Muse no. 12: Japanese Network of Museums for
Peace
Newsletter: December, 2004
The Editorial Office: Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan
University56-1 Kita-machi, Toji-in, Kita-ku, Kyoto City 603-8577 Japan
Director: Ikuro Anzai.

Curator: Masahiko Yamabe

Editor: Kazuyo Yamane
Illustrator: Erico Tosaki
Tel: +81-075-465-8151. Fax: +81-075-465-7899.

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

The following is news on peace museums in Japan and Asian countries.

Mr. Masahiko

Yamabe, the curator of Kyoto Museum for World Peace, wrote news on big peacemuseums while Kazuyo Yamane of Grassroots House wrote news on small peacemuseums and other news.

We hope you will enjoy reading them.

The Conference of Japanese Network offollows:

Museums for Peace in Tokyo“
Training

peace

makers” byMr.

Motonaga Futatsubashi in Saitama, “The
There was the 4th conference of Japanesepresent situation and the future of the

Network of Museums for Peace in Tokyo

Center of the Tokyo Air Raids and War

on November 27th and 28th.

There were

Damages” by Mr. Keiichiro Kaji, “The

about forty participants and they visited

50th Anniversary of the 5th Lucky Dragon

the Center of the Tokyo Air Raids andDisplay House”by Mr. Kazuya

War Damages and the 5th Lucky Dragon
Display House.
Posters

andprograms

of

the

next

International Peace Museum Conference
were sent from Gernika Peace Museum
and they were gone quickly at theconference.
The topics and the speakers were as

erico

1

Yasuda,“NagaokaWar

Damages

elementary school teacher and publishedMuseum in Nigata” by Mr. Tsuyoshi

newsletter on hometown entitled “ShinSakimura, “Women’s War/Peace Museumyu”(True Friends).

and Active Museum Movement”by Ms

studied to find real images of soldiers in

Mina Watanabe, “Visiting Peace Museum

the modern time by curators of Nationalin

History Folklore Museum, which led to

Stadtschlaining” by

Mr.

Yasuo

The letters were

Kawabata, “Creating a peace museum inthe opening of the museum.

There areYamanashi” by Mr. Masafumi Ando,

some

as

“
Young people who think of war memory

textbooks besides the letters.

andc/o Fujine Seikatsu Center: 14-147-3

war

responsibility” by

Yeongwhanof

Grassroots

Kim
House,

400

exhibits

such

guns,

Fujine, Waga-cho, Kitakami City“
Activities of Friends of Peace Association

Tel:0197-73-5876

at Kyoto Museum for World Peace”by Ms
Hitomi Katayama, “Volunteer work for

Sendai City History Folklore Museum:the 5th Lucky Dragon Display House”by

MiyagiMs Yoshiko Ohata, “Museums exhibiting
war: sociological comparison between

The exhibition of “
War and People’s Life”

peace museums and military museums”

was held from July 17 to August 29.

by Prof. Toshifumi Murakami, “War

picture-story show of “Blue-eyed Dolls”

exhibition

was shown for children on July 24.

atmilitary

museumin

A
A

Germany” by Prof. Morio Minami andpublic lecture on war and people’s life“Education for action for peace”by Prof.

was given at Citizens’Center on August

Hideo Fujita.

21.
Tel: 022-295-3956

The next conference will be held at Kyoto
Museum

for

World

Peace

aroundPacific War History Museum: Iwate

December, 2005.

Nobuteru Iwabuchi

Japanese Network NewsThe Honorable Tomoko Abe, a member of
House

of

Representative-

travelling in

Kitakami Peace Memorial Opened: Iwate

Japan

is

mid-December,2004 to Papua Province,

Republic of

Kitakami Peace Memorial was opened onIndonesia with Mr Iwabuchi of PACIFIC

April 27 at Fujine Seikatsu Center.

WAR History Museum- Iwate to verify

There are 7000 letters from soldiers totheMinejiro

remains, identified as Japanese soldiers

Takahashi

who

was

an

2

fact that

many

human

having died about 60 years ago, are very

Shrine itself now is a grave crime to theeasily found in cities of Jayapura andworldly peace and war dead. Rest in

Biak, known to the Japanese as West

Peace.

New Guinea during the W.W.II period.

Tel: 0197-52-3000

The parliamentarian, also a medical
doctor specializing in pediatrics, is at the

The Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan:

same time inspecting medical facilities

Fukushima

there with a view to suggesting to theJapaneseauthority

any

Auschwits Peace Museum was opened in

officialdevelopment assistances from Japan toApril,

thebattles

Fukushima Prefecture. The backgroundamongst Japan and the U.S.A./Australia

is that the exhibition on Auschwits wastook place between 1943 and 1945.

shown at various places in Japan and it

region,where

fierce

Dr.

2003

in

Shirakawa

City,

Tomoko Abe, upon return to Japan will

was supported by citizens’groups.

directly

report

Health, Labour

to

the

and

The

Ministerofpurpose of the museum is to promote

Welfareofeducation for peace and human rights by
conveying cruelty of Auschwits.

Japan, taking the grand opportunity of2005 being the 60th anniversary of thethat something

There are two corners: one is Anne Franksignificant must be done to pay a biggest

and the other is Rescuers such as Chiune

attention to the fact that there still are

Sugihara who save Jewish people during

well over one million soldiers' humanWorld War II.

remains left, uncared for , behind at the245

formerbattle-fields

Fukushima 961-0835

world.

Where

end of the last war,

all

over

have thethe

MiwadaiShirasaka

Shirakawa,

Tel: 0248‐28-2108

soldiers

gone? They left Japan long time ago. Are

http://www.am-j.or.jp

they all dead?

muzeumau@maple.ocn.ne.jp(Thanks to Mr. Eiji Azuma)

The

Management of PACIFIC WAR

History Museum considers it importantto keep continuing searches

Yuki no Shita Peace Culture Museum:for theFukui

missing Japanese soldiers, dead or alive.
We, the alive, are responsible to take

Record of Downpour in Fukui wasgood care of the war dead ,regardless of

published by the museum.

theirnationalities,

races

or

Reported are

the result of heavy rain on July 18, efforts

religions. The existence of the Yasukuni

for

3

the

reconstruction,

volunteers’experiences as well as some 200 photos.

PeopleThe photos show not only devastatedOctober 2: aviation school in Hikawa.

visitedwar-related

sites

on

areas that were reported in media but
also things that show people’s lives such

There was a reading of poetry for peaceas the closure of hospitals and shops andon July 5.

notices that show people’s gratitude to

Tel:0493-35-4111 Fax:0493-35-4112

volunteers who helped them.

http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/-pms

Damagesof monuments and cultural assets arealso recorded.

The price is 1000 yen.

Maruki

Kanpow No.149 published on October 20.

Art

Museum:HigashiMatsuyama City of Saitama

Tel & fax: 0776-66-1564
http:kore.mitene.or.jp/-yukisita/yukisita

Iri and Toshi Maruki’s art works were@kore.mitene.or.jp

exhibited from May 18 to September 3.

Saitama Peace Museum: Saitama

Art works by Suma Maruki, Iri’s mother,were also exhibited from September 7 to

An exhibition of “Children and War:

November 26.

School and Play”was held from July 24 tomysterious.

September 12.

(Newsletter No. 79 published on April 22

published.

An illustrated book was

Her works are simple andand No. 80 published on July 23.)

There was a workshop on

Tel:0493-22-3266 Fax:0493-24-8371

plays in the old days on August 15.

http://www.aya.or.jp/-marukimsn
Citizens exchanged opinions with people
who experienced war.

Warabi City History Folklore Museum:
Saitama

There were film shows: “Shin-chan’s
Tricyle” was

shown

on

April

10,

An exhibition of “
15-Year-War Memory:

Chi-chan’s Kageokuri(a children’s play), a

Saving Rice and Substitutes for Rice”wassad story of people who were killed in war,

held from August 1 to 31.

on June 12, “On a Paper Crane”on July

leaflet was published.

10 and “
A Flower”on Septmeber 11.

Tel:048-432-2477

A special films were shown: “Anne

Kamifukuoka

Frank’s Diary”on May 1, “Give me backMuseum: Saitama

this Child” on August 14 and “Black

There was an exhibition on weapon

Rain”on October 9.

factories and war from August 14 to

4

City

History

A related

FolkloreSeptember 12.
on history.

1) Focus on violence during World War II

There were also lecturesfrom the viewpoint of gender justice

Mr. Hideo Oshiba, a council

member on Kamifukuoka city cultural

2) To make clear Japan’s responsibility

assets,for her aggression of other countries

talkedabout thehistoryofweapons factory in Kawagoe on August3) To make the museum the base for the22.

activities for the peaceful future

Mr. Kiyoji Uchida and Fumio Takagi(director of the museum) talked about

4) To build the museum and run it asMusashi Unit that was stationed at anpeople’s movement which is not related

elementary

to national authority.

mainlandofschool

to

Japan

and

protect

the

also

their

5) To promote international solidarity

experiences of being sent to the front.

In order to realize these ideas, open

Tel:049-261-6065

lectures were given since April and welearned the history of war and peacemuseums.

Fussa City Local Museum: Tokyo

This program was very

meaningful to share the movement tocreate our museum with other people.

War Exhibition for Peace was held from
June 26 to September 26.

A lecture on
froma

We learned “
active museum movement”

Soldier’s Viewpoint” was

given

by

from Ms Michiko Kajimura of Women’sProfessorof Senshu

Group in Berlin who gave a lecture titled

People visited“Germans who won’t forget the history ofa former transformer substation, which

aggression: things that I began to see

belonged to Hitachi and was air raided bythrough living in Berlin”on April 3.

U.S. bombers during World War II, in“
German people’s movement who create a

Higashi Yamato City on August 28.

memorial at the site of aggression so that

Tel:0425-53-3111

citizens can be empowered by learning“
The

Russo-Japanese
Katsuhiro

War
Arai

University on August 14.

It is

the history of Nazism, thinking andCreating Women’s War/Peace Museum:acting.”We

wereencouragedby

our activities

Germans who made efforts to preserve
their memory of aggression by Nazism.

Yuko Yoshida
It has been almost two years since Ms

Mr.

Yayori Matsui passed away in December,

Gakugei University gave a lecture on

2002.

museums that criticize war such as Life

the

There are five basic ideas behind
movementofcreating

Yoshihiko

Kimizuka

of

Tokyo

is Treasure Museum in Okinawa in

Women’
scontrast to a public war museum that

War/Peace Museum.

5

does not try to deal with Japan’s

September.

aggression on June 24.

TEL&FAX: 03-3369-6866

Professor Morio

Minami of Aichi Kyouiku University gave

info@wfphr.org

a lecture on war museums for war andhttp://www.wfphr.org/

war museums for peace on July 24.

Werealized the importance of our museum

The 5th Lucky Dragon Display House:project because it was pointed out that itTokyo

is not possible to exhibit the real historyof war at national history museum.

Mr.

The exhibition on people in MarshallYuji Ishida of Tokyo University gave a

Islands was held from May 15 to June 27.

lecture on Germany’s attitude toward her

The damages by hydrogen bomb tests andaggression on August 31. We felt a gap

people’s voices were shown in photos.

between Germany and Japan because(Newsletter No. 309 published on June 1.

German government dealt with war
responsibility

while

Website: http://d5f.org

Japanesegovernment didn’t.

fukuryumaru@msa.biglobe.ne.jp
Tel: 03-3251-8494

Mr. Thomas Lutz of Topography of Terror
Foundation gave a lecture on recording

Korea Museum: Tokyo

the history of aggression on October 9.
Discussed were how war memory is

There was an exhibition called “Big

preserved, how the past was “
overcome”,

earthquake in Kanto: how the massacre

theof Koreans were reported in newspaper

difficulty

historyofofunderstanding

aggression

from

the

genderfrom August 18 to October 3.

viewpoint etc.
The museum moved from the 7th floor toThus the necessity of our museum andthe 9th floor and there is more space thanconcrete images became clearer.

before.

Our

museum should aim at recording Japan’saggression in terms of sexual violence

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

against women, preserving the records

Tel&Fax: 03-5272-3510

and exhibitimg them by joining German
active museum movement.

Tokyo

Holocaust

Education Resource

Center: Tokyo
Mina Watanabe became the secretary
general of Foundation Committee from

Hanna was killed at Auschwitz in World

6

War II.

It was found that her brother,in July, 2004)

George, lived in Canada by Ms Fumiko

Tel:045-896-2121 Fax:045-896-2945

Ishioka,

http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/osirase/plaza

thedirectorof thecenter.

George aged 76 visited Tokyo and Kochi
and talked about Hanna to 2000 children.

Hiratsuka City Museum: Kanagawa

The website on Hanna was created.
www.hanassuitcase.ca

A book on U.S. air raids on Hiratsuka

Tel: 03-5363-4808

washolocaust@tokyo.email.ne.jp

Recording U.S. Air Raids and War

www.ne.jp/asahi/holocaust/tokyo

Damages on March 26.

publishedby

Associationof

There are three

volumes and this is the second one.

It

The Center of the Tokyo Air Raids andincludes war damages and diaries of

War Damages: Tokyo

junior high school students who wereforced to work during World War II.
Tel:0463-33-5111 Fax:0463-31-3949

A corner on children and war was created
on

the

3rd

floor.

Childrenwereevacuated during World War II and

Sakuragaoka Museum: Toyokawa City,

related-documents, photos and diaries

Aichi

are exhibited.
There were exhibitions on navy factory inSome seventy people got together on

Toyokawa and also on posters during

May 5 commemorating the 3rd year ofWorld War II from July 17 to August 31.

creating Children’s Statue for Peace near

Tel:0533-85-3775 Fax:0533-85-3776

the entrance of the museum.

Their wish
Peace Museum Project in Matsushiro:

for peace was carved on the back screen.
Tel: 03-5857-5631.

Nagano Prefecture

Fax: 03-5683-3326

http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~sensai/
Twenty-one people visited war-related
Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship:sites on May 23 in Jouetsu.

Kanagawa

is the remains of prisoners of war camp in
Naoetsu.

One of themSome 300 Australian soldiers

There was an exhibition of “Palestinian

were put into a camp as prisoners of war

Refugeesin December, 1942, and they were forced

for

Half

a

Century:Lifesupported by the United Nations”fromto work to produce weapons.

June 29 to August 29.

POWs died because of illness from March,(Global Citizens Report No. 19 published1943 to February, 1944.

7

Sixty

It was because

of poor working conditions.

It is saidon August 1.

There were also lecturesthat there were 700 POWs including

on war experiences by former soldiers

British, American and Dutch POWs when

and also a lecture on war toys in August.

Japan was defeated.

Tel:0566-77-6655 Fax:0566-77-6600

15 officials at the camp were executed

Shizuoka Peace Center：Shizuoka

after the war.

An Australian POWvisited the place after the war and

There was an exhibition on war andexchanges of both citizens started, which

Shizuoka through Tanka poem from April

resulted in creating a peace memorial

9 to July 11.

park and a museum.

War-related sites

important roles in recording people’s lifeand museums can be good to create peace.

during World War II because it wasdifficulttouseTanka poem playedacamera.

Chieo

Matsushiro Headquarter Peace Memorial

Nagakuraz’s poems were introduced.

was awarded 820,000 yen by Nagano City

(Newsletter No. 58published on May 15)

in order to promote guides of the

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

underground shelter that had been madeTel & Fax: 054-247-9641

to protect the emperor’s family during
World War II.

The money will be used toAsai-Town History Folklore Museum:

publish 10,000 pamphlets on the shelter,

Shiga

three mobile phones for the guides,
training guides and so forth.

There was an exhibition commemorating
the end of World War II in terms of

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

soldiers’war memory from July 24 to
September 12.

Tel/Fax: 026-228-8415

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

Anjo City History Museum: Aichi
Bronze Vessel Museum: Yasu City, Shiga
There was an exhibition on daily life
during World War II and Meiji Air Base

An exhibition on people’s life duringfrom July 17 to September 5.

World War II was held from July 3 toAn

September 5.

illustrated book was published.

A leaflet was published.

Tel:077-554-2733 Fax:077-554-2755
There was a lecture on war-related sitesin Tokai area on July 24.

Rittou History Folklore Museum: Shiga

People visited

An exhibition on the Russo-Japanese War

war-related sites such as Meiji Air Base8was held from July 24 to September 5

was shown in July with some 500

includingparticipants, which was followed by aexhibitsonchildren’spanel discussion by a famous critic andevacuation.

Professor Ikuro Anzai, the director of themuseum.

People also visited the sites of schools
where children were evacuated during
World War II.

World Press Photo Exhibition was held in

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

October with about 8000 visitors.

Kyoto Museum for World Peace: Kyoto

Special Exhibition commemorating 50th
Anniversary of the Sufferings due to US

There was a special exhibition on Ainu

H-bomb Tests in Bikini Atolls was heldculture from May 15 to June 13.

from October 28 to November 23.

Prof.

Yugo Ono of Hokkaido University andMutsumi Chisato gave a lecture on May

Ceremony for Renouncing War was held

15.

on December 8 with the participation of

Mutsuko Nakamoto, the head of

Association of Preserving Ainu Culture,

students

andand Reina, her grand-daughter, sangPresidentof Ritsumeikan University

songs.

expressed

professors

his

in

which

determinationtosuccessfully renew the Kyoto Museum for
There

was

a

photo

exhibition

onWorld Peace attached to the university.

battlefields in the world from June 22 toJuly 22.

Photo journalists, Naomi

Prof. Anzai, the director, was appointed

Toyota and Ryuichi Hirokawa gave athelecture on July 1 and October 14

International Peace Research Instituterespectively.

attachedtoMuseum.

He was also decorated withHonorary

Director
theofNanjingNanjing
Massacre

A Japanese film “KT”about the abduction

the Distinguished Service Medal forof Kim Dae-jung and another comic film

Culture“Hotel Hibiscus”about a story of a family

Government of Vietnam.

andInformation

by

the

in Okinawa were screened respectively
on July 3 and October 16 with a talk of

Tanba Manganese Memorial: Kyoto

the directors of the films and the peacemuseum.

There was the 3rd special exhibition on
Korean people who were discriminatedMichael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11

against and their movement against it

9war and depleted uranium on August 15.

from July 25 to August 29.
Tel:0771-54-0046 Fax:0771-54-0234

In the seminar to think of peace in the
21st century, there was a lecture on child

Mukou City Culture Museum: Kyoto

soldiers on June 19 and one on building
There has been an exhibition on life
during

World

War

II

since

peace in East Asia on September 4.

1995.

Military uniforms, textbooks used during

A Course of Peace Studies for Teachers

thewas given in July.

war,

letters

relatedtothe

The content is US air

Russo-Japanese war were exhibited fromraids

August 14 to September 29.

significance of peace to children and how

Tel:075-931-1182 Fax:075-931-1121

to report the present situation of theon

Osaka,

howtoconveyworld.
Osaka International Peace Center: Osaka
There was a puppet show for children on
A special exhibition on small arms andJuly 21 and animated cartoons werechild soldiers was held from May 25 toshown from July 27 to 30.

July 21.
A list of the names of 8608 victims of US
An exhibition on Sadako Sasaki was held

air raids on Osaka is exhibited among

from

An

8658 victims except those who did notexhibition on the atomic bombing on

want to disclose their family names.

Hiroshima was held from August 14 to

There is a plan to create a peace

September 12.

monument by August 2005, the 60th

July

29 to

August11.

anniversary of the end of World War II.
There was the exhibition of paintings by(Osaka International Peace Center No.32

Vietnamese children and photos on the

published on September 30)

aftereffects of defoliant from September
21 to November 28.

A symposium of

Tel:06-6947-7208 Fax:06-6943-6080“
Vietnam and Japan: What we can do for

http://www.mydome.or.jp/peacebuilding peace in Asia and the world”wasorganized on September 25.
Suita City Peace Memorial: Osaka
Ms

HarukoMoritaki,

the

head

of

Hiroshima Association for the Abolition of

There was a photo exhibition on ships

Nuclear Weapons, gave a lecture on Iraq

that had been sunken in the Pacific10Himeji Peace Museum: Hyogo

Ocean during World War II from August
24 to September 5.

Anti-nuclear exhibition was held from
Films and animated cartoons were shown

July 19 to August 29.

There was a peacefrom May to October.

concert on August 1 and children chorus

Tel:06-6387-2593

attended it.

Sakai City Peace & Human Rights

An exhibition on women during World

Museum: Osaka

War II started to be held on October andit will end in December 23.
Tel:0792-91-2525 Fax:0792-91-2526

A special exhibition of Asian children
diarywith drawing

washeld from
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

November 5 to 14.
Tel: 072-270-8150 Fax: 072-270-8159

The exhibition on children who wereforced to work during the war was held

Minoh City Local Museum: Osakafrom July 16 to December 15.
Materials that were used in daily life

(Peace Culture No.153 published on June

during World War II were exhibited from1)

July 28 to August 22.

The museum set up a committee for

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

renewal project because the year 2005
will

The Peace, Human Rights and Children

be

its

committee

Center: Osaka

50th anniversary.

The

consists of a numberofspecialists in different fields.
Tel:082-241-4004 Fax:082-542-7941

Some 15000 people visited the museum

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

including the number of visitors of the

hpcf@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

traveling exhibits on school textbooks
since the museum was founded 8 years
ago.

Takamatsu Civic Culture Center: Peace

There are 6000 textbooks including

Museum: Kagawa Prefecture

the ones used in China, Korea and Japan
during World War II.

More and more

There was an exhibition on US air raids

people contacted the museum because of

on Takamatsu from June 29 to July 4.

school textbook issues.
Tel: 072-229-4736 Fax: 072-227-1453

Peace films were shown in May 29 andAugust 26.

11

(Newsletter No. 16 published in October)

It was organized by college students andTel:087-833-7722 Fax:087-861-7981

young people.

http://www.city.takamatu.kagawa.jp/kyou

Republic of Korea, Indonesia as well as

iku/bunkabu/sbsenter/heiwa.htm.

Koreanstudents

discussed

war

Grassroots House: Kochi

Students from China, thelivinginJapan

responsibility,

history

education and concepts of history.

Kim Yeongwhan
Professor Hideyo Kurimoto of Osaka
Various events of Peace Wave in Kochi

University gave a lecture on Sudan,were done from June 26 to August 29.

which gave a chance to think of civil

The secretariat is at Grassroots House.

conflicts and peace in Africa.

Ms

HarukoMoritaki,

the

head

of

There was a festival on Kou Makimura,

Hiroshima Association for the Abolition ofanti-war poet on September 3, theNuclear Weapons, gave a lecture on Iraq

anniversary of his death.

war and depleted uranium.

The 26th

lecture on him by Mr. Mutsushi Ino, a

exhibition on war and peace was held

poet and Makimura’s poems were read.

under the four themes: US air raids on

His life was introduced on Korean TV in

Kochi, the invasion of Iraq and Palestine,

which Mr. Shigeo Nishimori talked about

Japan’
s invasion of China and hydrogen

Makimura.

There was abomb tests in Bikini Atolls.
Mr. Park Il Sun, Korean environmental
It was 22nd time that one million paper

activist, visited Grassroots House for the

cranes

4th time and donated 100 books to Korean

werefoldedanddecorated

downtown, Kochi city.

children living in Matsuyama.

There were the 8th peace march in Kochi,

There was a rally called “NO MOREa memorial for the victims of US air raids,

WAR! ９ ・ １ １ Rally in Kochi” at
Grassroots House.

21st Anti-nuclear Peace Concert, the 10th
Peace

Theater,

Exhibition,

the

the

21st

Peace

Art

5th Peace Rallyfor

A documentary filmof “
Who are Terrorists?”was shown andthere was a peace concert.

Children and so forth.

A peace action to call for the withdrawalof the US military and Japanese Self

There was a symposium on history in

Defense Forces from Iraq is continued

East Asia and peace as the 10th citizens

once a week downtown of Kochi City.

meeting in solidarity with Asian people.

12GermanMuseum:NarutoCity,

http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinenn

Tokushima

tomoneko@land.linkclub.or.jp

A diary of a German prisoner of war is

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial

introduced in Newsletter No. publishedMuseum: Okinawa

on June 20.

There

1920.

It was written from 1914 to

It says, “A temple in Marugame of

wasaexhibitionon

war-related articles from October 1 to

Shikoku is very crowded, but we live here.

December 19.

The only chance to go out is to go to thecitizens.

dentist in Takamatsu.

specialThey were donated by

Naturally manyprisoners of war wanted to go to the

An exhibition on children and Okinawa

dentist…”land battle was exhibited from June 3 tohttp://www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/ger

July 18.

Tetsu Nakamura, a medical

manhouse.

doctorvoluntarily

doitukan@city.naruto.tokushima.jp

Afghanistan,wasTel: 088-689-0099

International

Peace

Prize

exhibition

him

was

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

awardedin

Okinawa
and

held

an
from

September 16 to October 11.
(Newsletter No. 7 published on July 23)

There was an exhibition of the dolls

Tel:098-997-3844 Fax:098-997-3947

collected by a couple who lost their child

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

named Yoko-chan by the atomic bombing
from May 25 to August 31.

Himeyuri Peace Memorial Museum

Tel:095-844-1231 Fax:095-846-5170

The museum was renewed and opened on

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace

April 13.

MuseumThe explanation of exhibits

was written by people who experienced
the war in Okinawa.

The members of the museum visited
Nanjing in August.

Japan’
s aggression of Nanjing.

generation but also to make the victims’
ideas

One oftellchildrenandfeelings

reflected

in theexhibits.

them said that she’d like to become aandIts purpose is not

only to convey historical facts to the next

Two female students

in Nagasaki went to China to learn

teacheronworking(Newsletter No. 33 published on May 30)

Japan’s

TEL 098-997-2100・2101

aggression for the peaceful future.

FAX 098-997-2102(Newsletter No. 38 published in October)

http://www.himeyuri.or.jp/

Tel: 095-820-5600
13

Tsushima-maru Memorial: Okinawa

Institutefor

Hiroshima

Peace

Science,

University

2004.

The memorial of Tsushima-maru was

Included are papers such as “Theopened on August 22.

Tsushima-maru

Reduction of US-Russian Strategic

was a ship used to carry people andNuclear Weapons and the Issue ofchildren who would evacuate, but it was‘Reserve’ Stockpiles: Reconsidering

sunken by US submarine and 1418

the Significance of the SORT” bypeople including 775 children were killed.

Hiroshi Yamada.

Tel＆Fax:098-941-3515＊

IPSHU(Institute for Peace Science,
Hiroshima

Research

Report No. 31: Reconsidering Human*********************************

Security
The 8th National Symposium of

publishedinFebruary,

2003.

Preserving War-Related Sites＊

Peace Studies in the Time of
Globalization「グローバル時代の平和

Secretariat of the National Network of学」by Peace Studies Association ofPreserving War- Related Sites

Japan: Houritsu Bunka-sha, 2004 (4volumes in Japanese)

The symposium was held in Tateyama＊ Visual Book Hiroshima and Nagasaki

City of Chiba Prefecture from August 21
to 22.

University)

to be Handed Down 「ビジュアル・ブ

450 people attended it and they

visited war-related sites such as former
Navy base before the symposium. The

ック

語り伝えるヒロシマ・ナガサキ」

by

Ikuro

Shuppan-sha.

theme was “
How to preserve war-related

Anzai:

Shin-Nihon

Five-volume books forchildren and young people full ofsites and use them for peace”.

photographs

andsurvivors,

testimonies

ofpublishedin(From the website of House of Hope)A-bombhttp://homepage3.nifty.com/kibonoie/isikinituto.htm）

commemoration of 60th anniversary ofatomic bombing. (in Japanese)＊ War-Related Sites in Japan「日本の戦争遺跡」edited by National Network of

Publications

Preserving

War-Related

Sites:

Heibon-sha Shinsho 2004 ￥1200＊ Thinking in Nagasaki「続・長崎にあ＊ Germ War and Today 「細菌戦と現って哲学する」by Shinji Takahash:代」：published 5 times a year

Hokuju shuppan 2004

￥2000 Tel & fax: 048-985-5082＊ Hiroshima Peace Science 26

by

＊

14

Website of the House of Sharing

http://www.nanum.org/jap/index.html＊

Fax: 03-3780-0130

Iejima Newsletter「伊江島通信」＊ Japan Center for Asian Historical

There are the words by Shoukou

Records: National Archives of Japan

Awagon, the founder of Life is(English,

Treasure Peace Museum and “
FatherJapanese)of Peace Movement in Okinawa”andhttp://www.jacar.go.jp/

Chinese,Hangulandvisitors’
impressions of the museum.
Tel:0980-49-3047

Fax:

＊ “
The Power of Protest”by Lawrence S.

0980-49-5834

Wittner in Bulletin of the Atomic

A calendar on Shoukou Awagon andScientists July/August 2004

photos of people in Iejima waspublished by Eizou Bunka Kyoukai.

**********************************

Tel:

Fax:

Obituary: Shigeo
Grassroots House

the

Let’
s become wind to carry peace in

045-981-0834.

045-981-0918

Nishimoriofeizobunka@r5.dion.ne.jp＊ Videotapes on Okinawa andMemory of Shigeo Nishimori

Philippines etc are available at Eizou

Keiko Tamaki: Vice-director

Bunka Kyoukai mentioned above.
＊

Let’s
There are articles on Chinese people

Mr. Shigeo Nishimori, the director of

who were forced to go to Japan to

Grassroots

House,

work during World War II, theAugust 21.

He has been working hardviolationforthough he

of

human

rightsinpeace

passedaway

sufferedonfromhobnailed liver.

Palestine. (December, 2003) It is
published by Resource Center onJapan’s War＊

Responsibility

Some 400 people got together in memory(inJapanese)of Mr. Nishimori from all over Japan andTel: 03-3366-8261

Korea on October 10.

Fax: 03-3366-8262

sent not only from Japan but also from

It is possible to get to know the

China,

Japanese Constitution in English in

Northern Ireland etc.

England,

Messages wereGermany,

Italy,

the following website of Hougakukan
InstituteofHis life for peace was introduced using

Constitution:

http://www.jicl.jp/english/index.html

slides, music and messages.

(Thanks to Hitoshi Okawa)based on his ideas of respecting life.

Tel: 03-5489-2153

When he was a student at Hokaido

15

His life wasUniversity, he began his activities forpeace education.

peace.

ChineseHe became a teacher of biology

and promoted peace education.

He alsoHe actively supported

lawsuitgovernment

againstforJapanese

apologyandpromoted peace movement which is based

compensation for terrible damages doneon the community.

during the war.

One of the examples

is making an exhibition on US air raids
on Kochi where more than 400 people

Thinking that the destruction of thewere killed during World War II.

environment is another type of war, hethought that it is important to think of

He investigated the victims of the US air

the nature 1000 years later.

raids, collected related materials and19, 1995, he organized people to plant

made an exhibition.

trees

A peace monument

was finally realized in July 2004.

atConstitution

On March

Forestthatsymbolizes Article 9 of the JapaneseConstitution that renounces war.
He also studied pacifists, especially Kou
Makimura,arevolutionarypoet.

Makimura’s poems were published in abook and his life was introduced in a
KoreanTVprogram

in

which

Mr.

Nishimori emphasized the importance of
Kou Makimura.
Mr. Nihimori kept criticizing war in
Afghanistan and Iraq by writing, talking
with people and attending meetings

Peace monument in Kochi City

though he was suffering from illness.
createdin

But so many people were encouraged toNovember, 1989 by Mr. Nishimori.

Itpromote activities for peace by him.

Grassroots

House

was

has exhibits related to war, peace,environment, peace culture etc.

We wanted him to live much longer forHe

organized a peace trip to China topeace and better world.

investigate what Japanese army frompassed away, we feel that he still keeps

Kochi did in China during World War II.

an eye on us somewhere.

The trip was organized six times fromsong called “Let’s become wind”and we’d1991 and 1998.

like to blow new wind that carries peace.

Booklets on Japan’saggression were published and used for

16

Though he
He made a**********************************

Hungary from July 5 to 9.

International Symposium

people attended it from forty countries.

Some 250“
Exchange of Experiences and Future
Cooperation of Asian Peace Museums"

Professor Toshifumi Murakami presented
a paper of “
The Influence of Education on

The symposium was held by Science

War: the Comparison between PeaceCouncil of Japan (National Committee forMuseums and Military Museums”.

Peace Research) and Kyoto Museum for

Kazuyo Yamane presented a paper ofWorld Peace on June 19th.

There were“
Peace Museums in Japan: the Present

Ms. Lee Suhyo of theSituations and Challenges”. It seems

118 Participants.

“A Newthat peace researchers began to think

Tide of Korean Peace Museum Campaignthat peace museums are effective inandpromoting peace education.

Republic of Korea talked aboutthePossibility

Cooperation”.

ofJapan-Korea

Mr. Zhou Sheng Shan,

Director of Nanjing Massacre Museum

Some peace researchers visited Peace(China)Museumtalkedabout“
China-Japanin

Stadtschlaining.

The

Difference in Recognition of Nanjing

exhibits on peace, environment, conflict

Massacreresolution,

andResolution.” Mr.

FutureProspectNguyenKhaforpacifists,

understanding

different culture were very impressive.

Lan,

Director of War Remnants Museum, Ho
Chi Minh City (Vietnam), talked about

The following photo is very interesting to“
How to Hand Down the Memories ofunderstand different culture.

Vietnam War to the Posterity for Making
FuturePeace”.

The

exchangeofexperiences and opinions encouraged theparticipants

to

work

for

peace

cooperation with one another.

inThe

details will be published in the journal of
Kyoto Museum for World Peace in March,
2005.
IPRA Conference in Hungary
Kazuyo Yamane
The girl with her tongue sticking out is fromThe

International

Peace

Research

Tibet. There is a story to this: through this way

Association held its conference in Sopron,of greeting, people would see the tongue; and if it

17were dark, there would be "bad words" resting

mass produced to be affordable. Everyon it; the brighter the tongue is, the better andclassroom and child on Earth should havebrighter is the soul.

or see one. They are inflatable, easy to(Thanks to Hanna

mail.

Orthofer of Peace Museum in Stadtschlaining)

Local schools -- students andteachers! -- are excited about them.

Earth Spheres
Eric'sThefollowing

is

from

Mr.

company

custom-makes

giant,

photo-accurate Earth models three-feet

GeraldElfendahl, the former director of History

andMuseum of Bainbridge Island in the

diameter. He made two 16-foot Earths

State of Washington, the USA.

for the Utah Winter Olympic Games.

Earthlarger

--

one

over

20-feetinballs may be good for peace museum
Eric Morris, Director

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Eric Morris makes replicas of Earth -giant ones for Fairs and Olympic Games,
small ones for general and diverse
consumers.

The

photographically

replicasaccurate.

They

are
are

made from NASA satellite photos. They
perfectly show oceans, continents, andPeace Art Project Cambodia

islands with clouds and weather systems
swirling about them. They are printed
with special ink so cities glow in the dark

There was PAPC Exhibition at Javasame as seen at night from space!

Gallery Phnom Penh from 29 September
to 5 October 2004.

Eric's new 16" diameter "Earth Ball" iswww.peaceartprojectcambodia.org

18Itexhibited a selection of sculptures and**********************************

furniture made from decommissioned

ArticlesJapan

on Peace

Revealingtheweapons parts by young CambodianMuseums

inartists at Java Gallery Phnom Penh(www.javaarts.org) for a limited period.

hidden facts

of

war

promotes peace
MaryAnn Hansen: Australia

This second PAPC exhibition at Java
Gallery reflects the progression of theartists’skills and influences since theI have recently completed my Masters

first Elements exhibition in February

Thesis on a topic that dealt with the way

2004.

war history continues to effect therelationship between China and Japan.

All work on display is available forI had been studying China for some years

purchase with the proceeds being divided

butequally

Japanese war history other than thosebetweentheartist

and

had

only

limitedknowledgeofstories handed down by members of myre-investment into the workshop.

family, what I had seen depicted in
PAPC is a non-profit organisation whichmostlyAmericanmoviesaims to:reporting in the news media.

and

the

All of thisinformation gave me a very bad image ofJapan.

Train young Cambodian artists in
new skills and materials andprovide them with sustainable,

I was particularly struck, while travelingtransferable employment skills

and living in China, not just by the very

Promote young Cambodian artists

strong anti-Japanese sentiment, but by

and their work nationally andthe fact that young people were often the

globally

most hostile. In Australia I have rarely

Promote a weapon free society

encountered young people with negative

nationally and globallyfeelings about Japan; on the contrary,
many young people embrace and admire
Japanese culture. So I was interested toContact email address: info@javaarts.org

learn why the situation in China hadn’tchanged after so many years.
Even before I began my serious research I
was

19

aware

of

the

controversies

surrounding Japan’s attitude towards its

more convinced than ever of the futility of

war history. World media has regularly

war. The western world is aware of thereported

issue,

catastrophes of the atomic bombs, butpoliticians visit to Yasukuni Shrine andlittle is known of the devastation caused

Japan’
s unwillingness to apologize for its

to Japanese cities by fire-bombings and I

wartime actions.

was deeply shocked at the extent of the

most

on

peculiar

the

text

book

I found this situation
and

made

the

suffering experienced.

same

Nor is it widelyassumption as most other people who

known how dedicated many Japaneseread these reports: that the ‘
official’

people are to the cause of peace.

Japanese view, was shared by most of its
In China, especially, Japan continues topopulation.

maintain its reviled reputation. The
I learned that in addition to museums

Chinese public is constantly bombarded

dedicated to the suffering caused fromwith negative reports about Japaneseatomic bombings, museums in Osaka andbehaviour connected to Japan’s period of

Kyoto gave a different account of the war

aggression against China. Critics havethan the Japanese government presents

accusedand although I could find nothing in the

manipulating these feelings among its

Englishcitizens through educational policies andlanguageacademicmaterialtheChinesegovernmentofabout them, I discovered that there were

control of the media.

Even the Chinese

many small peace museums throughout

national‘
MarchJapan.

I decided that the only way that

Volunteers’is a war song, composed toI could get a complete picture of Japanese

honour those who went to Manchuria toattitudes towards war was to visit Japanfightmyself.

Japanese imperialism. Yet my findings

anthem

a

war

of

of

resistancetheagainstwere that a great deal of this negative
From the time that Fujita Hideo very

feeling is spontaneous, most especiallykindly served as my guide to the Daigo

demonstrated by the way these feelings

Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall and theare expressed on the internet, a medium

Center of the Tokyo Air Raids and War

that the Chinese government has foundDamages until I was warmly welcomed in

impossible

Kochi, my previous assumptions about

internet usage has coincided with a sharp

Japan were challenged.

increase in animosity directed towards

After two weeks

torecentIncreasedin Japan visiting ten different museums,

Japan,

speaking to many peace activists andreporting that less than 6 percent oflistening to personal testimonies, I was

Chinese view Japan as friendly or very

20

with

dominate.

opinionpolls

friendly,

while 43 percent

said

but war itself that became evil. Theythelearned that war corrupts humanity andopposite.

defiles us all.
On myreturn to Australia I

The change in the class

was palpable and by the end of thewasdetermined to learn more about Japanesesemester

that

had

war

attended had become a pacifist.

It ishistory

andenrolled

in

a

every

student

post-graduate class at the University ofsuch a simple solution, and yet I had

Melbourne.

The class upset me and I

never completely understood before thatfound it disturbing to do the required

our best hope for preventing wars in thereading and to learn of details that I had

future is to give a complete, ‘warts andpreviously only had a vague notion about.

all’
education to our youth about the true

Most of all I found it upsetting to see that

horrors of war.

my classmates, most of whom were underromanticizes war and those who fought

thirty, with no direct experience of war,and died in it, be they Japanese, Chinese,

seem so unconcerned.

Australian or American, do a dreadful

They compared

Whoever glorifies anddisservice to future humanity.

descriptions of battles in the Pacific toscenes that they had seen in ‘
SavingThe Case of Japanese Peace Museums

Private Ryan’and appeared to have no

Lucetta Sanguinetti: Italy

concept that what we were studying was
not a novel or a movie, but a tragedy thatcaused widespread death, suffering andIt was an extraordinary travel experiencedestruction.

that permitted me to have hands-on thisAbout half way through the
The topic was

unexpected and extreme reality, to make‘atrocities’and I braced myself for theevident the singularity of which Japan

unpleasantalone is the bearer.

course, all that changed.
research.

Thematerial

About half of thepresented by the lecturer was far frompeace museums on our planet rise frompredictable,

its narrow island territory.

however,andfocusedAnd this is

exclusively on the atrocities committed by

not a few, because it concerns some 40

the allies.

Most of the group learned forpeace museums (including small and big

the first time of the acts of barbarityones) compared to approximately i 80

committed by Australian, British andexisting around the globe.

American troops against their Japanese

itself reveals a precise choice.

This fact infoes. They were more shocked than I will
ever be able to describe and they became

From that same Japan that marked, withcompletely sober.

theSuddenly it was not‘
John Wayne’saving the world from ‘
evil’
,

21

catastrophe

of

the

bombs

of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the end of themost atrocious of the world wars and thejust in the most important Japanese

beginning

peace museums,

of

the

nuclearage,

theare seen to rise up andnecessity “
not to forget”had brought two

be supported several on a large scalemuseums in the bombed cities to life

international campaignsv.

since 1955:

the Nagasaki International

Cultural Hallii and the Hiroshima Peace

It also concerns focused local politics:

Memorial Museumiii.

a civic level, the cities that are equipped

In the 1990s both

on

that

with a peace museum have felt the needpermitted them to take on a precise

to educate people’s consciences toward

objective in a more significant way, that

increasingly intelligent choices in theof becoming the catalyst of international

direction of the respect for human rights,

actions in the struggle against thecivil rights, nonviolence, disarmament,

instrument-war. Meanwhile, from the

ethics economics and solidarity; in a word,

1980s on, numerous institutions that are

toward peace. This has caused that one

recognized today as peace museums, haveof the major activities of Japanese peace

sprung up, both in many cities that had

museums

undergone destruction from conventional

education, with integrated programs for

carpet bombing, and in many others that,

schools, university courses, seminars,

notforumsunderwentaclaiming

remember,radicalrenewalaspecialintendtowound

witness

to

to

and

be dedicated to peace

conferences.

All

this

ferment generates a climate of attention

their

to and research on peace themes thatcommitment by working toward peace.

influence citizens’choices, so much soJapan therefore assumes a guiding rolethat some towns take on the name “
peacein the museum’s culture of peace and incity”. They can put in place the means

peace politics on a worldwide level.

Yes,

for a capillary sensitization that touches

politics, but not governmental ones,

the younger generations in a special way,

characterized notoriously by a rightwingand that, through the school, can reach

Nipponese model, tending rather to blocklarge sections of the population, so as tothanpenetrate inside the family core.

topromotethenew,positiveorientations of the most recent peacemuseums. It’s more about transnational

The city is the unit of measure of thepolitics which become vehicles for thepolitics of the people:

most committed university environments,

campaign, that of Mayors for Peace, that

the NGOs, the cooperative movement and,

unites the participating cities in theformovement

some

aspects,

thetransnational

it is still a citizens’“
Inter-City

Solidarity,

Program to Promote Solidarity of Cities

bodies of the United Nations iv … that,22

towards the Total Abolition of Nuclearof “
peace initiatives”and of “
history ofvi.
Weapons”

peace movements”.

And the peace museums of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki also become theAlso in the Japanese museums this is themunicipal,

most difficult element to document in a

not

only

international

headquarters of the entire initiative.

clear and visible way.

And if some ofthese begin to insert this documentationIn

addition,

there

other

into their museological programs, thissignificant elements that characterize theremains accessible only to experts, toJapanese peace museums, the first ofpeople that are already aware of the topic

which, very strong, is the “Strategy of

and are sensitive to it.

Reconciliation”, that not only brings the

scenographic project on a large scale isvisitors

Japan’
s own

still missing from the whole process, that

responsibility in the “
15 Years War”of

can be communicated to the public only

invasion and domination of Asian nations,

with

but

preparation.

to

are

recognize

involves

them

in

two

operationalanadequate,

Perhaps a real,museographic

The effective exposition ofprograms of student cultural exchanges,

reflection and analyses of the run which

and health interventions vii , in order tohas already gone, supported by researchrebuild bridges of solidarity with theand by scientific peace studies, is still not

objective of healing the old wound of theperhaps so visible, so that it can lead

offended peoples.

people to active and conscious choices ofnonviolence.

The second aspect, instead, still seemed
weak, not completely understandable andThere

not as enthralling as one could expect

Japanese peace museums communicate

fromin a special way:

innovative

andcourageousishowever

an element

that

the strength of theones.

Memory that a "collective mourning’s

Nevertheless it is present and is in aelaboration" transforms into a worldwide

phase of elaboration and development,

event.

If the atomic catastrophe marked

such that in the coming years it’
s foreseen

history,

touchingthat it could become the backbone of

capacity for human beings to exterminate

peace museums:

them, and if this happened for the firstmuseumsliketheJapaneseit’s the aspect that

the

depth

of

the

theme

time to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thenspecific of “peace actions”(the nonviolent

the upward thrust towards building

struggles for liberation, opposition topeace cannot come from anywhere else

wars, nonviolent intervention in areas ofthan from this Earth, from its capacity toconflict, civil and human rights claims),

rise

takes

into

consideration

the

23

up

from

annihilation.

The"hibakusha"

and

their

childrenbomb materials, Hiroshima intends to continue
appealing to the approximately 1 million people
from Japan and abroad who visit every year for theabolition of nuclear weapons and realization of
genuine and lasting world peace”.

demonstrate here every day that they
have learned to believe in a possible
resurrection, that they have learned toivtransform a historical evil into a higher

High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR):

http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/hc/index.htm

good.

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research(UNIDIR):i

The calculation cannot be exact because somemuseums still don’t have an internet site; others
are listed as peace museums, but in reality are still
only projects…

http://www.unidir.org/html/en/about.html
UnitedUniversity(UNU):

http://www.unu.edu/

ii

Duffy, Terence, The Peace Museums of Japan,
in Museum International, Paris, N. 196 (1997), p.
49-54: “The Nagasaki International Cultural Hall,
predecessor of the new Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Museum, was constructed in 1955 to exhibit
articles and photographs illustrating the tragedy of
the Atomic bombing. A fine account of the Hall’shistory is given in the classic study, Nagasiki
Speaks: A Record of the Atomic Bombing. In
April 1996 a substantial new museum was opened
with three main exhibits- the atomic bombing on
Nagasaki; Japanese war-time policy; and from thenuclear arms race to Japan’s post-1945 peace
movement”.
iii

Nations

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO):
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3328&
URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UnitedNations

Children’s Fund(UNICEF):

http://www.unicef.org/about/index.html
v

Among these I’
d like to remember the
campaign to ban nuclear weapons from the globe
by 2020 (“Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear
Weapons”), the one for the ban on depleted
uranium weapons: DU (Depleted Uranium)
Weapons banning, the one against nuclear testing,the one against preventative and punitive wars,
promoted by the NGO (Mayors for Peace), juststarted by the Peace Memorial Centre ofHiroshima.
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/mayors/english/ind
ex.html ,http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/English/
Stage3/3-2/3-2-10words/vol10e.html

Hiroshima Peace Site, Guide of Hiroshima

Peace Memorial Museum,
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/English/
Stage0/S0-5E.html;
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/index_e2.html:“
In 1949, an A-bomb materials display room (called
A-bomb Memorial Hall) was opened to the public in
the Hiroshima Central Community Hall. The
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and anaccompanying
building,
Hiroshima
Peace
Memorial Hall, were opened in Peace Memorial
Park in 1955. A group of volunteers called the
Association to Support the Collection of A-bomb
Materials (now the A-bomb Materials Preservation
Association) and many other Hiroshima residents
were instrumental in gathering A-bomb artifacts.
The two buildings have been renovated several
times to improve the exhibit itself, to provide peacestudies facilities for school field trips, and for otherimprovements. The present Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum was opened in 1994, unifying
the two buildings (now called the East and Westbuildings). The East Building traces Hiroshima’shistory, depicting conditions in Hiroshima justbefore and after the bombing. The West Building
uses photographs and artifacts to convey the factsof the atomic bombing itself. Through its atomicvi

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/mayors/english/outlines/cityplan.html
vii

It concerns lobbying in order to obtaingovernment approval so that the survivors of the
populations at that time deported to Japan,
contaminated by the nuclear radiation from theatomic explosion, might receive the needed
medical treatments for free in their own countries.
Chinese and Korean people, by now old, mutilated
or sick, can be taken care of, in this reconciliation
effort of which the peace museums are promoters,24

so that they might be helped and covered by the

GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp

Japanese national healthcare system, as act of

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

reparative refund.

himori

http://www.japan-press.co.jp/2315/kwak.html**************************************************Muse 14 in JapaneseMuse 14 in Japanese was published in
November. Special thanks goes to Dr.
Peter van den Dungen, Ms Antonia
Young, Mr. Franz Deutsch, Gerals
Elfendahl, Ms Jane Bunge Noffke andDancing with a bottle of wine on head at

PAPC(Peace Art Project Cambodia) who

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