Muse No. 19: Japanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: July, 2008
The Editorial Office: The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages
Masahiko Yamabe
1-5-4 Kitasuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0073 Japan
Tel: 03-5857-5631 Fax: 03-5683-3326
Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translators: Junko Morioka, Yoshiko Tanigawa, Kazuyo Yamane
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki
The following is news on museums for peace in Japan and other countries.
Asahi Newspaper are introduced in order toJapanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peaceth

The 8 exchange meeting will be held from 13:00 toshow the influence of World War II on

18:00 on October 8th (Wed) at Kyoto Museum forchildren in terms of life and culture.

World Peace at Ritsumeikan University. This will be

Tel: 023-645-1111

held during the 6th International Conference of

http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~ykmuseum/

Fax:023-645-1112

Museums for Peace. A party will be held after the
meeting. Please attend the meeting and the party.

Peace

Museumof

Saitama:Higashi

Matsuyama City, Saitama*************************************An exhibition on Saitama after World War II

Network News in Japanwas held from March 8th to May 6th, 2008.

Sendai City Museumof History andFolkoer : Miyagi
An exhibition on war and people’s life is held from
June 21st to November 3rd, 2008. Introduced arematerials from Seinan War in 1877 to World War II.
Lectures on war and people’s life are given by several
professors.
erico

Blue-eyed dolls and Japanese dolls are exchanged for
the Japan-USA friendship and a picture-story on ablue-eye doll will be given on July 25th. Related

It was to show social conditions in Saitama

lectures to such dolls will be given on July 26th.

during the occupation by the Allied Forces.

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There was also en exhibition on war memory

Fax:022-257-6401

http://www.city.sendai.jp/kyouiku/rekimin/by materials donated by citizens from May 17
to June 29, 2008.

Yamagata Prefecture Museum: Yamagata
City

Tel:0493-35-4111

An exhibition on magazines for children is

http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacemuse

held from May 24 to July 6.

um/

Two magazines

called Weekly Asahi for Children published by
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Maruki Gallery :HigashiMatsuyama City,

Tel:0493-22-3266

Fax:0493-24-8371

Saitama

http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn/top/kikaku.ht

An exhibition on “persimmon trees for hope”m

was held from Dec. 22, 2007, to March 29,
2008.

Iri and his wife Toshi kept appealing

The Center of the Tokyo Raid and War

the preciousness of peace to the world byDamages: Koto-ku, Tokyo

showing their paintings on the atomic bombs.

An exhibition organized by young generation

It was August 9, 1945 when Iri could arrive at

was held from Dec. 6, 2007 to Jan. 14, 2008 at

Hiroshima Station.

the Center.

There was a half-burnt

A photographer Mitsugu Ohnishi

tree, but it was well taken care of by a tree

and some young artists worked together todoctor.

show how war experience can be conveyed to

It became possible to have the tree’s“baby” and it became an artistic work by an

the next generation.

artist called Tatsuo Miyajima.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo, a photo on

His message

As a result, a film on

for peace was sent to the world.

the US air raids on Tokyo, etc. were produced.

An exhibition on olive trees was held fromThe 6th anniversary of the Center was held on

April 6 to June 28.

March 8th.

About 500,000 olive

Ms. Mieko Osanai, a playwrite,

trees in Palestine were destroyed by Israelgave a lecture on “Things that should not bearmy from September 2000 to March 2005.

repeated again.”

Olive saplings began to be planted byPalestinian YWCA and YWCA in East

On Feb 20, 2008, a report of a symposium held

Jerusalem, and Olive Project was establishedon Oct. 20, 2007, was published. It was titledin 2004 to support the activities.

“The

Artists

OriginofIndiscriminate

Bombing:against Israeli occupation got together in

Viewing bombings on Guernica and Chinese

Palestine in October 2004 from all over the

Cities.”world.

Artistic works for olive trees(paintings, sculpture, photos, video, poems,

Mr. Masahiko Yamabe gave a lecture onetc.) were created and the first exhibition was“Special exhibitions on war at museums forheld in May 2006 in Tokyo.

peace in 2007” at the 13th study meeting on war

The exhibition

damages held on Dec. 16, 2007.

was also held in art museums in Palestine.
And it was held in Hiroshima with theexhibition of trees that were atomic bombed in

The 14th meeting was held on Feb. 23, 2008,

Hiroshima.

It was organized by professors

and Mr. Satoru Ohoka reviewed a book titledand students of Hiroshima City University.

The Comparison of Recovery from War

The exhibition was held at Maruki Art

Damages between Japan and England.

Museum, too.

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The 15th study meeting was held on March 1,

Tel＆Fax:03－5272－3510

2008, and Mr. Shinichi Arakawa gave a lecture

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

on “When were the US air-raids on Tokyodecided?”National

Showa

Memorial

Museum:Chiyoda-ku,Tokyoth

The 16 study meeting was held on March 29,

A special exhibition on the Olympics was held

2008, and Mr. Hiroshi Yoshida reviewed a bookfrom Feb 23 to April 10, 2008. War and thetitledOlympic Games (from those in Amsterdam to“Sacrificing

Life

for

NationandRebellion.”those in Tokyo), the relation between Japanand the Olympics, etc. were dealt with.

th

The 17 study meeting was held on May 24
and Mr. Hiromi Takahasi gave a lecture on

A special photo exhibition of the US air-raids“The Spread of War Weariness to Localities

on Tokyo was held from April 26 to May 11.

before the End of the War.”Mr. Kouyou Ishikawa who was working forthe metropolitan police department at the time

The 18th study meeting was held on June 16

of Tokyo air-raid left a number of valuable

and Ms. Yumi Oita gave a lecture on “Damages

photos. This time, his photos on May Day,

by Air-raids on Inlands such as Chongqing.”

damages of US air-raids of Tokyo and Fukui,and 2.26 Incident in 1936, a coup d’état by

A newsletter is published by War Damages

nationalistic officers were exhibited.

Study Group and each lecture at the study

Tel:03-3222-2577

meetings is introduced in it.

http://www.showakan.go.jp/

Mr. Masahiko Yamabe’s report at the 13th study

Toshima Historical Museum:meeting was published in an academic journal

Toshima-ku ,Tokyo

Study of Politics and Economy No. 90 in May,

Journal of Life and Culture Vol. 17 was

2008.

published on March 14th. Included are articles

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such as “US Air-Raids on Tokyo on February

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25, 1945” by Tetsuo Aoki and “Essay on an

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

Artist, Shigesaburo Imai, and War Memory.”
Korea Museum:Sinjyuku-ku Tokyo
An exhibition on Tatsuji Fuse who lived with

Research Report Vol. 20, Records on an

Korean People as a democratic lawyer was held

Evacuation of School Children No. 9 werefrom March 26 to June 1, 2008. The same

published on Feb. 20, 2008.

exhibition was held in 2007, and it received a

Tel:03-3980-2351

favorable review then.

http://www.museum.toshima.tokyo.jp/top.html

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Fax:03-3980-5271

Katsushika City Museum: Katsushika-ku,

University on June 29.

He was born in TokyoTokyo

in 1926. He had to work for corpses after the

Sakae Taniguchi, a curator, talked about war

US air-raids on Tokyo on March 10, 1945.

remains and US air-raids on Katsushika on

was ordered to go to Shanghai, but his ship was

May 4, 1945.

sunk, but he was rescued by Korean fishermen.

A research report No. 3 was published on

He began to work as an archaeologist after the

March 31 and Masao Oka’s article on “War

war.

He

Monument on the Russo-Japanese War” wasincluded.

There was storytelling by Ms. Sumiko Abe, an

Tel: 03-3838-1101

Fax: 03-5680-0849

actress, on June 21 and on July 5, using stories

http://www.city.katsushika.tokyo.jp/museum/

written by Gennosuke Nagasaki to convey theimportance of peace and life to children.

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship:
Yokohama City, Kanagawa
A

photo

exhibition

ofSteven“Hiroshima

andOkasaki’s

film

on

“Hiroshima

Nagasaki” was shown on July 6.

He hadNagasaki” by Joe O’Donnell was exhibitedinterviews with over 500 people in Japan infrom June 7 to July 13, 2008.

order to raise awareness on damages by atomic

About 50

unofficial photos taken by US marines werebombs.

exhibited: damages by US air-raids on Sasebo,

received the Documentary Film Award of

Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were madeAcademy Award.

clear.

survivors and four Americans who were

It was produced in 2007 and heinvolved

intheFourteen atomic bomb
atomicbombinggave

A lecture on “War and Children in Kanagawa:testimonies. It took 25 years to complete theDo you know that children were mobilized tofilm that shows hibakusha’s unimaginable

work during the war?” was given by Mr. Koji

suffering.

Sasatani.

Industrial areas were developed in

A photo exhibition on US air-raids on

Yokohama and Kawasaki since 1935, andYokohama was held from June 7 to July 13.

munition factories and military bases were

Damages by the air-raids and the occupation by

constructed as the war escalated. About 20,000

the GHQ were well shown.

junior high school and high school students

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were forced to leave school and work at

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

These factories and military bases

were air-raided by B 29 bombers and many

Kawasaki City Peace Museum : Kanagawa

students were killed and injured.

An

A lecture on “War and My Life” was given by

Photographs of war damages by “Kawasaki

Emeritus Professor Hatsushige Otsuka of Meiji

Great Air Raid” was shown at “SQUARE OF

4exhibition

of

the

documentary

PEACE” on the first floor of our museum

Sta. Five minutes walk from Shin-Shizuoka

from March 26th, 2008. On April 15th, 1945,

Sta., Shizuoka Railway.

Kawasaki City suffered the great air raids by

Tel&Fax：054-271-9004

U.S. Air Force B29.

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

The exhibition displayed the documentary

Numazu City Museum of Meiji History

photographs of Kawasaki Great Air Raid and

SOROKU-EBARA Memorial : Shizuoka

the governmental documents during and at the“Wartime Historic Site Tour for Peace” wasend of the war. Its purpose was to convey theheld on Aug. 7, 2007 for junior high school

tragedy of the war and the preciousness ofstudents and on Aug. 10 for parents andpeace.

children. The participants listened to theexperiences of those who lived in Tokyo

The exhibition was held under the auspices of

Evacuation School at wartime.

Kawasaki Peace Museum and of Kawasaki

a history study class for elementary-school

City Archives.

children “Let’s experience the life of theTel: 044-433-0171

wartime”, they tried to eat food called

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

SUITON (flour dumpling) after listening to/heiwa.htm

the wartime experiences.
Tel: 055-923-3335

On Aug.7, at

Fax:055-925-3018

http://www.city.numazu.shizuoka.jp/kurashi/si

Shizuoka Peace Center:Shizuoka Cityth

On June 13 , 2008, the center moved to thesetu/meiji/index.htm

new place and our exhibition space was
expanded.

“The Exhibition of the war time

Yokkaichi Municipal Museum: Miematerials left by Shizuoka and Shimizu

An exhibition titled “Yokkaichi Air Raid andcitizens suffered from the indiscriminate air

the life of wartime” is being held from June

raids” is being held until Nov. 23th, 2008.

14th to August 31st 2008. To support peace

The Exhibition includes the original drawings

study, it presents Yokkaichi Air Raid and theof air raids drawn by citizens, photographs

life of wartime with variety of real materials,

taken by the U.S. Force, and the real materials

photos and models.

of wartime donated by citizens. A newly

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produced film “Shizuoka Air Raid” is also

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

Fax:059-355-2704

being shown.
Kyoto

Museumfor

World

Peace,New Address: 90 Chuo Bldg. 2F 10-25 Denba

Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto City

Cho, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, 420-0858

A Special exhibition titled “Anti-Vietnam War

Access: Ten minutes walk from JR Shizuoka

Poster Exhibition, Message from Artists” is5being held at Nakano Memorial Hall on the 1st

Carlitfloor from April 16th to July 21st, 2008.

Prefecture.

The

FactoryinKawagoe,

Saitama

duplicate posters drawn by anti-war artists andTel: 075-465-8151 Fax: 075-465-7899

designers and taken from the Anti-war

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/er/wp-museum/open-air exhibition held by “Association forindex.html

supporting

Vietnam Children”

show

the

atmosphere of the open-air exhibition at the

Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum:time. The exhibition is being held to makeKyoto

people ponder over the message of the posters

The 3rd exhibition titled “Repatriation ofand think what they can do. It was originallygeneral Japanese” was held from October 30th,

exhibited at Chihiro Museum in 2007.

2007 to January 31st, 2008.

It showed using

photos and explanation the true state ofMemorial lectures titled “Art was crying out inrepatriation of civilians from East-Northern

the street” were given at the exhibition. On

area of China where many lives were lost. It

thApril 26 , 2008, a picture-book writer Seizo

was held with the cooperation of NPO

Tajima and the Honorary Museum Director“Maizuru Repatriation Telling Association.”th

Ikuro Anzai had a talk, and on May 17 , a
picture-book writer Shigeo Nishimura gave a

Exhibited

lecture “At the time of Anti-war open-air

voluntary army of young people (1938),

exhibition.”

photos and drawings showing military training,were recruiting posters by aa group of Manchuria pioneers harvesting
A small exhibition titled “Ceramic mines–

Kaoliang and the severe escape just after the

Shigaraki ware in the last years of Pacificdefeat of Japan, the drawings which Tetsuya

War” was held from January 9th to 30th, 2008,

Chiba, a repatriate himself, drew recallingin Mini Exhibit Room. It was organized by athose days, and a backpack of a repatriate who

historical archeological seminar from thewas just an elementary-school girl.

Archeological Course, Ritsumeikan University.
In the last years of Pacific War, when the odds

The first exhibition titled “Siberia Detention

seemed to have turned against Japan, thefound in Drawings – Drawings of Mr. Kiyoshi

potteries in all over Japan were incorporated

Sato and the explanations” is being held from

into the wartime structure. In Shigaraki

May 1st to July 30th, 2008. Sixteen works, thefamous for its pottery, ceramic containers forcollections of the Repatriation Memorial

mines were produced and were delivered toMuseum, are exhibited expressing his life of

the Japanese Armed Force.

Displayed were

Siberia detention with explanations of their

the ceramic mines collected in Shigaraki,background. It is cooperated by the NPO

Shiga Prefecture and collected also at Asano“Maizuru Repatriation Telling Association.”6Tel:0773-68-0836 Fax: 0773-68-0370

Osaka International Peace Center (Peace

http://www.maizuru-bunkajigyoudan.or.jp/

Osaka): Osaka CityA special exhibition titled “Let’s see Osaka

Kyoto University Archives: Kyoto City

through photos and drawings- Before & After

The exhibition titled “The History of Third

the war, and the present” was held fromHigh School— mainly in the era of Showa”

February 5th to June 8th, 2008, at the Special

was held from January 4th to March 2nd, 2008,

Exhibition

in History Exhibition Room on the first floor

describing the situation of cities in Osakaof Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial

Prefecture, and photos of the present city wereHall. Displayed were a bomb from the air raid

displayed side by side. Visitors can comparethtaken place on July 24 , 1945, on Sumitomo

those photos and know the life of the prewar

Shinko Company in Osaka where manyand the postwar and the damages of the city atstudents of the high school were working,the wartime, so that they can consider how life

documents about student mobilization, diaries

has changed through time.

Room.

Photosanddrawings

of students who were on night duty in theschool, and photos of military training. The

A museum collection display “Wartime lives

newest research of the war dead and theas seen from donated collections” is being

conscription of student mobilization were also

held from June 17th to September 14th, 2008, atshown.

theSpecialcollections

Exhibition
arevaluable,

Room.

DonatedconveyingtheKyoto University Archives made a research on

experiences of war as “mute witnesses”. The

student mobilization at Dai-San High School

purpose of the display is to show the wartime

and found that 69 students (20% of thelife with those collections and to make it aenrolled students) were recruited into the army

good opportunity for the visitors to think about

on the general enlistment in December 1943.

war.

The total number of recruited students was
175 after 1939. Seven students were from

Panels for lending “Drawings from the

Korea and two were from Taiwan.

experiences of Osaka Air Raid” are presented

Five ofthem died while they were students. The

from May 17th to July 30th, 2008.

findings of the research are recorded in

Osaka possesses panels for study use by“Student

schools or local communities for peace events.

Mobilizationin

Dai-San

High

Peace

School.” (Kyoto University Archives Journal 6,
Jan.31, 2008)

Other events are as follows:

Tel:075-753-2651 Fax:075-753-2025*“Weekend Cinema”: watching films or

http://kua1.archives.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/

pictures related to war or peace, for example,
films on group evacuation or Fukuoka Air7http://www.liberty.or.jp/

Raid.
*Lectures on the experiences of Osaka Great
Air Raid or student mobilization by graduates

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights

of a girl’s high school.

Museum (Phoenix Museum) :Osaka*Showing a film to think about poverty and

An exhibition titled "Poster Exhibition ofenvironment.

Medecins Sans Frontieres – From the Scene of*Fieldwork to watch the historical site of air

International Contribution” was held fromraids and remaining buildings

April 2nd to June 29th, 2008.

*Osaka International Peace Research Center

was organized to let people know what was

Journal “War and Peace” was issued.

happening in the world and to appeal theTel:06-6947-7208

Fax:06-6943-6080

This exhibition

preciousness of peace and lives, through the

http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/

activities against hunger, infection and natural
disasters by Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Osaka Human Rights Museum: Osaka City

TEL：072-270-8150

The

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

titled“Ainu

Handworkn/Messages from Ainu 2007--from the Present to
the Future” was held from January 8th

FAX：072-270-8159

toMarch 9th, 2008. The Exhibition introducing

Suita Peace Memorial Center :Osaka

the present and the future of Ainu culture

War-related films are shown every month.

displayed works made by those involved in
tradition and conservation of Ainu culture.

April, 2008: “Iwan’s Childhood” from theSoviet Union describing the tragedy of

A Memorial

Symposium

by

Ainu

and

12-year-old boy who lost his parents in war.

“learning-by-experience courses” to makeMay, 2008: “Mata Hari” from the United

Ainu embroidery (Mukkuri, traditional Ainu

States, a film on the real female spy in World

musical instrument) was also held.

War I.
June, 2008: ”Die Brücke” from West Germany,

In another exhibition “Labor and Poverty”,

a film about seven boy-soldiers drafted tomuseumdefend a bridge in a village in Germany in thecollectionsofdocumentsonproletariat movements in 1930s or on labor

last year of World War II.

after the war helped people think about a labor

Tel: 06-6387-2593

question and social security. Related to this

http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/home/soshiki/di

exhibition, a film “Kanikousen” (one of thev-jichijinken/jinken/original/000338.html

most famous proletariat literature) was shownon June 8th, 2008.
Tel:06-6561-5891

Himeji Historical Peace Center: Hyogo
Fax:06-6561-5995

An exhibition of museum collection titled8

“Relics tell the story of the wartime” was held

“An exhibition of photographs by Shunkichi

from January 16th to March 23rd in 2008. It

Kikuchi―Autumn 1945 and Summer 1947”

showed the national life in wartime including

was held from February 14th to July 15th 2008.

the life of both civilians and soldiers on the

The contents were as follows: “Hiroshima; twobattlefields.

months later and two years later” “Autumn

Related to this exhibition, on February 17th, we1945 (Scars left by the atomic bombing, Under

had a gathering to listen to a talk by Mr.

a Red Cross flag, A sign of revival)” “Summer

Keinosuke Kamigashira about his personal war

1947 (Reunion with Hiroshima, Resurgence ofexperience.

the city and the people’s life, Reconstruction of
economy and industry, Reconstruction of

From April 11thth

to July 6 , a spring project

Honmachi shopping mall)” “A rememberednamed “Evacuation of schoolchildren depicted

face of Shunkichi Kikuchi”

in pictures” was held. During the period of theTel:082-241-4004

exhibition, in May, a public reading by an actor

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

Fax:082-542-7941

Ms.Maki Komada was performed and in June,a talk meeting was held with the presence of an

Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall :air raid survivor Mr.Shinichi Tamichi about his

Hiroshima City

personal experience.

A special exhibition named “A memory not to

Tel:0792-91-2525

be sealed up―being entreated to give water”

Fax:0792-91-2526

was given from April 1st 2008 to March 31st

http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/2009. Records of those who were asked to give
Nara Prefectural Library and Informationwater by the victims were mainly displayed.

Center: Nara City

Tel:082-543-6271

From January 5th to March 27th 2008, a special

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

Fax:082-543-6273

exhibition of the war experience “War andletters No.2: letters from battle fields” was held,

Humanand “War and letters No. 3: letters to battle

Fukuyama City: Hiroshima

thfields” was held from March 29 to June 26thRightsandPeace

MuseumA special exhibition titled “Multicultural

2008.

Coexistence―let’s know, understand and get

Tel:0742-34-2111

acquainted” was held from January 15th to

Fax:0742-34-2777

http://www.library.pref.nara.jp/sentai/gallery.ht

March 16th, 2008. There are over 6,000 foreignmlresidents in Fukuyama City. As it is our agenda
to build a peaceful community to live together,

Hiroshima

Peace

Memorial

this exhibition was held aiming to promote a

Museum:Hiroshima City

common understanding about linguistic and

The second special exhibition in fiscal 2007

cultural difference among citizens.

9Another special exhibition “Give a red card to2008.

child labor―The Rights of the Child” wasTel: 087-833-7722

rdthgiven from April 23 to June 29 . The goal was

Fax: 087-861-7724

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

to let people think of the rights of the child notalways guaranteed abroad. And impending

Fukuoka City Museum: Fukuoka

problems such as bulling and child abuse were“War and our life vol.17” was held from May

also focused on.

20th to July 13th at the exhibition room 3 (artTel: 084-924-6789

and craft section room) in the permanent

Fax: 084-924-6850

exhibition room.

http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/jinkenh
eiwashiryoukan/

From the middle of night on June 19th to the
Holocaust Educational Center : Fukuyama

early morning on 20th in 1945, B-29 enormous

City, Hiroshima

formations of U.S Air Forces bombed Fukuoka

In October 2007, a new memorial hall was built

City by incendiary bombs and the central partand the center was moved there. Visitors canof Fukuoka City was reduced to ruins. We haveunderstand the truth of the Holocaust throughheld an exhibition named “War and our life”

displays of children’s situation at that time.

each year around the memorial days. This

Shoes of children killed in the gas chambers,

year’sclothes, ash and the remains of the victims at

exchanged between soldiers and their families

concentration camps and a replica of “Anne’sand closest friends at the home front. It aimed

diary” are exhibited. We have a reconstruction

to let visitors rethink about war and peaceof the house where Anne hid as well as Anne’s

through these wartime mails written by people.

rose garden and her statue.

Tel: 092-845-5011

Tel&Fax: 084-955-8001

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

exhibition

focusedon“Letters”

Fax: 092-845-5019

http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/hecjpn/
NagasakiAtomicBomb

Museum:Takamatsu Civic Culture Center, Peace

Nagasaki City

Museum: Kagawa“Exhibition of the Atomic Bomb Museumstst

From February 1 to May 31 2008, collections

collection” was held at the special exhibition

related to the battle of Iwojima were displayedroom from November 22nd, 2007, to January

at the section of the museum collection. Then

15th , 2008.

from June 1st to August 31st, a special
exhibition of wartime substitute items was held.

From April 25th to July 14th 2008, a special

A photo exhibition about the Takamatsu air raid

exhibition “Photo Exhibition by Noriyuki

was given at the first floor lounge of Takamatsu

Yamagashira―Iraq and Afghanistan Diaries”

Civic Culture Center from June 28th to July 13th

was given at the special exhibition room. He

10was born in Nagasaki and has been taking

World Children Pictures for Peace―dedicatedphotographs of people in Iraq and Afghanistan

to school children on Tsushima-maru” was heldin wartime.

in the special exhibition room on the first floor

Tel: 095-844-1231

from December 15th, 2007, to January 9th, 2008.

Fax: 095-846-5170

http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-nomb

Tel: 098-941-3515/museum/

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

Nagasaki Peace Museum: Nagasaki City
From March 4

th

to 23

rd

Fax: 098-863-3683

in 2008, a special

Special Articles

exhibition named “A poet Sumako Fukuda:Life of love and struggle” was held. When

The first Anniversary of Yamanashi Peace

Nagasaki A-bomb was dropped, Sumako’s

Museum: Kofu City

parents and one of her sisters were killed. She

Director: Tamotsu Asakawa

survived but became a hibakusha. Struggling

Yamanashi Peace Museum was opened in May,against hardships of life and a fear of A-bomb

2007 and the first anniversary was held on Junedisease, she always sought a life with humanity

22. Professor Ikuro Anzai gave a lecture on theand issued three anthologies, a lot of essays andpresent situation of peace museum movement

reports. About fifty items including drafts,

in Japan and in the world and challenges. 110

photos and hand-made dolls she made for apeople attended it and enjoyed listening to his

living were chosen to display from her

lecture and magic.

mementos donated by her elder sister living in
Osaka.

I made an annual report on activities: over 2100

Tel: 095-818-4247

Fax: 095-827-7878

people visited the museum since its opening.

http://www.nagasakips.com/old/index.html

Main exhibits are the reality of US air raids on
Kofu, the history of Kofu Regiment and life

Okinawa

Prefectural

Peace

during World War II. A lecture was given once

Memorial

Museum: Itoman Citya month including people who had experiences

Children special exhibition “Children and Warof the war. A symposium on Tanzan Ishibashi

in Okinawa―a picture book “Grandpa and thewas held and it played an important role of his

Sea” was exhibited from June 1st to 30th, 2008.

memorial. He was the prime minister from

Tel: 098-997-3844

Fax: 098-997-3947

1956 to 1957 and made efforts for international

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

exchanges between Japan and China as well as
Russia. Over 50 materials, over 1000 books andTsushima-maru Memorial Museum:over 100 video tapes were donated by citizens

Naha

City, Okinawa

and they are introduced in “My Exhibition

The ninth special exhibition “Exhibition ofCorner”.

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The Atomic Dome was also kept by donations
Our newsletter titled “Port for Peace” wasall over Japan when it almost collapsed inpublished four times a year to report our

1965-1966. Now it is famous as a World

activities and introduce plans for exhibitions.

Heritage, but it was kept by citizens’ efforts tokeep it. The history of keeping them and

It is necessary to think how to increase thecitizens’ voices will be exhibited with thenumber of young visitor and also how to work

cooperation by Hiroshima City.

together with other peace museums. We’d liketo attend the 6th International Conference of

Now there is a special exhibition of “Hiroshima,

Museums for Peace as much as possible.

Nagasaki and Okinawa in a story called A
Turtle and a Boy by Kazuo Oga. Ms. Sayuri

Articles on our peace museums have been

Yoshinaga, a famous actress, read poems on

published in several newspapers such as

atomic bombing and her reading was publishedYamanashi

in a CD. Mr. Oga made 39 illustrations in it andNichinichi

Shinbun,Mainichi

Newspaper, Yamanashi Shinpo as well as TV.

they are exhibited. On June 23, the anniversaryof its opening, Ms. Yoshinaga attended it with

Daigo

FukuryuMaru

Mr. oga and gave a speech saying “Daigo(LuckyDragon)Exhibition Hall: Koto-ku, Tokyo

Fukuryu Maru boat was the starting point for

By Kazuya Yasuda

reading poems on atomic bombing. I’d like

It was 61 years ago when Daigo Fukuryu Maru

children to see the exhibition as much as(Lucky Dragon) boat was built and 40 years

possible.”ago when the movement for keeping it started.
An exhibition of “The Atomic Dome and Daigo
Fukuryu Maru: Heritage for Peace that Citizens
Supported” will be held from September 23, theanniversary of Aikichi Kuboyama’s death, tothe middle of December. Kuboyama was
exposed to radiation by the US hydrogen test at
the Bikini Atolls in 1954. The boat was used fora fisheries college after 1954 and it wasdumped at a waste treatment centre in Tokyo.
It was reported that the boat was about to be

Women’s Active Museum on War andsunk in the sea, but citizens started to keep it

Peace: Sinjyuku-ku,Tokyo

alive in March, 1968. Ten years later the

By Eriko Ikeda

Exhibition Hall was built in Tokyo.

The 6th special exhibition of “Japanese militarycame one day: stations for rape in Chinese

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battlefields” has been held since June 7 (until

We invited Ms. Wan Aihua, a victim of sexual

May 24, 2009). The number of women whoslavery, and Yang Xiulian, a survivor, for thewere forced to work as sexual slaves after

opening of the exhibition and had a rally forJapan invaded China in World War II istheir testimony. Ms. Wan Aihua became theinnumerable. The details were made clear after

vice mayor to resist Japan when she was 15 andvictims started to file a lawsuit in the 1990s.

was tortured sexually three times and could

Many Chinese people were murdered bysurvive miraculously. She asked over 120

Japanese military in Shanxi Province wherelisteners, “Will Japan change or not?” Yangpeople resisted against Japanese military.

Xiulian was forced to work as a sexual slave

Women were raped at certain stations. In

for a commander of the Japanese Military.

Nanjing woman victims and witnesses were

She talked about her mother in law who wasinterviewed as well as Japanese veterans, which

criticized as a traitor after the war andmade it possible to make clear concrete sights

committed a suicide mourning her death. Herof misery. There were 64 stations for rape intalkHainan Dao which was rich in natural resources

responsibility will never be forgotten even afterand became a strong point for Japanese military

victims

to invade southern Asian countries. Woman

government seems to think that Japanese war

victims filed a law suit and new facts are being

responsibility would not exist any more once

made clear one after another. They were hurt

the victims die.

made

us

pass

think
away

that

Japanese

althoughwar

Japanesephysically and mentally and had to live a hardlife after the war.

The same exhibition will be held at Chinese
Army Museum in Shanxi Province this fall. It

The exhibition was made by four organizations

would take a lot of time, energy and money to(Association for Making Clear Facts in Shanxi

make about 70 panels in Chinese. Many people

Province, Association of Supporting Lawsuits

supported this and donated money and theby Chinese woman victims, Osaka Executive

exhibits are almost done. Database will be

for the Anniversary of Nanjing Massacre andcompleted soon. An accurate and new map ofHainan Net). It is possible to understandstations for sexual slavery will also be madehorrible reality of Japan’s aggression andsoon.

damages by sexual slavery, and also women
victims’ courage and their hard lives. Their

Grassroots House: Kochi City

hand-made embroidery, paper works, small

By new Secretary-General: Mana Andoshoes for foot binding, etc. are exhibited.

A Peace Wave in Kochi started with 13 events

Please come and see the exhibition when you

such as the 30th Exhibition on War and Peace,come to Tokyo.

the 26th Star Festival for Peace, the 25th Peace
Film Festival, the 25th Anti-Nuclear and Peace

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Concert, the 14th Rally for the Solidarity with

Hokkaido University visited us and helped us.

Asian People and so forth. They are supported

We are very busy in July and August because

by eleven organizations such as Kochi City,

peace rallies will be held at school. We will

Kochi

lend some exhibits to schools and give a talk to

City

Board

of

Education,

Kochi

Newspaper, NHK, etc.

children.

In the 30th Exhibition on War and Peace

Grassroots House has been used as a peace

exhibited were US Air-raids on Kochi, Photos

museum, a support center for citizens’ activities

on the war between Japan and China, paintings

for peace and a place to relax. We will celebrateby children in Chernobyl, Self Defense Forcesour 20th anniversary next year. We are doingin Kochi and war remains that were discovered

our best so that grassroots movement for peacein Kochi recently. DVD on US air-raids andwill continue to spread in the future.

paintings on air-raids were borrowed from theCenter of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages

An Exhibition at Kochi Liberty and People’sand Peace Museum in Fukui.

Rights Museum

Over 500

By Alyssa Knox, Grassroots House in Kochi

people including children and students came tosee the exhibition. A film on Kou Makimura’s
life called Human’s Bones was also shown. He

This year’s Thinking about War and Peace

was an anti-war poet and activist who was put

Exhibition was a success. There were six

into prison and tortured so much that he wasdisplays: an exhibit about the bombing offorced to die very young.

Kochi in World War II, photos taken during the
2nd Sino-Japanese War, artifacts from the

One million paper cranes were folded bybombing of Kubokawa Valley, drawings bychildren, co-op members and citizens and werechildren from Chernobyl, messages for thedecorated downtown.

future written by Kochi youth group Wind of
Peace, and an exhibit about what Japan’s

A lecture for peace and culture is given once a

self-defense force is doing now that included

month: the development of local industry andphotos from the Iraq war.

young people’s employment, culture in life of
Kochi, history of French nuclear tests and the

The drawings from Chernobyl were especiallyreality, etc.

touching. Drawn by children from eight or nine
to age fifteen, they all expressed a terribly sad

In May Professor Sikander Mehdi visited us

understanding of nuclear destruction. If only

and gave a lecture on the situation in Pakistan

there were no children in the world who had

and a project for building a peace museum

had such an experience, the images seemed to

between Pakistan and India. A student of

say.

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The photos

also expresseda realappreciation of the damage nuclear weaponscausing war, and accused it. All the participants

can do to the Earth.

were impressed by his way of life against war

The photos from Iraq were also extremely

and discrimination.

stunning. Many of them were portraits of badly

2.

injured individuals, including children. These

objector, has been working at our peace

photos presented an important side of the war

museum since September, 2007. He gave aon Iraq that isn’t often seen in official news

lecture on June 29th and about forty citizens

anywhere on the globe: civilian casualties.

who supported him financially listened to him.

Turnout to the exhibit was excellent. While

What surprised him most in Japan is that Japan

only twenty or thirty people came on each ofhas not taught her history of aggression and it

the first few days, by the end of the week more

would be unthinkable not to teach historicalthan 90 visitors had been counted on more thantruth. He insisted that young people are not

one day. All kinds of people attended theinterested in changing Article 9 that renounces

exhibit, including schoolchildren accompaniedwar, which would lead to waging war again inby their parents. Even more amazing was thethe future. He will go back to Germany innumber of enthusiastic volunteers who helped

August. But a German young man who is ato set up and take down the exhibit, and theconscientious objector will come to Nagasaki inmany

September.

peoplewhowelcomed

visitors

Roman Barabas, a German conscientious

throughout the week. Thanks to everyone’s help,

3. Mr. Kenji Ishida, a journalist, will talk about

everything went well!

Mr. Masaharu Oka in a meeting to learn from

(Alyssa Knox from Canada started working at

Mr. Masaharu Oka on July 21. He will talk

Grassroots House as an assistant. We have an

about his memory of Mr. Oka and Mr. Oka’s

English flier of Peace Wave events in English

severe criticism of media. He will discuss themade by her!)relation between citizens’ movement for peaceand media.

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace

4. Three college students will visit China for

Museum: Nagasaki City

friendship between Japan and China on August

Director: Yasunori Takazane

12-18. They will visit Shanghai and Nanjing

The following is our activities for peace andwithpeacemaking.

reconciliation, in Kansai. There was only athMeishinkai,

NGO

for

peace

and

1. The 40 video showing was held on Junebudget for sending two students, but a

14th. Shown was a film of “Guide to War”

charitable person donated money and it became

directed by Mr. Jin Takaiwa who passed away

possible to send three of them, which made us

in January, 2008. His film of “War that was notvery happy.

taught at school” was shown in June, 2008. The
film made clear an economic mechanism of*************************************

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International Network Newsfocus on art which is salable, entertaining andMuseum for Peace and Nonviolence: thecomfortable.

Netherlands
In 1995 about ten peace organizations started a

If we avoid or neglect art which deals withmuseum under the name Anti War Museum.

life's harsh realities - we all lose out - we feel

After 1998 the name changed in Museum fordisconnected from our inner selves and each

Peace & Nonviolence. The place of registration

other. Art Cries Out provides space for Protest

is Amsterdam where we have a small office.

Art - a forum for art which is controversial,

Also there is an office combined with aconfrontational and immediate. The world

mini-museum in Delft. (address: Vlamingstraatneeds art. It is the voice of art which unites,

82, Delft. Tel. 015-785 01 37) The museum

humanizes and supports us in our darkest hours.

leans financially on about 600 supporters. We

Art which expresses outcry, outrage andwork predominantly with volunteers but since awitness needs to be seen.

year there is a paid part-timer who coordinates

A Global Online Art Exhibition.

the exhibits. The name of our half yearlyJuly 1-August 31, 2008

'magazine' is Vredesboot (Peaceboat). We are

Participating Art Museums and Peace Groups

working with traveling peace exhibitions inin Europe, Asia and U.S.A.

museums, libraries, schools and major houses.
Also

there

is

a

museumon

Online Exhibition Will Include:internetwww.vredesmuseum.nl. Moreover there is a•museum shop that among other things sells

Posters & art from 1950’s to present.

games that promote cooperation in stead of•competition.

Museums.

Museum for Peace and Nonviolence•

Address

Minahassastraat

1,

1094

RS

A curatedhistoryof Anti-Bomb

Curated selections from Participating
Juried selection of submissions to Art

Cries Out.
•

Amsterdam, Tel. 020-668 18 68

Statements against nuclear weaponry.

By Hein van der Kroon
Participating Museums Will Provide:
ART AGAINST THE BOMB•Art Cries Out is a website maintained by andtheir members and link to the exhibition. Plus afor Artists Against War and Suffering.

link for viewers to their museum collection(s).

An Announcement of Exhibition to

People everywhere today suffer crisis and stress.
Artists struggle to give voice to anger, hurt and

May Also Provide:

fear. Artists engaging serious subjects which•have demanding or disturbing content are often

included in the Exhibition.

excluded from art galleries which prefer to

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1-3 pieces from their collection to be•and programs with a thematic concentration on

Recommend artists from their country

to be included.

the concept of peace building, facilities will be•

provided for seminars, workshops, research,

Advertise a call for artists to submit

work to Art Cries Out for this Exhibition.

discussion and contemplative practices in peace

http://www.artcriesout.com/homepage.html

building.

The Best in Heritage 2008: Croatia

The current board of directors is made up ofUnder the patronage of ICOM, UNESCO

Artists,(BRESCE),

EuropaICOMOS,

Filmmakers, Parents, Professors, and Teachers,

ICCROM,

WFFM,

City

of

representing Global Citizens of every walk of

Dubrovnik, conference will be held on 25-27

life who believe the potential for peace building

September 2008 (7th year)

lies within each of us. JOIN US!

2008

Nostra,IFLA

andprogramme

at:

The

www.thebestinheritage.com/event/programme.

Attorneys,

websiteisBusinesspersons,stillembryonic:

www.pasospeacemuseum.org

php
Details

about

PosterSessionat:

AtomicBombMuseum.org web site: A virtual

www.thebestinheritage.com/event/poster.php
Toparticipate,pleaseregisterpeace museum
Announced on the 60th anniversary of theat:www.thebestinheritage.com/event/prijava_eng.

bombingofHiroshima,

Japan,

thephp

AtomicBombMuseum.org web site is dedicatedto provide information to students, educators

Pasos: New Yorkand concerned citizens at home and around the

Pasos is a Spanish word meaning:world about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima*Steps - As in any movement resulting inandprogress toward a goal

AtomicBombMuseum.org is to be an easily*Crossing - As in a shallow area in a stream

accessible tool for students and educators,

that can be forded

providing a meaningful source of historical and*Passage - As in the act of passing from one

current information about atomic and nuclear

state or place to the next

weapons to young people around the globe. We

The Friends of Pasos is a nonprofit organization

shall continually expand the depth and breadth

established to advance peace building throughof the web site, while maintaining our goal of

education and the arts.

providingNagasaki.

aThebalanced,missionofeasy-to-understandapproach to help students navigate this complex
Our mission is to establish a Museum of Peaceand politically charged field of study.

building in New York City. Besides the

http://www.atomicbombmuseum.org/b_contrib

presentation of organized artistic exhibitions

uters.shtml

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(With thanks to Dr. Ray Wilson)

Aichi in Nagoya City and Yamanashi Peace
Museum. Seven peace museums established by

Peace Museums in Japan by Ikuro Anzai

local government (Okinawa Prefectural Peace

The total number of visitors to Japanese peace

Memorial Museum, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb

museums in 2007 is estimated to be about

Museum, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum,

4,000,000, including 1,200,000 in Hiroshima

Osaka International Peace Center, Kanagawa

Peace Memorial Museum mainly exhibiting

Plaza for Global Citizenship, Kawasaki City

damage and after-effects of atomic bombing on

Peace

Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, with related

Saitama ) and one university-attached peace

displays about the pre-history of Hiroshima as a

museum (Kyoto Museum for World Peace,

militarized city since Sino-Japanese War in

Ritsumeikan University) are the members of1894 and postwar history since 1945 with

the Association of Japanese Museums for Peace

regard to the US-USSR nuclear arms race and(AJMP), exchanging

the reconstruction of the city of Hiroshima after

experience and seeking for a way to develop

the atomic bombing; 900,000 in Himeyuri

collaboration

Peace Memorial Museum in Okinawa mainly

meeting of AJMP attained a consensus toexhibiting tragedies experienced by the highjointlyschool girls in Okinawa Land Battle in

Hiroshima-Nagasaki

1944-45; 700,000 in Nagasaki Atomic Bomb

Exhibitions as possible in Japan and abroad.

Museumand

Kyoto Museum for World Peace, one of theafter-effects of atomic bombing on Nagasaki on

affiliates of AJMP, made great efforts in 2007

August 9, 1945, together with the brief sketch

to organize the 6th International Conference ofon the so-called 15-year war from Manchurian

Peace Museums in October 2008 in cooperation

Incident in 1931 to the atomic bombing in 1945,

with Kyoto University of Art and Design,and the post-war history of nuclear arms race

Tohokuand anti-nuclear peace movement in Japan andHiroshima Peace Memorial Museum andabroad. Dozens of other peace museums andRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Many

peace-related museums all over the nation

other peace museum workers, peace-oriented

which were established by local governments,

citizens, peace researchers and educationalists

citizens'

movements,

are exchanging information and experienceand conscientious individuals for peace tackled

through the Japanese Citizens' Network ofwith varieties of themes, attracting more thanMuseums

1,000,000 people in total to their museums

individual-based

thereby contributing to the practice of peace

which has been publishing newsletter "MUSE"

education. Several important peace museums

bothwere newly established in 2007 such as Peacecontributing to communication inside andmainly displaying damage

grassroots

18

Museum

Peace

them.

to

University

forMuseuminformation

among

try

in

and

2007

and
annualorganize as

many

A-bombPoster

of

Peace

Art

and

and

Design,(JCNMP),

communication

JapaneseofEnglisha

network,
therebyoutside Japan among the peace workers who

Converted into a non-profit institution theare interested in peace museum activities. Ms.

Peace Centre was embedded in the ‘Open

Kazuyo Yamane, advisory committee member

Education House’ of the city of Antwerp. Thereof the International Network of Museums forit concentrated on activities oriented towards

Peace (INMP), has been editing "MUSE" ineducation but it failed to reach a broader public

cooperaion with AJMP members such as Mr.

and lacked visibility. To rectify this situation

Masahiko Yamabe, The Center of the Tokyo

the province and the city decided jointly to

Raids and War Dameges, and Professor Ikuro

support a renewed functioning of the Peace

Anzai, advisory committee member of theCentre. Both authorities assigned a large

International Network of Museums for Peace,subsidy to the renewed Peace Centre and thewho is also participating in the AJMP as thenecessary staff was engaged.

director of Kyoto Museum for World Peace.
Yamane and Anzai are acting as messengers

Together with the affiliated organisations wasconnecting

international

peace

museumdecided to house the Peace Centre in the

movement

and Japanese

peace

museum‘Bernarduscentrum’ where Europe Direct, an

movement.

information service on the European Union,
already had its seat. The administration bodies

The Peace Centre of the Province and theand the statute were adapted and a new logo

City of Antwerp: Belgium

was designed. Since February 2005 thisBy Marjolein Delvou

non-profit institution functions under the name
‘Peace Centre of the Province and the City of
Antwerp’.

Peace Centre in synergy with Europe Direct
Western Europe has known the longest
continuous period of peace and stability since
time immemorial. Only a few elderly people
amongst us have found the consequences of theHistory

war to their cost. This is not something you can

In 1987 the Antwerp Peace Centre was foundedtake for granted in today’s world, with its

as a ‘peace museum’ in the district of Deurne.

dozens of raging conflicts. Belgium has been

Located at the facilities of the district, theEurope’s battlefield for centuries. History has

Peace Centre had large possibilities to organize

left its mark everywhere, also in our province.

exhibitions. With a substantial subsidy of the

Nevertheless,city of Antwerp the Peace Centre could take off.

especially

After a while this ‘peace museum’ was cut back.

European Union. Consequently, the Province

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peace

throughhas

been

integration

obtained

withintheand City of Antwerp, together with the

The Peace Centre makes use of the centre’s

participating peace organisations, have decided

facilities, complementary to Europe Direct’s

to house the Antwerp Peace Centre in theactivities, to organize temporary exhibitions.

buildings of Europe Direct of the Province ofThe exhibitions are free of charge, and can be

Antwerp. As from its new start, the Peace

visited every weekday from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Centre and Europe Direct can develop activities(also open at lunch time).

together and will be able to give their support
to peace initiatives by third parties.

Organisation of seminars and debates
Through the organisation of seminars, debates,

Our Mission

workshops, lunch lectures etc., the Peace

The Peace Centre of the Province and City ofCentre wants to keep the discussion andAntwerp devotes itself, as requested in the

dialogue about peace and similar themes alive.

United Nations Resolutions 53/25 and 53/243,

Therefore, the cooperation with Europe Direct

to stimulate and implement a culture of peaceand other peace organisations is an importantand non-violence in the city and the province.

aspect.

Peace is so much more than a ‘state of
non-war’. It is an active theme, bringing us to

Room facilities at your disposal

the foundations of our democratic society. A

The Peace Centre offers meeting facilities. The

societytolerance,

former authentic council chamber of thenonviolence, safety, mutual respect, social

province can house 120 people and is suitablejustice, etc. cannot be considered peaceful.

for debates and lectures. Moreover, the centre

without

solidarity,

disposes of a smaller conference room for
Fields of action

about 30 people. We like to share thisInformation desk

accommodation with related associations and

The Peace Centre is a meeting point. Thisinstitutions that organise lectures, workshops ormeans acting as an information service forcongresses on peace issues.

other peace initiatives. At the Peace Centre
current brochures and leaflets are put at yourPeace Education and remembrance

disposal. Anyone carrying a special interest, is

The attention for peace education has increased

assisted in his/her search for information. Sincestrongly these last few decades. On the one

there

centreshand, the horror of the two world wars hasconcerning peace, it is important to develop aincited the international community to promote

good reference function.

initiatives for the promotion of world peace. On

areseveraldocumentation

the other hand, through technological progress,
we have all become world citizens. Peace

Exhibitions

education has many aspects: from aggression

20and violence in the playground over handlingTirana due to the lack of educational andcultural diversity, to visiting one of ouremployment opportunity.

province’s historic sites. The Peace centre•

promotes peace actively by setting up projects

and protection.

that give an insight in our past and stimulate a

Proposal:critical, peaceful and tolerant attitude.

To address these issues, and as part of a wider

Lombardenvest 23

program of projects for the area within the2000 Antwerp

proposed Balkans Peace Park area, the BPPP

Belgium

intends to run a summer education program,

T: +32 3 202.42.91

based in the state school in Thethi, over a

F: +32 3 202.42.99

period of 2 months during the summer of 2008

vredescentrum@admin.provant.be(primarily aimed at the younger generations

www.vredescentrum.bewithin the Thethi region, but with modules for

A poor level of environmental awareness

adult education as well) with the purpose of:•Summer Program: Voices from Thethi:
thproviding English language skills with an

Albania, l6 June – 9 August, 2008

emphasis on phrases that would be useful inAfter several years of investigation and enquiry

communicating with visitors to the area. As a

as to exactly what kind of Summer Programmepilot project the intention is to build on this in

would be appropriate in this remote mountainfuture years and extend it to other villages incorner of Europe, our pilot project, has alreadythe region, especially with a view to promoting

created a great deal of excitement, especially inpeace across the borders of the Balkans Peacethe hope that it will grow year by year, andPark, where there is no common language, andrevive a community which once knew harmony

English serves as the lingua franca.

across the borders into Montenegro and•Kosovo/a.

regions of the Balkans Peace Park, to enhance

Project Area: Thethi National Park, northern

peace-building

Albania

supporting the youth of Kosovo/a, who, lacking

Background: Whilst this area is one of Europe’s

diplomatic representation, too often miss out onmost stunning mountain regions, and with one

international opportunities available to theof the most distinctive cultural landscapes, it

youth of other nations.

suffers from a wide range of socio and•economic problems. Of particular concern inenvironment

connection with this project are:environmental protection and the promotion of•

A very high level of depopulation, withenvironmental activism, with a particular focus(mostly younger) people from the local

on the responsibilities of young people in thecommunities leaving for the urban centers ofcommunities.

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working towards exchanges in the othermeasures,promotingparticularly

awareness

and

the

of

issues

the

in

local

concerning•

exploring the potential for sustainable
Although an

tourism within the region by developing theEnvironmental Degradation.

capacity and infrastructure within the local

area of outstanding beauty, this region has also

communities accepting visitors.

suffered significant environmental damage over•addressing the problem of depopulation in

the last 20 years. Despite being a protected area,

the mountainous communities in and aroundthe lack of authority or will of government andthe Thethi valley by providing local educational

the economic poverty of the region led to many

opportunities and promoting the development

actions that have seriously infringed upon theof new economic activity via sustainable

environment. Growth in the numbers of foreign

tourism.

visitors during the summer months puts
increased pressure on the environment and

The Thethi area of northern Albania is one of

local resources, particularly due to issues of

the

of

waste disposal.

wilderness in Europe. It is a region that

Adult Program:exemplifies the troubled histories of the south

The Adult Program will focus on enabling theBalkan region, with debates about politics andparticipants to address the needs and interests

ethnicity still only partially resolved. It is alsoof visitors (whether from across the BPPP

one of the remotest corners of Europe, one thatborders, or further afield), by providing somehosts it own distinctive cultural landscapes.

very basic English instruction, and a chance toIndeed, it is the only place in southern Europe

voice what further skills they would like towhere a tribal socio-political organization

continue to develop in the future. Some of thesurvived well into the last century. It is an area

workshops will be focused discussions (inthat historically has attracted foreign travelers,

Albanian) on, for example, standards in bothand has enormous capacity – and the necessary

prices and goods and services (a subject which

will to host small-scale modern tourism

can too often lead to misunderstanding and(visitors interested in traditional lifestyles

dispute); and on environmental action. A

sampling local organic food, walking, hiking,special need in this region, where centraletc.) But the area suffers from a number ofgovernment no longer provides the mostsignificant problems.

essential needs (for example, there is no healthmoststunningly

beautifulareas

Due to the lack of educationalcare facility) is the possibility to cultivate theand economic opportunities in the mountainrights as well as the responsibilities of citizens,

communities, there has been over the last 10

enhancing citizenship and good governance. It

years a massive problem of depopulation, withis a fertile valley – magnificent organic food is

inhabitants (particularly the young) leaving

locally produced. Other workshops will focus

their home communities to search for work in

on marketing local produce and crafts (e.g.

the main urban centers of Tirana and Skhoder.

wood-carved and woven goods).

Depopulation.

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From Fear to Sanity - CND and the art of

employment, of the most terrifying weapon

protest from 1958-1963

ever created by man.

As part of CND's 50th anniversary, theChamber of Pop Culture is proud to present an

During the course of the exhibition there will

exhibition “From Fear to Sanity”, frombe a special program of screenings and events

Saturday 9th August to Saturday 30th August,including: Screening of 'The March To

12-6pm Mon-Sat.

Aldermaston', 'Trinity & Beyond' and 'On The

Private View: Friday 8th August 7.30pm

Beach' + talks by prominent peace movement

Place: The Horse Hospital: (very near Russell

activists TBC.

Square) Colonnade, Bloomsbury(With thanks to Dr. Peter van den Dungen)London WC1N 1HX
CMS Peace Museum
In association with CND, the exhibition aims toCity Montessori School: India

focus on the importance of the visual language

The Shanti Upvanin the early years of CND activity and the

Shanti Upvan or Garden of Peace is the namefounding and propagation of its distinctive

given to the CMS Peace Museum. It is agraphic

original

veritable delight for peace lovers. This open air

photographs (many of which have never been

peace museum is the first of its kind situatedseen), film, artwork, posters, leaflets andaway from the city centre amid the lush

documentation dating from its inception 50

greenery of CMS Kanpur Road Branch. As weyears ago. “From Fear to Sanity” is aenter the Shanti Upvan, we are greeted by thecelebration of CND's essential legacy, as

CMS Tableau on World Unity and World Peace.

pertinent now as ever, if not more.

The tableau shows the World Parliament withaesthetic.

Throughrare,

representatives of various countries sitting
Much of the unique body of work on display

together to discuss global problems like global

capturesfear

warming, poverty, illiteracy, terrorism, nuclear

surrounding the abstraction that was the nuclear

warfare, etc. The middle part of the tableau

bomb. The exhibition also acts as a testament toshows the CMS child holding the globe in his

the time and the spirit of those 5000 ordinary

hands and saying, “One day I will unite thepeople who assembled in Trafalgar Square on

world” One side of the tableau shows the holythat cold wet Good Friday in 1958, before

teachers-Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Christ andsetting out on their momentous four day, 50

Lord Baha’u’llah and others who have imparted

mile march, to the Aldermaston Nuclear Bomb

Divine teaching to man in different ages andplant. Here this strong gathering of men,taken steps top lift humankind to a new

women and children peacefully protested

spiritual level. The tableau is a unique piece ofagainstart and architecture and has been awarded the

the

the

mood

and

manufacture,

inherent

testingand23

first prize at the Republic Day Parade by theGovernment, World currency, world language

Governor of U.P. state.

and other related topics. Books written by

The inside of the museum can be divided into

Masami Saionji, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal

three main sections:

Nehru are also kept here. Under the Aao Dosti

1.

Shanti Sangeet or Peace Music

Karein Project, CMS students have written

2.

Shanti Lekhan or Peace Writings

letters to students of 35 schools of Pakistan.

3.

Shanti Kala or Peace Art

Replies have been received from many of theseAt the entrance, it is written, May Peace Prevailschools of Pakistan and these have been

on Earth!

compiled by CMS in the form of a book. Many

The museum was inaugurated by the “Gandhi

people like to read these letters.CMS monthlyof Sri Lanka, Magsaysay award winner, Dr A. T.

Bulletins and CMS Annual Magazines are also

Ariyaratne on 10 December 2004 which is

kept in this section.

celebrated all over the world as Human Rights

3. Shanti Kala

Day.

CMS

1. Shanti Sangeet or Peace Music Section-In

competitions and Painting contests on Peace

this section, there is always a Divine overflow

and unity. The entries are put up in the peaceof symphony which creates an ethereal

museum for display by CMS. This section also

atmosphere. Sometimes sitar (an India musicalhas a collection of children’s films which help

string instrument) is played and this makes thethe children to grow up as peaceful humanatmosphere so soothing to the nerves that one isbeings. Sometimes children make collages on

inspired to meditate. Every Sunday CMS

unity in diversity and other peace related topics.

organizes World Unity Satsang where music

Music and dance at CMS is related to peaceteachers gather and present devotional peaceand harmony. Children are taught to depict

songs and anyone can attend these Satsangs.

nature in its myriad colors representing various

Peace representatives like Gemma from themoods like anger, love, compassion andorganization a single drop, have visited CMS

courage. Yoga is taught to students as a part ofand spoken on the peaceful qualities of water.

CMS peace activity as Yoga helps to draw out

CMS has a wide range of audio cassettes on

peaceful emotions and create inner peace.

peace and unity songs. CMS music teachers

http://www.cmseducation.org/

teach these songs to students and they are

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peace,

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regularlyorganizes

Peace

PosterNewseum: USA

International

The Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot museum

Museumsof news, offers visitors an experience that

The International Coalition of Historic Site

blends five centuries of news history with

Museums of Conscience is a worldwide

up-to-the-second technology and hands-on

network of “Sites of Conscience” – historic

exhibits.

sites specifically dedicated to remembering pastcoalitionofHistoric

Sitestruggles for justice and addressing their
The Newseum is located at the intersection ofcontemporary legacies.

Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, N.W.,

In 1999, the District Six Museum (South

Washington, D.C., on America’s Main Street

Africa); Gulag Museum (Russia); Liberation

between the White House and the U.S. Capitol

War Museum (Bangladesh); Lower East Sideand adjacent to the Smithsonian museums on

Tenement

the National Mall. The exterior’s unique

Esclaves (Senegal); National Park Service

architectural features include a 74-foot-high(USA); Memoria Abierta (Argentina); Terezin

marble engraving of the First Amendment andMemorial

an immense front wall of glass through which

Workhouse (United Kingdom) founded thepassers-by can watch the museum fulfill its

Coalition with the following statement:

mission of providing a forum where the media“…it is the obligation of historic sites to assist

and the public can gain a better understanding

the public in drawing connections between theof each other.

history of our sites and their contemporary

Museum(Czech(USA);

MaisonRepublic);

and

Des

the

implications. We view stimulating dialogue on
The Newseum features seven levels of galleries,

pressing

theaters, retail spaces and visitor services. It

humanitarian and democratic values as aoffersprimary function.”auniqueenvironment

that

takes

museumgoers behind the scenes to experiencesocialissuesandpromotingwww.sitesofconscience.org

how and why news is made. "Visitors will
come away with a better understanding of news
and the important role it plays in all of ourlives," said Newseum Executive Director and*************************************

Senior Vice President Joe Urschel. "The newSpecial Articles

Newseum is educational, inspirational and a

Conscientious Objection Commemorated

whole lot of fun."By Bill Hetherington

http://www.newseum.org/

In a small park, Tavistock Square, in the heartof London, near the campus of London
University, is a 400-million-year-old volcanic
slate rock, brought from a wild valley in the25very north of England. Nearby is a cherry tree

for support. Eventually she found the Peace

dedicated to the victims of Hiroshima andPledge Union (PPU), the main British secular

Nagasaki, and not far away is a cross-legged

pacifist organization, affiliated to the War

sitting statue of Mohandas Gandhi. Those two

Resisters International, with its roots going

items mark the place as a peace park, but whyback to the No-Conscription Fellowship of thethe rock?

First World War, and which had provided a base

Almost a century ago Joe Brett was a humble

for the Central Board for Conscientious

workingman in the eastern outskirts of London.

Objectors in the Second World War. The PPU

In 1916, in the First World War, the statealready had a small wooden memorial to the 70

demanded that he be conscripted to fight in the

British conscientious objectors (COs) who had

Army. As a socialist believing in the essentiallydied as a result of their treatment in WW1, butunity of humankind and believing that all

it was soon agreed that they should join withworkers should make common cause with eachEdnaother, Joe would have none of it. Although thecommemoration, not only of all British COs ofcomparatively liberal government of the day

all wars, but, as the plaque on the CO Stone

permitted men to claim a conscientious

puts it, of “men and women conscientious

objection to military service, very few were

objectors to military service all over the world

actually granted such a right, and Joe was told

and in every age”.

toestablishacomprehensivethat he would have to be a soldier, but, as aconcession, he would not have to use any

A public appeal was raised in the Guardian,weapon. Since anyone in the Army, with or

one of the leading British newspapers, throughwithout a weapon, is a cog in the war machine,

a letter headed by the composer, Sir Michaelwhen Joe’s notice came to report to the

Tippett, himself imprisoned as an objector inbarracks, he threw it on the fire. In due course,

the Second World War, and on International

he was arrested, and when he refused to put on

Conscientious Objectors’ Day, 15 May 1994,

a uniform, he was thrown into prison. He

Sir Michael unveiled the Stone, dedicating it toremained in harsh conditions until well after the“all those who have maintained and are

Armistice of November 1918. When he died inmaintaining the right to refuse to kill.”

1976, his health never having fully recovered,
one of his friends said at his funeral that there

For a few years the Stone remained a silent but

should be some public commemoration of thoserugged witness to the steadfastness, against all

who had refused to kill, in contrast to the manykinds

public memorials to those had taken part in thecommemorates. Then, again on the initiative ofkilling of past wars.

Edna Mathieson, a small group came together

Joe’s niece, Edna Mathieson, pondered this ideatofor some years, and canvassed where she could

Conscientious

26

of

plan

harshness,aceremony

of

those

each

Objectors’

whom

it

InternationalDay.

Callingourselves the Right to Refuse to Kill grouptrue.” And as the Stone in London reminds us(RRK), we have evolved a pattern whichof COs in these troubled times, “Their foresight

includes a keynote speaker, a review of theand courage give us hope.”

present situation of COs internationally, a CO[Bill Hetherington is Archivist of the Peace

reading, CO songs specially written, and thePledge Union; he was one of the group who

highlight – the laying of a white carnation

planned the CO Stone, and is a member ofrepresenting one named CO from as many

RRK. He is establishing a database of every

countries, past or present, for whom I can findidentifiable British CO.]an identifiable CO, followed by a minute’s
silence.

THE

HISTORY OF THE

FIRST (?)

STONECOMMEMORATINGThe brief details read out for these COs indicate

CONSCIENTIOUS

OBJECTORS

not only the range of COs worldwide, from

WAR

Britain to New Zealand and from Argentina to

By Edna Mathieson

Japan, but also the extent of suffering:“… In April 1919, a letter was published in the

Maximilian beheaded as a Christian objector‘Manchester Guardian’ signed by clergymen,

under the Roman Empire in the third century

politicians, lawyers and prominent writers … It

AD, French COs held for twenty years on

praised the objectors to war ‘for preferring

Devil’s Island, Guiana, between the World

principle to life. It is a glorious choice, and if

Wars, Franz Jagerstatter beheaded in Berlin in

the truth be told, fools though they be, such

1943, COs shot by firing squad in Greece as

men are the salt of the earth, and perhaps there

late as 1949. Although conscription is slowly

is not one of their persecutors, from Prime

being abolished in European countries, the right

Minister downwards, who can compare with

of

not

them in high regard for things of the spirit anduniversally recognized and the struggle isfor loyalty to what they believe to be thecontinuing.

truth’”…

The stance of Right to Refuse to Kill promptedThis is quoted from a biography by Peggy

the establishment of a CO Stone in Cardiff, theAttlee of her father-in-law, brother of Clement

capital of Wales, and a fixture is planned for

Attlee, Prime Minister of the UK in 1945, andOxford, renowned for its ancient university.

again, in 1951.

conscientious

objection

is

still

TO

There is no copyright in CO commemoration,and other countries and towns are very

But did those World War 1 conscientious

welcome to adopt the idea. As the plaque to theobjectors – those “fools” – achieve anything?

British WW1 COs who died records, “It is by

Up until the First World War, the right to refuse

the faith of the idealist that the idea comes

military service had barely been recognised in27

any country. Those who had refused to fight instings the skin and eyes, and no protectivethat War in the UK forced the recognition ofclothing was issued either to him or to the otherthat right on the civil and military authorities.

men – not c.o.s – doing the work. The men, a

The United States introduced legislation in

tough lot, caught a rat, caged it and tormented it.

1917 to recognise that right. In the Second

When the men were not about, my uncle

World War, many more were to refuse to fight,

released the rat: he lost the job and was sent

although that war was considered to haveback to the labour camp!

greater justification than the First. And thenumbers of objectors around the world in theAt his funeral in 1976, the then Secretary of thelast decade of the C20th has increased yearly.

National Secular Society said that one day
people will have not only memorials to those

One of those “fools” was my uncle, Joseph

who fought during the to World Wars, but also

Brett. He was one of the 1300 Absolutists;

to those who refused to fight. I remember

so-called because they not only refused to fight,

thinking at the time how unlikely that was tobut also refused non-combatant duty, such as

happen!

mining, because they thought by doing do, themen they replaced could take part in combat.

In 1981, I became a political Member of theGreater London Council (GLC); and three

My uncle was imprisoned, along with others, inyears later, suggested to my fellow Members

1916 after going before a tribunal. His parents,that the Council set up some kind ofsisters, brothers, were abused, ignored, by somecommemoration to conscientious objectors toof the people they had considered friends.

war. After long debate and soundings from

When he was released from prison in 1919, heother groups in the Labour Movement, it was

could not get work – he had been in prison, he

agreed – just as the Council was about to be

had been a c.o. The economic recession of theabolished by the then Prime Minister, Margaret‘20s and ‘30s made matters worse; and so with

Thatcher!

no more unemployment benefit left, he was

The London Residiary Council temporarily

sent to a labour camp, miles away from his

took over the government of London to carryfamily.

wasthrough the contracts and agreements which thehospitalised suffering from severe malnutrition.

GLC had made. I wrote to them about the

Other Absolutists, of course, also suffered great

agreement

privations. And all suffered differing degrees ofobjectors. I was told that they could find no

abuse whilst in prison.

such agreement!

Eventually he found work – unloading sacks of

As County Hall, home of the GLC, was situatedlime from barges on the River Thames. Limein the Borough of Lambeth, I wrote to Lambeth

One

of

his

two

children28

tocommemorate

conscientious

Borough Council. They readily agreed with thelate Sir Michael Tippett – composer and First

idea of commemorating objectors. I had several

World War conscientious objector, and anplanning meetings with the designated local

Absolutist – in Tavistock Square, central

government officer … an art exhibition, we had

London,thought, with the winning piece of sculpture

Conscientious Objectors’ Day. The stone isdisplayed near to where the GLC had been, andquite large, and quite a handsome piece of 4m.

a winning painting inside the concert hallyear old Cumbrian slate. It commemorates all

close-by – much earlier built by the GLC.

c.o.s, in all nations, and in all ages – “Their

on

15th

May,

International

courage and foresight give us hope,” as it is
Thatcher’s Government began to make severe

written on the stone. Conscientious objectors

financial cuts throughout the infrastructure of

could include those to refuse to fight in athe country, and the local government officer

specific conflict, e.g. the Israeli soldiers wholost her job! That meant I needed the help ofrefused to find in Occupied Territory, as well as

another organisation in order to obtain thethose who held the values of the First World

funding needed for a memorial. It is illegal for

War Absolutists.

an individual to, say, send letters to newspapers,
asking their readers for money. I thought of theSince 1997, there has been a short ceremony

Quakers – Quakers in Lambeth. Quakers had

held around the stone each 15th May, planned

always upheld the principle of non-violence. I

andspoke at one of their meetings: they refused

sympathetic organisations e.g. Christian CND,

help.

British Humanist Association, and supported byexecutedbypeoplefromdifferent

many others – Amnesty International, to name
I turned to the Quakers’ “headquarters”: they

one. I had thought that, as people around therefused, too. CND (Campaign for Nuclear

UK held a ceremony on the 11th November

Disarmament) also refused.

each year to commemorate those who had
fought, then why not one for those who had

I contacted the PPU (Peace Pledge Union): theyrefused to fightagreed! A letter was sent to four newspapers

requires at least a degree of courage. I asked theasking their readers to contribute to a fundgroup of people I had requested to join me to

which

a

discuss the possibility, whether they thoughtcommemoration to conscientious objectors tothis could be something we might try: theywar. Only one agreed to print the letter, “Theagreed, and so a ceremony was successfully

Guardian” – the fore-runner of which, had been

held.

would

be

used

to

set

up

- each response to war

the “Manchester Guardian”!
In 2003/4, a slate obelisk was unveiled in
Cardiff, Wales’s main city. I had thought the

And so in 1994, a stone was unveiled by the29main cities of Wales, Scotland and Northern

Algerian one, made him change. He became

Ireland would make an excellent start to thethen a non-violent leader.

Secretary of the National Secular Society’s idea

Jacques Pâris de Bollardière was born in 1908

of a commemorative stone dedicated to c.o.s inin an aristocratic and traditionalist family ineach of the cities of the UK – perhaps even inwhich every male was a soldier. He also

other countries too.

became an officer in 1930, fighting for the firsttime in 1940. He refused the French defeat

There is still of course much still to be done

against the Nazi and continued the fight withand not only in commemorating c.o.s. But by

the Free French Forces of General de Gaulle.

having a stone, or whatever it might be, we can

He participated in several campaigns and joined

express our gratitude to those who sacrificed

the Resistance in France, being one of the first

their liberty and suffered other deprivations,

French paratroopers. At the end of the war, heand for showing us that there is another way.

became one the most famous French soldiers,

edna.mathieson1@btinternet.com

distinguished in several countries. But he

Edna Mathieson, B.Sc. (Soc.), M.A., FRSA:

decided to leave the army, disliking the military

Freemanoflife in garrison and disgusted by the reprisals

Bermondsey; Queen’s Reader for Education

against the German population. But his pastAwards;occasionalsoldiers asked for him to go in Indochina, what

speaker at King’s College and the Institute ofhe accepted. Jacques de Bollardière underlined

Educationonthat the ill-treatments were rare and penalized

supplementary education; taking Ph.D. on

in Indochina but this war shook his certitudes.

Advocacy at St. George’s London University

When he came back to France in 1953, he had

andlecturer

no illusion about the future of France inon Advocacy at Goldsmiths College London

Indochina. The French defeat took place one

University.

year later.

Humanist Chaplain at Chelsea Westminster

In 1954, the Algerian war began. In 1955 andHospital.

1956, soldiers of the contingent were recalled

of

the

LondonM.BoroughUniversity

part-time

up because the war became harder. Those
GeneraldeBollardière :The

soldiers demonstrated because they had to

FrenchGeneral who changed his mind

spend another time in the army. Jacques de

By Tramor Quemeneur: PhD in History,

Bollardière decided to command units ofInstitute of History of Present Time

recalled up soldiers in the Air forces. In Algeria,
he is immediately confronted to ill-treatments

General Jacques de Bollardière was one of theand torture. He created small patrols, the ‘black

greatest French soldiers of the twentieth century,commandos’, to reinforce the relations with thebut the French colonial wars, especially theAlgerian population, and began a New Deal30

program.

The

black

commandos

quicklygave a talk on this great 16th century scholar

became a success: Jacques de Bollardière wasand peace advocate. There was a fascinating

nominated general at the end of 1956. But hepresentation from Katrina Gass and Helen Kay

received orders to hold the efficiency as firston the Women’s’ 1915 Peace Initiative, whichcriterion (what meant torture) and Algerians

leddisappeared in his sector. In March 1957, theInternational League for Peace and freedomcommandment denied Jacques de Bollardière(WILPF) – inspiring to realize that women,

and ordered him to search in mosques, forcing

who at that date still had no vote, were

him to disobey. Then, he published a letter

determined and farsighted enough to organize acondemning torture in a newspaper, L’Express.

peace conference in war-torn Europe in 1915.

The Ministry of defence penalized him for sixty

Carol Rank gave a presentation on Anti-war

days of jail in a military camp. Afterwards,

and peace art with plenty of examples for us to

Jacques de Bollardière was transferred inlook at, and which led to a feeling that perhaps

occupancies where he had nothing to do. Whenthe peace movement needs a symbol asa military coup occurred in April 1961, hepowerful and recognizable as the CND logo.

decided to resign of the army.

Any ideas? Ian Christie’s session on Peace andAfter the Algerian war, Jacques de Bollardière

propaganda in film was also very informative,

discovered

heand provided plenty of ideas should we hold aparticipated in an expedition against the Frenchpeace film festival. Friday evening saw anuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean, joining themusical event, with songs from Leon Rosselson,

crew of a New-Zealander movement. The

the protest singer-songwriter. The Raised

pacifists were arrested and imprisoned. Then,

Voices choir (heard at Aldermaston on Easter

Jacques de Bollardière became totally involved

Monday) also sang and the audience wasfor non-violence, creating the “Movement for a

encouraged to join in – easily done as we’d

Non-Violent Action” (MAN). He died onstarted the evening with a glass of wine! There

February 22, 1986. Some villages and cities –was plenty of opportunity for discussion andeven Paris in 2007 – have streets and squares atfor exploring the Museum itself.

non-violence.

In

1973,

to

the

formationofthe

Women’s

his name.
Peace History Conference: London

Peace History Papers

This year’s conference at the Imperial War

One of the excellent by-products of the two

Museum was well attended on both days, andPeace History Conferences (2007 and 2008)

greatly enjoyed by all. As well as some very

that MAW and the International Peace Bureau

interesting speakers, the Museum’s cinema washave organized, with the great help of thehost to one of the Bradford Peace Museum’s

Imperial War Museum, is that we now haveexhibitions, and a display about Erasmus,

some great written bits of peace history.

provided by Peter van den Dungen, who also

Some lectures were delivered in note form.

31Some, like the ones on film and art, need to

at London’s South Bank University, and she

have their Power Point displays to go with them.

sheds light on another almost forgotten

But others stand alone as essays which thosemovement. Yet we use terms like ‘Global

who could not come to the conferences might

Citizen’ today as if we were the first to havewell like to read - and distribute (MAW is forsuch ideas. Far from it, as Kate makes clear.

activists not passive recipients). I first mention

Professor Peter Hennessy, author of Cabinets

the talk given by Shireen Shah in 2007, which

and the Bomb (OUP), spoke very spiritedly

had the title ‘The Frontier Gandhi, Abdul

from notes on the history of the British bomb.

Ghaffar Khan 1890-1986’. This is the story of a

He did give us a chronology of nearly twenty

Muslim from the Pathan North West frontier

pages as this country moved step by step fromwho devoted his life to freedom and social

1940 into our current immoral mess.

change using only the methods of nonviolence.
He even raised a nonviolent army of thousands

Finally there are some encouraging stories fromof men. He spent about a third of his life inabroad. Tramore Quemeneur’s account of theprison as a consequence. MAW will belife of General de Bollardiere, ‘The French

producing this essay in pamphlet form by June

General who changed his mind’, is a reminderof this year. Please get copies and spread thethat soldiers also have said ‘No’ to immoral

message around. Even amongst Muslims theorders in the past. In Bollardiere’s case it was tostory of this brave man is not well known if at

the use of torture – not only an academic

all. Yet its importance today is blindingly

subject today. A complete revelation to most ofobvious.

us were the two lives described by Kazuyo
Yamane from Kochi University - that of

There are two talks given by Terry Charman,

Masaharu Oka and Yayori Matsui, both of

the Imperial War Museum staff historian. They

whom spoke up for peace and human rights inare really informative about events in the 1920s

wartime and post-war Japan. Many lessons

and 30s. The first is entitled ‘The League of

there to be learnt.

Nations and the Briand-Kellogg Pact’ (this was
the pact which, it was hoped, would outlaw

The two WILPF talks at the History Conferencewar). The second is ‘The 1932 League ofwill also soon be added to our website. All

Nations Disarmament Conference at Geneva.’

these documents are on www.abolishwar.org.uk.

Both make good background for understanding

If anyone finds ‘downloading’ not their cup of

Hitler’s rise to power.

tea then please write to me directly (c/o MAW,
11 Venetia Road, London, N4 1EJ), with at

Then comes Kate Hudson’s paper on ‘The

least ￡2 for photocopying and I will send aWorld Government Movement 1945-1950’.

copy.

Kate is the head of Social and Political Studies

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will32

always have its fascination. When it is looked

Publications

upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar

Wilde

Supportingpeace

history

War No More: A DVD and discussion outlines

education - We are looking for a volunteer toto bring about a war-free world written by

assist with the planning of next year's Peace

Valerie Flessati. Appearing in the film: Martin

History Conference at the Imperial War

Bell, Bruce Kent, Carokine Lucas MEP,

Museum. Please call 01908 511948 if you

Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, Jon Snow,

would like to help.

Desmond Tutu and others.

http://www.abolishwar.org.uk/news11.pdf
Barry Miles, Peace. 50 years of protest**************************************

1958-2008.

A poem by Rumana Mehdi aged 12 in Pakistan.

London: Collins & Brown, 2008, pp. 256
ISBN: 978-1-84340-457-6(Price in the UK is £ 25)

Sufferings of the people

One of the themes of the book is the global
The price of everything is talking to the sky.

spread of the CND symbol (which is known as

What will the poor people buy?

the peace symbol in much of the rest of the

They cannot afford to eat meat,world). The symbol is beautifully featured on

nor they could eat rice or wheat,

the front jacket of the book. More than half ofthe book is taken up by wonderful photographs,

They will have to starve for many days,

many in color.

no one can prevent their death in this way.

den Dungen)Where is the money of the taxes gone?

Educating for a Culture of Social and

It is used in things which are wrong,

Ecological Peace edited by Anita L. Wenden:(With thanks to Dr. Peter van

State University of New York Press. 2004
What is the use of government's far fetchedtalks?

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Muse Newsletter

Education Associates International(EPE)Muse No.1-5 is available in English at the

EPE’s

websiteOnlineEducational

Resources,ofGrassroots

House.

Transitions, is published twice yearly. It

http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishimor

includes notices of educational events, sociali/action,andMuse No. 6-18 is available at the website of the

publications, short articles and announcements

Center of the Tokyo Raid and War Damages.

from various world regions as these relate to a

http://www.tokyo-sensai.net/muse/index.html.

neweducational

resources

culture of peace, a sustainable Earth, the link
betweensocialandecologicalpeace,

Prefecture

Name of Peace Museum

Year Founded

Hiroshima

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

1955

NagasakiNagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

1955

Saitama

Maruki Gallery

1967

Okinawa

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum

1975

Tokyo

Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon)Exhibition Hall

1976

Fukuoka

Peace Museum for the People

1979

Kanagawa

Soka Gakkai Toda Peace Memorial Hall

1979

MiyagiSendai Sensai Hukkou Memorial

1981

Hyogo

Kobe City War Damages Exhibition Corner

1981

Okinawa

Life is Treasure House

1984

Osaka

Osaka Human Rights Museum (Liberty Osaka)

1985

Hokkaido

Peace Memorial Center

1985

Tokyo

Jiyu Minken Institute of Machida City

1986

ShizuokaHamamatsu Revival Memorial Center

1988

Hiroshima

Okunojima Poison Gas Museum

1988

Wakayama

Teranaka Art Museum

1988

Kochi

Grassroots House

1989

Okinawa

Himeyuri Peace Memorial Museum

1989

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KyotoTanba Manganese Memorial Hall

1989

Tokyo

Nakano Ward Peace Exhibition Hall

1989

Aomori

Aomori Air Raid war Damages Exhibition Hall

1990

Nagasaki

Shoukokumin Museum

1990

Kochi

Kochi Liberty and People’s Rights Museum

1990

Osaka

Osaka International Peace Center(Peace

1991

Wakayama

Taiji-cho Ishigaki Memorial Museum

1991

Hiroshima

Mirasaka Peace Museum of Art

1991

Osaka

Suita Peace Memorial Center

1992

Kyoto

Kyoto Museum for World Peace

1992

Kanagawa

Kawasaki City Peace Museum

1992

Hokkaido

No More Hibakusha Hall

1992

Tokushima

German Museum

1993

Saitama

Peace Museum of Saitama

1993

Okinawa

Sakima Art Museum

1993

Shizuoka

Shizuoka Peace Center

1993

Hiroshima

Human Rights and Peace Museum Fukuyama City

1994

Osaka

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights Museum

1994

NagasakiOka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace Museum

1995

KagawaTakamatsu Civic Culture Centre: Peace

1995

Hiroshima

Holocaust Education Center

1995

Iwate

Pacific War History Museum

1995

Tokyo

Setagaya Peace Gallery

1995

Hyogo

Himeji Historical Peace Center

1996

Hukuoka

Usui Peace Memorial Center

1996

NaganoMugonkan Art Museum for Peace

1997

Oita

Yawaragi: Peace Memorial in Saiki

1997

Kanagawa

Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship

1998

Nagasaki

Art Museum of Picture Books

1999

Gifu

Chiune Sugihara Memorial

2000

Hyogo

War Memorial Marintime Museum

2000

Fukui

Yukinoshita Peace Culture Museum

2001

Tokyo

Korea Museum

2001

Tokyo

The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages

2002

Gifu

Gifu Peace Museum

2002

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Osaka)

MuseumHiroshima

Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall

2002

Hyogo

Nishinomiya City Peace Center

2002

Iwate

Kitakami Peace Memorial Hall

2002

NagasakiNagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall

2003

NagasakiNagasaki Peace Museum

2003

Niigata

Nagaoka War Damages Center

2003

Okinawa

Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum

2004

Tokyo

Women’s Active museum on War and Peace

2005

Okayama

Peace Museum of Air-raids on Okayama

2005

Tokyo

Wadatsumino Koe Memorial Hall

2006

Aichi

Peace Aichi

2007

Yamanashi

Yamanashi Peace Museum

2007

Table: Museums for Peace in Japan listed by year of foundation
History museums for peace were added by Mr. Masahiko Yamabe.
(Public museums are shown in bold letters.)

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