Muse no. 11: Japanese Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: June, 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: Eriko 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.

International Symposium

The 4th Conference of Japanese Network“
Exchange of Experiences and Futureof Museums for Peace

Cooperation of Asian Peace Museums"
There will be the 4th conference of
The symposium will be held by Science

Japanese Network of Museums for PeaceCouncilResearchin Tokyo on November 27th and 28th.

Commission) and Kyoto Museum for

The participants will visit Document

World Peace on June 19th.

Ms. LeeCentre on Air Raids and War Damages

Suhyo of the Republic of Korea will talkand the 5th Lucky Dragon Display House.

about

A New Tide of Korean Peace

If you are interested in attending theMuseum Campaign and the Possibility ofconference, please contact Kyoto Museum

Japan-Korea Cooperation.

Mr. Zhou

for

Sheng

of

Nanjing

of

Japan

Shan,

(PeaceDirector

University.

Massacre Museum (China) will talkabout“
China-Japan

Differencein

Recognition of Nanjing Massacre Eventand Future Prospect for Resolution.”Mr.
Nguyen

Kha Lan,Remnants

Museum,Director
Ho

of

Chi

World

War
Minh

City (Vietnam), will talk about “
How toHand Down the Memories of Vietnam
War to the Posterity for Making Future
Peace€35
.

1

Peace

at

Ritsumeikan

Reconstructing Weng Anti-Japan Art

will in which a former Japanese soldier

Museum: Saitama

expressed his apology to the Chinese.

It

was sent by Ms. Ayako Kurahashi, a
The museum was burnt on March 23,

family of the Japanese soldier.

2003 unfortunately because the wind

were also panels from Japanese citizen’sblew when Mr. Weng Hsiuyue, thegroupsdirector of the museum, was burning

Remembering the Nanjing Massacre, thegrass.

He decided to reconstruct his art

Association for Thinking Human Bones

museum and the following is his appeal.

that were discovered at the former Army

(It is so long that it was summarized by

MedicalKazuyo Yamane.)

Supporting Korean Women who were

such

as

School,

the

the

There

Association

Association

of

for

forced to work as sex slaves by Japanese
The purpose of Weng Anti-Japan Art

army and the secretariat for PhotoMuseum is to change Japanese concept of

Exhibition on Nuclear Issues and thehistory for the friendship between China

Earth in Chernobyl.

and Japan.

This is because there arethe

As a result, there were over 200 visitors

existence of the Nanjing massacre 57

including those from several countries

years after Japan’s defeat in 1945.

Such

since July 7, 1996 when it was opened:a situation is very different from one infrom teenagers to people in their eighties.

Germany and Italy.

Most of the visitors knew the Nanjingcabinetministers

whodeniedmassacre and I found that quite a few
The art museum was founded in a place

people reflect on Japan’s aggressive war.

where there was a factory and the floor

But the visitors were much less than I

space was 66 square meters.

had expected.

Theexhibits were paintings on the Nanjing
massacre by Guo Peiyu, a Chinese artist,

This made me think why Japanesepaintings for peace, historical materials,

concept of history was not changed.

video tapes and books.

There were also

couldn’t help thinking that there shouldbooks and videos from Nanjing Massacre

be basic reasons for the existence ofMuseumJapanese old concept of history.

and

a

video

“
Maggie’s Will” madetapecalledbyChineseI

1. Japanese people are still influenced
by militaristic education before World

Americans.

War II.
2. The Japanese tend to communicate

There was also a letter by Shang Chaofu,

among

a victim of the Nanjing massacre, and a2themselves,

not

with

foreigners, and also tend to hide the

Human beings sometimes make mistakes

historical truth.

and it is necessary to talk with one
another.

3. It is possible that the Japanese

The reason why I have agovernment and society didn’t changedifferent concept of history from themuch basically after World War II.

Japanese is that I learned historical facts

4. It is not easy for the Japanese tofrom my father since I was six years old.

cooperate one another to deal withI also read Chinese books presented by

the historical truth.

Mr. Chu Chengshan, the former director

5. There are some people who say,of the Nanjing Massacre Museum and a“
There was not the Nanjing massacre.

book of Chinese Who were Forced to

It was not Japan’s aggressive war.

Work in Japan by He Tieni. I also read

There is no need to apologize to thebooks

Chinese for the aggression.”

citizen’s groups and saw various exhibits,

6. Thus Japanese concept of history
cannot be changed easily.

byJapanese

researchersandwhich convinced me of the historical facts.

China wasI’
d like to express my deep gratitude to

not compensated and the Japanesethe people who donated the books.

tend to think that there is no war
responsibility by Japan.

Now I’
d like to reconstruct this art
museum which was burnt down on March

As a conclusion, in order to change

23rd, 2003.

Japanese

including citizen’s groups would donate

conceptofhistory,itisimportant to do as follows:I’d appreciate it if people

materials, books, publications, paintingsand money.

It would be nice if an１）The Japanese should face up to theassociation of friends would be created tohistorical fact of Japan’s aggression

support various activities at the museum.

in World War II.
２）The Japanese government shouldmakeefforts

to change

Mr. Weng Hsiuyue

people’s3-229 Miyahara-cho, Kita-ku, Saitama

concept of history through related

City 331-0812

agencies.

Donation: Post Office account number

３）Asian victims of Japan’s aggression
shouldunderstandthe

10300 48636551

present

situation of Japan well and should(Thanks go to Ms. Keiko Tamaki fordeal with the problem actively.

helping Romanize some Chinese words.)

3

Japan’s apology and compensation.

The Committee of Creating Women’s
War/Peace Museum: our activities

Other women are in charge of database

Secretariat: Yuko Yoshida

and the computer system in the museum.
A whole year passed since the Committee

There is also an architect who drafts aof Creating Women’s Peace Museum wasdesign for the museum.

set up.

I’d like to report our activities,

the present situation and our plan for the

Besidesfuture.

ofmembers visited peace museums in

researchers, journalists, office workers,

Japan and abroad, and they made clear

students and so forth who got together tothe concept of the peace museum. After

realize the peace museum as a volunteer.

visiting the House of Sharing in the

There are several groups as follows.

Republic of Korea and museums in

The committee consists

suchseveralgroups,someGermany and Poland, they are planning
Ms. Rumiko Nishino and others have

to

put

an

emphasisonvictims

been collecting materials on women who

individually so that visitors will be able

were forced to work as sex slaves during

to learn their lives.

World War II and also sorting them out.

know the number of the victims, but it is

They are making a collection of the

not enough to learn only the number ofwomen’
s testimony.

the victims.

Some women deal with violence based on

We also aim at a peace museum where

gender in modern conflicts and try tovisitors not only see the exhibits but alsocollect materials on NGOs which explore

think and act for peace.

the reality of violence against women andKajimura of Japanese Women’s Society inefforts to get rid of violence.

They are

Berlin introduced a concept of “
an active

planning to make a network of the NGOs.

museum”in which visitors can think and

It is important to

Ms. Michikoact for peace.
Ms. Eriko Ikeda is in charge of making
videos on the victims and the aggressors

Our activities will be introduced in theof sexual violence in World War II.

website.

I’d like to have your opinion

and cooperation to realize this museum.
Some women sort out books and articlesof Ms. Yayori Matsui, a journalist, who

Tel& Fax:

worked hard for women who were forced

info@wfphr.org

to work as sex slaves and demanded

http://www.wfphr.org/

403-3369-6866

Introduction of the Museum of the War of

War was a part of the world war to

the Chinese People’s
Resistanceanti-fascist (the II World War). The War

Against Japanwas supported strongly and sympathizedwidely by all peace loving countries and

The Museum of the War of Chinese

people in the world. To win the victory ofPeople’s Resistance against Japan is

the Anti-Japanese War and the World

located in Wanping City, beside Lugou

War, China bore a tremendous native

bridge (Marco Polo bridge), the southwest

victimsuburbs of Beijing. It covers more thancontribution. The victory was the honour

30,000 square meters and the gross floors

not only for the people of China, but alsoarea is more than 20, 000 square meters.

for all peace loving countries and people

The Museum, the City and the Bridgein the world.

and

took

a

great

indelible

add radiance and beauty to each other.
The Hall is becoming the importantForwindow for Chinese and foreign visitors

revolution

to know the Chinese Anti-Japanese War.

admonishing later ages and carrying

memorizing
war,

the

great

national

recallingmartyr,forward the patriotic spirit, as well as
On July 7th, 1937, Japan militarism

striking back some reactionary trend inlaunched

aggressive

Japan who don’t admit the aggressive

warfare to China at Lugouqiao. Underwarfare, the Museum of the War of thethe banner of the Chinese united front ofChineseresistingtheJapan was established in 1987. The

Communist Party of China, the people ofMuseum is for comprehensive showing

China started to enter the national

the course of great national revolution

Anti-Japanese War. The War was based

and besides Lugouqiao which lighted theon the cooperation between Kuomintang

national war fire to resist Japan at that

(KMT)

time.

the

full-scale

Japan

and

includingtheproposedby

Communist

workers,

Party,

People's

ResistanceagainstMr. Deng Xiaoping wrote thename of the Museum.

peasants,

businessmen, students, soldiers, every
nationality, every democratic parties,

On May 26, 1997, the general secretary of

every

patriotic

the Communist Party of China, Jiang

personage of all social strata and Chinese

Zemin, wrote the words “
to hold high aoverseas. The War was the first complete

banner of patriotism, to educate people

victory in Chinese resistance againstby the history, to carry forward the spirit

foreign aggression since the modernof the Chinese nation, to vitalize China”.

times. Meanwhile, the Anti-JapaneseThe

resistancegroup,

5

Museumisbecomingagreatmonument of the spirit of the Chinese

Japanese violence, united closely, sharednation.

a bitter hatred of the enemy and won the
final great victory of the War. The halls

The Museum consists of Prologue Hall,

fully reveal the characters of the War: thethree synthetic halls and three special

fighting field and occasion were wide andsubject halls (Japanese Army Atrocity

tragic;Hall; People’s War Hall; Martyr Hall) andlong-drawn-out; the politics, economy,

semi-panorama Hall. In the front of themilitary, culture and diplomacy were

Prologue hall, there is a large copper

crossed and complicated totally. In the

sculpture (24m × 6m × 1.3m; L × H × W).

War, the Chinese nation expressed their

It shows the subject of the Chinese

high-condensed force and patriotism,national anti-Japanese war with a greatwhich was a powerful source to defeat

momentum. The sculpture consists of 5

Japan militarism. The Chinese nation

configurations.

has

was awoken unprecedented. The Chinese

individual feature. The configurations

force at the core of the Communist Party

are composed to a large barrier as bastion

was expanded unprecedented. That wasof iron-impregnable fortress. A rising andthe decisive reason to win the War. The

falling high mountain ridges scene is thegreat victory of the War was a great turnbackground of it. Two sides of it arein the forwardness of the Chinese nation

connected with the battlement of theto a great resurgence.

Each

of

them

the

resistingperiodwasGreat Wall. They become a subject withpregnant meaning—“
To build our new

The Japanese Army Atrocity Hall shows

great wall by our blood and body€35

the crimes offended by Japanese army in
China. The crimes were in 10 fields:

With the historical relics, photos, scenes

bombing, looting, slaughtering, burning,and video, the three synthetic halls show

creating

the history of the War and record thepersecuting women and children, setting

course that the Chinese nation fought

up “Comfort Stations”, maltreating andwith Japanese and won the victory.

slaughtering Chinese labors, conducting

Under the general strategy of the united

germ warfare and chemical weapons

front, the army led by KMT in the front

warfare etc. The crimes reflect theand the army led by the Communist

insanity and barbarism of Japanese army

Party in the enemy’s rear area wasin different field. The ironclad evidence

cooperated and supported each other in

explains

strategy and campaign. All of Chinese

Japanese aggressive army have neverwere all of one mind, they didn’t fearbeen cleaned in the human history.

6

“
the

that

land

the

without

crimespeople”
,

done

by

nation to the world war history.

Nowadays, any ugly words and deeds toattempt

toreviveJapan

militarism

should be firmly opposed and cast aside

There are the name list and course of theby Chinese people and all peace loving

martyrs carved on the wall of the Martyr

countries and people in the world.

Hall. In the difficult period of the War, 35
millions Chinese martyrs had devoted

The People’s War Hall shows the main

their life for the national independence

subjects as: the strategic general policy ofand revolution. Also, many foreigners had

the national full-scale resisted line andtaken

protracted war led by the Communist

devotedParty, to develop the guerrilla war andrevolution and the world war to resist

open the battlefield in the enemy’s rearfascist. In the War, innumerable martyr

area actively, to fall Japanese army into

didn’t leave their names when they died.

the vast peoples’war. On the wideBut,

battlefield, main army-the Eight Route

responsibility bravely for the national

Army and the New Fourth Army (led bycalamity and struggle united to foreign

the Communist Party of China) combined

aggression is like the mountain and river,with local army, militia, guerrilla andthe sun and moon living forever! There ismasses. The universal guerrilla war

a subject of sculpture “Nameless-Martyr”

combined with mobile war under betterin the Hall. Innumerable visitors arecondition.

struggle

attracted. They halt going forward andcombined with non-armed one. Fighting

forgetting to return. We shall remember

on interior lines combined with on

all martyrs died in the War forever.

Armedforcesoutstanding
their

their

contribution

life

for

patriotic

the

and

Chinesespirittohaveexterior line. The army and masses in theenemy’
s rear area brought on theirSemi-panorama

tremendous

three-dimensional imaging show. It is

intelligence

andwidelyHallis

40m(wide),tactics were: land mine, tunnel, besieging,

18.5m(high). It has been designed andfighting mode as sparrow, guerrilla war

constructedonJapanesesemi-panorama is integrated with oil

aggressor was struck anywhere andpaintings, models, real objects and somecaught in a dilemma. The Chinese nation

hi-techlaunched creatively the people’s war and(sonic/light/electric

guerrillaashows lively the historic scene of thetremendous might. The tactics was an

Lugouqiao Incident. It’s a vanguard of theoutstanding

semi-panorama in the museums of China.

lakes

war,

and

which

rivers.

brought

contributionofonChinese

7

by

of

large

launched various guerrilla tactics. Thethe24m(depthafield)

China.

controlling

and
The

systemand computer). It

There is a big sculpture-Awakening Lion

They have brought the shows to them,in the center of the square of the Museum.

exposed the crimes done by JapanThe Lion symbolizes the awakening ofmilitarism, presented the history of thethe Chinese nation. There is a copper

War and expressed the genius wish thatboard

Chinesethe people of China love peace and oppose

Anti-Japanese War”before the Lion. The

war. An international influence of theboard recalls that the important event

Museum is expanding progressively.

“
this

date

on

the

happened on the date in the War. The
board warns that the history has never

Right now, The Museum of the war ofbeen forgotten!

Chinesepeople’s Resistance

AgainstJapan is focusing on progress, keeping
Except for the basic shows, more than 30

pace with the times and hoping to takespecial subject and temporary exhibitions,bigger actions in the cause to oppose war

such as “Japanese Aggressive Armyand maintain peace. We are expecting to

Crimes Show”have been sponsored in thebuild a peaceable, beautiful, flourishing

Museum.

and progressive world together with allSomeresearchers

of

the

Museum and outside scholars have been

friends!

organized to promote their writings and(With thanks to Luo Cunkang, a researcher

popular editions to the public. Recently,

at the museum.)some members of the Right run wild
Peace Is A

actively in Japan. The seminars andThere is also an article ofmeetings have been sponsored in time

Common Desire Of Humanity”and it ishere together with the Association of theavailable

History of the Chinese Anti-JapaneseInternational Network of Peace Museums

War. Here is an important location to

as follows:

express the Chinese justice sense andwww.peacemuseums.org

at

the

websiteoftheoppose the Japanese Right.
Tanba Manganese Memorial: Kyoto
Ten years after, more than ten millions

Lee Yong Sik

visitors from domestic and abroad have

Manganese was used for tanks andvisited here. Around 300,000 of them aretractors during World War II.

from Asia, European and American. Also,

million tons of Manganese was necessary,

several delegations from the Museum

but less than 300,000 tons of Manganesehave

was mined.

visitedJapan,

American,

the

Three

Three places were known

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

for Manganese in Japan: Sanriku area inSouth Korea, Singapore and Europe etc.

Tohoku, Uwajima in Shikoku and Tanba

8

recorded and exhibited not by public

in Kyoto.

museums but by individuals.
In Tanba there were 300 mines and thepeople who mined Manganese were theJapanese attitude not to face the history

Japanese

of

who

were

discriminatedJapan’saggression

leads

to

against and also Koreans who werediscrimination against Koreans who live

forced to work in Japan.

in Japan and also Koreans in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
and the Republic of Korea.

In Tanba there were about 3000 Koreans
who were forced to go to Japan and workfor free.

We try to convey the history in Tanab toMany people have been

the next generation at the memorial.

suffering from lung disorder because offine particles of stone and Manganese.

Tanba

Manganese

Memorial:

Lee Jung Ho, the former director of the

Shimonaka, Keihoku-cho, Kitakuwata-

memorial,

gun, Kyoto 601-0533

also

suffered

from

lung

disorder. He tried to help patients who

Tel: 0771-54-0307.

suffered from the lung disorder and alsotanbamn@apricot.ocn.ne.jp

45

Fax: 0771-54-0234

created the memorial and opened it in
1998.

He asked the town officials to

There is a video tape on Koreans who

cooperate with him, but his offer was

lived in Tanba and were forced to work

rejected because they didn’t want tofor manganese.

record the history of the Japanese who

and the price is 5000 yen.

The time is 40 minutes

were discriminated against and Koreans
who were forced to go to Japan and work
there.

Tsushima-maru Memorial

There was not any museum on

Under Construction

people who had been forced to go to Japanand work there at that time.

Tsushima-maru, a cargo ship, left Naha
port in Okinawa for Kagoshima carrying

Naturally Japan should be responsible

1661 children and leaders for evacuation

for recording the history of the people

on August 21st in 1944.

who were forced to go to Japan and work

attacked by an U.S. submarine on 22nd

there and women who were forced toand it sank eleven minutes after thework as sex slaves by Japanese army

attack.

considering Japan’s terrible crimes.

But it wasBut

the reality is that such history has been

There is a memorial of the submarine in9Hawaii.

Threeaprotesting against the revision. It issurvivor and Mr. Masakatsu Takara, thenecessary to propose a counterproposal

president of Association Commemoratingon peace and security.

Tsushima-maru, visited the memorial.

think that it is I who can change the

The

at

world and think various issues seriously,

4

but it is also important to enjoy yourdetails

Tsushima-maru

peopleareincludingavailable

NewsletterNo.

It is important topublished on May 20th. (The newsletter isactivities for peace.

written in Japanese.)(Peace Newspaper No. 1733 published on
April 5.)

Tel & Fax: 098-941-3515
www.tsushimamaru.or.jp

Japanese Network of Museums forinfo@tsushimamaru.or.jp

Peace

Professor Ikuro Anzai’s lecture:

Pacific War History Museum: Iwate

The history of making war illegal andanti-war movement

Mr. Nobuteru Iwabuchi, the founder andcuratorof

PACIFICWAR

History

Professor Ikuro Anzai, the director ofMuseumKyoto Museum for World Peace atawarded Honorary Citizenship of Biak

Ritsumeikan University, gave a lecture

Numforon the history of making war illegal andProvince, Republic of Indonesia.

anti-war movement for young people ofMuseum's activities now diversify,

Japan Peace Committee on March 27 in

together with the Chiba-based NPO, Bios

Kyoto.

Society,wasrecently

Regency,

into

a

Papua

primitive

The

but

practical technology transfer of changing
Armament and war was regarded as a

kitchennational right at the beginning of the 20th

agricultural fertilizers. Despite that 60

century, but war was made illegal by the

years elapsed after the deaths of more

U.N. Charter after going through the twothan 12,000 soldiers from prefectures ofworld wars.

Article 9 of the Japanese

Iwate, Aomori, Yamagata, Kyoto, Fukui,Constitution that renounces war is theand Shiga, there still remain thousands

mostof soldiers’bones in the islands of Biakadvancedone

trying tosolve

garbage

into

compostforand Numfor. The Museum, located inconflicts peacefully.

Iwate,

withthespontaneous

It is not possible to stop the revision ofenthusiastic

supportthe Japanese Constitution if there is only

government

in

10

by

Biak,

and

the

local

have

been

successfully recovering human remains

History & Folk Museum: Sendai City ofof fallen soldiers and sending ashes backMiyagi Prefecture

to Tokyo on behalf of the Government ofJapan since 1999.

Research Report No. 22 was published on(With thanks to Mr. Nobuteru Iwabuchi)

March 31st and there are feature articles
onTel: 0197-52-3000

war

and

people’s lifesuchas“Community and Military”, “
War and
Women”, “War-related Sites in Miyagi”

Yuki no Shita Peace Culture Museum:

etc.

Fukui

Tel:022-295-3956

When Mr. Katsuichi Honda gave a

Fax:022-257-6401

Nagaoka War Damage Museum:lecture of “Iraq, the United States andNiigata Prefecture

Japan”on February 11, we also joined the
preparation for the lecture.

The museum was opened in Nagaoka
City in July, 2003.

Materials on U.S.

There was a project of making an article

air-raids on Nagaoka and citizens’life

to protest against sending Self Defense

during and after the war are exhibited.

Forces to Iraq and the revision of the

It is supported by the victims of theJapanese Constitution in newspaper.

air-raids, and Record on Experiences of

We agreed on the idea and sent the

the U.S. Air-raids was published on

donation.

February

25,

2004

with

volunteers’

cooperation.
There were visitors not only from Fukui
Prefecture but also various parts ofAddress: c/o Machinaka Koubou 2-1-2

Japan last year.

Otedori, Nagaoka City, Nigata Prefecture(Newsletter No. 144 dated January 5,

Tel:0258-36-3269

2004)
Peace Museum Project in Matsushiro:
Tel & Fax: 0776-52-2169

Nagano Prefecture

kore.mitene.or.jp/-yukisita/yukisita@kore.mitene.or.jp

A meeting with Nagano City officials was

yukisita@kore.mitene.or.jp

held on February 12.

We would like tohave the war-related sites designated ashistoric sites by the central government,
and the city officials answered that they11

would like to consider designating them

A peace film was shown such as “Fly, fly,as historic sites by the city if the

Look for
Chick”on January 10th and “

government rejects it.

Your Mother, Gonta”(a dog in Sakhalin)
was shown on February 7th.

There is news on the 8th Constitution“
Miichan’sPalm”was shown on March 20th.

Forest Day and a peace trip to Okinawa
in the newsletter and the website.

Peace

reading

was

given

at

Hatoyama-cho on January 31st under the
http://homepage3.nifty.com/kibounoie/

auspices of Hatoyama Town and Saitama
Peace Museum. The members of Mado,kibonoie@nifty.com

a reading group, read poems from Wind ofHiroshima edited by Sayuri Yoshinaga, a

Nishinomiya Peace Museum:

famousHyogo Prefecture

March 15th, 2004)
Tel:0493-35-4111 Fax:0493-35-4112

200 artifacts donated by citizens are

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

exhibited there.

Maruki Peace Gallery:

Address: c/o Nichinomiya Education and

Higashi Matsuyama City, Saitama

Kawazoe-cho,Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

An art exhibition of “Critical View ofLife”by Ahn Sung Keum, a Korean artist

Tel:0798-33-2086

in Seoul was held from October 15th toDecember 14th.

Saitama Peace Museum

There was an art exhibition of “Peace for

There was an exhibition on ”
Military

Peace: to Overcome War”by Nobuyuki

Government and Recovery of Saitama

Oura,

after the War”from February 3 to March
7.

the(Newsletter Volume 11 No. 3 published on

Air-raids”and “
For the Future”. About

15-26

ofHiroshima dialect.

There areFamily”, “Life during the War”
, “
U.S.

Center9

war was read in Osaka dialect andfive corners on “Battlefields”, €War3 4 and

CultureArticleJapanese Constitution which renounces

The museum was opened on December 12,
2002 in Nishinomiya City.

actress.

Yoshiko

Shimada

and

Junko

Takami from January 5th to March 6th.

A list of artifacts and a leaflet on the

exhibits were published.

An12exhibition

of

“
Power

to

Draw

Pictures” by Naoto Otsuka and his

Association of Preserving Undergroundfriends was held from March 9th to May

Shelter in Asakawa: Tokyo

15th.
(Newsletter No. 78 dated on December

It became clear that it is possible to know

25th, 2003.

the underground shelter from materialsof the occupation army after World War II

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

according to Newsletter No. 39.

http://www.aya.or.jp/-marukimsn
It is also possible to know the U.S.
Warabi Hisotry & Folk Museum:

air-raids on Hachioji City from U.S.

Warabi City, Saitama Prefecturematerials

that

were

translated

intoJapanese by Yoshishige Okuzumi in 2001.
A bulletin No. 1 was published on May
11th.

Naoya Sato’s article of “
The Project

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cv6v-vmns/of Promoting Substitutes as a Policy
during the War”is published in it.

Sumida Culture Museum: Tokyo

Tel: 048-432-2477

Eighty-six

pictures

based

on

U.S.

air-raids in Tokyo were exhibited from
War Exhibition for Peace in Saitama

January 31 to March 21.

The war exhibition for peace has been

Tel:03-5619-7034 Fax:03-3625-3431

held to stop nuclear war and abolishnuclear weapons since 1984.

More thanToyoshima Museum: Tokyo

three million people saw the exhibition intwenty years, which means that theMaterials on children’s evacuation during

exhibition contributes to making public

the war such as diaries and letters were

opinion for peace.

published in Report No. 16 on March 19,

There will be an

exhibition from July 29th to August 2nd at

2004.

The letters were written to

Koruso near the west exit of Urawa

children who were evacuated.

railway station.

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

Tel:048-825-7535

Tokyo University Comprehensive Study
Museum: Tokyo
Takeo

13

Watanabe,ageologist,investigated the damages by the atomic
bomb

in

Hiroshima

andKorea Museum：Tokyo

Nagasaki.

Materials on his investigation and his

Anti-Korean feelings have been creatednotebooks on his fieldwork were exhibitedby nationalistic politicians and media

from January 24 to April 12.

using some Japanese people who wereabducted

Tel:03-5841-2802 Fax:03-5841-8451

byKorea.

We

had

the

exhibition on the movement for the
independence on March 1st and also on

The 5th Lucky Dragon Display House:the massacre of Koreans hoping that aTokyocruel history will never be repeated in the
future.

The renewal of exhibits and a special（Newsletter No.７）

exhibition started as the 50th anniversary

Tel & Fax: 03-5272-3510

of the hydrogen bomb test in Bikini on

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

February 14th.

The exhibition will beTokyoheld in Kyoto, Kochi and so forth.

Holocaust Education

Resource

Center: Tokyo
There was an anniversary meeting of the
Bikini

Incident

in

which

Hanna’s

Japanese

Suitcase:

Messagesfromfishermen in a boat called “
the Lucky

Auschwitz published by Pobura-sha is a

Dragon”were exposed to radiation of thestory about a thirteen-year-old girl whohydrogen bomb test on March 1, 1954.

was killed in Auschwitz about sixty years

It was held by Peace Association of the 5thago.

Lucky Dragon on February 28th.

was possible for his brother, George, in

KanetoThanks to Ms. Fumiko Ishioka, it

Shintou, a peace film director, gave a

Canada to know the suitcase.

lecture and his movie called “
The Fifth

called Hana's Suitcase - A True Story

Lucky Dragon”was shown.

When hewas written by Karen Levine and it

planed to make the film, he was told by abecame the bestseller among children

man of a film company that his agency

books in Canada.

would go bankruptcy because there would

recommended

not be many attendances.

elementary schools.

But he madeto

A story

The books
read

by

are

Japanese

It was translated

the film thinking that he would make itinto twenty-six languages.

by all means because it would be worth

to Japan in May and gave his lecture indoing so.

various places.

(From the newsletter No. 307 dated on

also used at high school in Japan.

March 20)

14

George came

The book in English ishttp://www.ne.jp/asahi/holocaust/tokyo/

Shizuoka Peace Center

holocaust@tokyo.email.ne.jp
There is an exhibition of “
War and Poets
Kanagawa Plazain Shizuoka: Life of Chieo Nagakura”.

from April 9 to July 11.

There was an exhibition on the earth into carry a camera during World War II,

the 21st century from February 1st to 22nd.

and tanka (poem) became an importantThismeans to record life during the war.

isatravelingexhibitcalledIt was not easy“
Stupidity in 100 years.”(Newsletter No. 18 dated January, 2004)

There will be a photo exhibition taken by

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

a professional photographer during the
war in Shimizu City from July 23 to

http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/osirase/plazJanuary, 2005.

atake family photos so that they would be

Photographers had tosent to battlefields.
War Exhibition for Peace: Kawasaki in(Newsletter 26 dated on March 8)

Kanagawa Prefecture

http://homepage2.nifty.com/shizuoka-hei
wa

A war exhibition for peace was held on

shizuoka-heiwa@nify.com

Hiyoshi Campus of Keio University fromTel & Fax: 054-247-9641

October 19th to 25th, 2003.
Kyoto Museum for World Peace,
Ritsumeikan University: Kyoto

The theme of the exhibition was “
Youthon Hiyoshi Campus during the War:The

There was an exhibition of U.S. Air Raids

purpose is to show how the university

on Tokyo with an emphasis on Sugamo

was involved with the war: Students

School in Toshima ward in Tokyo.

began to be sent to the front since 1943

sketches

and the university was used by the Navy

exhibited from March 21 to 27.

Students’Sent to the Front”.

byYutakaMaruno33
werefrom 1944 to the end of the war.
(Newsletter No. 69 dated January 15,

CatalogueofMaterials

No.

2

was

2004)

published on March 30 and it has a list ofvarious materials that were collected
since 1996.

http://www.geocities.HeartLand-Hanami

There is a CD-ROM in it.

zuki/2402
A bulletin of Kyoto Museum for World

Tel: 045-402-9090

15

Peace No. 5 was published on March 25.

http://www.mydome.or.jp/peace

The contact address is on the first page.
Osaka Human Rights Museum: Osaka
Osaka International Peace Center
There is an exhibition of “
How Japanese
A

photo

exhibition

of

the

People were Made: Nationality, War andBattlefields in the World”was held from

Discrimination”from April 13 to June 13.

January 10 to March 7.

“
From

Mr. Ryuichi

Hirokawa, the head of Japan Photo &Tel:06-6561-5891 Fax:06-6561-5995

Video Journalist Association, gave a

http://www.liberty.or.jp/

lecture of “Battlefields in the World andChallenges of Media”in the 9th seminar

Suita City Peace Memorial: Osakaon peace in the 21st century.
Peace films are shown every month. A
245 original paintings on the U.S. air

Russian film of “
The Ground”(1997) was

raids were exhibited from March 13 toshown in January.

May 16.

“
Forbidden Games (JEUX INTERDITS:

A French film of1952) was shown in February.
Ms.

Yukie

International

Osa,

a

memberCampaign

ofAJapanese animation of “Rain of FiretheFalls”(1988) was shown in March.

againstA

Landmines gave a lecture on the role ofGerman film of “
Lili Marleen”(1981) was

NGO on March 20 in the 10th seminar for

shown in April.

peace in the 21st century.
Tel:06-6387-2593
Emeritus Professor Hitoshi Koyama gave
a lecture of “
The U.S. Air Raids on Osaka

Sakai City Peace & Human Rights

and the Historical Significance”and someMuseum: Osaka

victims of the air raids talked about their
There was an exhibition of “
The Future

experiences.

for

in

Afghanistan” from

People walked in Nishi-ku where there

January to March.

It showed life andwas the U.S. air raid in World War II.

culture in reconstructing Afghanistan

Emeritus Professor Hitoshi Koyama waswith the aid of UNESCO.

the guide on March 14.

(Newsletter No. 23 dated in March)

Tel:06-6947-7208 Fax:06-6943-6080

Tel: 072-270-8150 Fax: 072-270-8159

16ChildrenJuly 11.

The Peace, Human Rights and Children

Ninoshima is a small island,

just off the coast of Hiroshima City. At

Center: Osaka

the start of the Sino-Japanese War, an“
A Notebook for Your Heart”is used as aarmy quarantine station was built on

textbook at school, but it is similar to a

Ninoshima to serve as the first stop fordiary that was written by children duringsoldiers

World War II according to Grassroots

Immediately after the atomic bombing,Newsletter No. 23 dated April 8.

thisreturningquarantine

fromstationthefront.

becameanemergency field hospital. In 20 days it
Various historical places in Asia that arereceived about 10,000 injured victims

notarriving

introducedinguidebooks

are

from

Hiroshima.

Thousands

upon thousands died on that island. Since

introduced in the newsletter.

the war, bodies have been found and
It is possible to lend panels on the history

exhumed on several occasions. No story ofof Japanese textbooks, textbooks in Asianthe atomic bombing would be complete

countries,

Japan’
swithout a chapter about Ninoshima. This

Pleasespecial exhibition describes the role of thethehistoryofaggression of China and so forth.

quarantine station before the bombing,

contact Ms. Kazuko Yoshioka.

the situation in the emergency field
hospital after the bombing, and theTel: 072-229-4736 Fax: 072-227-1453

subsequent

excavations

of

human

remains

Himeji Peace Museum: Hyogo(Newsletter of “Peace Culture”No. 152
An exhibition of the collection was held

dated on March 1st and the website.)from January to March 28.

Tel:082-241-4004 Fax:082-542-7941

Children’spicture diaries and paintings during

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

World War II are exhibited from April 11/

to July 4.

hpcf@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

Tel:0792-91-2525 Fax:0792-91-2526

Takamatsu Civic Culture Center: Peace
Museum: Kagawa Prefecture

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
An exhibition of the collection was held
There

is

a

specialexhibitionofon April 23 and artifacts related to war“
Ninoshima and the Atomic Bombing

donated by citizens were exhibited.

Island of Final Rest€35
from March 3 to(Newsletter No. 14 dated in April)17◆ Chinese People and Anti-Japan War

Tel:087-833-7722 Fax:087-861-7981

Museumhttp://www.city.takamatu.kagawa.jp/kyou◆ War that can be learned throughiku/bunkabu/sbsenter/heiwa.htm.
GermanMuseum:NarutoReading◆ War Remains in Kochi

City,◆ Security in Japan by Article 9 of theTokushima Prefecture

Japanese Constitution◆ The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty andA national research journal on German

the U.S. World Strategy

prisoners of war in Qingdao and the◆ Anti-war Movement in the 1930s

concentration◆ Peace Education and Creating a

camp

was

published.

Culture of Peace

There is a website on German prisoners◆ How

of war in Qingdao.

toexpandandstrengthen

activities of speakers of war(Newsletter of Ruhe No. 8 dated on
February 10th.

Mr. Park Il Sun visited the Grassroots
House three times.

It was decided that

http://www.city.naruto.tokushima.jp/ger

Korean citizens and Japanese citizens

manhouse/

will work together to plant trees in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
This will contribute to making peace in

The Grassroots House: Kochi

East Asia.

Kim Yeongwhan
A series of lecture for peace started this
year.

Ms.

The purpose is to educate citizens

who can contribute to peace.

Lucetta

Sanguinetti

from

Italy

visited the Grassroots House in March.

The

Ms. MaryAnn Hansen and her daughter,citizens’movement for peace is getting

Rebecca from Australia visited us in April.

more and more important because theIt was really nice to get to know them and

Self Defense Forces were dispatched to

exchange opinions for peace.

Iraq and there are moves to change the

There was a peace concert on March 20th

Japanese Constitution and Education
Fundamental Law.

when the United States and Britain

The content of theattacked Iraq last year.

lectures is as follows:

14 groups ofmusicians attended it and they had a◆ Opening ceremony. What we can see

peace march singing anti-war songs.

from the exhibits at the Grassroots
House

There is a peace action against the war◆ The Current of Peace Museums in theon Iraq and the U.S. occupation since lastWorld

year and the number of the peace action◆ Korea, Japan and citizens’solidarity

is over 130 times.

in East Asia

http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nis
18

himori/

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

GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp

tomoneko@land.linkclub.or.jp

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial
Museum: Okinawa

A part of the collection on the atomic
bombing was exhibited from February 4

There was a special exhibition on people’sto March 30.

life during World War II and the control
There is the museum website in English

of media from January 13 to February 13.

which has lots of information.

There are exhibitions for children fourtimes

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

a

year.

An

exhibition

on

Universal Declaration of Human Rights-bomb/museum/museume01.html

was held from December 4, 2003 to

heiwa@city.nagasaki.lg.jp

January 12, 2004.

There was an

exhibition on HIV and children from

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

January 16th to February 15th.

Peace &Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace

Human Rights Festival was held on

MuseumJanuary 10th and children gave a speech
for peace and put on a play and music(Newsletter No. 6 dated on March 31)

There was the 4th meeting in which
Chinese victims of the Nanking Massacretalked

about

their

experiences

Tel: 098-997-3844.

onDecember 7th, 2003.

About 100 people

joined the meeting.

Professor Hiroaki

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

Yokoyama of Siebold gave a lecture on
Japanese

students’ reaction

toFax: 098-997-3947

theNanking Massacre after they had studied

Sugamo Prison: War Criminal’s Peaceit.

There was a video that showed theMovementby

testimony of Japanese soldiers who took

Yoshikawa

Koubunkan:part in the Nanking Massacre.

Japanese)A

Aiko

Utsumi(2004).

Tokyo

(in

Chinese woman who is the victim of themassacre gave testimony of the massacre.

Studies of Peace Culture No. 26 by

The

Nagasaki Institute for Peace Culture ofdetailsareavailable

intheNagasaki Institute of Applied Science.

newsletter No. 36.

There is Professor Yoshikazu Shibano’sarticle on peace consciousness of college

Tel: 095-820-5600

19

students and high school students.(ThisOxford.

is in Japanese) March, 2004.

War, and the POW Experience”by Aiko

http://www.nipc.nias.ac.jp

Utsumi is included.

An article of “Japanese Racism,

Testimony of Marshallese by Ikuro Anzai
andSeiichiro

Takemine(2004)

Kamogawa Booklet (in Japanese)
Contact: Seiichiro Takemine
takeminese@hotmail.com
fax：047(367)7940

Jewish Displaced Persons in Camp
Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950: The uniquePhoto Album of Zippy Orlin edited by

Other news

Erik Somers and René Kok(2003)
Netherlands Institute for War

Let us expand the pacifism of theDocumentation.

constitution of Japan

Waanders Publishers:

Amsterdam
Japan Institute of Constitutional Law

World Peace and Disarmament edited by

Mr. Makoto Ito

Leena Parmar(2003) Pointer Publisher:

Institute of Constitutional Law：

Head of Japan

Jaipur, India. An article of “
Creating a
Culture of Peace at a Peace Museum”by

As every person knows, the government

Kazuyo Yamane is included.

of Japan supports the action taken by
the government of U.S.A in attacking

An Analysis of Our HASTIC Era & the

Iraq and dispatches the Self-Defense

Role of the Japanese Peace Constitution:

Forces of Japan.

Peace Studies and Essays by Kazuo Ota

very difficult to differentiate Self-Defense(2004) Horitsubunka-sha, Kyoto ¥3500

Forces from a

It is known that it is
Military-Forces. The

constitution of Japan states that Japan

War & State Terrorism: The United

should not have any military Forces andStates, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in theit also renounces war and use of militaryLong Twentieth Century edited by Markpower.

Selden and Alvin Y. So (2004)

says the dispatch of the Self-Defense

Rowman&Littlefield

Now there is an opinion that

Forces to Iraq is a violation of the

Publishers:

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Now most of themembers of the Diet of Japan are

texts, and Japan Focus originals. The

proposing to revise the constitution of

coordinators are Andrew DeWit, Gavan

Japan so that Japan can have and send

McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden,

military forces abroad.

Yuki Tanaka, and Julia Yonetani. For

Japan Institute of constitutional Law

further information, or to contribute tobeing a private research institute studies

Japan Focus, contact Mark Selden at

the constitution of Japan including its

ms44@cornell.edu

pacifist nature and tell its effect to thepeople of other countries.

http://www.japanfocus.org

The Japan

Institute of Constitutional Law wants tostrength the significance of the pacifism

Peace Art Project Cambodia:of the constitution of Japan in the current

Post-Conflict Peace Building throughinternational situation. To accomplish

Education and Art in the Kingdom of

this task we have established a home

Cambodia

page (http://www.jicl.jp)

Neil Wilford

2004.

in May,In the home page we try toabout

Amid grinding and hammering, showers

constitution in Japanese, English andof sparks and welding flashes, amazing,

Korean. We want to have the world whereuniquesocieties can live peacefully.

weapons are emerging from the Peace Art

providedifferent

information

works

of

art

sculpted from

Project Cambodia (PAPC) workshop in(With thanks to Mr. Hitoshi Okawa)Phnom Penh.
Japan Focus Newsletter
PAPC was established in November 2003
Japan Focus Newsletter is the weekly

by Small Arms Specialist Neil Wilford

edition of the Japan Focus newsletter.

and Artist Sasha Constable involving 23

Each week you will receive information

students from the Royal University of

about new posts for as long as you

Fine Art Phnom Penh1.

subscribe to Japan Focus.
PAPC has four main aims:
Japan Focus presents writings aboutIntroducing YoungJapan, Japan in Asia and the world, as

Cambodian Artists to newwell as Japanese and international

artistic methodology andperspectives on contemporary Japanesepolitics, economics, society, and culture.
It offers translations from Japanese,
reprints of important English language

1

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RUFA

materials and training them






in metalwork skills

In 1999, the European Union Assistance

Producing, exhibiting andon Curbing Small Arms and Lightselling sculpture made from

Weapons in Cambodia (EU ASAC)2 wasde-commissioned weapons

established to assist the Royal

Promoting a Weapon-Free

Cambodian Government (RGC) throughSociety and Young Cambodianan integrated five component programme

Artists nationally andfocusing on

internationally

Drafting of a new Arms Law

Establishing a Khmer



Registering and securely storing

managed sustainable art

military and police duty weapons


workshop within three years

Encouraging the voluntary hand-in of illegally held civil weapons
through providing small scale
development incentives –Weapons for Development



Recovering weapon caches hidden
in remote areasPublicly destroying all surplus
and illegal weapons in Flames ofPeace ceremonies

PAPCs Role in Peace Building
By 2004, the RGC and EU ASAC had
succeeded in registering the majority of
military weapons, collecting most
PAPC Artist Kim Samdy

remaining illegal civilian weapons and©

publicly destroying 125,000 weapons
Cambodia’s Transition to Peaceacross 17 Cambodian provinces. 4750
destroyed weapons have subsequently

After 30 years of bitter conflict finallybeen provided to PAPC throughended in 1998 with the death of Khmer

cooperation with the RGC and EU ASAC.

Rouge leader, Pol Pot, Cambodia faced

Destroyed ammunition, tripods, large

the huge task of tackling the widespread,destabilising proliferation of small arms.

2

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See www.eu-asac.org for more information

calibre weapons and Exploded Ordnance

Sasha Constable taught a print making

casings from MAG3 and the Halo Trust4

course at RUFA in 2002 andare also being used as raw material.

re-established links with her old students
to build a dedicated PAPC team. Sasha

When PAPC opened its workshop in theis an accomplished sculptor and was

DTW Business Park5, none of the artists

Artist in Residence and then Design

had any previous experience working

Consultant for WMF6 in Preah Khanwith metal, largely due to an ongoing lack

temple7 in 2000 –2002.

of financial, material and technicalresources at RUFA. Encouraging cultural

Mark Solomon, an American blacksmith

exchange is an important part of PAPC

and anti-gun campaigner conducted theand guest artists are brought tofirst basic skills training in late 2003,

Cambodia to impart their technical andfocusing on health and safety, tool use,

artistic knowledge.

welding and forging skills. Mark’s return
to Cambodia in May 2004 found theworkshop buzzing with creativity and his

PAPC Team

fresh injection of impetus saw the work
Neil Wilford has been working as an

quality and skills leap up to the highest

EU ASAC Weapons for Developmentlevels.

Project Officer for three years. A major
focus of this work has been persuading

Joe Rush, an English sculptor andex-Khmer Rouge combatants in remotefounder of the Mutoid Waste Co.

rural areas to voluntarily hand in their

expanded the PAPC teams’
perceptions of

weapons.

possibility on his arrival in January 2004.
Having gained confidence in their new
skills, the PAPC artists’creativity
exploded and the workshop was soon

3

filling with sculptures of all shapes andMine Advisory Group a British humanitariansizes. Most of these first works depicted

de-mining organisation. See

indigenous animals, reflecting the close

www.magclearmines.org for further information
4

See www.halotrust.org for further information

about their activities
5

6

Development Technology Workshop, a British

World Monument Fund is a US based non-profit

based charity working to encourage the transfer ofpreservation organisation

sustainable engineering skills. See

7

www.dtwuk-fsnet-co.org for further information

Angkor Wat temple complex

23

Preah Khan (City of the Sacred Sword) is in theaffinity Cambodians hold for the natural

themselves and their work the subject ofenvironment.

local

and

globalinterest

from

art

galleries and collectors, international
Toby Poolman, an English furniture

educational

designer, joined PAPC as the workshop

disarmament agencies.

institutions

andmanager in February 2004, providing thestudents with a stronger design based

Exhibitions and Commissions

approach, improved resource

PAPC sculpture has now been exhibitedmanagement and a sense of practicalin eleven venues in Cambodia including

application. Chairs, benches, bar stools

galleries, Flame of Peace ceremonies,and coffee tables have all been produced

NGO offices, restaurants, bars and theand a number of local businesses have

PAPC Phnom Penh gallery. All sales aresubsequently commissioned work.

divided with 60% paid directly to theartists and 40% covering workshop costs.

Kirsty Hall, an English art student fromIn June, PAPC unveiled a large Dove of

Outreach International8, began a three

Peace commissioned by the Australianmonth graphic course at PAPC in June

Embassy

2004 encouraging a process of design andsculpture in a local park encouraging freeproduction crucial to sustaining

public access to metal sculpture for thecommission based work.

first time in Cambodia.

andpublicly

exhibited

PAPC in the Media
The

PAPC

publiclaunchandfirstexhibition in February 2004 attracted
huge national and international media
interest including Japanese newspapers
and TV Reuters, Associated Press and the
BBC.

The

swarming

workshopwithwassuddenlyphotographers,

journalists and cameramen all wanting tobe the first to broadcast the story aroundthe world. PAPC artists suddenly found8

Outreach International is an English charity

providing volunteer placements in Cambodia andOuk Chim Vichet working on Flower

Ecuador24

artists will graduate and the second© Sasha Constable / PAPC

phase of the project will aim to establish
Building

international

markets

andnational and international markets forencouraging cultural exchange are key

Cambodianstrategies and through agreement withencourage a fresh intake of artists under

Griffith University Australia 9 , a large

the mentorship of the initial team.

exhibition

andWithin three years, PAPC hopes tophotography will open on World Peacesustain a Khmer-managed art instituteDay 200410

which

of

PAPC

sculpture

A PAPC team will travel to

metal

acts

as

Australia for the first foreign trip for thecontemporary

artists

artisans.

and

the

first

international

sculpture

a

focal

Cambodian

and

point

for

art

and

exhibition of contemporary Cambodian
metal sculpture. A PAPC multi-media

To continue this wonderful momentum,

presentation

PAPC is currently seeking national and

will

also

be

publicly

screened in Barcelona on International

international

Weapon Destruction Day on 9 July 2004.

support.

financial

Securing

core

and

material

fundinganddonations of technical material as well as
PAPC represents the foundation of afurther

contemporary Cambodian movement andinternational exhibitions are essential to

the Phnom Penh Municipality’s offer ofensuring sustainability.

sales,

commissions

andan exhibition space at Wat Phnom, thespiritual centre of the city, is seen as theTo find out more about PAPC visit

first

www.peaceartprojectcambodia.org

orcontactonsteppermanent

towardexhibition

establishingandaraising

PAPC

peaceartprojectcambodia@yahoo.com

support for a Cambodian Peace Museum.
The artists’lyrical passion also places
them in a unique position as young

Neil Wilford

Cambodian cultural ambassadors and

PAPC Coordinatoradvocates of a Culture of Peace.
****************************The Nuclear Education Project

PAPC Sustainability
At the end of June 2004, the first group ofIn
9years,

Hiroshima

Mayor

Tadatoshi Akiba and Nagasaki Mayor
Griffith University is located in Brisbane,

Iccho Itoh have called on teachers andQueensland
10

recentactivists around the world to initiate

21 September 200425

courses on the nuclear bombing ofHiroshima

andNagasaki,Muse 12 in JapanesetheKazuyo Yamane

anti-nuclear movement, the plight of the
Hibakusha, and the problems of war andMuse 12 was published in Japanese andpeace in the nuclear age.

was sent to peace museums in Japan by

Their call has

been met by a flourishing of courses andKyoto Museum for World Peace.

other educational activities in schools,

to thank those who sent news such as Dr.

universities,

Peter van den Dungen, Ms. Jane Bunge

andcommunities

throughout the world.

I’
d likeNoffke of Swords Into Plowshares in
Detroit, Mr. James Richard Bennett, theauthor of Peace Movement Directory

The following is the related websites.
The

NuclearStudies

Institute

at(guidetopeaceorganizations

andAmerican University

memorials in North America) and an

www.american.edu/nsi

organizer of OMNI (which is a coalition
center for events, information, andIf you are interested in teaching thecoordination for the many different

atomic bomb and nuclear issues or if you

Peace, Justice & Ecology groups in theknow someone who may be interested incommunity: www.omnicenter.org ), Mr.

it, please contact Mark Selden.

Michael Lin of Human Rights Memorial

ms44@cornell.edu

Park in Taiwan, Mr. Peter Nias of the(Thanks to Dr. Raymond G. Wilson）

Peace Museum in Bradford, UK, Dr.
Terrence Duffy of Peace Museum Projectin Northern Ireland, Dr. Eric L.M.
Somers of Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation, Ms. Anne Kjelling of The
Norwegian Nobel Institute and others.
I’d also like to thank Mr. James Richard
Bennett who sent his book of Peace

Movement

Directory

for

the

Peace

Monument Design Competition in Kochi,
andOu Vanndy and Elephant©Tim Page / PAPC

also

Piera

and

Giancarlo

Caramellino for sending a photo of abeautiful peace monument in Milan.
The

new

peace

unveiled on July 4

26monument

will

be

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