Muse no. 17
Japanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: November, 2007
Editorial Off ice
The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages
1-5-4 Kitasuna, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0073 Japan
Tel: 03-5857-5631
Fax: 03-5683-3326
Masahiko Yamabe
Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translator: Risa Ikeya & Kazuyo Yamane
Il lustrator: Erico Tosaki※ Notice: We have indicated the name of our network as “Japanese Network of Museums for Peace”
in English to a last issue, but we decided to use the expression of “Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace” from this issue on to be more faithful to the original Japanese name. In Japan, there
is another network named “Association of Japanese Museums for Peace” which is affiliated to date byeight relatively large-scale peace museums, i.e. Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, Nagasaki
A-bomb Museum, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Osaka International Peace Center (Peace Osaka),
Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikan University, Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship,
Kawasaki Peace Museum, and Peace Museum of Saitama. In contrast, Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace is an individual-based network consisting of citizens who are interested in museums
for peace.

The following is news on museums for peace in Japan and other countries.
The 7 th National Meeting of the Citizen’s
Network of Museums for PeaceOn Dec. 1, 2007 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
and Dec. 2, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.,the 7 th national exchange meeting of theJapanese Citizens’ Network of Museums for
Peace will be held at PEACE AICHI thatwas established on May 4, 2007. A social
gathering is scheduled on Dec.1 evening.

Accounting and business reporting of the
Network is scheduled at the social gathering.
We will also talk about how to arrange
nationwide meetings in 2008 by taking
cognizance of the 6 th International
Conference of Peace Museums that will beheld at Ritsumeikan University. Please
send comments to the organizer in advance.
Accommodation arrangements should bemade by individual participants.
Those who attend the meeting without
report presentation, please send an
application to the organizer as well by theend of September.

Meeting participants will be welcome to see
exhibitions at PEACE AICHI on Dec. 1 from11:00 a.m. and on Dec. 2 after 3:00 p.m.
Reports are accepted. Please send
presentation applications to Mr. Masahiko
Yamabe (organizer) by the end of September.
Reporting time is up to 30 min. per person.
Summaries and references are to be preparedby presenters.

PEACE AICHI is 13 min. walk from Subway
Higashiyama-Line’s Issha Station. The
address is: 2-820 Yomogidai, Meito-ku,
Nagoya, Japan.
Phone & Fax number: +81-52-602-4222.

1and operates the memorial hall. A
specified nonprofit organization, Wasatsumi
Memorial Hall Foundation, was establishedin January, 2005 and in August, 2005, theorganization was officially registered.
This registration allowed the organization tostart buying and selling of properties and it
also reassured bereaved families who had
deposited and donated precious literary
remains and mementos.

Wadatsumi-no-koe Memorial Hall
(Memorial Hall for the Students Killed in
the War) Opens
Hitoshi Nagano, Board Chairman, NPO
Wadatsumi Memorial Hall
Walk from Hongo San-chome intersection
and pass by the Red Gate of University ofTokyo a little bit; you will see a Soto
Buddhism Temple, Kihukuji, on your left.

The foundation clearly declares in its
purpose statement that it inherits Wadatsumi
Society’s principle that was held for many
years and it will be run by contribution for
ten-odd years. The memorial hall will
display literary remains and mementos ofJapanese, South and North Korean, andTaiwanese students who died in the war andwill collect and display all kinds of records
of war victims domestically andinternationally. One aspect of thefoundation of peace is interaction andmutual understanding between nations andethnic groups and therefore, it is also notedin the purpose statement that the memorial
hall will constantly pay attention to
exchange of people, materials, information,and literatures relating to war and victims,
and make efforts to enhance peace makers’
thought and spirit of fraternity.

erico
There is an apartment building named
Akamon Habitashion. Wadatsumi-no-koe
Memorial Hall was established on the first
and the second floors of this building on Dec.
1 last year. Total area of the museum is 30
tsubo (approx. 99 m 2 ) and though it is asmall museum, an important initial step has
been made.
When the Japanese Memorial Society for theStudents Killed in the War (Wadatsumi
Society) was founded in April, 1950,
construction of Student Peace Hall was set
as one of the projects. After a number ofefforts failed, we decided to make a serious
effort to build Wadatsumi Memorial Hall asa project for the 50 th anniversary of student
drafts. Due to deteriorating economic
conditions, the amount of the donation was
not vast, however, we found out in 2004 that
if the building was scaled down, it would bepossible to construct the memorial hall.

The story goes back for six years. In year
2001 and in the following year, a large
exhibition of farewell notes and mementos
was held. The first year’s planningcommittee consisted of Wadatsumi Society,Kyoto Museum for World Peace at
Ritsumeikan University, and Iwate
Prefecture Rural Culture Advisory Council
and the committee hosted the exhibitions
under the auspices of Asahi Shinbun. The
first exhibition was held in Osaka at
ASACOM Hall (the head quarter of Asahi
Shinbun) in November 2001, and in
December 2001, the second exhibition washeld in Kyoto at Ritsumeikan University’s
Kyoto Museum for World Peace. In
August 2002, Wadatsumi Society
independently hosted the exhibition at

Wadatsumi Society is a voluntaryorganization and its ownership is equal to
the representative person’s ownership undercurrent law. Therefore we decided toestablish a foundation that owns, manages
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Edo-Tokyo Museum. Speaking in relation
to the museum, the relationship withbereaved families became closer andmemento deposit trend was graduallyformed. At every exhibition, materials of
Korean student soldiers, citizens andpeasant soldiers were also displayed.

Active Museum on War and Peace, andYamanashi Peace Museum, which
incidentally opened around the same time.
All major mass media including TV andnewspapers also came to cover the ceremony
and they were having hard time finding acamera placement spot.

Originals have great power. Many visitorslean on showcases and read literary remains
thoroughly. Some of them brush the tears
away. The conditions of papers,
notebooks and handwritings tell thesituation, convey the writer’s breath andemotional state vividly, and make us feel thedead closer to us.
Wadatsumi-no-koe Memorial Hall
Akamon Habitation 1 fl., 5-29-13 Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Tel&Fax: +81-3-3815-8571
URL:
http://Wadatsumi-no-koe.lookschool.com
Email: Wadatsumi-no-koe@nifty.com
Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri., 13:30 – 16:00.
Admission free
※ Wadatsumi-no-koe means “Voices of the
Sea Gods” symbolizing anger and sorrowand the regrets of the dead student soldiers
in battlefields.

The ceremony started with organizer’s
greeting by Morishima NPO administrative
director, followed by complimentary
addresses by guests of honor, introductionof congratulatory and encouraging messages
from fellow museums, and presentation ofcertificate of appreciation to Ms Tazu Kato,
who tendered the land and funds for themuseum.
A poem, ‘interknitting hopes’, which isdisplayed in a corner of the first floor as amessage that the museum is trying to sendout was read by members of the steeringcommittee at the end of ceremony. Also,
ribbon-cutting ceremony was conducted by
the representatives.
Evening of music, ‘Now is the time formessage of peace,’ was held on May 4th at
Meito Cultural Theater. The program
consisted of music performances, lecturesand reading and the theater was fully
occupied.

Latest news from Peace Aichi
Daisuke Miyahara, Director, Peace Aichi
It was a couple of days before the opening of
the museum that the installation of display
and panels was completed after almost twomonths of preparation. Detailed
adjustments continued until the evening
before the opening and finally the museum
was opened on May 4 th .

On May 5th and 6th, an opening event washeld at Peace Aichi and story telling, picture
story shows, reading, games, music
performances and exhibitions of drawings
and photographs took place.
Over 1600 people visit the event during thefirst three days.

Unlike the weather on the groundbreaking
ceremony, the weather of the day of the
opening ceremony was crispy fine. The
Guests who attended the ceremony includes:a House of Representatives member from thearea, a prefectural assembly member, amunicipal assemblyman, and representatives
from Kyoto Museum for World Peace at
Ritsumeikan University, the Center of theTokyo Raids and War Damages , Women’s

As of July 31 st , 2007, the museum has been
visited by 5591 people. The number ofvisitors is around 50 during weekdays, andmore than a hundred during weekends.
The museum is run by four staff members,
17 steering committees, and 62 volunteers.
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in this December.

One staff member, five volunteers and one
or two NPO personnel attend the museum on
daily basis.

Yamanashi Peace Museum Opens
Tamotsu Asakawa, Director
The planning committee for theestablishment of the museum was formed inJuly 2003 and the official proposal for theconstruction of the museum was made insummer 2005. The planning committee
collected donations, planned anti-war eventsand published war-experience notes.
In July 2006, the location of the museum
was decided and the construction started in
December 2006. By March 2007, totalsum of donation exceeded 23,000,000 yen.

A website for the museum is undercontemplation.
The museum has been often visited bygroups. Some of the visitors from thosegroups expressed their willingness to
re-visit the museum so that they can taketheir time to see the exhibitions.
Some visitors tell their own war stories andsome are moved to tears in front of aphotograph of a boy carrying his sister who
was killed by A-bomb. Many people foldpaper cranes wishing for peace.

On April 21, 2007, completion ceremony
was held and it was widely covered by the
media.

Events and exhibitions have been hosted not
only by the museum but also by outsidegroups at the museum. An exhibition byhigh school students, a round-tableconference with Charles Overby and an
event to relive war-time living were held.
Blue-eyed dolls Exhibition (Jul. 21 – Aug.
11), Peace Aichi Summer Series - War
Experience Hearings (Aug. 1 – 15), Hanna’s
Bag Exhibition (Aug. 14 – Sep. 1), Talk by
Fumiko Ishioka (Aug. 18), Fusako Kodama
Grass Art Exhibition (Oct. 2 – Nov. 3) arescheduled.

The museum was opened on May 26, 2007.
Museum exhibition ranges from war andpeace to Tanzan Ishibashi, a native of
Yamanashi and a peace maker who opposed
to militarism. In 1918, he criticized as ajournalist the army for dispatching troops toSiberia. After the WWⅡ , he became thepresident of Liberal Democratic Party andlater in 1956 the Prime Minister of Japan,
but withdrew for cerebral infarction in only
2 months

Survey by questionnaire has been conducted
for further improvements and suggestions
have been submitted such as “Source
materials on Navy are not enough,”“Pamphlets should be distributed at Nagoya
station,” and “Please place magnifying
glasses for the elderly.” Though we are
not able to accommodate all the requests, weplaced magnifying glasses. We hope that
Peace Aichi will be supported bylike-minded and become a meeting point anda source of peace messages.

Yamanashi Peace Museum hopes to havevisitors from all over the country.
Tel & Fax: 81-55-253-2735
E-mail: asakawatamotu@infoseek.jp
Women’s Active Museum on War andPeace
Shinjuku, Tokyo
While seminar series of an exhibition ofsurvived East Timorese women underJapanese and Indonesian domination thatstarted December 2006 and a campaign tosend an exhibition panel of women’s history
to East Timor are taking place; the museum
has been quite busy handling issues on
comfort women.

Establishment of Peace Aichi was supportedby the members of Citizens’ Network for theMuseums for Peace. We are delighted toinvite everyone to the museum. We arelooking forward to seeing you all in Nagoya

On January 29 2007, Violence Against
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Women in War – Network Japan has won thelawsuit against NHK (Japan Broadcasting
Corporation) on falsification of comfort
women issue in a broadcasting program.
The media was hesitant and had little
understanding about this lawsuit. For the
better understanding of comfort womenissue, an exhibition for Junior high school
students in Q&A style was planned.

building techniques through Daigo Fukuryu
Maru.

A resolution that requests Japanese
government an official apology was
submitted to the House in the U.S. and with
Chinese and Korean governments’ push,
Canadian Commons adopted a similar
resolution to the U.S. The museum has
been busy handling inquiries on this matter.
This shows that Japanese need externalpressure to take an action. Violenceagainst women in war time still exists.
The Japanese has avoided the issue and it isquestionable whether or not the situation
will change.

Historical Material Hall for the Wounded
and Sick Retired Soldiers (Shokei-kan)
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Shokei-kan is a government managed hallthat collects stores and displays information
on wounded and sick soldiers and theirfamilies during and post WWⅡ . It was
opened on March 21, 2006. A film on the
Battle of Okinawa was shown in August
2006 and a DVD ‘Pass on the toil ofwounded and sick soldiers’ is available forlending.

A guide book of the museum is available
now. The book provides information of
the museum and the damages on Daigo
Fukuryu Maru and Marshall by the Bikini
H-bomb test.
Tel: 81-3-3521-8494

A picture record of permanent exhibition
was published in March 2007.

Ever since its establishment, WAM has held
four exhibitions and the number of
supporters are increasing. A peace prize
was presented to WAM from Pax Christie
International this year. A symposium tocerebrate the award is planned.
Tel: 81-3-3203-4633
Fax: 81-3-3202-4634
URL: http://wam-peace.org

Tel: 81-3-3234-7821
Fax: 81-3-3234-7826
URL: http://www.shokeikan.go.jp
Society for the Preservation of the
Matsushiro Imperial Headquarters
NaganoTakako Kitahara
Minakamiyama dugout is one of the
Matsushiro Imperial Headquaters dugouts.

Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall
Koto-ku, TokyoA special exhibition ‘Boat-builders’technique and work’ was held from April 1
to September 2. H-bombed wooden fishingboat Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon)is60 years old and the only existing boat frompost WWⅡ scarcity period.

Towards the very end of WWⅡ , theJapanese government planned relocation of
the Imperial Headquarters to Matsushiro toprepare for mainland battle and to defend
the national polity.
The society started investigation of the
dugout five years ago with help of experts,
college students and others. A report ofthe investigation was completed last year.
The findings from the investigation show thechaotic situation of the time to dig cellars at
the bottom of volcanoes and provide

No more wooden boats will be built any
more as boat builders are aging and thebuilding techniques are not passed on to thenext generation.
Daigo Fukuryu Maru was repaired twenty
years ago. The exhibition showed the boat
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foundations for cultural heritage registration
application of the site.

in full support of the victims and willcontinue to assist them for the appeal trial.

Many dugouts are closed for safety reasons,but those valuable remains of war should bepreserved. The investigation was an
example of what cooperative efforts can do.

Director’s statement on the terror attack
on Iccho Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki
Ikuro Anzai, Director, Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, Ritsumeikan University

A special exhibition that started last year
presented legacies from the dugout, photos,
figures, dynamite box, etc.

Mayor Ito was shot on April 17, 2007 anddied on the following day. I denounce thisoutrageous terrorist attack on the mayor who
devoted himself to peace movement withmuch anger.

The museum is working to make itself aspace to share information of the dugouts
and to learn. It also adopted an appeal forthe registration of the dugouts as cultural
heritage like A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima.

The immediate predecessor of the Mayor,
Hitoshi Motoshima, was also assaulted
because of his remark on the Emperor
Hirohito’s war responsibility. It is a regretthat two of the mayors of Nagasaki became
victims of terrorism. We should not
surrender to this kind of cowardly violence
but further pursue the ideal of anti-nuclear
and peace.

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace
MuseumYasunori Takazane, Director
On November 21, 2006, Min Kyu Bak, thechair of Nagasaki Korean A-bomb Victims’
council, passed away. He was the last
Korean survivor and storyteller of A-bomb.
He was also an asset to the museum. An
exhibition in memory of him was held at themuseum three months after his death andmany people visited. We plan to publish amemorial miscellany.

Mayor Ito was committed to the abolition of
nuclear arms. His tearful testimony at theInternational Court of Justice in November
1995 deeply touched people along with thephotograph of a charred boy that hepresented. The mayor pointed out thevictimization of innocent civilians andsuggested that the leaders of nuclear powers
should take a look at the picture torecognize what nuclear weapon can do.
Mayor Ito never altered his opinions andbehavior to please the Japanese governmentthat was hesitant to admit illegality of
nuclear weapons. The International Courtof Justice suggested that intimidation andattack using nuclear weapons are generally
illegal and Mayor Ito’s contribution tocreating the environment to actualize thisofficial suggestion should be acknowledged.

The 7 th testimony meeting of the Nanjing
massacre survivors was held on December 9,
2006. This time, the talk was about asexual assault of the mother of the speaker.
The 84 years old speaker revealed the realname wishing to stop Japanese trend to
distort historical facts.
On February 6, 2007, 49 travelers for peacefrom Korea visited the museum. The
group’s age ranged from 14 to 78.
The museum aims to pressure the Japanese
government to reflect on its attitudes onhistory.

Mayor Ito served as the vice president ofMayors for Peace for 12 years and made anappeal to the world for denuclearization andpeace along with the Mayor of Hiroshima,
Tadatoshi Akiba. Mayor Akiba touched on
Mayor Ito’s effort in preaching theOn March 27, 2007, the first trial on forcedlabor of Chinese concluded that the statuteof limitations is expired. The museum is6

There was a meeting with 15 Korean highschool students and 5 Korean teachers at
Hata Seminar in Shimanto in January.
Though I was busy with thesis writing, I
decided to participate. We learned about
the life of Korean and Japanese workers at
Tsuga dam and had a memorial service forthe buried Koreans at the site. There was a
misguided discrimination against Koreans inprevious decades and I was looking at a heapof stones that was made by Koreans in
disconsolate mood. Now I can feel the joyof getting together with Koreans byrecognizing what happened in the past. It
seems that we can overcome the mental
barrier just by the one-day meeting because
we are the same human beings. If thesekinds of meetings are held more and more,
the sense of ‘human rights and peace’ may
be increased.

importance of denuclearization to
government delegates, which lead nuclear
powers to agree on “unequivocal
commitment” for complete denuclearization
at 2000 NPT meeting in New York, andexpressed his own commitment todenuclearization following Mayor Ito’s will.
I also declare my commitment to makefurther efforts to disseminate the value of
realizing a nuclear-free and peaceful world.
I worked with Mayor Ito in supervising
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum andlecturing at National Council of Japan
Nuclear Free Local Authorities’ workshop.
Kyoto Museum for World Peace ofRistumeikan University where I serve as the
director also has made efforts to collaborate
with Nagasaki’s peace movement throughparticipation in the Association of JapaneseMuseums of Peace and the International
Conference of Museums for Peace andcooperation with Nagasaki City’s youth
peace volunteer program. It is poignant
regret that Mayor Ito was lost but I promise
to take on the mantle of Mayor Ito toachieve a nuclear-free society in peace.

As I am about to finish writing, I received
an e-mail from Shinsuke Nakai, adocumentary movie director, saying that hejust had an interview with political analyst
Sang-jung Kang. Mr. Nakai is making afilm about U.S. military bases and he also
made a documentary film on Korean farmers
against U.S. military base expansion in
Pyongtaek. Mr. Nakai told us about
70-year- old Korean man who stayed hishome even during relocation by U.S.
military when he was 16 years old by living
in a dugout. The old man was fighting
against U.S. military occupation of his
property in Pyongtaek, only hoping to livein his home as a farmer. It was right after
the new years when the official of relocationof the residents was decided. An
instructor of Korean traditional drum whom
I met in January was also a participant of thebattle against relocation in Pyongtaek andtold how human rights are disregarded indemocracy only by name. When I listen to
the Korean traditional drum music, I feel thestrength of farmers’ existence and sorrow
but gain courage to fight at the same time.

Secretary-general’s inaugural address
and report on Hata Seminar in Kochi
Ayumi Hiwatari, Secretary-general,
Grassroots House Peace Museum
I was newly appointed as a secretary-generalof the museum and am currently a senior at
Kochi University. One of my friends
expressed her hesitation about uprising forthe national flag rising and national anthem.
I decided to accompany her. After four
years of spending time at the Grassroots
House my concept of values has changed.
I recognized that we are in a society where
we are naturally monitored, mistakenly
consider someone else’s value as one’s own
value, majorities pressure minorities
neglecting individuality, etc. I feel thegap between my friends and my peace
activities but I will fight against ‘theignorance of not knowing the ignorance.’

I have been busy for three months since I
started working as a secretary-general for
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Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan
425 Shirasaka-Miwadai, Shirakawa-city,
Fukushima, Japan
Tel: 81-248-2108
URL: http://www.am-j.or.jp/index2.htm

the Grassroots House. I have met many
people through the museum such as Korean
researchers and local officials who are
working on creating a town with habitats forotters, members of NPO that promotes local
development in Kansai, etc. Everybody I
met treated me with respect, which isnaturally expected but important anddifficult.

Maebashi City Museum of Literature:
Gunma
A special exhibition ‘Records of air raids
and war damage’ was held from July 21 toAugust 5, 2007. Source materials of air
raids and war damages from Maebashi andother cities were displayed.
Tel: 81-27-235-8011
Fax: 81-27-235-8521

Meeting with different people also provides
me with different views and experiences.
My daily life is filled with various issues.
I feel strong anger against the Japanese
government’s high-handed foreign anddomestic affairs that can be hardly
considered as democratic, but I am also
disgusted with myself being involuntary.
I’d like to reflect on myself in order toenhance my daily life.

Peace Museum of Saitama
The 4 th theme exhibition ‘Social situation in
Magazines and newspaper appendix’ washeld form February 17 to April 8, 2007.
The 1 st theme exhibition ‘Japanesecontribution to international peace after WW
Ⅱ – International activities of Japan
Disaster Relief Team and new collection ofsource materials’ was held from April 28 toJune 24, 2007.

Japanese Network News
Pacific War History Museum: Iwate
President Iwabuchi received the 9 th culturalaward from Iwate Nippo (Daily News)
Company for his commitment to homing of
fallen soldiers remains in foreign countries
and contribution in building the museum at
his own expenses for peace. The fact thatover one million fallen soldiers remains arestill abroad after 60 years of the war is asignificant social issue.
Excerpt from War History Museum
Newsletter
Tel: 81-197-52-3000
Fax: 81-197-52-4574

The 2 nd theme exhibition ‘Rescue in war
time – Trajectory of nurses from Japanese
Red Cross’ was held from July 21 toSeptember 9, 2007. Picture records areavailable.
Peace and Culture Exhibition on Arts
(exhibition of drawings of elementary and Jr.
high school students) was held form
December 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007.

Fukushima Municipal Hall
A documentary drama, ‘Senpo Sugihara’,
was played on August 30, 2007.
Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan hosted aplay by Dora theater company that portraits
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who
saved over 6000 Jewish people by issuingvisas disobeying the Japanese government’s
order. This play has been performed allover the world for over 800 times.

The 2 nd Peace reading recital 2006 was held
on November 25, 2006 and a volunteer
group ‘Hazuki’ from Iruma city participated.
On November 11, 2006, the 2 nd meeting withpeople with war experiences was held andYoshiko Kogure shared her military nurse
experience.
As special movie showing, ‘Hotaru’ wasplayed on Novemeber 18 and ‘Kuroi Ame’8

Exhibition of Suma Maruki for children‘Summer vacation of grandma Suma’ washeld from July 7 to August 8, 2007.

(Black rain) was shown on March 17, 2007.
Tel: 81-493-35-4111
Fax: 81-493-35-4112
URL:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/saotamapeacem
useum/

A special talk ‘The Hiroshima Panels –Thinking of future of the ‘past’’ as 40 th
anniversary event was held on May 5, 2007.
This talk aimed to explore the meaning of
the museum that permanently displays theHiroshima Panels and to project the futureof museums by reflecting the Hiroshima
Panels.

Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima
Panels:Higashi-matsuyama, Saitama
The 3 rd program exhibition ‘Drawing
Journey – Paintings of Iri and Toshi Maruki’
was held from October 28, 2006 to January
13, 2007. Toshi Maruki spend two years
in Russia and visited Micronesia and Iri
Maruki traveled around Japan before WWⅡ .
After the war, they traveled domesticallyand internationally for the exhibitions of
their Hiroshima Panels. They also madetrips to the sites such as Minamata,Auschwitz, and Okinawa to conduct
research for their paintings. This
exhibition focused on the Maruki’s trips andshows their paintings that were notdisplayed that frequently.

Narita Yokan (sweet jelly of beans)
Museum:Narita, Chiba
The 7 th exhibition ‘The story of battlefield
comfort and military postal service’ washeld from December 2006 to April 30, 2007.
A founder of a sweetshop, Nagazo Morooka,
sent comfort articles such as sweet jelly ofbeans and charms from the Narita-san
temple to the soldiers from his hometown.
Many thank you letters are stored. The
exhibition displays comfort articles, letters,poster of comfort sweet jelly of beans, andthank you notes. Some of the thank you
letters captured the actual condition of thefront. An explanatory panel about war
history in Sakura regiment from National
Museum of Japanese History was displayed.
Tel: 81-476-22-2266
URL://www.nagomi-yoneya.co.jp/shiryo.htmOpen talk ‘Reflecting Circuit Exhibitions of
the Hiroshima Panels in the U.S.’ was held
on November 12.
The 4 th program exhibition ‘Renaissance ofCondemned Properties’ was held fromJanuary 21 to March 31, 2007, that
displayed art works that are made of
discarded articles of daily use.

The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War
Damage: Koutou-ku: Tokyo
The Institute of Politics and Economy andt he Center of the Tokyo Raids and War
Damages finished to be enlarged on January
15 th 2007 and the center was opened after
renewing exhibits on March 1 st . There arethree rooms on the 3 rd floor to keepmaterials and the rooms were enlarged from80 ㎡ to 125 ㎡ . A meeting room and aroom for explanation was enlarged from 50㎡ to 100 ㎡ .

Peace Fundamental Memorial Exhibition
was held from April 5 to 18, 2007.
Maruki Gallery 40 th Anniversary Exhibition‘Toshi Maruki – from Private Women's
School of Fine Arts Time to the Hiroshima
Panels’ was held from April 24 to June 30,
2007. Toshi Maruki learned oil paintings
at Private Women's School of Fine Arts andbegan her career as a painter. This
exhibition traced Toshi’s career path with
its focus on her overseas experiences andher collaboration with her husband, Iri inproduction of the Hiroshima Panels.

The rooms on the floor include exhibits on
the so-called Fifteen Year War from 1931 to1945 and the emphasis is put on U.S. air
9raids of Tokyo. The amount of documentson air raids of Tokyo was increased anddocuments on experiences of the air raids ofTokyo became available. We made efforts
to make materials easier to be seen and readand the explanation of the documents wasrevised to make them more scientific. A
room under blackout was restored though it
is small.
Not only the victim side ofJapanese by U.S. air raids but also the one of
Koreans are dealt with.

A photo exhibition by Kenji Suzuki was heldfrom July 25 th to Aug. 20 th .
The 6 th workshop was held on Dec. 16 th
2006 and Masahiko Yamabe gave a report on
the latest efforts for study of the 15 year war
at peace museums and history museums”
this is the result of studying exhibitions on
war at museums in 2006 at the Institute of
Politics and Economy and it was publishedas “Museums for Peace Today” in Rekishi
Hyouron (Criticism in History) in March2007.

In a new room the history of the Associationof Recording U.S. Air Raids of Tokyo andthe history of the movement to demandcompensation are introduced as well as
materials on messages for peace. In theother new room, a corner for exhibits on war
and children was enlarged and education
during the war, the evacuation of children
and the democratization of education after
the war are dealt with.

In the 7 th workshop held on January 9 thMasumi Ueno gave a report on the processof the enactment of Law to Protect War
Victims and their Families.
In the 8 thworkshop held on Feb. 9th Tetsuo Aoki gave
a report on policies of shelters in Japan.
In the 9 th workshop held on April 14 th Kaoru
Matsui, a curator of Edo Tokyo Museum,gave a book review on “Record: mobilizing
girls to work”(Kiroku: Shoujotachi no
Kinrou Douin).

Painting on U.S. air raids of Tokyo by Giichi
Kojima and others was increased on the 2 nd
floor. A map of devastated area by the air
raids was made including the targets of the
air raids and information of munitions
factories using U.S. report on damages andmaterials of former Japanese army. Photos
on air raids not only in Tokyo but also inother areas are exhibited and a map of U.S.
air raids of Japanese cities was made.
Sketches of “Peace Statue of Children in theWorld” in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima were
exhibited until May.

In the 10 th workshop held on May 27 th
Keiichiro Ichinose gave a report on Chinese
lawsuit against bombing of Chongqing.
Toshiya Ikou gave a report on the summaryof the bombing of Chongqing and the relatedmaterials. The 11 th workshop was held on
June 16 th and Hiroshi Hoshino and Keizou
Harada gave a report on the process of thelawsuit on U.S. air raids of Tokyo and its
significance. In the 12 th workshop held on
July 21 st Shinichi Arai gave a report on theInternational Popular Court: Hiroshima.

There was a special exhibition on materials
on experiences of the air raids written by
320 victims. An invitation letter was sent
to the writers, but about 180 letters werereturned. There were only 15 families to
see the exhibit.

Newsletter of the Institute on War Damages
was published and the reports at theworkshops were published.
Tadahito
Yamamoto’s report on private aids tovictims of the U.S. air raids of Tokyo was
published in the journal of the Institute of
Politics and Economy No. 87 (Nov. 2006).

The 5 th anniversary of the opening of thecenter was held at Kameria Hall in front ofKameido Station on March 10 th and Hisashi
Inoue gave a lecture on U.S. air raids inJapan. A booklet on his lecture and reports
was published as a booklet.

Tetsuo Aoki’s report on policies of shelters
in Japan was published in the journal of the10

on April 13 th : Poetry and Paintings” washeld from April 6 th to 15 th . It was planned
by Mr. Akira Sirabe, a researcher of Yutaka
Maruno, and Ms. Kaya Kumagai, thedirector of Morikazu Kumagai Art Museum.
Exhibited were Yutaka Maruno’s sketch of
the ruins of the air raids near Sugamo JuniorHigh School, sketch and oil paintings of theruins of the air raids near Ikebukuro by
Tadashi Yoshii, Kaya Kumagai’s prose
poem on the air raids, the result of theinvestigation of war damages of national
school in Toshima-ku and so forth.

Institute of Politics and Economy No. 88(May 2007) and also will be published inGerman in a book on Shelters edited by Inge
Marszolek/Marc Buggeln.
Tel:03-5857-5631 Fax:03-5683-3326
http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~sensai/
Sumida Heritage Museum: Tokyo
An exhibition of “People who drew pictures
on U.S. air raids of Tokyo: memory ofpeople who experienced the air raids andtheir expression” was held from Feb. 10 th toApril 15 th . Not only completed paintings
but also their rough drawings and sketches
were exhibited because impressions of the
air raids are expressed directly in sketches.
It is also possible to guess the painters’
track of mind from their memory to
expression.

Tel:03-3957-3779
Fax:03-3959-9034
http://www.kumagaimori.jp/

A journal of Life and Culture No. 16 waspublished on March 1 st 2007. Included arearticles such as “The situation of theevacuation after the U.S. undiscriminatory
air raids and problems” by Tetsuo Aoki, and“Activities in Neighboring Groups inToshima-ku seen in the record of
Neighboring Groups” by Nobunao Itoh.

ParliamentaryMuseum:Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo
There was an exhibition on the enforcementof the Japanese Constitution as the 60 th
anniversary from April 26 th to May 20 th
2007. Exhibited were the process of the
proclamation of the Japanese Constitution,
its enforcement, and the process before theopening of the 1 st Diet under the new
constitution using materials in the memorial,
calligraphy, paintings of related figures andphotos. Included were a picture of “Father
and his daughter” by Akihiko Tsurumaru
who painted pictures on U.S. air raids ofTokyo, a picture scroll on the recovery ofGinza by Yutaka Asou, Iwasaburo Takano’s
private draft of the outline of theConstitution of the Republic of Japan,
Akahata No. 1 which started to be publishedagain after the war and has Kyuichi
Tokuda’s signature, the declaration of
forming Japan Socialist Party that Inejirou
Asanuma kept, and books such as New
Constitution: Bright Life Story of the New
Constitution. A leaflet was published.

Tel:03-3980-2351 Fax:03-3980-5271
http://www.museum.toshima.tokyo.jp/top.ht
ml

Tel:03-3581-1651 Fax:03-3581-7962
http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_annai.nsf/ht
ml/statics/kensei/kensei.htm

Morikazu
KumagaiArt
Museum:Toshima-ku, Tokyo
An exhibition of “U.S. Air Raids on Tokyo

National Archives of Japan: Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo
A special exhibition of “Departure of

Tel:03-5619-7034 Fax:03-3625-3431
http://www.city.sumida.lg.jp/sisetu_info/sir
you/kyoudobunka/info/kuusyuten/index.htm
lToshima Historical Museum: Tokyo
An exhibition of “Summer to think of war
2007” was held from July 20 th to Oct. 14 th .
Exhibited were articles on mobilization ofpeople, 150 letters written by children andtheir families, life during WW Ⅱ andneighboring groups, air raided Toshima-ku
and so forth.

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Library on War Experiences: Nara
Letters written during World War II are kept
at Nara Prefecture Library and some letterswere exhibited from July 25 th to Aug. 6 th .
It is possible to know what people thought
about their family and friends and theimportance of life, which is moving. The
purpose of the exhibition is to give a chance
to visitors to think what war did toward
people through letters.
Also exhibited
were books on letters written during the war
including books on letters from Ioujima.
Young men had to become soldiers when
they became 20 years old. The exhibits
include call-up papers, soldiers’ letters totheir families, postcards from Sumatra,
China, the Philippines and letters written bysoldiers’s families, family photos, lettersthat reported soldiers’ death, etc.

Reconstructed Japan: Enforcement of theJapanese Constitution in May 1947” washeld from May 3 rd to 22 nd as the 60 th
anniversary of the enforcement of theJapanese Constitution.
Archives were
exhibited including the original of theJapanese Constitution, a proposal of theConstitution revised at the Diet, the processof the enactment of the JapaneseConstitution, planning of various policies
following the new Constitution and theirenforcement and so forth. An illustrated
book was published.
Tel:03-3214-0621
http://www.archives.go.jp
Chihiro Art Museum: Tokyo
There was an exhibition of “Peace andHappiness to all the children in the world”
as the 30 th anniversary of the museum from
July 4 th to Sep. 2 nd .
Chihiro Iwasaki
expressed her wish for peace and happinessin her pictures. Some of her pictures were
exhibited from a book of Children in theFires of War(Senkano Nakano Kodomotachi)
andThe
Japanese
Constitution
toChildren(Inoue Hisashi no Kodomoni
Tsutaeru Nihonkoku Kenpou).
Also
exhibited were Ben Shahn’s pictures in a
picture book of This is the House: Ben
Shahn’s the Fifth Lucky Dragon (Korega
Ieda: Ben Shahn no Daigo Fukuryu-maru)
published in 2006. His sculpture of motherand a child was also exhibited. There wasalso an exhibition for children in Viet Nam:posters and picture books against Viet Nam
War.
The names of the painters whose
pictures were exhibited are Yousuke Inoue,
Chihiro Iwasaki, Kouichi Kume, Seizou
Tazima, Hiroshi Tada, Osamu Teduka,
Shigeo Nishimura, Tomoko Hasegawa,
Makoto Wada, etc.

Tel: 0742-34-2111 Fax: 0742-34-2777
http://www.library.pref.nara.jp/sentai/gallery.htmlPeace/Dragonfly Museum: Toshima-ku,
Tokyo
There is Peace/Dragonfly Museum near
Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo. Mr. Koujirou
Shiraishi opened it 18 years ago. There
are about 200 kinds of dragonfly among 210
kinds that could be discovered in Japan. It
is open only for two days a month and theadmission fee is free. There is a messageof “War is the biggest causes of thedestruction of nature.” He said, “I hopethat visitors feel the importance of natureand life through dragonflies.
Peace isindispensable for all creatures. I’d like totell this to other people” according to
Akahata dated Feb. 25 th 2007.
Jiyu Minkek Institute of Machida City:
Tokyo
There was an exhibition of “Landscape andPeople in the North-eastern Part of China
from a Soldier ’s Viewpoint” from July 28 th
to Sep. 9 th .
Exhibits were donated inAugust 1988 by the late Mr. Jinzaburo
Ichikawa who lived in Machida City. He
worked as a guard of railroads in the

Chihiro Art Museum
4-7-2 Shimoshakuji, Nerima, Tokyo 4-7-2
Tel: 03-3995-0612
Fax: 03-3995-0680
http://www.chihiro.jp/tokyo/schedule.html

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pictures including three pictures awarded
grands prix were exhibited.

north-eastern part of China during WorldWar II.
He brought many photos,
postcards and his diary back to Japan.
Photos show Japanese soldiers working as
guards of railways, towns along therailroads, life in rural areas in Manchuria,
and Chinese people who resisted against
Japan’s invasion. There are two kinds of
postcards: ones written by Japanese soldiers
showing landscapes and people in China,
and the others sent to Japanese soldiers by
Japanese living in Japan.
Mr. Ichikawa
started to work for reconciliation between
Japan and China in the 1960s and held an
exhibition in the 1980s using his several
notebooks in which he wrote his experiencesof the war.
He reflected on Japan’s
invasion of China and wanted the next
generations to know his wish for peace.

Postcards with paintings by cartoonists andwriters on August 15, the day when Japanwas defeated, were exhibited from June 23 rd
to June 29 th .
Tel:075-896-2121 Fax:045-896-2299
http://www.k-i-a.or.jp/plaza/
Japan Newspaper Museum: Yokohama
City, Kanagawa
An exhibition of “Mottainai(what a waste)
Campaign: Power of Media” was held from
April 29 th to June 24 th as the 135 th
anniversary of Mainichi Newspaper. The
purpose is to give a chance to visitors tothink what they can do in their daily lives tochange global warming.
There were
exhibits on the danger of global warming,
reports from the world and Japan, andmottainai campaign for the protection of theenvironment and peace. There was also aclass to learn how to use furoshiki(wrapping
cloth) to reduce wastes.

Professor Toshiya Ichinose of
National
Museum of Japanese History gave a lecture
on death in war shown in military mails on
August 25 th .
Tel:042-734-4508
http://www.city.machida.tokyo.jp/shisetsu/c
ul/cul03/syoukaiindex.html

Tel: 045-661-2040 Fax: 045-661-2029
http://www.pressnet.or.jp/newspark/floor/sc
hedule.html

Hachioji City Historical Museum: Tokyo
An exhibition on Hachioji during World War
II was held from July 31 st to Sep. 9 th .
There were exhibits on blackouts, training
for air defense, shelter against air raids,
which show life during the war.

Kawasaki Peace Museum: Kanagawa
An exhibition of “Poverty and Medical
Issues” was held from Nov. 16 th to 26 th
2006.
There was an exhibition on confusion after
the war from Feb 24 th to March 4 th . Photos
on damages by the U.S. air raids of
Kawasaki were exhibited from March 24 th to
May 6 th . Films of “Speaking and Listening
to War Experiences” and “Our Marbles”
were shown.

Tel:0426-22-8939
http://homepage3.nifty.com/hachioji-city-m
useum/index.html
Kanazawa Plaza for Global Citizenship:
Yokohama City, Kanagawa
An exhibition of pictures by children in theworld was held from May 12 th to 27 th andalso June 23 rd to July 29 th . The purpose is
to foster children’s dream and creativity andto understand different life and culture inorder to realize multi-cultural society. The
exhibition is held biyearly since 1980.
There were 23889 entries by children aged 4

Tel: 044-433-0171
http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/25/25heiwa/home/heiwa.htm
AzuminoChihiroArt
Matsukawa, Nagano
An exhibition of “Chihiro
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Shizuoka” was published on Feb 20 th .
This is based on an investigation of balloon
bombing since 1994.

Kollwitz: two women painters who drew war
and peace „ has been held from Sep. 14 th andend on Nov. 30 th . Chihiro Iwasaki drew
pictures wishing for peace while Käthe
Kollwitz expressed sorrow caused by war inblack-and-white prints.
Both women
independently expressed war and peace as
mother. Chihiro’s “Children in the fires ofwar”, Käthe’s “Sacrifice” and so forth are
introduced.

Tel:054-247-9641 Fax:054-247-9641
http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-heiwa/
Sakuragaoka Museum: Toyokawa City,
Aichi
An exhibition on Navy Armory in Toyokawa
was held from July 21 st to Sep. 2 nd . The
aromory in Toyokawa was built in 1939 andit was called “the biggest armory in theEast”. An exhibition of “Military Service
and People” was also exhibited.

Tel: 0261-62-0772
Fax: 0261-62-0774
http://www.chihiro.jp/azumino/schedule.htm
lTel:0533-85-3775 Fax:0533-85-3776
http://www.city.toyokawa.lg.jp/tanto/bunka/
museum.html

Yanaizu History and Folk Center: Gifu
An exhibition on life during World War II
was held from July 3 rd to Aug. 26 th . There
were various restrictions of people’s lives
since 1931 when Japan started to invade
China. Ten houses were grouped as one
unit and it was called neighboring groups.
The groups deal with training for air defense
against U.S. air raids, a ration of food andclothes, collecting metal for munitions.
Thus people were forced to support the war.
People’s life during the war was shown
through neighboring groups and theiractivities.

Yokkaichi Municipal Museum: Mie
An exhibition of “U.S. Air Raids of
Yokkaichi City and Life during World War
II” was held from June 16 th to Sep. 2 nd .
The purpose is to promote peace education
at school. War-related articles and photos
were exhibited.
Tel:0593-55-2700 Fax:0593-55-2704
http://www.city.yokkaichi.mie.jp/museum/Tel:058-270-1080
http://www.city.gifu.lg.jp/c/40120461/40120
461.html

World Peace by Children – Exhibition of
Dolls for World Peace: Mie
An exhibition of “World Peace by Children– Exhibition of Dolls for World Peace” washeld by Association of Making a Museum of
Dolls as Ambassadors for World Peace at
Paramita Museum from July 28 th to Aug.
26 th .
Japanese children sent beautiful
Japanese dolls to children in other countries
as ambassadors who wish for peace in 1979,
the International Year of Children.
100
dolls were sent to Japan from 56 countries
and they were exhibited.

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka
An exhibition on balloon bombs was heldfrom Oct. 20 th 2006 to Feb. 18 th 2007.
House wives and female students wereforced to work to make balloon bombs
during the war.
There was an exhibition on the bombing of
Mitsubishi factory from March 2 nd to Sep.
23 rd .
There were exhibits on war andtroops in Shizuoka, life during the war, U.S.
air raids of Shizuoka, U.S. bombing of
Mitsubishi factory before the air raids, etc.
A

reportof“Balloon

BombingParamita Museum
Tel: 059-391-1088 Fax: 059-391-1077
http://www.paramitamuseum.com/
E-mail: office@paramitamuseum.com

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An exhibition on Japanese in New Caledonia
was exhibited from May 10 th to June 30 th .

Azai Museam of History and Folklore :Nagahama City, Shiga
There was an exhibition on war from July
25 th to Sep. 2 nd . Mr, Nihei Nishimura who
was a civil servant during the war, kept
some documents on draft and mobilization
against an order to burn them.
Thesematerials were exhibited.

There is a room for a mini-exhibition andthere were various exhibitions: “Scar of Viet
Nam War” from Oct. 11 th to 22nd 2006,“What color is peace? Messages for peaceby one letter” from Oct. 27 th to Nov. 5 th ,“Human beings and war: the origin of war”
from Nov. 22 nd to Dec. 15 th 2006, “Message
from Joumon era: peace in Joumon era fromthe investigation of remains in Miyazaki by
Ritsumeikan University” from Dec. 17 th
2006 to Jan 10 th 2007, “War in Kyoto which
was not known: a Plan of dropping an
atomic bomb on Kyoto – Why was it
possible to prevent it?” from Jan 13rd to Feb.
12 th , “Photos on the earthquake in Pakistan
in media” from Feb 15 th to March 6 th ,“Messages from the Itohs: war remains in
the 20 th century” from March 9 th to April
26 th , and “What is an atomic bomb?:
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Kyoto” from June
26 th to August 31 st .

Tel:0749-74-0101
http://www.city.nagahama.shiga.jp/index/00
0012/002487.html
Oumihachiman Municipal Museum: Shiga
The 2 nd exhibition of “Prayer for Peace” washeld from July 7 th to Aug. 19 th . Exhibited
were articles on the army, youth groups,
school education, children’s evacuation, etc.
Tel:0748-32-7048 Fax:0748-32-7051
http://www.city.omihachiman.shiga.jp/conte
nts_detail.php?co=kak&frmId=823
Rittou History Museum: Shiga
There was an exhibition on life during
World War II from July 28 th to August 19 th .
Even women and children suffered fromhard life during the war. Citizens donatedwar-related articles to the museum and they
were exhibited. An illustrated book will
be published in 2007.

A film of “Etsuko Kamiya’s Youth” wasshown on Dec. 7th 2006 and Professor Ikuro
Anzai and Ms Masako Kamitani, therepresentative of Kyoto Cenema, had a talkshow at Ritsumeikan University.
A journal of Peace Research of Ritsumeikan
University was published on March 13rd.
Mr. Ariyuki Fukushima’s article on peacemuseums is included in it.

People visited war remains at Taisho airportof the army in Yao City, Osaka on August
10 th .
Mr.
SusumuOhnishi
who
investigated the war remains was their
guide.

Tel: 075-465-8151
Fax: 075-465-7899
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

Tel: 077-554-2733 Fax: 077-554-2755
http://www2.city.ritto.shiga.jp/hakubutsukan/Kyoto Seika University: Kyoto
An exhibition on “Requiem, Peace andHuman Beings” was held from May 10 th toJune 17 th .
Works by Saburo Murakami,
Chiharu Shiota, etc. were exhibited.

Kyoto Museum for World Peace: Kyoto
There was an exhibition of photos injournalism from Oct. 1 st to Nov. 12 th .
Lectures were given by Mr. Kouichi
Hirokawa, the editor of Days Japan, andRuhani Kaur, the winner of the first prize inphoto journalism of Days Japan.

Tel:075-702-5230 Fax： 075-705-4076
E-Mail： fleur@kyoto-seika.ac.jp

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Kameoka Municipal Museum of Cultural
Property: Kyoto
There was the 43 rd exhibition on war forpeace from July 28 th to Sept. 2 nd . Articles
used during WWⅡ were exhibited such as
soldiers’ letters, children’s diaries, etc.
There was a mine of tungusten which wasused for producing munitions.
Paintings
by a famous painter, Doumoto Inshou, werealso exhibited because he evacuated to
Kyoto during the war.

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies:
Kyoto“Imagine Peace: Model United Nations” will
be held to think of poverty and peace from
Oct. 26 th to 28 th . A plan to reduce poverty
will be made at the conference and the plan
will be practiced for one year. Visitors caneat food that is actually eaten by poor
people at a “hunger banquet” and discuss
issues on poverty. Donation at a charity
party will be donated to NPOs(nonprofit
organization) that deal with poverty.
A
representative of NPO that aims atpreserving traditional fabric technique inCambodia will come.
Contact person: Ms Mariko Asano
Imagine Peace at Kyoto University
Foreign Studies

Tel:0771-22-0599 Fax:0771-25-6128
http://www.city.kameoka.kyoto.jp
Osaka International Peace Center (Peace
Osaka): Osaka
Photos on environmental issues were
exhibited from Nov. 21 st to Dec. 24 th .

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Tel：075-322-6072（ 9-13:00 from Monday to
Friday）
Fax： 075-322-6218
E-mail: imaginesupport@gmail.com
http://www.kufs.ac.jp/MUN/index_j.html

There was an exhibition on war experiencesfrom Jan. 13 th to April 10 th . Paintings on
the Pacific War drawn by a former soldier,
Kenichi Ohta, paintings on U.S. air raids ofOsaka and children’s evacuation during WW
Ⅱ and a picture book on the U.S. air raidsof Osaka by Jun Hiraoka were exhibited.

Doshisha University: Kyoto
The 31 st exhibition of “Doshisha and War
1930-1945) was held from April 2 nd to Aug.
31 st . Christian universities such as Doshisha
was oppressed by the army and students
could not study during WWⅡ . Articles by
students who were sent to battlefields were
exhibited so that young people would think
what war is.

There was a special exhibition of “I would
like to protect children’s lives: children
under conflicts in the world seen by Agunes
Chan” from April 20 th to June 24 th .
There was an exhibition on people who
suffered from the lack of freedom of speechand necessities from June 5 th to Sep. 16 th .
Japan invaded China in 1937 and attacked
the Malay Peninsula and the Pearl Harbor on
Dec. 8 th 1941. People suffered from thelack of necessities such as food and clothes
because munitions were prioritized during
WW Ⅱ . English was prohibited as an“enemy language” and there was no freedomof speech. Rice and clothes were on shortrations. About 200 articles which showedpeople’s suffering were exhibited such as
tickets for rice and clothes, shoes made fromcloth, a certificate that people lost houses
because of the U.S. air raids, etc.

Tel： 075-251-3042 Fax： 075-251-3055
http://joseph.doshisha.ac.jp/room/
Joyo Historical and Folklore ReferenceCenter: Kyoto
An exhibition on war and Joyo was heldfrom July 7 th to Sep. 9 th . There are people
who were killed in action and who lost theirfamily and lovers. It is hoped that visitors
could think of war and peace.
Tel:0774-55-7611
http://www.city.joyo.kyoto.jp/living/educati
on/museum/page8
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Mr. Takuma Fukuyama, the editor of
Testimony to Grandchildren, gave a lectureon the way of telling war experiences totheir grandchildren on March 10 th .

Textbooks on April 1 st . A citizen donated
93 school textbooks used in Meiji era. The
details are available in Newsletter ofGrassroots No. 31.

Films were shown to children from Dec.
22 nd to 24 th 2006 such as “Rain of Fire
falls”.

Tel & Fax: 072-229-4736
Open-Air Museum of Japanese FarmHouses : Toyonaka City, Osaka
An exhibition on a powder magazine washeld from March 8 th to 21 st . There was apowder magazine of the Army in Hirakata
city during WW Ⅱ .
Cannonballs andbricks were excavated and the result of theinvestigation was displayed.

Peace and War: Journal of Osaka
International Peace Institute Vol. 16 2007
was published on March 31 st . Included are
Atsuo Yokoyama’s article on monuments forsoldiers who died because of their loyalty to
the emperor, Tetsu Fukubayashi’s article on
the camp for prisoners of war in Osaka
during WWⅡ , Professor Hitoshi Koyama’s
article on U.S. air raids of Akashi, etc.

Tel:06-6862-3137 Fax:06-6862-3147
http://www.occh.or.jp/minka/index.html

Tel:06-6947-7208 Fax:06-6943
http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/

Henomatsu Museum on History of Human
Rights: Sakai City, Osaka
An exhibition on the outcast in Sakai washeld from May 1 st to Oct. 30 th .
It ispossible for visitors to know their life andwork by a painting drawn in 1695, and know
discrimination against the outcast in the
fewdal times.
This exhibition leads tounderstanding discriminatory issues today.
Address: c/o Jinken Fureai Center, 2-61
Kyouwa-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka

Sakai City Peace and Human Rights
Museum: Osaka
An exhibition of “We live in Sakai. We liveon the earth: all life is born in goodenvironment” was held from Dec. 1 st to 10 th
2006.
There was an exhibition on Chiune Sugihara
who saved 6000 lives during WWⅡ from
Jan. 6 th to March 30 th .

Tel:072-245-2536

An exhibition on Life during World War II
drawn in picture-story shows was held from
April 1 st to June 29 th .

Fax:072-245-2535

Himeji Historical Peace Center: Hyogo
War-related articles were exhibited from Jan.
16 th to March 25 th so that visitors could
think of people’s suffering during WW Ⅱ
and the preciousness of peace in modern
Japan. There were several themes such as
soldiers sent to battlefields, people’s life,
school life and the U.S. air raids.

Paintings on U.S. air raids drawn by citizens
were exhibited from July 1 st to Sep. 29 th .
The purpose is to make a chance for visitors
to think of the misery of war andpreciousness of peace.
Tel:072-270-8150 Fax:072-270-8159
http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/city/info/_jinken/

An exhibition on children’s life during WW
Ⅱ was held from April 6 th to July 1 st . It
was based on children’s diaries in Tokyo
from 1940 to 1944. Photos and articles
written in children’s diaries were displayed
as that visitors can think of the misery of
war and preciousness of peace.

Children Center for Peace and Human
Rights: Sakai City, Osaka
The Children Center for Peace and Human
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Anti-nuclear exhibition for peace was heldfrom July 15 th to Aug. 31 st , which has been
held every year since 1986.
Tel:0792-91-2525 Fax:0792-91-2526
http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/

Human Rights and Peace Museum
Fukuyama City: Hiroshima
People living near rivers and their culture offishing were exhibited from Jan. 17 toMarch 15 th .

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum:
Hiroshima
A plan for the renewal of the museum wasannounced because the building of themuseum isgetting old since it was built in
1955. The purpose of the plan is to makevisitors understand the reality of the atomic
bombing more easily.
1. The building will be reinforced with akind of rubber so that it can survive in thecase of an earthquake.
2. Exhibits will be reviewed so that thereality of the atomic bombing will be
understood better. Space will be made sothat visitors can reflect on the atomic
bombing and dialogue with other people.
3. An information center and the website
will be made more effective.
4. People will be trained so that theexperiences of the atomic bombing can be
told to visiors according to “Peace Culture”
No. 164.

Cartoons
were
exhibitedbytwelvecartoonists who lived in China when they
were small.
Their hard life going back to Japan after
Japan’s defeat was displayed.
TEL:084-924-6789 Fax:084-924-6850
http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/jinkenheiwashiryoukan/
Takamatsu Civic Culture Center , Peace
Museum: Kagawa
A traveling exhibit on the U.S. Air Raids on
Takamatsu City was shown at Lifelong
Study Center from Feb. 20 th to March 4 th .
The purpose is to raise awareness of peace
among citizens.
Tel:087-833-7728
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/1794.h
tml
The Naruto German Museum: Tokushima
There were concerts, a poster exhibition onsightseeing in Germany, a German beer &wine festival, an art festival, and workshop
on woodcut in spring and summer.

Tel:082-241-4004 Fax:082-542-7941
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/
Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall
for Atomic Bomb Victims: Hiroshima
An exhibition called “Memory which should
not be forgotten” has been held from April
1 st and it will end on March 31 st 2008.
Tel:082-543-6271 Fax:082-543-6273
http://www.hiro-tsuitokinenkan.go.jp/

Christmas market exhibition and concerts
will be held in fall and winter.
Newspaper published by German prisonersof war was translated into Japanese, whichis introduced in Newsletter called Ruhepublished in March.

Mirasaka Art Museum for Peace: Miyoshi
City, Hiroshima
Paintings by Shunzo Kakite and a circle ofhis friends have been exhibited from Sep. 1 st
and it will end on Dec. 26. They searchedfor peace through their paintings.

Tel: 088-689-0099
doitukan@city.naruto.1g.jp
Grassroots House: Kochi
Secretary-General: Ayumi Hiwatashi
Every summer, we hold a peaceful event
called “Peace Wave in Kochi.” This event ismade by many kinds of organizations andTel&Fax:0824-44-3214

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parties of Kochi in July, downtown streets
are covered with almost a million paper
cranes. It is because Kochi city was air
raided by U.S. bombers in World War II on
July 4 th . A lot of elementary school pupils
and senior citizens of nursing homes makethem wishing the peaceful world. Thus,
many Kochi citizens can take part in thisevent doing some kind of activities. So
Peace Wave in Kochi has a lot of events.
There are an exhibition on World War II andwars today, Peace Art Festival, Peace Film
Festival, Peace Concert, a party at the forest
called “Constitution Forest”, Peace Marchand so on. Next year we will celebrate the30th anniversary of this event. It is very
important that all people can join, feel andthink about peace and war in these events.
So we’d like to value every one and every
life.

as the ones taken in the battlefield in
Indochina.
Nagasaki Art Museum
2-1 Dejima, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki
Tel: 095-833-2110 Fax:095-833-2115
E-mail: info@nagasaki-museum.jp
http://www.nagasaki-museum.jp/
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial
MuseumAn exhibition for children called “Let’s
think about human rights” was held from
Nov. 27 th to Dec. 24, 2006. An exhibition
on international understanding was heldfrom Jan. 15 th to Feb. 25 th .
A special
exhibition on the people who were forced tofight at the battle of Okinawa was held from
Jan. 16 th to Feb. 25 th .
Tel:098-997-3844 Fax:098-997-3947
http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp

We all live in the peaceful planet. We all
have responsibility and peaceful sense tolive together since we were born here. So I
believe that we should do our best toconnect with everything feeling love one
another. Then we would be able to makethe peaceful world someday.

Life is Treasure House（ Nuchi du Takara
no Ie） : Okinawa
Village of Apology was opened on June 23 rdin 1984, 40 years after the end of the battle
in Okinawa. The name of the village wasnamed after Mr. Shoukou Awagon’s idea thatpeaceful life can be realized only when there
is a spirit for apology.

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

There are House of Peace and Life isTreasure House (Anti-War Museum for
Peace) in the village.
People work
together helping one another including
handicapped people, old people and children
at the House of Peace.

Nagasaki A-Bomb Museum
An exhibition on reality of the atomic
bombing was held from Oct. 4 th 2006 to
March 19 th 2007. Articles related to theatomic bombing, photographs of deceased
people and essays on experiences as atomic
bomb survivors were exhibited.

Life is Treasure House was opened on Dece.
8 th , 1984.
War-related articles are
exhibited as well as introducing people whofought for peace. There is a memorial for
U.S. and Japanese soldiers who were kelledin action.
Mr. Awagon believed that
non-violence is important and such an idea
is exhibited as “They that live by the sword
shall perish by the sword.”(Matt 26:52) and“A nationa with military bases shall perish
by nuclear weapons.”

Tel:095-844-1231 Fax:095-846-5170
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bo
mb/museum/
Nagasaki Art Museum, Nagasaki City
Life and photos of Robert Capa(1913-1954）
were exhibited from July 13 th to Sep. 2 nd .
He became famous for his photos taken at
the civil war in Spain. His photos taken
when he was young were exhibited as well19

exhibitions which nicely complemented eachother. '"My Country is the Whole World" Women Peacemakers' is an exhibition by
The Peace Museum in Bradford which tells
the inspiring and often moving stories ofsome of the many women, and women'sgroups, from around the world who haveworked for peace, in the past or today.
Taking as its motto a well-known saying by
Virginia Woolf, the exhibition shows thatas mothers, nurturers and care-givers women
have often transcended national boundaries,
coming together to oppose war and promote
peace in all its various dimensions.

Iejima Newsletter is published in Japanese.
Tel:0980-49-3047 Fax:0980-49-5834
E-mail wabiai@giga.ocn.ne.jp
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~wabiaiindex.html
Okinawa Museum & Gallery: Okinawa
Museum & Gallery will be opened at
Omoro-town, Naha City on Nov. 1 st , 2007.
The theme of a permanent exhibition at themuseum is “Living in the sea and the island
searching for richness, beauty and peace.
Nature, history and culture of Okinawa will
be exhibited as well as its natural history,archaeology, arts and crafts and folklore.
In the gallery Okinawan artists’ paintingsand photos will be exhibited.

Among the individual women featured are
Margaret Fell (17th Century Mother of
Quakerism), Priscilla Peckover (remarkablepioneer of the 19th century women's peace
movement), and Vera Brittain. Representing
the wider world are the German artist
Kaethe Kollwitz, the anti-nuclear andpro-green activist Petra Kelly, early critics
of chemical warfare Clara Immerwahr andGertrude Woker, Hiroshima schoolgirl
Sadako Sasaki (who gave the world a newpeace symbol with the paper cranes she
folded during her fatal illness), as well as
recent Nobel peace laureates Shirin Ebadi(Iran) and Wangari Maathai (Kenya). The
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Argentina),
Women's Aid for Peace (which provided
practical aid to war-torn former Yugoslavia),anti-nuclear weapons campaigners in the UK
such as the Greenham Common Women, andTrident Ploughshares, are among thecollective peace efforts documented. One of
the 28 panels is about United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1325 – the firstsuch resolution which addresses the impact
of war on women, and women's contribution
to peaceful conflict resolution.

Office of Education, Okinawa Prefecture
3-1-1 Omoromachi, Naha City, Okinawa
Administration: Tel： 098-941-8200
Fax： 098-941-3530
Museum:Tel ： 098-851-5401
Fax ：098-941-3650
Gallery:Tel ： 098-851-5402
Fax ：098-941-3730
E-mail: aa318400@pref.okinawa.jp
http://www-edu.pref.okinawa.jp/kensetsu/in
dex.html****************************

International News
Women Peacemakers: EnglandAt the beginning of March, Jody Williams
visited the University to participate in thesecond PeaceJam held in Bradford. She gave
a public lecture on 2nd March and during thefollowing two days worked directly withyoung people from schools in the region onwhat it means to be a peacemaker. In 1997
she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize inrecognition of her efforts as coordinator of
the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines.

One panel of 'Women Peacemakers' isdevoted to Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914),
the Austrian writer and peace activist who
was the first woman to be honoured with theNobel Peace Prize (1905). She was one of
the most eloquent voices at the end of the
19th and beginning of the 20th century

Coinciding with her visit, and meant as acelebration of women peacemakers,
the University's Gallery II showed two
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Austrian Euro 1 coin). In Bradford, theBertha von Suttner exhibition also featured
a case displaying these stamps and coins, aswell as other artefacts concerning her,including a publication issued by theEuropean Economic and Social Committeeof the EU in connection with the renaming
after Bertha von Suttner of an officebuilding in Brussels.

warning of the dangers of a war between theEuropean powers. Her novel 'Lay Down
Your Arms' (1889) stimulated thedevelopment of a peace movement in many
countries and led her, unexpectedly, tobecome the founder and president of theAustrian Peace Society as well as
co-founder of the German Peace Society. At
a time when women hardly played a role inpublic life, let alone in the discussion about
war and peace (and in an imperial Germany,
and Austria-Hungary, with a strong andproud military tradition), she had toconfront much hostility and ridicule. But
such was her standing in the international
peace movement of the time that she was the
only woman who was admitted to the publicgallery during the opening of the First
Hague Peace Conference (1899). Moreover,her private salon was much frequented by
the official diplomats and other delegates tothis important conference which resulted in
the creation of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration as a means to avoid war between
states. Not the least of her achievements,
she successfully persuaded her friend,
Alfred Nobel, to do something for peace'from beyond the grave', as she pleaded withhim. The result, as revealed in his testament,
was the creation of the Nobel Peace Prize.

For more information about 'Women
Peacemakers' or 'Bertha von Suttner'
please contact Peter Nias
(peacemuseum@bradford.gov.uk) or Petervan denDungen (P.Vandendungen@bradford.ac.uk),
respectively.
--------------------------------Dr. Peter van den DungenDepartment of Peace Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
UK
Tel. (44)1274-234177
Fax (44)1274-235240************************************
February 12, 2007
Press release

These and other details of the biography of aremarkable woman are told and illustrated in'Bertha von Suttner - A Life for Peace', theother exhibition shown. It wascommissioned by the Austrian Foreign
Ministry to celebrate in 2005 the 100th
anniversary of her Nobel Peace Prize. The
main steps of her eventful life arechronologically documented in 16 large andcolourful panels with revealing photographs,
contemporary cartoons, and striking
quotations. Both the Austrian and German
postal authorities brought out special
commemorative stamps in 2005, and theGerman Mint issued a special Euro 10 silvercoin featuring Bertha von Suttner together
with the title of her famous novel. Since theintroduction of the Euro, her portrait is on
the Austrian Euro 2 coin (Mozart is on the

Women directly targeted in Burmese
regime's terror campaign in Karen State
State of Terror, a report launched today by
the Karen Women's Organization, provides
graphic evidence of the widespread terror
tactics being employed by the military
regime's troops against women acrossBurma's Karen State.
As the atrocities
continue, the KWO appeals for concerted
international pressure on the regime to bringabout an immediate nationwide ceasefire
and withdrawal of Burmese Army troops
from the ethnic states.
"We deeply regret the veto by China andRussia and South Africa’s vote against the
UN Security Council Resolution on Burmalast month," said KWO Secretary Naw
Zipporah Sein. "It is equivalent to endorsing
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from Burma (Myanmar), the largest country
in mainland South-East Asia. Within theoverall population of Burma of some 50
million people, the Karen are 1 of 8 primaryethnic groups. It is estimated that 5 millionof Burma’s population are Karen and since1980 over 800,000 Karen have fled intoneighbouring Thailand. Victims of a ruthless
Burmese military, Forgotten Friends records
the plight of the Karen refugees – their fightagainst oppression and their ongoing daily,
often insurmountable, challenges.

the regime’s terror campaign in Karen State.
They are giving us a death sentence." Thereport documents over 4,000 cases of abuse,including rape, murder, torture and forced
labour, mainly over the past few years, inover 190 villages by troops from over 40
Burmese Army battalions.
Repeated
incidents of gang-rape in 2006 reveal thatthe patterns of systematic sexual violence
exposed by the KWO in their 2004 report
Shattering Silences are still continuing.
Harrowing testimony in the report describes
women seeing their children killed before
their eyes, women used as humanminesweepers,
andpregnant
women
suffering miscarriages while carrying heavyloads for the army. Many of the abuses
took place during the ongoing military
offensives by the regime in eastern Burma,
which have displaced over 25,000 villagers
during 2006.
Blooming Night Zan, whocollected information for the reportemphasized that the military offensive wasstill going on. “It was heart-breaking to hear
the personal tragedies from the hundreds ofpeople interviewed. It is unbearable toknow this hell still going on right now, evenas people are doing their best to survive.
The situation is past critical. Theinternational community must act now tostop it.” The full text of the report can beviewed at www.karenwomen.org

The project, undertaken in collaboration
with Karen refugee students in the summerof 2006, presents on the one hand amazing
innocent children who survive and yet, haveno voice to, or window on, the outside
world; and on the other the grim reality thatis preventing a better tomorrow.
The
project includes a variety of different
multi-media strands including: a travelingphotography exhibition, children’s book,interactive DVD and workshops run atvarious locations. The project graphically
documents and illustrates beauty andsadness of our forgotten friends in equalmeasure.
With Mother and Child, Manser has
portrayed a 30 year old widow with her son;her innocent smile hiding a darker side of
why she has fled to the refugee camp.
Manser explains, “Naw Shar Mlu and her
son have survived against all odds following
the abduction of her husband by the Karenni
Solidarity Organization militia in November
2005. They fled their home after it wasburned to the ground. By Christmas, she
received the news that her husband had beenmurdered. Her struggle for survival goeson.” The image displays a fine line thatexists between enforced poverty, loss andglobal accountability.

For further details, please contact:
Naw Zipporah Sein + 66 81 952 7145
Blooming Night Zan + 66 81 973 6471
Naw Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw + 66 85 734
8825
Karen Women's Organization (KWO)
P.O Box 19, Mae Sariang 58110, Thailand
Email: kwocentral@tttmaxnet.com,
Forgotten Friends from Burma
A new Multi-Media exhibition by Ben
Manser(Article by Benny Manser and Ian
McClurg-Welland)

Another image creates a debate ofboundaries and circumstance, that of Norda
hiding in reeds.
Manser achieves
inquisitiveness on the part of Norda whilst
providing her with a chance to enjoy a joyful

Forgotten Friends are the Karen refugees
22calmness. The boundary is not only createdby reeds, but also by distance culturally anddemocratically. Manser faced however, an
additional torment. He sadly advises,“Norda was one of four siblings being
looked after by her mother. Norda’s father
had remained behind in Burma. I didn’t see
Norda again after the photograph had beentaken but learned that due to her mother ’s
inability to look after them, all four siblings
had been taken to a dormitory inside thecamp.” Manser ’s heart-rending accountquestions the global moral maze.

Photo by Ben Manser
Impressions of a Visit to Two Albert
Schwitzer Museums
By Peter van den Dungen

In Sun Cream Child there is a sense ofplayfulness so correlated to children acrossthe world and innocence abound. Manser
informs that, “The Karen would often painttheir children’s faces with elaborate patterns
using sun cream.” Children love to play,
face paint, mimic and perform. There is theuniversal child appeal in this photograph.
The child could be playing hide and seek ina British park, but Manser is asking theviewer to look again in context, and it is thisrequest that remains constant throughout theexhibition.

Among the family of peace museums, one
category consists of those which are devoted
to, or have been established by, laureates of
the Nobel peace prize. For instance, in the
USA are peace museums or historic homes
associated with Jane Addams and Martin
Luther King, as well as Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy
Carter.
In the Alsace region of eastern France, close
to Germany, are two small museums devoted
to Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), oneof the most interesting, important, andinspiring of all the Nobel peace laureates.
He first made his reputation as a Bach andorgan expert and also became a renowned
theologian and philosopher, with doctorates
in both fields. After qualifying as a medical
doctor, he left Europe in 1913 and went toLambarene, then in French Equatorial Africa,
where he established a hospital in a region
where there were hundreds of square miles
without a single doctor. He used the funds ofhis 1952 Nobel prize for the completion of aleper village that he likewise created in
Lambarene. He has rightly been called thefirst 'doctor without borders', who devoted
most of his long life to providing medical
aid to thousands of Africans. That work waslargely financed by support groups whichcollected regular donations from many
individuals from around the world; severalof these groups survive to the present day.

Manser’s collection is a moving mixture ofemotions. It calls on complete arrest foreach photograph and although provoking
sympathy, it is not downgrading or clouding
judgment. As all good exhibitions should,
Manser leaves more questions than answers.
Whilst there are justified moods of anger
and mistrust, there are political overtones
prevalent – man makes conflict, man makes
greed, man makes refugees, man holds the
keys. Manser ’s collection evokes a variationon the cliché – in his case, every picturetells more than one story.
“Forgotten Friends from Burma,
A Multi-Media Exhibition” by Ben Manser
If you are interested in showing theForgotten Friends project please contact:
Email: refugeeweek@yahoo.co.uk

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Museum to 'comfort women' opens inShanghai
By Xiao Zhen and Hui
LininShanghai and Qi Wen in Guangzhou
SHANGHAI: The country's first-evermuseum dedicated to "comfort women"
opened to the public on Friday at Shanghai
Normal University. The archive, which tells
the stories of the sex slaves kept by
Japanese soldiers during World War II, wasexpected to greet some 300 visitors a day on
its opening weekend.
Guests of honor on Friday were three former
comfort women from Shanxi and Hainan
provinces andtheGuangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region. They attended theopening ceremony and each delivered aspeech recounting their ordeals. Two
consuls from the Japanese consulate-generalin Shanghai also visited on Friday.

Fifty years ago (in 1957), his broadcast on
Oslo radio on the dangers of the atomic
bomb received worldwide attention, and thiswas followed by a series of three more
broadcasts the following year in which healso warned against the dangers of nuclear
testing. It seemed inevitable that in the latterpart of his adventurous and busy life,
Schweitzer would come to address this issue
which endangered not only humanity but alllife. From an early age, he was convinced ofthe preciousness of all life, and 'reverence
for life' became his famous motto - surely
one which must be at the heart of any peace
philosophy, and which is also very much in
line
with
today'senvironmental
consciousness.
The house in the picturesque town ofKaysersberg where he was born, as well as
the house in the nearby village of Gunsbachthat he had built, contain many fascinating
artefacts which document a long and varied
life. They are places of pilgrimage,especially to an older generation for whom
Schweitzer was almost a saintly figure,evoking comparisons with Mother Theresain his concern for the poor and destitute in a
far-away continent. But Albert Schweitzer's
noble life, as well as many writings, are alsoa source of inspiration and encouragement
for today's generation and a visit to bothmuseums can be highly recommended. Do
not forget to admire the beautiful busts inthe charming park next to the museum in
Kaysersberg, and on the hill overlooking thehouse in Gunsbach. The latter bust is part ofa 1-km long Albert Schweitzer Footpath
through the village and hill, whichhighlights important stages in his life, withstriking quotations. For more details see
www.schweizer.org
andalso
www.ville-kaysersberg.fr

As well as hearing the women's accounts,
visitors were able to look at 48 display
boards and 80 objects relating to the period.
"The wooden sculptures of Mount Fuji takenfrom the Daiichi Salon in Shanghai, theworld's first comfort station set up by theJapanese, is one of the most valuable items
on display," Su Zhiliang, director of theChinese Comfort Women's Research Centerat Shanghai Normal University and founderof the museum, said.
Other exhibits include recordings andwritten accounts by comfort women; thedisinfectants Lei Guiying took with herwhen she fled the brothel in Nanjing where
she was forced to work; boxes of condoms;
and pictures of Japanese soldiers.
The museum is the third of its kind in theworld. The others are in Tokyo and Seoul.
According to Su's research, there were about
200,000 comfort women in China, but just47, who have publicly declared it, are still
alive. One of the three comfort women at
the opening ceremony, 78-year-old Wan
Aihua from Shanxi Province, said: "I havethe courage to stand up as the first to
confess I was a comfort woman, because I
want to ask for compensation on behalf of

Dr. Peter van den DungenDepartment of Peace Studies
University of Bradford

24myself and all my sisters."

Municipality. It has a Board of its own; theBoard consists of members from Bethlehem
Municipality
Councilmembers,arepresentative from Bethlehem University
and a representative from The Bethlehem
Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The documentary film Nanking had its
premiere in Guangzhou on Thursday. "Its
American director Bill Guttentag attended
the premiere and we had a full house," Yang
Weibing, director of the Guangzhou-based
Feiyang Cinema, said. The movie has beenon show in cinemas throughout Guangzhou,
in most cases being shown five times a day.
"The audience at the premiere was full of
passion," Wu Jiemin, an office worker who
saw the screening, said. She said it was wellbalanced and that it was good that the world
would hear the story of the tragic event.
(China Daily 07/07/2007)

The idea of the Bethlehem Peace Center wasborn in 1996. In November 4th 1997, theSwedishInternational
Development
Cooperation Agency (Sida) signed anagreement with the Municipality ofBethlehem for the construction of theBethlehem Peace Center and the renovationof Manger Square. In June 1998, thedemolishing of the old Police Station took
place and in August 31st, 1999, theconstruction of the new Bethlehem Peace
Center started to be completed in November
28th, 1999. The celebration of thecompletion ceremony took place inDecember 9th, 1999. However, the official
opening of the Bethlehem Peace Center took
place in July 1st, 2000. Bethlehem Peace
Center is grateful to acknowledge thecontinual financial support of Sida till now.

Bethlehem Peace Center Mission
The Center shall promote and enhance peace,democracy, religious tolerance and diversity.
Palestinian culture shall be demonstrated in
the art and decoration of the Bethlehem
Peace Center and reflected in the programs
and activities.
The Center shall not be affiliated to any
religion, faith or belief, nor any politicalparty or faction or ethnic group.

* Facilities *The Lobby
A friendly space where tourists and locals
can meet, talk and relax. To facilitate
cultural rapprochement and understanding,
Bethlehem Peace Center is planning to havevarious multi-media stations (touch screensand slide show to be installed in this lobby).
As you enter the lobby you see the
Reception, the Tourist Information Office,the Book Shop and the Restaurant.
The Reception
The receptionist welcomes all the visitors,
assist them with the information required
and directs them to the proper place or
activity.
The Tourist Information Office
The office is run by the Ministry of Tourism
and Antiquities. The tourists visiting theoffice will get all the information they may
need and/or Posters, Brochures…etc about
Bethlehem and Palestine.
Restaurant

The programs and all activities of the Center
shall be professionally conducted and in linewith the values and spirit of the Center.
VisionThe Bethlehem Peace Center shall be:
Owned and operated by the Palestinians.
A place where people of Bethlehem meetand learn.
Delivering programs and activities targeting
locals as well as tourists visiting Palestine.
Internationally recognized and respected.
Inspiring and assisting other Cultural
Centers in Palestine.
The Center
Bethlehem Peace Center is a Cultural Center
located in the City of Bethlehem next toManger Square between the Church of the
Nativity and the Mosque of Omar.
It is owned and operated by Bethlehem25

specifically about Bethlehem.
Rest Area & Restrooms
Public Restrooms are available for tourists
as well as for locals. A rest area is available
for the visitors. The restrooms and rest area
are located in the lower floor, below thelobby. Also public telephones are available
in the rest area.
`
It contains Mosaic findings in the area.
Presently, the area is closed for visitors. An
exploration study is under way incoordination with the Ministry of Tourism
and Antiquities to make the area an
Archeological Museum.
http://www.peacenter.org/index.php
Mailing Address:
Manger Square
P.O.Box 1166
Bethlehem - Palestine
Tel: +972-2-276-6677
Fax: +972-2-274-1057
E-mail: info@peacenter.org

To be opened in the near future for tourists
as well as locals. The restaurant shall serve
traditional Palestinian cuisines along withinternational dishes with special catering forvegetarian food or special requests.
(Presently
therestaurantis
open
occasionally for special events).
Women, Youth & Children Dept
It consists of a large hall with small
kitchenette, a spacious room, restrooms anda storage room. This spacious area isdesigned to accommodate most of Women,
Youth and Children activities and workshops.
Its location next to a semi large covered
balcony with a side entrance gives it a sortof independency.
The Auditorium
A two-hundred seat Auditorium can be used
for different activities. Such as concerts,
theater performances, movies, debates,
meetings, workshops…etc.
Exhibition Halls
One of the most visible features of theCenter is the exhibition halls, three hallswith different areas and heights. They areinter-connected. These halls are used for all
exhibitions, local as well as international.
Exhibits can also be displayed in other partsof the center.
The Bookshop
The Bookshop is one of the hidden jewels ofBethlehem, tucked away in a corner of thelobby of the Bethlehem Peace Center.
Whether a citizen or tourist, we strongly
recommend a peek inside the bookshop for agreat variety of books and display of
genuine Palestinian art and crafts for sale.
The bookshop boasts an exclusive collectionof novels and academic tomes in English andArabic, as well as beautiful coffee tablebooks of Bethlehem, Palestine and the
Middle East. It also contains a selection ofchildren’s books in English, French andArabic. You will find rare photographs,
maps, posters, as well as gifts, embroidery,souvenirs, magazines and newspapers. It isdefinitely worth a visit to come and browse.
Library
A start-up library / documentation center
that contains books and information material

Art in Palestine- article by English artist
Paul Gent
A battered old car drives past on the mainroad into the centre of Baalbek, Lebanon.
The car stops, reverses towards me. The
driver calls out of the window, “Hey do you
want to drink some coffee and smoke somemarijuana?” Hesitantly I climb into the car.
This was the day when I decided I would
like to visit Palestine… well not at thatmoment, all I was thinking, as we headedout of the town to it’s run-down out skirts,
was ‘why did I jump into this stranger ’s
car?’ I was a little, and probably irrationally,
nervous- the town was run by Hezbollah andthe militants never smiled at me during mystay. In his house, his wife served me Arabic
coffee and I learnt of the man’s struggle toearn enough money to supply a goodeducation for their two children, and I also
learnt about his views on Palestine. “I don’t
hate the Jews or the Israeli’s; I just don’t
like what their government are doing to thePalestinians.” I would so often hear thissentiment during the following years
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be inadvertently tear-gassed, deafened bysound bombs, and sometimes shot withrubber coated bullets.

working as an artist in Palestine.
Life for the Palestinians has got worse andworse since my first visit six years ago, withthe ‘security’ wall and the continuing
settlement
expansion,
withfortified
checkpoints ‘cutting the West Bank up like a
pizza,’ (as one local man pointed out) and I
have forced myself to re-evaluate what I am
trying to achieve by painting walls in
Bethlehem with very noisy and energetic
children.
My focus came when I decided to volunteer
for a local family run organisation called‘Tent of Nations.’ On their small piece offarm land, surrounded by four encroaching
Israeli settlements, I was left on my own tohelp build a wall with nearby rocks. (Toprevent the passing goats from eating theyoung olives trees) As I was stacking therocks one by one I couldn’t avoid noticingthat on the opposite hill, the Israeli’s werebuilding settlement houses one by one withall the machinery needed and were slowly
encroaching on the family’s land. My
immediate thought would be to give up withthe wall, but if I have learnt anything form
the Palestinians, it is patience. I soon felt
clearly that it is better to do something verysmall for a good cause than to do a big thing
for a bad cause. At least I will sleep better atnights!

Secondly, art can be a good indirect way to
get inside what the young people arethinking, and to challenge such concepts asvictim hood, nationalism, peace andreconciliation, education etc. I have learnt a
lot from these informal conversations.
Wanting to turn the subject away from theIsraeli occupation, I based one mural on
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s ‘Effects of Good
Government on Town and Country, andAllegory of Bad Government and its Effects
on Town and Country.’ We looked at
Women’s rights, domestic violence, crime,
health and environmental issues such aspollution and litter. Daoud Nasser, from
‘Tent of Nations,’ felt strongly about
rebuilding the strength in the Palestinian
people through non-violence. “We need tofocus on keeping strong by working together
and keeping self-respect; it is not hard to
throw our rubbish in the bin, in a small way
it shows that we haven’t given up.”Thirdly, Art can be a celebration of beauty
amongst the ugliness of the Israeli
occupation. When I worked on a mural withchildren from the SOS orphanage in
Bethlehem, I took them down to the dusty
main road where there were heaps ofbuilding waste and rubbish. (A familiar sightin Palestine) We were looking for old
kitchen tiles for our mosaic, when I heard acry of excitement. A boy ran up to me toshow me his find. It was a small piece of
broken tile glazed in the most beautiful blue,
a rare find among the dull magnolias,
browns and greys.
Creating a community mural is admittedly asmall step in creating a better environment
for the people suffering in the Middle-East.
But at least it usually ends successfully andwhen you look closely there are hundreds oflittle projects in Israel and Palestine, run by
Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals, thatcreate and preserve peace and reconciliation
where the big media blown-up projects often

Painting a wall will not save the Palestinians
from losing their land, of course, but at least
it can have a good success rate if the aims
are realistic. I now have three aims when I
organise a mural for the local children;
The first aim is to have innocent andcreative fun; children in Palestine often
grow up far too quickly. The boys in Ayda
Refugee Camp, for example, like to play
‘Army and Arabs’- a portentously dangerous
game where they throw stones at the soldiersand the soldiers chase them. The Israeli
soldiers (mainly young boys themselves)
like this game too. This game has on morethan one occasion disrupted the mural
painting, as the budding young artists would
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explaining the institutional trajectory of the
Arias
Foundationandits
principle
objectives and achievements. It is here that
one can see a replica of the Nobel Peace
Prize medal awarded to Dr. Arias Sánchez.
In addition to informative films such as"People of Peace", the projection room
contains a photographic exhibition of past
Nobel Prize Laureates created by renowned
photographer Michelle Pelletier.

fail.
To read more about Paul Gent’s work in
Palestine, and to see photographs and artwork,
go to www.linkpalestine.org or contact Paulby email: pablogent@yahoo.com
To read more about Tent of Nations work withpeace and reconciliation in Palestine, go to:www.tentofnations.org

Peace museum： Costa Rica
In 2003 the Arias Foundation for Peace andHuman Progress opened the doors of its
Museum for Peace in a strategic location in
downtown San José. The museum occupies
one side of the historic Plaza de la
Democracia (Democracy Plaza) and islocated between the National Legislative
Assembly and the National Museum, a shortwalk from the Supreme Election Tribunal,
the National Park and the Supreme Court ofJustice.

The second floor features an exhibition
designed to reconstruct the historicalmemory of Central America and the Arias
Plan for Peace in a manner that is clear andaccessible to the visitor. The display about
the evolution of the peace process begins
with a brief explanation of the historicaldevelopment of Central America along
geographic, political, social, economic andcultural lines. This explanation ensures a
global comprehension of the phenomenon
which sparked military insurrection andcivil war, from clues about the identity andmotives of the belligerent actors to
explanations about the geopolitical context
of the Cold War.

The Plaza de la Democracia (Democracy
Plaza) was constructed to commemorate
both the first successful century of the Costa
Rica democratic regime as well as the
Hemispheric Summit of Presidents held in
1989 by then Costa Rican president Dr.
Oscar Arias Sanchez. The goal of thesummit was to encourage the region's peace
processes.

Displays further explore the contemporary
history of Central America and focus
primarily
on
the
1980s
and
the
politico-military conflict in the region. In
addition, students and teachers are offered afree guide brochure to help them understandthe peace-building process in Central
America.

The Museum for Peace looks to contribute toa culture of dialogue, consensus andreconciliation and is driven by a concept ofpeace as not simply the absence of armed
conflict or violence but rather as a form of
human progress, as much individual ascollective, material as spiritual.

Central America suffered during decades thebitter tragedies of protracted fratricidal wars.
A number of great efforts were put forth inorder to end the armed conflicts. One of thefirst was the forming of the so-called
Contadora Group, by Mexico, Panamá,
Colombia and Venezuela. This initiative
proposed a project for a peace accord which
was accepted in 1984 by Nicaragua. The
Contadora Group was followed by the
Support Group, formed by Argentina, Brazil,
Peru and Uruguay.

The Museum is open to the general public aswell as to researchers. In the two-story
building visitors can find invaluable
documentation about the process ofnegotiation
andpeace-brokering
atEsquipulas II and its repercussions in thelocal and international press.
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In 1986, the meetings of the regionalpresidents kicked off and the negotiations
progressed until the moment of thetranscendental
event
celebratedin
Guatemala City on the 7of August, 1987,
when the Esquipulas II peace accord was
signed, unleashing the peace process.

campaigners. This project saw the world’s
highest court, the UN’s International Courtof Justice, advise in 1996 that “the threat or
use of nuclear weapons would generally beillegal”, and that nuclear weapon states havea binding obligation to eliminate their
nuclear arsenals.

Most of the documentary evidence andhistorical materials belonging to theMuseum for Peace are now accessible indigital form. Visitors and researchers canaccess a digital catalogue of the publicationsof the Arias Foundation. Audio-visualmaterials are available about the Arias Peace
Plan, as well as an electronic archive of
documented information and international
journalistic coverage of the Central
American peace process.

Since 2002 the Peace Foundation has beenbuilding up a peace archive collection aspart of Christchurch’s declaration as New
Zealand’s first Peace City.
The citymarked the 20 th anniversary of Christchurch
becoming nuclear free by organising theinaugural showing of the exhibition from the
Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
March 2002. This eventually travelled allover the country to 16 museums andgalleries. The late Mayor Ito of Nagasaki
opened it in Wellington and met Prime
Minister Helen Clark in May 2002.

There are no exhibitions at the moment.
http://www.arias.or.cr/en/museum.php

During 2000-2002 as our government’s
non-governmental expert on the UN Studyon Disarmament and Non Proliferation
Education, I was able to feed in ideas fromthe grassroots peace community into the
final
document.
There
were
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recommendations adopted unanimously by
all UN states in 2002 including this one:
“Municipal leaders, working with citizen
groups, are encouraged to establish peacecities, as part of the UNESCO Cities for
Peace network, through for example, thecreation of peace museums, peace parks,
websites and the production of booklets onpeacemakers and peacemaking.’
This resolution has encouraged a coalitionof local citizen groups to work closely with
the City Council, the Museum, public libraryand university to implement a range of
proposals adopted in the Peace City
declaration.
We now have a formal
agreement between these organisations todevelop a peace collection in the Central
library; a written, photographic and oral
collection at the University library; and arepository
for
the
peace
movement
memorabilia in the Museum.
From thiscollection we have selected material for the

Nuclear Free New Zealand and World
Court Project exhibition
June 8, 2007 marks the 20 th anniversary of
New Zealand’s nuclear-free legislation. To
celebrate this historic milestone, and the
25 th anniversary of Christchurch becoming
New Zealand’s first nuclear free city, thePeace Foundation’s Disarmament andSecurity Centre is organising a Nuclear
Free New Zealand exhibition at Canterbury
Museum from May – July.
The exhibition showcases a remarkable
collection of over 50 years of anti-nuclear
and peace artefacts such as campaign
banners, quilts, photos, posters, stickers, tee
shirts,badges,stamps,publications,petitions and music. Most exhibits are
originals gathered from a wide range ofpeace campaigners who worked to make
New Zealand, and the South Pacific, nuclear
free.
The exhibition also highlights the historicWorld Court Project, begun in 1986 byretired Christchurch Magistrate Harold
Evans, and driven by New Zealand peace29International Red Cross/ Red CrescentMuseum: Geneva

Nuclear Free New Zealand exhibition.
In 2004 we worked closely with the
University and the Museum to create aunique collection of photographs showing apersonal perspective on the public life of
one of the world's most inspiring politicalleaders, Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The 34
black and white images of Gandhi in the
exhibition were taken in the 1940s by
Bombay based photographer D R D Wadia.
The negatives were brought to New Zealandby the photographer’s grandson, Dr Aditya
Malik, Head of Religious Studies at
Canterbury University. Dr Malik said: “Itbrings New Zealand’s nuclear free heritageincontactwithIndianvaluesofnon-violence.”

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Traces of great events that make up thehistory of the world, the photo archives of
the International Committee of the Red
Cross reflect a reality that words cannot
convey.
From Solferino to Guantanamo, 88 imagesof humanity.
Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et duCroissant-Rouge
17, av. de la Paix
CH-1202 Genève
www.micr.org
Tel+41 22 748 95 11
Fax +41 22 748 95 28

The exhibition includes unique memorabilia
including a handkerchief woven by Gandhi
during one of his many periods ofimprisonment and handwritten letters from
Gandhi and Prime Minister Nehru to thephotographer's wife. So far, it has beenshown in 5 museums around the country.
Copies of the photos have been made which
are not framed in glass and therefore easy totransport.
They are available for highschools to display with videos depicting
Gandhi’s life and work.

Open from 10:00 to 17:00, except Tuesday
Free entry at the temporary exhibition
Museum shop - Restaurant
From Cornavin station : bus 8 (direction
OMS or Appia), Appia bus stop
Access for disabledInternational Museum of Peace andSolidarity： Samarkand
On 17 May - to honour the International
Museum Day - at the Samarkand State
Museum of Cultural History of Uzbekistan
we inaugurated a new international
exhibition
"The
World
Congratulates
Samarkand", dedicated to the 2750-years
jubilee of Samarkand. We received a lot of
entries (salutations, poems, songs, pictures,
artwork, books etc etc) sent in by people
from around the world. The ceremony wasattended by our guests from Switzerland andFrance and was filmed by the television.

There is now an agreement between theMuseum and the Peace Foundation that wewill curate similar exhibitions every two
years.
Topics for consideration in the
future include conscientious objectors, andopposition to French Nuclear Testing in the
Pacific.
With the success of the earlier exhibitions,
there is an expectation that the Nuclear Free
New Zealand one will travel nationally, andmaybe even internationally. For thosereaders who want more information on anyoftheseresources,
pleaseemail
kate@chch.planet.org.nz

In August we are planning to add a new
exhibition section "Samarkand on Every
Continent".
Samarkandiana-project
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a

permamentpeople that would provide structured
opportunities to explore, interact with,reflect upon and understand a wide spectrumof social issues in an enjoyable, interactive
and inspiring environment.
The concept for the CMPHR is somewhat
different and experimental. There are threemain features that define the CMPHR.

program of our Peace Museum:
http://www.museum.com/jb/museum?id=268
10&show=10&event=4103
Thanks again for your cooperation andsupport.
See you one day here in2750-year-old Samarkand.
With very best wishes,
Anatoly Ionesov

One, the CMPHR will primarily focus onchildren. There are many peace museums
and human rights museums around the world.
There are also many children’s museums
around the world based on science or playbased learning. However, there are no
children’s museums that specifically deal
with peace and human rights issues the
CMPHR will act as a test case.

Anatoly Ionesov, Director
International Museum of Peace andSolidarity
P.O. Box 76, UZ - 140100 Samarkand
Republic of Uzbekistan.
Phone/ fax: +998 (66) 233 17 53.
Web: http://peace.museum.com
http://www.civilsoc.org/nisorgs/uzbek/peace
msm.htm
http://www.aliaflanko.de/urbo/samarkand/sa
markand.html
http://www.esperanto-sat.info/article.php3?id_article=357
E-mail: imps86@yahoo.com or imps@rol.uz(only for messages
in plain TEXT (.txt) format). NO
attachments, please. Thanks for yourunderstanding!

Two, the CMPHR will specialize ineducation around social issues, aiming tohelp children construct an understanding of
the social world. Key concepts like peace,
human rights and social justice will anchor
the work. The educational experience at
CMPHR will be explicit rather thanincidental and will be the overall driving
force
behindtheconceptualisation,
implementation and running of the CMPHR.
Since children learn best by hands on
activities and play, the CMPHR will be an
enjoyable and interactive space.

Children’s Museum for Peace and human
Rights Project: Pakistan
The Children’s Museum for Peace andHuman Rights (CMPHR) is being set up in
Karachi, Pakistan and hopes to open doors
to the public in late 2009. Work is currently
in progress on the construction of thecustom built premises of over 11,000 square
meters of covered area, consisting of 5galleries, 9 workshop rooms, a large
auditorium, and a library & resource centre.

Three, the CMPHR will be a dynamic andactivist organisation. It will have a strong
campaigning orientation that will challenge
apathy and inspire interaction with local aswell as international issues and concerns.
The CMPHR will be a museum with a strong
message. It will seek to challenge young
visitors with relevant and vital informationand case studies about peace, human rights
and social justice.

The CMPHR developed as a logicalextension of the work of Human Rights
Education
Programme(HREP),
anorganisation that had been working withchildren in Pakistan on peace and humanrights education issues since 1995. The
CMPHR is conceived as a multi-dimensional
educational space for children and young

A big advantage of CMPHR is the 12 year
history of work with children and teachers
all over Pakistan, first through HREP and
now as CMPHR. Even today, as it awaits theconstruction of the premises, CMPHR works
witharound325
schoolsand30
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http://cdmpiinterfree.it/
Tel: 051 6198744-051584513

organisations around Pakistan. In July 2004,
along with three Japanese organizations,
HREP received the HURIGHTS OSAKAAward 2004 for the best International
Human Rights Education Materials from theAsia Pacific region.

Publications
Peacemaker
101:
careers
confronting
conflict edited by Roy J. Eidelson, Jena
Laske and Lina Cherfas.
Solomon Asch
Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict,
University of Pennsylvania 2007

Since its conceptualization in 2001, the
CMPHR has come a long way in developing
its working concepts. We were acutely awarethat we had no knowledge or expertise of
setting up museums and are grateful to all
the museums and museum professionals
whose advice was critical to get to this stage.
We continue to look forward to support as
we get closer to realizing this dream.

Peace Studies and Peace Discourse in
Education by Institute for Peace Science,
Hiroshima University & Tomsk State
Pedagogical University(Russia) Jan 2007
(in English)

More information on the CMPHR can beobtained from www.cmphr.org

DVD Book Peace Archives: Hiroshima andNagasaki edited by Ikuro Anzai andsupervised by Kyoto Museum for World
Peace at Ritsumeikan University; publishedby Iwanami Publishing Company (Japan),
Aug.2007 (Photo-rich text in Japanese andsome English explanations are provided in
DVD which contains about 4,000 photos
regarding Hiroshima & Nagasaki andpaintings drawn by A-bomb survivors.)

Swords into Plowshares Peace Center &Gallery: Detroit
Art works by indigenous women in Peru andembroidery by South African women were
exhibited in 2006.
Children’s
drawings
relatedtotheConvention on the Rights of the Child were
exhibited in May.

Visual Book: Okinawa to Be Handed down
by Ikuro Anzai (Shin-Nihon-Shuppansha) 5
volumes full of photos and illustrations.
Mar 2007 (in Japanese)

Art is used to promote peace education andpeace activities. News is available in its
newsletter of Harbinger.
Swords into Plowshares Peace Center andGallery
33 E. Adams · Detroit · Michigan · 48226 ·(313) 963·7575
http://www.swordsintoplowsharesdetroit.org/

Notice
The unsigned articles were written up on
the editor's responsibility, but the signed
ones do not necessarily express the same
opinions embraced by the head office of
the Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace or the editor of thisnewsletter.

International Pacifist Poster Documentation Centre: Italy
It was founded in 1993 and there are about3000 posters for peace. Please send someposters for peace with English translation.
International Pacifist Poster Documentation
CentreVia Canonici Renani, 8 40033 Casalecchio
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