Muse no.5: Japanese Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: July 2001
The Editorial Office: Ｇｒａｓｓrｏｏｔｓ Ｈｏｕｓｅ
Curator: Shigeo NishimoriInternational Exchange Section: Kazuyo Yamane (editor), Erico Tasaki (illustrator)
9-11 Masugata, Kochi City，Kochi Pref. Japan 780-0861
Tel: +81-088-875-1275. Fax: +81-088-821-0586
E-mail: GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp (one after ma).
http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishimori/ (one after ha)

News on Museums for Peace in JapanThe 7th Conference of Association of Japanese Museums for Peace
The 7th Conference of Association of Japanese Museums for Peace (AJMP) was held on
September 6th, 2000 in Okinawa according to Mr. Masahiko Yamabe, the curator of
Kyoto Museum for World Peace in its newsletter Vol. 8-3 published on March 25th.
There are nine museums in AJMP: Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum, Osaka International Peace Center, Kanagawa Plaza for Global
Citizenship, Kawasaki Peace Museum, Peace Museum of Saitama, Takamatsu Civic
Culture Center/Peace Memorial Museum, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum andOkinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum. The English name of the association
was decided as “Association of Japanese Museums for Peace”.
Curators discussed various issues such as the use of library, volunteers, the renewal ofthe museum, how to attract visitors and education. They visited Okinawa Prefectural
Peace Memorial Museum and war-related sites. The exhibits on the battle in
Okinawa were made from people’s viewpoint including Japanese soldiers’ massacre of
the people of Okinawa and people’s forced suicide, the oppression of anti-war
movement, Korean women who were forced to work as sex-slaves during World War II.
The oppression of the people by the U.S. military bases is also exhibited. Mr. Yamabe
highly estimated the museum both in the content and the way of the exhibition.
He also visited Yaeyama Peace Museum in Ishigaki City. People of Yaeyama wereordered by Japanese military to live in a mountainous region where almost half of thepeople suffered from malaria and over 3600 passed away. The museum was built as apart of Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum and the aim was to show thereality of suffering from malaria, efforts to eradicate malaria and the appeal for peace.

Osaka International Peace Center
An Art Festival: an Exhibition of Asian Children Diary with Pictures was held fromJanuary 10th to February 11th. The aim was to promote understanding among Asian
children aged 6 to 12 and promote literacy education. 40,693 children sent their diary1with pictures from twenty-two countries and a grand prize was given to a child fromeach country.
Holocaust Exhibition from Children’s Viewpoint was held from May 3rd to 30th.
Six million Jewish people were killed in World War II, and one forth (1500,000) was
children. Jewish children’s photos were displayed so that Japanese children would
learn the history. Children’s paintings were exhibited from June 5th to July 1st.
15,000 Jewish children were put into a concentration in former Czechoslovakia andonly 100 children survived. About 4,000 paintings were discovered after theconcentration camp was liberated by the Allied Forces. About 90 paintings weredisplayed at Osaka International Peace Center.

Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
An exhibition on Tezuka Osamu, a popular cartoonist, was held from May 25 to June
15. He studied to be a physician, but he wrote many comics and passed away in 1989.
The first part of the exhibit on his life consisted of the natural environment, his family
and study, war experiences and his strong curiosity. The second part was messages in
his works such as his apprehensions of civilization, his view of life, his anger at war, his
longing for nature and his worldview. You may be surprised to know that his comics
include world history and even Albert Einstein’s theory, which is very educational!
There will be the War Exhibition for Peace from July 31st to August 9th. The firstexhibit will be about the history of the relationship between Japan and Korea in themodern period. The second exhibit will be for the abolition of nuclear weapons; therealities of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the threat of nuclear
weapons. There will also be the exhibit on the facts of the nuclear test in Semipalatink.
The third exhibit will be school textbooks that led to militarism in World War II.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
There are materials on the atomic bombing abroad such as photos, melted glass
bottle (because of heat rays), and documents that must be kept by foreign journalists andpeople who worked for the occupation forces after World War II. Those people areasked to donate precious materials to the museum so that they will be used todisseminate the horror of nuclear weapons. The details are in the homepage.
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/

There is one more web site that is good for children.
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/kids/

There are 162 volunteers who help visitors understand exhibits in the museum. Such
activities started in 1998 and their activities are thanked by many visitors. They get
together and study nuclear issues including questions that they couldn’t answer tovisitors. 64 volunteers got together on April 1st and Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba gave aspeech on the role of volunteers and encouraged them according to Peace Culture No.
141 published on June 1st, 2001.

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Japanese - Dutch – Indonesians: The Japanese Occupation of the
Dutch East Indies Remembered
The exhibit was made by Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in 2000 andit was exhibited in Kyoto, Usuki City of Oita Prefecture, Mizumaki Town of Fukuoka
Prefecture, Nagasaki, Fukuoka City, Tokyo and Kochi. It showed different memory ofWorld War II among Japanese, Dutch and Indonesians. There were various opinions
on the exhibit, but it seems that many Japanese people learned unknown and important
history of the three countries through the exhibit. The details will be published inNewsletter of International Network of Peace Museums.
Mr. Erik Somers of the institute gave a lecture on the history at class called “Peace &Disarmament” at Kochi University in July. The students wrote that they learned muchabout the history and wanted to learn more. The exhibition was very good to start
dialogue among people who have different views of history. He also talked about theimportance of respecting different culture showing his son’s school life at Gomen Noda
Elementary school in Nangoku City, Kochi. It was so impressive that many pupils
asked him to sign his name and he was like a star!

Peace Museum in Suita City, Osaka
There was an exhibition of original pictures of a picture book called Please Give me
Flowers, not Landmines from October 17th to November 5th according to its newsletterNo.13 published in March, 2001. Forty original pictures and a replica of a landmine
were exhibited so that children would be able to understand the landmine issue. It washeld with Association for Refugees that was founded to help Indo-Chinese refugees in
1979. Mother wrote, “I’m glad to visit here with my children. We learned landmines
here since we didn’t have any chance to see landmines.”
Address: 6F c/o Shimin Kaikan, 4-1, Deguchi Town, Suita City, Osaka 564-0072
Tel: 06-6387-2593. Open: 9:30 to 17:00 except Monday, the next day of holidays,
December 28th-January 4th. Admission: freeTakamatsu Peace Memorial Hall, Kagawa Pref.
Pupils go to Peace Memorial Hall in Civic Culture Center to study U.S. air-raids in
Takamatsu City on July 4th, 1945 during WWII according to Newsletter No. 3
published in July, 2001. There was Peace Film Festival on May 26th and Ms Chiyoko
Ouchi talked about her experiences in the air-raids. It is said that almost 80% of theurban area was destroyed and 1,359 people were killed. There was photo exhibitionon the air-raids in Takamatsu in July and will be an exhibition of the atomic bombing inAugust.
Address: c/o Takamatsu City Shimin Bunka Center, 1-15-1 Matsushima Town,
Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture
Tel: +81-087-833-7722

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Peace Wave in Kochi: Grassroots House
There have been various activities for creating a culture of peace called “Peace Wave”
in Kochi. There was a meeting on human rights inviting Amnesty International
members on June 3rd. There was Peace Film Festival on June 17th and July 8th.
Peace Star Festival started on July 1st and ten million paper cranes folded by citizens
have been decorated downtown that was heavily air-raided by U.S. bombers during
WWII. There was also High School Students’ Peace Festival on July 21st. There
was Peace Concert on July 4th and about 300 people from 10 groups attended it andenjoyed music and dancing. There was also Bio-music Concert on July 21st.
There will be Peace March on July 28th and Peace Art Festival from July 31 to August
6. The theme is to live together in harmony. There will be Children’s Gathering on
August 15th. There were other activities as follows.

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The Exhibition of School Textbooks for Peace

The following article was written by Mrs. Keiko Tamaki, a lecturer of Chinese at Kochi
University.
The exhibition of School Textbooks for Peace was held by Kochi Branch of the
Association of Friendship between Japanese and Chinese at Kochi Citizens’ Libraryfrom June 29th to July 4th. The aim was to think the issue of history textbooks that arevery controversial nowadays. The textbook made by Association of Making New
History Textbooks has been criticized not only in Japan but also in other Asian
countries. It is because the textbook glorifies Japan’s invasion of other countries. The
history of textbooks, school textbooks used during World War II in Japan, textbooks in
Asian countries, photo panels on Japan’s aggressive war in China were displayed.
Mr. Chang Ch’engjun of Memorial Museum of the Chinese People’s War of
Resistance Against Japan gave us a message that says, “If such a textbook that denies
Japan’s invasion and glorifies it is used in classroom, it will certainly damage theJapanese in the future.”
There was also the 7th Meeting for the Solidarity with Asian People as the 64th
anniversary of Lu kou ch’iao Incident (the beginning of Japan’s invasion of China) on
July 30. Mr. Shigeo Nishimori, the director of Grassroots House, reported his
investigation of the germ war by 731 Unit in Hunan using many slides. The details are
as follows.

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Research of Germ War in China

From March 31st to April 7th Mr. Shigeo Nishimori visited Hunan in China with lawyers
and scholars to investigate germ war conducted by Japanese military during WorldWar II. There is Chinese NGO that investigated victims of the germ war in China andthe name of 7,643 Chinese were made clear after the investigation. Many facts are still4

unknown because Shiro Ishii who was responsible for the data was acquitted because
the data was kept by the United States and was used in Korean War. 36kg of pestinfected fleas were dropped on November 4th, 1941 in Changde City, and many Chinese
were killed.
108 Chinese victims in Hunan and Zejiang filed a suit against Japanese
government for the apology and compensation (ten million yen per person) at
Tokyo District Court in August, 1997. Other Chinese victims joined and there are
180 plaintiffs, and there are 220 Japanese lawyers who support them. The conclusion of
the hearing will be in November, 2001 and the decision of the trial will be made next
spring. Mr. Nishimori said, “Since many Japanese are not informed, it is necessary toraise awareness of Japanese people and support the Chinese.” 70 photo panels weremade for the exhibition to inform them of the germ war.

Speaking Tour 10-22 June
Two Speakers from the Marshall Islands and New Zealand
The following article was written by Dr. Kate Dewes.
Earlier this year, Mary Silk (Director of the Nuclear Institute of the College of the
Marshall Islands) and Kate Dewes (Disarmament and Security Centre, New Zealand)
were invited by Hiro Iwasaki and Satomi Oba (on behalf of a range of Japanese groups,
including Plutonium Action Hiroshima) to tour 8 cities in 10 days (Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo, Gifu, Matsuyama and Kochi). We were asked to talk about
nuclear colonialism in the Pacific, the World Court Project, the Middle Powers
Initiative and the effects of nuclear radiation.
We promoted and sold copies of theJapanese version of the booklet Pacific Women Speak Out for Independence andDenuclearisation(edited by Zohl de Ishtar) which had been officially launched during
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Week in March. Copies of the Japanese versionof Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons and The Naked Nuclear Emperor:
Debunking Nuclear Deterrence, both written by Robert Green (Kate's husband), wereavailable for sale.
The tour costs were covered by a grant from the World Council of Churches' PacificDesk. Local host groups organized the venues and publicity. We addressed womenstudents at two universities (Osaka), and meetings were organized by the Asia
Volunteer Centre (Osaka), the National Council of Churches (Tokyo), the Kansai
Seminar House (Kyoto), the Grassroots House Peace Museum (Kochi), the Ehime
Global Network (Matsuyama, the Nagasaki Peace Promotion Office, the Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and othergroups.
Most public meetings were attended by about 50-60 people and included peace groups,
representatives from Amnesty International, YWCA, churches, hibakusha(atomic bomb
victims), university lecturers, students, lawyers, physicians and green/youth andenvironmental groups. There was extensive media interest (including television) in mostcities.
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In Nagasaki we met with Mayor Itoh. He discussed the possibility of a trip to New
Zealand in April/May 2002 to meet politicians and Mayors, and to highlight the
proposed exhibition of photos from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, Peace
Museum representatives also discussed sending photos to the Marshall Islands, Pakistan
and India. Individual interviews were held with hibakusha in Tokyo and Kochi City.
Outcomes:
1. High profile for Pacific Women Speak Out (PWSO) and other books which
will be used by media, universities and local groups.
2. Growing network of people interested in researching the intergenerational
effects of radiation on hibakusha in Japan and Marshall Islands (including
Japanese fishermen exposed during the US nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll
during 1954).
3. Closer ties between Marshall Islands, Japanese and NZ peace groups.
4. Probable translation of PWSO into Marshallese.
5. Commitment to translate the International Peace Bureau's Peace is Possible,and find a publisher for it.
Dr Kate Dewes: IPB Vice-President and Disarmament and Security Centre
P O Box 8390, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ph/Fax +64 3 348 1353. E-mail: kate@chch.planet.org.nz
www.disarmsecure.org The DSC is a specialist branch of the NZ Peace Foundation.

Pacific Ocean War History Museum, Iwate
Some people made a pilgrimage to Biak Island near New Guinea in May andNovemeber, 2000 according to Newsletter No. 29 published on January 1st. Japan
made war against Biak, 1944 and there are still remains of Japanese soldiers. Overeighty remains were discovered in the pilgrimage. The number of elementary school
pupils who visit Pacific Ocean War History Museum is increasing.
Director: Ichio Sasaki. Fax: 0197-52-4575

Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace museum, Nagasaki
Japan’s aggression in the Asian-Pacific region and Korean and Chinese people who
were forced to work in Japan are exhibited in the museum. The best news in 2000 wasthat the museum became the sister museum of Nanjing Museum. There are 185
members in the Oka museum as of December 18th, 2000 and there were 4810 visitors ayear. They hope to increase the number of the visitors as much as 10,000 in the future.
http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen

Grassroots Movement for Making Peace Museums
Peace Museum in Matsushiro, Nagano
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The 6th general meeting of the executive committee for making a peace museum in
Matsushiro was held on January 21st. Peace festival in summer was very successful indisseminating the movement of making the peace museum among citizens. They
are planning to spread the movement not only in Nagano Prefecture but also in Japan.
In April Governor Yasuo Tanaka of Nagano Prefecture visited the place where Peace
Museum will be built in the future. He was invited to visit there by high school
students who study their native province. It is very impressive to know that students
have been very active.

Yuki no Shita (Strawberry Geranium) Peace Culture Museum
There was an exchange meeting between Japanese and Chinese on January 14ththough it heavily snowed. 100 Japanese and 250 Chinese got together and enjoyedgetting to know one another.
Newsletter of “Yuki no Shita” was founded in 1951 and people celebrated its 50th
anniversary. It was not easy to publish it in 1951 because there was the U.S. militaryfor Korean War. The Peace Culture Museum(the provisional name) will open thisfall.
Association of Making Yuki no Shita Peace Culture Museum:
1-23, Satomaruoka, Maruoka-cho, Sakai-gun, Fukui Prefecture
910-0302. Tel & fax: +81-0776-66-1564.
E-mail: yukisita@kore.mitene.or.jp

Children Center for Peace & Human Rights, Osaka
An exhibition of school textbooks was held in Hiroshima City, Miyoshi City,
Fukuyama City and Mihara City in Hiroshima Prefecture from January 13th to February
25th. There were 2500 visitors during twenty days according to Newsletter ofGrassroots No. 14 published on March 30th. Ms Kazuko Yoshioka collected school
textbooks including Asian ones for 15 years. They are rent to various places so thatyoung people who don’t know war will learn from textbooks used during World War II.
The textbooks were also exhibited in Kochi City from June 29 to July 4th. They havebeen playing a very important role to raise awareness of the danger of the new textbook
that glorifies Japan’s aggressive war.

Korean Museum in Tokyo
The plan to make Korean Museum seem to be realized by the end of 2001
according to Korai Newsletter No. 41 published on April 16th. Association of Making
Korean Museum was founded in 1990 in order to raise awareness of Korea among
Japanese. There are about 400 members and the ninety percent is Japanese. They
have been active in holding series of lectures, exhibitions, concerts, dancing, organizing
a peace trip to Korea and so forth during the decade. The purpose of Korean Museum7

(a tentative name) is to convey the history of exchanges between Japan and Korea andthe history of Koreans living in Japan.
Address of Association of Making korean Museum: c/o Inashiro Church, 1086 Higashi
Naganuma, Inashiro City, Tokyo 206-0802. Tel/fax: 042-378-5245.
Http://business1.plala.or.jp/kourai/
E-mail: koraihak@nifty.com

Harima Peace Center, Hyogo
Harima Peace Center was founded in Himeji City, Hyougo Prefecture, in December,2000. The purpose is to convey the importance of peace to young people and act forpeace, the protection of the environment and human rights regardless of differences ofideas. They plan to publish Newsletter, educate young people, hold study meetings,
organize various events, collect information and disseminate it.
The director: Shinjirou Hamano: c/o Shiei-jutaku 24-2, 107 Yuuhigaoka, Shikitou-cho,
Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture 671-0215 Tel & fax: +81-0792-53-0356
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cab47160
E-mail: cab47160@pop01.odn.ne.jp

Shizuoka Peace Center
An exhibition on the air raids in Shizuoka started to be held by Association of
Making a Peace Museum in Shizuoka from June 15th and it will be held until September
30th. It is estimated that Shizuoka was air-raided on June 20th according to its
newsletter no. 45 published on May 5th, 2001. The basic information on U.S. air-raids
on Japan is written below. Shizuoka Peace Center is in Shizuoka City and the numberof children who visit there is increasing.
Address: c/o Chuou-biru 2F, 6-20, Aioi Town, Shizuoka City 420
Fax: 054-247-9641. Open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10:00-16:30)
Admission: free. http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-heiwa
E-mail: shizuoka-heiwa@nifty.com＊ ＊ ＊ ＊ ＊Basic Information of U.S. Air Raids on Japan during WWIIJapan was air-raided by the U.S. bombers from November, 1944 to August 15th, 1945.
There are three periods of bombing according to Report of Investigation on U.S.
Strategic Bombing.
(1) Bombing of military establishments from a high altitude from November,1944
to March, 1945.
(2) Air-raids of urban areas using incendiary bombs from low altitude at night
beginning with Tokyo air-raids on March 10th, 1945 to mid-May. Japan was
heavily damaged.
(3) Air-raids of residential areas of big cities using incendiary bombs from the endof May, 1945: Tokyo and Yokohama in May, Osaka, Kobe, Kagoshima,
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka in June, 34 cities including Sendai, Kumamoto, Takamatsu,
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Kochi, Koufu, Wakayama in July, Hachiouji, Mito, Nagaoka, Toyama in August.
Kumagaya City in Saitama Prefecture was completely destroyed on August 14th.
The air-raids were stopped by the end of the war on August 15th.
The estimated casualty of civilians is about 380,000 and over 2.4 million houses wereburned down.
Reference: “An Outline of U.S. Air-raids in Japan” by Souzou Matsuura in Air-raids
in Japan edited by Katsumoto Saotome and Simao Doki (Tokyo: 1984) published by
Soudo Bunka. Though this is written in Japanese, it is good for non-Japanese
because it has many photos.

Center of War Documentation for Peace, Tokyo
The center will start to be built in September and donation has been requested:
71,110,000 yen was donated as of June. The center will be built in Koutou-ku inTokyo and Children’s Peace Statue was built in the site in May. The details of thestatue are written below.
The center will be a three-storied building: library, materials and audio-visual room on
the first floor, meeting rooms on the second floor and the exhibition room on the third
floor.
C/o Seiji Keizai Kenkyuu-sho (Institute of Politics and Economics), 1-5-4 Kitasuna,
Koutou-ku, Tokyo 136-0073
Tel: 03-5683-3325. Fax: 03-5683-3326. http://www2.odn.ne.jp/seikeiken/

Children’s Peace Statue in Tokyo
It took about two years for children from elementary school to high school to makeChildren’s Peace Statue in Tokyo. American children in New Mexico made a statue
for peace in 1995 after knowing a story of Sadako Sasaki. She was exposed toradiation in Hiroshima and passed away because of leukemia when she was twelve.
A statue called “Children’s Peace Monument” was established in the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Park. There is “the Association of Making Children’s Peace Statue in
the World” in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kagawa and Gifu. Children’s Peace Statue
was designed by Kanako Abe, a ninth grader then, and made by Mitsutetsu Okamura, asculptor. It was displayed on May 5th, Children’s Day in Japan.

Other News
Network of Exhibition on War for Peace
The Conference of Network of Exhibition on War for Peace was held in Tokyo on
January 13th and 14th. The movement of holding the exhibition on war for peacestarted in Wakayama in 1976. The conference was held by the Executive Committeeof the Exhibition on War of Tokyo, Saitama, Nagano, Osaka and Okayama. 138

9people from 47 committees in 22 prefectures attended the conference. It was held forthe young people who don’t know war at all and also because there is the rise ofnationalism such as attacking the exhibition on war in Saitama in 2000.
The exhibitions on war for peace have been playing important roles in peace movement
and peace education. They make visitors think “What is war?” “Why does war
happen?” “Why wasn’t war prevented?” “Is it peaceful now?” and “What should we dofor the future?” The head office of the Network is as follows.
C/o Nihon Kikanshi Kyoukai Saitama Ken Honbu, 1-5-11 kishimachi, Urawa City,
Saitama Prefecture 336-0012
Tel: 048-825-7535. Fax: 048-832-1645. Http://www.kikanshi-nw.or.jp/peace/E-mail: kikanshi@mtc.biglobe.ne.jp
Reference: Conference Report on Exhibitions on War for Peace published in February,
2001.

Photo Exhibition: Life in a Desert Island
83 photos of “Living in the Sea when Old: Kikujiro Fukushima’s Life in a Desert
Island” taken by Saeko Miyabuchi were exhibited from May 1st to 30th in Yanai,
Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was a photographer from the 1960s to the 1980s and kept
reporting the danger of militarism in Japan. He suddenly moved to an island called
Oshima in Yamaguchi Prefecture and started self-sufficient life growing vegetables,
keeping chickens and fishing. He refused urban life in which it is possible to getthings by money. The photos were introduced in a magazine of Sekai(World).

Okinawa International Peace Research Institute
There were lecture series of “How to See Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial
Museum” from 14:00 to 16:00 on Sunday from January 14th to March 25th and also
from April 15th to July 8th. It was held by Okinawa International Peace ResearchInstitute that was founded in June of 2000. Its newsletter called Okipri (Okinawa
International Peace Research Institute) No. 2 was published in December, 2000.
The Conference for the Protection of Sea Turtles was held by the Institute and
Itoman City on December 9th and 10th according to Newsletter No. 2. The number of
sea turtles is decreasing because of the destruction of the environment. The
importance of the protection of the environment was emphasized so that human beingsand sea turtles may be able to live together.

Pacifists in Japan
Kiryu YuYu: An Antiwar Journalist
Kiryu YuYu was born in Kanazawa in 1873 and passed away in 1941. He was
educated at Tokyo Imperial University and published novels, haiku, articles, essays
while he was still an undergraduate student.

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Kiryu became a journalist when he was 29 and his motto was “Never surrenderto power and money.” He became editor-in-chief of the Shinano Mainichi Shinbun(newspaper) in 1910, but was forced to resign because he was opposed to military
matters. He tried to realize his ideas not as a journalist but as a politician and ran formembership in the House of Representatives in Nagoya in 1924. But he was defeatedand started a daily newspaper, Chukyo Asahi. However it was not successful.
In 1928 he became editor-in-chief of the Shinano Mainichi Shinbun again. His
criticism of militarism caused pressure from the special police and had to resign in 1933.
Tazan no Ishi, a private journal, was founded by Kiryu in the same year when hewas sixty. The title means “to draw a lesson” and Kiryu wanted readers to draw
lessons from Western ideas. It was published twice a month from 1934 to 1941, and
177 issues were published. He introduced over 110 foreign books in Japanese. He
criticized the military and the bureaucracy so much that publication of his journal was
stopped by the government authorities. It is interesting that his journal was published in1939 and 1940 when journalists had a hard time. It was because a special police wasso impressed by his writing that he protected Kiryu from the governmental pressure.
Though Kiryu suffered the frequent censorship and prohibitions by thegovernment, he kept criticizing militarism in Japan. It was not easy for him to be
critical of militarism because it meant no income by his journal: he had six sons andfive daughters to raise. His last article says, “Journalists should be creative writers.”
He resisted war throughout his life and his existence seems to be important nowadays
when freedom of speech is in danger in Japan because of the rise of nationalism.
Bibliography: “Yuyu Kiryu who consistently fought against the military: ajournalist’s resistance” by Masao Ota in Nihon Heiwaron Taikei(A Survey of Peace
Theory in Japan) Vol. 9 by Saburo Ienaga, editor-in-chief (Tokyo, 1993). “Kiryu
Yuyu” by William D. Hoover in Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders
by Harold Josephson, editor-in-chief (Westport, Connecticut & London, 1985.

International News
Korea
The House of Sharing
The following article is from Ms Mayumi Yonekura who used to work as a volunteer atthe House of Sharing in South Korea.
Korean women who were forced to work as sex slaves by Japanese military in WorldWar II live in the House of Sharing. The horror of sexual violence has been reportedby the women not only in Asia but also in other countries. It has been very influential
because the sexual crime was really terrible and also visitors can listen to the women’s
stories directly. They sing songs and dance to convey what really happened to them.
They painted pictures based on their experiences and the pictures were exhibited in the
United States last year. Americans were deeply impressed by the pictures.

11There is also a history museum on those women in the same site as the House. There
are many visitors not only from South Korea but also from other countries. The
problem is that there is a new Japanese textbook that glorifies Japan’s aggression. I
think that truth should be taught to children. It is up to each of us whether we will live
a bright life or die. I really hope that Japan will repent the sinful past.

China
Memorial Museum of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japan
Mrs. Keiko Tamaki, an expert of China at International Exchange Section of Grassroots
House, wrote the following article.
According to Mr. Shih Hsiao ming, the Chief of Social Education, a public reading of
poetry was given as the 64th anniversary of Lu kou ch’iao Incident on July 7th. It is the
beginning of Japan’s invasion in 1937. Ten famous actors and actresses took part inpoetry reading and it was highly admired.
There will be the 70th anniversary of 9.18 Incident on September 18th. Japanese Armystarted to attack China on September 18 in 1931. The International Academic
Symposium will be held by Japanese Institute of Chinese Social Science Academy andSociety of the Chinese People’s War History of Resistance Against Japan in Beijing.
The exhibition of “Blood and Tears in Forced Labor by Japanese Army” will be held byMemorial Museum of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japan. A seriesof books will be edited by Beijing Board of Education and published by the museum.
Director: Chang Chengjun
Please contact Mr. Shih Hsiaoming: 101 Wanpingcheng -neijie, Lukouchiao, Peijing
100072 CHINA
Tel:86-10-8389・2355, 1455. Fax: 86-10-8389・1485, 6200

Indonesia
Efforts for Peace: Helping Street Children
The following article was introduced by Ms Yoko Uemitsu, a member of Association
for Friendship between Japan and Indonesia, and also Grassroots House.
It is said that there are almost 10,000 NGOs and most of them are new because they
started activities from the latter half of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. I’dlike to introduce NGO called Sutala that tries to help street children.
It was started by college students who couldn’t ignore street children in Semarang, thecapital of Java in 1993. The Dutch NGO called NOVIB, the German NGO called
TDH and citizens of Samarang started to help about 500 street children. It became asocial foundation and has an office with four stuff members who get paid.

12Shelters were made for girls in 2000 as a two-year project and this is the third biggest
shelter in Indonesia. The purpose is to educate them so that they will be able to live
independently such as learning handicrafts. (Incidentally 30 % of the girls have anexperience of being raped, 46.6% being a prostitute and 50% sleeping on a street.)
However, there is a problem that they have to earn money to live by themselves because
only the shelter is offered, not food and other things.
It is necessary to teach children technology, raise fund to operate the NGO, money forchildren’s living and recreational facilities. I hope such activities will save street
children.
(Mr. Okcho Kimura in Salatiga translated this article in Japanese from Report of
SUTALA.)

Sri Lanka
The Consortium for Peace and Progress
The following article was written by Mr. C.S. Samaradivakara.
The Consortium for Peace and Progress implemented following programs to promote
peace at grassroots level in Sri Lanka.
1. Cross – cultural programs: street theatre and school drama in which cultural
diversity and ethnic harmony were upheld. The young artists who took part inthese dramas were themselves peace activists on their own.
2. Literacy education among the children of marginalized plantation worker
families belonging to the minority community surrounded by the traditional
villages where the majority community live, was promoted through activity –based non–formal education centers set up in the plantations.
3. Street theatre on ethnic harmony was performed in towns and villages
bordering strife – torn areas.
4. Traditional cultural heritage of all communities – Music, Dance and Theatre –were promoted and enriched with young people with aptitude trained in boththeir own and other traditional arts.
5. Marginalized families in all communities were organized in community – basedorganizations to promote habits of savings, reproductive health, literacy andculture. Also a micro – credit projects were linked to their programs. Womenof all communities played a key role in these grassroots organizations.
Three members are planning to visit Grassroots House and so forth in fall.
CPP: Director: Mr. C.A.Nirosha
17/5, Weragampita Temple Rd, Uyanwatta, Matara, Sri Lanka
Tel: 94-041-26773. Fax: 94-041-23891. E-mail: divakara@sltnet.lk

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The Marshall Islands: Peace Museum Project
The following information is from Ms Yayoi Tsuchida.
There is a plan to make a peace museum in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall in
2004, the 50th anniversary of the hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll. It will
exhibit the information and material on the damage of Rongelap islanders from the U.S.
nuclear tests, their struggle for compensation from the U.S. and the restoration of theircommunity life and the history of solidarity between the people of Rongelap and theJapanese anti-nuclear movement. Attached to the museum, a facility benefiting theislanders (to help self-reliance, medical care and education of the islanders) will beestablished, and it will function as a center for support and communication between
Rongelap and the Japanese movement.
Exhibits would be witnesses of the victims (publications, audio & video tapes, CDROM, etc), photos depicting the victims and the history of Rongelap before and after
the test, facts, data and Information about the damage from nuclear tests,
materials about the islanders' struggle for compensation from the U.S. and therestoration of their traditional life and the Japanese movement to support their cause andto abolish nuclear weapons, information obtained from the U.S. about nuclear tests andtheir damage, materials about historical relations between Marshall Islands and Japan,
materials about solidarity history between the movements of the Marshalls and Japan
Contact: Abacca Anjain Maddison, Senator of the Marshall Islands
abaccaa@hotmail.com

Spain
The following is news of Peace Museum in Spain written by the director, Ms
Natividad Fortea.
In December we started to work on the Human Rights Commemoration Day. We
opened the doors with the exhibit about the effects of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. This exhibit is a donation from the Peace Museum, Grass Roots House in
Kochi. This exhibit was at the Museum until January the 29th. This day we celebrated
the International Day for Peace. To work about this issue, we contacted with the
UNHCR. They have an exhibit with drawings made by African children in refugees
camps in Kenya. The Museum contacted with a monitor who guided the students in the
exhibit and prepared activities for them. This activity lasted for a month, in February,
and has been followed by many students coming from La Vall d'Uixó and around. They
have produced drawings and letters. With the little ones we worked on the Sadako's
story and they folded a crane which they brought to the Peace Museum.
In March, and for the commemoration of the Women's Day we organized two activities.
The first one was promoted by a Scientific Researcher who worked with a painting
product to preserve people from the "Chagas" disease in Central America. The exhibit iscalled "Painting the Life". And the second was to remember the women in
Afghanistan. We had an exhibit of twenty photos in collaboration with an NGO. We
have had a person who has given a conference to introduce all these activities.

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And to finish, now we have had an artistic exhibit "Pictures for Peace" incollaboration with the Peace and Conflict Institute from the University of Grenada.

Publications
Hayashi, Hirofumi. “Survey of the Japanese Movement Against Wartime Sexual
Violence” in Peace Studies Bulletin, No. 20, June 2001 (Peace Studies Association ofJapan). http://plaza18.mbn.or.jp/~modernH/
Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University. Hiroshima Peace Science 23. 2001
There is an English article of “Conscientious Objection in Japan in Contrast to that inEurope” by Hiromi Ichikawa.
Umbach, Frank. “Strategic Trends of Global Denuclearization and Nuclearization:
Implications for Japan’s Security Policies, Regional Stability and the TMD-Debate in
East Asia” in IPSHU Study Report No. 27. Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima
University. April, 2001.
Sotozaki, Mitsuhiro. Study of Emori Ueki (Ueki Emori Kenkyuu Shiryo Mokuroku).
Grassroots House, 2001. The life of Ueki who drafted the Japanese Constitution is
introduced in Japanese.

WebsiteInternational Museum of Peace and Solidarity: PO Box 76, UZ-703000, Republic of
Uzbekistan. Email address for urgent contact: peacetur@samarkand.uz (messages intext format, .txt).
Website: http://www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi/nisorgs/uzbek/peacemsm.htm
The Editor’s Notes
I hope you enjoyed reading Muse No. 5. Please notice that the homepages in Japan are
not necessarily written in English. The details of the contact address of peace museums
that were reported in Muse before are not written this time.

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