “wam”(Women’s Active Museum dealing
with so-called comfort womenissue) were awarded the 4th Peace
Prize
from
Peace
Studies
Association of Japan.

No Gun Ri, Korea
September 19 – 22, 2014

Call for Papers by April 30
Since 1992, the International Networkof Museums for Peace (INMP) has beenorganizing international conferences
generally every three year. Now the 8th
conference is in preparation under the
initiative of Dr. Chung Koo-do, thedirector of the No Gun Ri International
Peace Foundation. No Gun Ri is ahistorical site of tragedy during the
KoreanWar(1950-1953)
where
hundreds of South Korean civilians
were sacrificed by the U.S. attack (Seenext page). The U.S. President Bill
Clinton expressed regret to the South
Korean people in 2001, and now the No
Gun Ri Peace Park with a peace
memorial is actively working for peaceand reconciliation.
In Japan, as of middle March 2014,
more than 40 people are planning toparticipate in the 8th conference
including the members of the Japanese
Citizens’ Network of Museums for
Peace, and many of them are hoping toorganize
exhibitions,
tomakeposter/oral presentations, and to set upsome panel discussions.
The deadline for call for papers has
finally been changed to April 30.
Kazuyo Yamane and Ikuro Anzai,
editors of “Muse”, are also international advisers of the organizing
committee of the 8th conference, andheartily hope that many peace museum
workers from every corner of the world
will participate in the conference toexchange knowledge and experiencefrom each other.
More information about INMP:
http://inmp.net/

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The 8th International Conference ofMuseums for Peaceat No Gun Ri (South Korea)
19-22 September 2014
Historical point of No Gun Ri

massacre incident

Dr. Chung Koo-doat the No Gun Ri Peace Memorial

Basic Information(1) Conference period: 19-22 September 2014 (September 21 is theInternational Peace Day)
(2) Venue: No Gun Ri Peace Park, South Korea (About 2 hour bus ride fromSeoul)(3) Host: No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation (Director: Dr. Chung
Koo-do)(4) Theme: The Role of Museums for Peace in Promoting Remembrance,
Historical Truth and Reconciliation(5) Conference Goals:(i)
To enable INMP member museums and related organizations to
exchange information and learn from each other;(ii)
To enable conference participants to start dialogue, network, andbuild collaborations and partnerships with other participants;(iii) To showcase the host nation (South Korea) and the host institution’s
work in building a culture of peace.
(6) Call for Proposals
The INMP invites its members to submit a proposal for a paper, panel
discussion and/or poster presentation, as well as nominations for keynote
speakers by 30th April 2014. More information about the conference is availablein
http://inmp.net/index.php/events/inmp-conferences/2014-no-gun-ri-south-korea

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