Muse no. 14: Japanese Network ofMuseums for Peace
Newsletter: Feb, 2006

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.
The following is news on peace museums in Japan.

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp

Mr. Masahiko Yamabe, the curatorof Kyoto Museum for World Peace, wrote news on big peace museums while Kazuyo
Yamane of Grassroots House wrote news on small peace museums and other news. We
hope you will enjoy reading them.

The Fifth Conference of the Japanese

Keiichiro Kaji, the member of the

Network of Museums for Peace

Center of the Tokyo Air Raid War
Damages

We held “
the Fifth Nationwide Meeting of
the National Network of Museums for

4.

€Exhibition
3 4organized

Peace”at the conference room of the Kyoto

Matsushiro

Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan

Peace Memorial Museum” by Osamu

University on December 3 (Sat) 13:00~18:00

Baba, the member of the nonprofit

and December 4 (Sun) 9:00~12:00, 2005.

organization

The report on this event is as follows:

Imperial Headquarters Peace Memorial

Imperial

fortheMuseum.
1. “ActivitiesofMuseum” bytheAuschwitz

Masayuki

Peace

Yamada,Auschwitz Peace Museum
2. “
Women’s Active Museum(WAM) on War
and Peace which was built 60 years after
the end of the war ”by Eriko Ikeda, themember of the Women’s Museum on War
and Peace
3. “The expansion of the Center of theTokyo Air Raid War Damages”by

erico
1

by

the

Headquarters

Matsushiro

5. “
Activities of the preparatory committee
for

the

Document “Pacific War History Museum:

establishment

of

the

War

LEST

CenterPeace,

Aichi

activities of the museum for these ten

Memorial

Prefecture” byforMikiko

Noma,

the

WE

FORGET.”─

About

the

years and the publication of the book.

member of the preparatory committee forthe establishment of the War Memorial

From 1995, we have been publishing 50

Center for Peace, Aichi Prefecture

copies of the journal of our museum. This

6. “
Renewal of Kyoto Museum for World
Peace,

Ritsumeikan

year, we published a book which was

University” bymentioned above. It is a grand sum of our

Hideki Okada, Vice Director of the Kyoto

activities for over ten years.

Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan
University

We have been playing active roles in three

7. “
New international exchanges in 2005”byparts. The first one is the activities for neverYasuro Kawabata, the president of theforgetting the war. We should make efforts

Friends for Peace, Kyoto Museum forto remember the past war not to forget theWorld Peacememory of tragedy. The second one is the

8. “
Experiences of The Peace, Human Rights

activities to transmit the war experiences

and Children Peace Center / Textbook

from generation to generation. We displayed

Institute for these 8 years”by Kazuko

materials and gave public performances for

Yoshioka, the director of the Textbook

this purpose. And the third one is theInstituteactivities

9. “
60 years since the end of war: Beyond thewarmemory” by

Yeongwhang

for

promotinginternational

exchanges. These three activities are based

Kim,on our ideas expressed as “LEST WE

Secretary General, “Grassroots House”,

FORGET” which is the subtitle of the

Kochi

above-mentioned book.

Each reporter made a 30-min speech using

It has been 60 years since the end of thetheWorld War Ⅱ.

handouts,

which

was

followedbyquestions and answers.

It is now the turning pointof the history. There is surely a heavy
atmosphere all over the world and we

The accounting and business report was also

directed our whole energies to this book.

made by the secretariat of the National
NetworkoftheMuseumsfor

Peace.

The New Guinea front, for example, 5000km

Welcome dinner party was held on the firstapart from Japan to the south, is now

evening which was taken care of by thedivided into two parts, i.e. Papua New

Social Section of the Friends of Peace.

Guinea and Papua State of Indonesia. The
island is famous for its hot weather and it issaid that there were even 299,400 Japanese
war dead in New Guinea and Solomon
Islands. It is not widely known that remains
2are still left out in the open. We must think

Unit 4

Please visit Pacific War History

what can be done by us for these long

Museum.

forgotten victims and what must be done by
us to stop repeating the history of war.

Title: “History of the Pacific War Museum”

Please give your eyes to these realities.

Editor: Chikako Hanaoka

The Content of the book is as follows :Publisher: Nobuteru Iwabuchi, NPO Corporation

Unit 1

Pacific War History Museum

Never forget・・・

Chapter 1: War is not a past story. It is still

226 pages, 128 photos, 2000 yen (tax included)

continuing. What is the basic idea of war?

+postage (300 yen for 1 copy. Postage free for

Chapter 2: Remains are atoning for the

more than 2 copies.) Books are available at themisdeeds of the last war. Achievement andmuseum (Tel: 0197-52-3000 Fax: 0197-52-4575)

problems of remains collection over 3 times

Account number for postal order: 02310-5-23158

since 1999.

Account name: €Pacific
3 4 War History Museum

Chapter 3: Ask what the mourning for theFund”

war dead should be like. Putting an end to

Please write in the correspondence column ‘Order

the argument on Yasukuni Shrine where

for the book of Pacific War History Museum’

the war dead are not enshrined“Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace”
Unit 2Let’s hand down the story fromand the active museum movement

generation to generation

by Rumiko Nishino, Director

Chapter 4: Exhibition Hall of the History of
War Museum
Chapter5:

On August 1st, 2005, the €Women’
3 4 s Active
Special

Exhibition

of

the

Museumon War and Peace” documenting

International Peace Center (which is calledso-called “
comfort woman”issue was opened in“
Peace Osaka”)

Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. While €The
3 4

Chapter 6 Visiting museums for peace fromHouse of Sharing”in Canton, Guangzhou, Korea is

Peace Osaka to Belgian museums

known as a memorial hall which deals with“
comfort woman”issue, this museum has been

Unit 3 Positive international exchanges ─established as the very first “base of memory”in

Produce positive exchanges on the ground

Japan which focuses on “
comfort woman”issue.

which used to be treaded by military bootChapter 7: Grass-roots activities by our

In recent years, negative assertions that “
comfortmembers in Caura city / Constructing an

woman”issue is a “
fiction”have been coming up

elementary school in China / Flamenco for

one after another in the Japanese society. In 1997,

requiem at Mt. Koya

all the history textbooks for junior high school

Chapter 8: Repeat field work

addressed the “
comfort woman”issue, but today

Chapter 9 Cultivate international exchanges

only one Japanese publisher Nihon Shoseki/ Support of and cooperation with theShinsha gives a description of this issue and theactivities for the reconstruction from theterm “
comfort woman” has totally disappeared.

earthquake around off the Coast of Biak

Even though the Minister of Education and3

Science said, “
it is good that ‘
comfort woman’

the war, but continued in the postwar period.

issue has gone from school textbooks”, no oneblamed him, which symbolizes a clear account of a

The International Women’s War Criminal Tribunal

fact that Japanese society has begun to ignore thebrought out gender injustice that had driven thetruth and responsibility for the “
comfort woman”

victims into the nook of society. Moreover, underissue. In such a situation, few young people know

the then international law, it revealed theabout this problem. The memory of “
comfortresponsibility of the Japanese military pointing out

woman” issue has been disappearing fromthat those women were not “
shameful”but theJapanese society. I decided to open this museumvery victims of sexual crimes of the Japanese

60 years after the war because I thought I had to do

military. Although the “punishment of the people

something to change such a situation of thein charge” was too late to realize justice, theJapanese society.

“tribunal”that squarely faced “justice”gave thevictims a lot of courage. I’
m always impressed

Precisely, I started to speak out to construct thiswhen I recollect their delighted and waterymuseum after the International Women War

appearance and their excitement when they heard

Criminal Tribunal which was held in Tokyo in

the judgment that “
the emperor is guilty”.

2000 in order to judge Japanese military sexual
slavery system. Sixty-four victims of “
comfort

We wanted to maintain the huge amount of

women” joined this tribunal from all over thematerials gathered in the course of preparation forworld

unbelievablethe €tribunal”
34
and record the courage of victims

experiences. Makisima Legara from Philippines

and the judgment of the guilt of Japanese military,spoke about her agony of silence that she has had

which was the source of enthusiasm of women

to hide her experiences in the postwar society. She

who had tackled with the “
comfort woman”issue.

said, “I had nothing to do but holding my tongue. I

However, at that time, it seemed to be an

was so sad and I felt like I had a hole in my mind.

impossible dream because we did not have enough

Justice always left us behind.€35

funds for construction.

They are the victims of the “
comfort woman”

In December 2002, Yayori Matsui, the head ofsystem of Japanese military. However, they had to

VAWW-NET Japan, who initiated the €tribunal”
34

keep silence because the society had a strong

and devoted herself to realize it, suddenly

ideology of chastity which forced them feel that

succumbed to cancer. She died after only two

their experiences were “disgraces”. A woman wasmonths of struggle with her disease. The message

found by her husband that she had been a “
comfortshe finally left in her bed was to realize thewoman”and was bitterly condemned that even a

museumdog was better than her who was a leftover of thecolleagues. She contributed her entire fortune forJapanese military. Another woman was forced toconstructing the museum. Two and a half years

divorce because her husband couldn’t accept her

later, we set up the committee for the construction

past experience. Other women said that they couldof

not marry so they had been singles. Like theseregarding the purpose and the concept of thefacts, their damages did not disappear at the end of

museum to be established, which finally resulted inandtalked

about

their

4

the

someday

museuminandcooperation

continued

with

her

discussions

the opening of the museum last summer of the 60th

The movement of WAM is the movement toanniversary of the termination of the war.

promote “an activity to take back the past”which
was organized by German citizens, and it is

There are portraits of 134 victims from 10

expected to be the movement serving for changing

countries on the entrance wall of the museum.

citizens’consciousness and for memorizing the

They allowed us to make their experiences open,

past history. We can learn a lot from the activities

but many other women have not yet allowed us toof German citizens.

do so. When I stood in front of those portraits, I
felt like I could hear the voices of many women

There are several museums in Japan which exhibit

pleading us not to repeat the same mistakes again.

history of aggression of Japan. I hope that thesemuseums will cooperate with one another andexpand the active museum movement in Japan.

We planed to hold the special exhibition twice ayear at the museum. Now, the exhibition “All
about The International Women War Criminal

For Realizing a Wish to Establish a Peace

Tribunal”is being organized. There are a lot ofMemorial Museum at Matsushiro

exhibitions such as a model of brothels’map which

by Takako Kitahara,

describes brothels all over Asia; made by the

A member of Board of Directors, NPO

students of Chiyoda Senior High School in Osaka,

Corporationa chronology focusing on the “
comfort woman”

Peace Memorial Museum

Matsushiro

Headquarters

issue, and the panels on the record of struggles ofthe victims and citizens, and different corners such

Matsushiro-cho, Nagano City, is a castle

as the corner for books and documents about

town of Sanada famous for its Rokumonsen“
comfort woman€35
issue and the war criminal

Flag (Sanada family’s flag mark). Theretribunal, the corner for video watching, and theremain many samurai premises, temples

special corner commemorating Yayori Matsui

and so on. In recent years, the ruins of

where her favorite desk, chair and bookcase are

Matsushiro Castle (Japanese Historic Site)exhibited together with the files of all the articles

andshe wrote as a journalist.

Cultural Property) were restored, and thethesamuraipremises(Important

town has been getting back its unique flavor.
“
Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace”isThe town produced many famous people

an “
active museum€35
which has another name ofsuch as Sakuma Shozan at the end of Edo

WAM (Women’s Active Museum). This term

era and Sumako Matsui who was an actressmeans that the museum is not only a place forfamous for “
The Song for Kacyusha”.

offering information but also a place for meeting
victims and facing the Japanese war crimes.

At the end of the Pacific War in 1944, a huge

Moreover, it is not only for “
knowing”the issue

underground shelter began to be dug in

but also for thinking about what we should do,

Matsushiro

how we can realize the nonviolent peaceful society,Headquarters from Tokyo which was theand how we start our action.

highest organ of war. It was a nationaltotransfertheImperial

project to prepare for the final battle on the5mainland Japan and for preserving theartifacts,

Emperor system, which consisted of several

possessed by “Association for Preserving

plans

Matsushiro

toconstruct

undergroundasheltertremendous

throughthreepanelsandphotosImperial

that

are

Headquarters”,

thereby tried to make known to as many

mountains at Matsushiro, i.e. Mt. Zozan, Mt.

citizens

Maizuru and Mt. Minakamiyama, and somebackground of the Matsushiro Imperial

facilities around Nagano City in order to

Headquarters and its general view, and tomove the national central organs such as thepromoteImperial Headquarters, the emperor, royalpreserving materials of the local community.

families,governmental

BroadcastingSocietyagencies,Japan(current

NHK),

printingbureausfacilities.

It was a national top-secretproject

named

and

The

communication“
Matsushiroaspossible

documenting

Construction

of

the

historicalexperiences

the

and

Matsushiro

Imperial Headquarters was started on Nov.
in

11th

Storehouse

1944.

We

annuallyorganize“
November 11th Memorial Gathering for theConstruction” to which more than 6000

Victims

Korean people were forced to work under

Headquarters Construction”. In 2005 we

severe conditions.

held the above-mentioned exhibition for
threeHigh school students wished to establish

of

the

days

from

Matsushiro

November

Imperial

11thincommemoration of the memorial gathering.

“
Peace Memorial Museum”to preserve thisunderground shelter to promote peace andWe hope to get forward a step or even half atostep to be able to construct our Peaceexchangelearning

experiencesbyexhibiting relevant materials, and many

Memorial Museum.

citizens have been taking part in the
campaign, and promoting the movement by

Association for Preserving Matsushiro

establishing

Imperial Headquarters“
NPO

Corporationfor

Establishing Matsushiro Imperial Head-

c/o Kibo-no-Ie

quarters Peace Memorial”.

3-5-5-, Wakazato, Nagano-shi 3-3-5
Japan 380-0928

Though we still have many problems, and

Tel&Fax: 026-228-8415

could not yet reach the goal, we organized

http://homepage3.nifty.com/kibonoie/“
Matsushiro Imperial Headquarters Peace
Memorial Exhibition” at the community

International Exchanges in 2005

center in 2005 which is the 60th anniversary

Yasuo

of the termination of WWII.
borrowed

relevantmaterials

Kawabata(President, Friends for Peace, Kyoto)We
regardingunderground shelter from Nagano Shun’ei

I had opportunities this very year of 60th

Seniorbeen

anniversary of the end of WWII to visit 4organizing investigations about this issue,

cities (Gurnica, Spain; Nanjing and Beijing,and exhibited them together with the

China; and Taipei,Taiwan) and to take partHigh

School

which

has

6

in the meeting at Shirakawa, Fukushima

surprised to hear that.

regarding the testimony of a survivor from

After returning home, I communicated with

Auschwitz.

the national office of the chorus group, andThe following is the brief

introduction of each experience.

succeeded in arranging the visit to The
Hague by connecting our scheduled visit toGernica, Spain (May)

Auschwitz in 2007. In addition, we also
introduced our plan to visit China which

Thanks to a big support, I could successfully

was also appreciated in the conference.

make a report of my peace activities at thesession of “Peace and Culture”of the 5th※ Yi Jun Peace Museum was establishedInternational Conference of Peace Museums,by Mr. Kee-Hang Lee to commemorate

though there existed a high language barrier.

the deceased national delegate, Mr.

My report was about the activities of a

Lee and has been holding a memorial

mixed

“
Devil’sceremony every 2 years. Professor

Repletion”and the efforts to establish a

Ikuro Anzai, the director of the Kyoto

peace statue for world children thereby

Museum for World Peace, is the firstcreating a cairn for peace. At the meeting, I

Japanese keynote speaker in thewas strongly impressed that the Japanese

ceremony who was invited to the peace

peace museum movement is playing an

museum in 1999.

chorussuite

entitled

important role in the world not only
quantitatively but also qualitatively, andNanjing and Beijing, China (August)that the culture is something that can beshared beyond language barriers.

We performed “Devil’s Repletion”for thesecond time in China following the firstI met so many people, but it is special for me

performance in 1998 at Ha€31
erbin. Our

to have had a chance to see a Koreangroup consisted of nearly 200 members

gentleman named Mr. Kee Han Lee who is

including supporters and staff. Although

the director of the Yi Jun Peace Museum inthere were some difficulties due to the

The Hague, Netherlands, established indifferences in tradition and custom, our

1945.

the

performances finally proved to be very

above-mentioned mixed chorus suite “Devil’smuch successful both in Nanjing andRepletion”and a Korean folk song Arirang

Beijing. Some of the Chinese audiencesat the peace museum in 2007 which is thetold us that they have never seen such

100th anniversary of the Yi Jun Incident

Japanese.

which

He

asked

me

to

perform

wasaconspiracyofJapanese

Government

in

1907

obstructtheThe leader of our group Mr. Seiichi

participation of Korean delegates in the

Morimura, the well-known author of theHague Peace Conference, in the course of

documentary novel “Devil’s Repletion”,

which Yi Jun, one of the Korean delegates,

said “It is a symbol of peace that wedied a suspicious death. I was very much

Japanese and the Chinese citizens who

to7visited the Nanjing Massacre Memorial by

Auschwitz survivor’s lecturechance watched the exhibits in peace. I
knew that Chinese mass media introduced

Invitedour performances, but I did not know that

Fukushima, Mr. A. Colvatik visited Japan. (He was

the news was also reported in Japan untilborn in 1921). He was imprisoned when he was 19.

I came home. I am convinced that our

He succeeded in escaping from prison in 1942. At

activities will contribute to developing thethe end of October, he participated in one of thebetter relationship between China andlectures held in Fukushima. (By the way he isJapan.

looking forward to attending the next year’sbyAuschwitz

Peace

Museuminperformance.)
Taiei,Taiwan (September)
School Textbook Institute -8-year-stepsMany Taiwanese say that they were ruled

The Peace, Human Rights and Children Centerby Japan for the first half of the recent

Director: Kazuko Yoshioka

century, and were suppressed by the
Kuomintang Government for the second

Panels were made based on the theme, “War dealt

half, and some people even say thatwith in Textbooks: 11 sets of 216 panels.

Japan’
s rule was better.
Opposing to the attacks on textbook and peace
I would like to introduce just one episodemuseums, I established a private peace museum

related to this.

and 8 years have passed.

Mr. Ronald Soh who is a

I added textbook issues

Taiwanese I met at the meeting in Gernica

in panels which show Japan’s aggression oflast May guided me to the 2.28 Memorial

Korea and China. After I established the Textbook

Museum. He was once the vice director of

Institute, I really concentrated on this work.

the museum, and his explanation waspolite. I well understood the actions taken

It is possible to show my thoughts in the panels

byI

that even children can be perpetrators or we do notattended a friendship meeting and got

want to force children to study like war timeacquainted with Mr. Chin who was once

education. (They were not allowed to ask

arrested and jailed by the Kuomintang

questions.)theKuomintang

Government.

Government. I was very much astonished
to hear him saying “It is wrong for the[In 1998: panels on textbooks in the war andNative Taiwanese people to have protested

textbooks in Asia were made.]against the fact that their forefathers who

The panels were about textbooks used in the period

participated in the war as Japanesefrom the beginning of the 15-year war to the end ofEmperor’s soldiers

the war.

areenshrinedin

I also made the panels which show the

Yasukuni Shrine”. I was puzzled about his

textbooks showing Japan’s invasion obtained byutterance.

visiting Asian countries.

8[In 1999: panels on the history of the national flag“
Notebook for Heart” were distributed to theand anthem dealt with in textbooks were made.]

students of secondary school for free. I realized

After the laws which promote war were established,that this textbook is quite similar to the diarystrong control of teachers and children started.

which I was forced to write during the war.

These panels show the history of national flag andanthem from the Meiji era to the present.

[In 2004: the panels on the textbooks after the
textbook issues were made.][In 2000: the description of Japan’s aggression of

The use of the textbook made by nationalists was

Korea and China in textbooks was made clear.]just 0.039%.

Not only the period before and during the war but

history textbooks became obviously worse. I madealso the one after the war, the truth of Japan’sthe panels on textbooks of sociology and music

invasion and colonial rules was eliminated fromused at elementary school and junior high school.

However, the contents of current

the textbooks. After the war ended, 50 years later,
the truth started to be dealt with in textbooks.

[In 2005: the panels on gender issues in textbooks

However, there are some voices that claim

were made.]

self-degradation against the description of theI intended to teach gender issues for 32 years when

historical truth.

I was a teacher. I made the panels on the history ofgender issues.

[In 2001: panels on the history of Japanese
textbooks, and the ones on war and children’s[In 2006: the panels on the textbook differences

textbooks were made.]between Manchuria and Japan were made.]ststManchuria’s textbooks which looked scientific andcentury described in textbooks”was held fromdemocratic were actually a part of the colonial

The first exhibition in the 21 century, €The
3 4 21thth

January 13 to February 25 , 2001 in Hiroshima.

occupation policy. And now, that method is coming

On this occasion, we made 27 panels and theyback again in the present nationalistic textbooks.

were exhibited in 11 prefectures in Japan.
<What I would like to tell as the person who was[In 2002: the panels to compare “new”history

born in colonial Korea and raised as a nationalistic

textbooks with those used during the war werechild.>

made.]

The children now are growing up in the same

I was forced to memorize all the contents ofsituation as I grew up in Manchuria up to 12 years

textbooks during the war.

After the war, theold. At every morning meetings we were taught tohistory textbooks were blackened out. The “new”

cooperate with Japan to promote the war. I strongly

textbooks made by nationalists are similar to those

think that we have to tell the connection between

used during the war, but they were accepted by the

war and textbooks to the next generations. I would

Ministry of Education.

like to keep telling the truth that textbooks wereused to promote the war.

I made panels on[In 2003: the panels on the present textbooks oftextbooks used during the war and also 1200

ethics and those used during the war were made.]panels on Japan’s aggression and colonial rule.

In 2002, the government-designed textbooks called
9The movie will be screened on the theme ofwith them kindly and the local people

the POW camp in Bando, Tokushima

welcomed them, so they could mix with thepeople well in Bando. At the end of the

The movie will be screened on the theme ofmovie, the prisoners invited the local people

the relationship between German prisoners

and held the concert of Beethoven€31
s Ninth

in the POW camp in Bando and the local

Symphony.

people in Bando. On the July 10th, 2005, theproject of the movie was published at

This movie is said to be a large scale one

Tokushima Prince Hotel. At the interview,

such as “ Northern Zero year ”

Mr. Okada Yusuke, the president of Toei“
Yamato of men”
. The staffs of this movie

Corporation, and Mr. Miyakawa, a member

planed to construct huge buildings for aof Shinano Project Corporation, announced

location, which is three-forth the size of thethat the director was to be Mr. Ideme

then building. The building, for example,

Masanobu, who directed “
Listen to the Voice

includes a barrack near the spot of location.

andof Wadatsumi”and the scenario was to be
written by Mr. Huruta Motomu. They also

As for the movie production, Tokushimaannounced that they aimed at screening inprefecture and Naruto city decided toJuly 2006, which is the time for the Worldsupport this movie totally, regarding it a

Cup opening.

good

opportunity

to

share

a

lot

of

information on these places nationally. As
The title is “
The Gakuen (paradise) Of

a part of support, in Tokushima, theBaruto”. “
Baruto€35
means a mustache involunteers organized a committee called

German and it is based on the fact that Mr.

‘”
The Gakuen (paradise) Of Baruto” toMatsue Toshio, the colonel and the director

support the committee for the film.

of Bando prison camp, and many German

July eighth, Naruto city also organized ‘Theprisoners were both wearing a heavy

Gakuen (paradise) of Baruto”: Association

mustache. In addition, the title of “
Gakuen”

for supporting the location in Naruto. Theseis also based on the fact that the prisonorganizations will recruit the extra of thiscamp was a paradise for the prisoners, andmovie, supply food to the performers andvarious concerts, for example Beethoven’sstaffs and plan an available use of the site

Ninth Symphony, were performed there.

for the location set.

On

That is, the prison camp was regarded as
not only a paradise but also a school, so theIt seems that casting will be decided and thetitle was called “Gakuen”(School) and was

filming will begin in December.

expressed as a paradise (楽園) in Chinese

time, we hope you will visit us. It seems that

Characters. In the beginning of the movie,

the second use of the location set will beafter the Qingdao War the prisoners inplanned.

Kurume prison camp were in a very bad(Official gazette “Ruue Yasuragi”No. 2)

environment and they had to move into

Tel: 088-689-0099

Bando city. In the movie, Mr. Matsue dealt

FAX: 088-689-0909
10

At thatdoitukan@city.naruto.lg.jp

trial and the people of Kochi”and Ueki

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

Emori’
s draft of the Japanese Constitution.

house/index.html
The event, “National Testimony Meeting:the memory that cannot be forgotten -Grassroots House: Kochi

Women victims of the Sexual Slavery’’by theSecretary General: Kim Yeongwhan

Japanese troops was held so as to find thePeace events called Peace Wave was held.

solution of the sexual slavery issues. The

In addition to the annual events, the firstyoung people at Grassroots House played amemorial service for the victims of the U.S.

key role in holding this event. In Kochi, theair-raids on Kochi was held at night on July

testimony meeting was held inviting Ms

4 because the air-raids were launched on

Paku Okuson from South Korea. 300 people,

July

4

60

commemorated

years

ago.

Participants

mainly young people, participated in this

them

near

the

event.

peace

memorial and lighted nine candles so that
we can protect Article 9 of the peaceful

The

Japanese Constitution. At this event, wemovement against the invasion of Iraq byheld a peace concert and read the Japanese

U.S.A. and England, and the movement forConstitution.

The victims gave testimony

the withdrawal of the Japanese Self-Defense

about their experiences of the U.S. air-raids

Forces and a Peace Concert. These are heldon Kochi and so on.

on Fridays from the 1st to 3rd week

Grassroots

Housecontinues

the(17:00~19:00), and on Sunday in the final
Concerning the adoption of the textbook ofweek (14:00~16:00).

theGrassroots House

juniorhighschool,thetextbook

exhibition was held as a special project at

9-11 Masukata Kouchi-shi Japan 780-0861

Kochi Citizen Library. The theme of thisTel 088-875-1275,821-0623

event was ‘’
No to the Distortion of History!

Fax. 088-821-0586

YES to Peace in East Asia!’’.

GRH@mal.seokyou.ne.jp
Http://hal.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishi

As a turning point of 60 years after the war,mori

the book, “War and Peace in 20th century at
Kochi’’
was published. This book is referredThe

to the history of war and peace movement in

Symposium for Preserving War Remains in

Kochi.

Nagasaki

Report

on

the

Ninth

Nationwide.
The lecture series entitled Grassroots House

The

Lectures for Peace started last year.

Preserving War Remains in Nagasaki was

This

Ninth Nationwide Symposium

foryear, we chose four themes, “Anti-Japanese”

held from August 20 to 21 in 2005.

demonstration and “
Textbook issues,’’“Peace

Yuhkei Murakami, the representative of theissues thought in Okinawa”, “
Anjyuukon

National Network, reported its activities
11Mr.

and pointed out the change of the way we

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peacetell of the experiences of the war. That is, inMuseum: Nagasaki

the past, telling of the experiences of war

Yasunori Takazane: Director

was difficult. However, today we find it
difficult to share the suffering in the war.

Four members of the museum went on a trip

Furthermore, when people give testimony,to Shanghai and Nanjing from August 1st tothey feel that the words are hard to reach

18th. The trip was organized by Meishinkai

into the mind of people. He also said that as

and two college students also attend it.

people are getting older, we have to pass theexperiences of war down to the young andThis was the fifth peace trip to Nanjing forcoming generation using not “
humans’’but

the museum and the third time to send the‘’objects’’. In this case one of the most

students.

important points is what to convey byJapan and China is in danger, and themonuments of the war.

exchanges of opinions of students between

The diplomatic relation between

Japan and China at Nanjing Teacher’s
The details are available in the news of the

University was very significant.

Association for Preserving the Matsushima

booklet on the trip was published inImperial Headquarters No. 178 and “The

December.

The

News of the Association for Preserving
Asakawa Shelter No. 48.

Four members went on a trip to Shenyang
and

Ha’
erbin

and

visited Museum

inMr. Tadaomi Hidaka

Pingdingshan, the place in charge of war

The Association for Preserving Asakawa

criminals in Fushun etc.

Shelter: Kawamachi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo

History Museum and promised to research244-93 193-0821

war

Tel&Fax 0426-52-0552

Masaharu

http://park21.wakwak.com/~asakawa/Museum became sister museums with thematerials

They visited 9.18

together.

Memorial

The

Nagasaki

Oka
Peace

Museum on Unit 731 on September 21st,
2005.

National Network for Preserving War Remains

We will have exchanges of people

and research together in the future.
The network was made in July, 1997.

The

We

are planning to hold an exhibition on Unit

details are available in Japanese at the731.

following website.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/kibounoie/isikini

Ms Rumiko Nishino, the director of thetuto.htm

Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace

The secretariat is in Kibouno Ie as follows:

gave a lecture, “I’d like to tell the truth: thec/o Kibouno Ie: 3-5-5 Wakasato, Nagano City

significance and role of the peace museum”

380-0928

as the 10th anniversary of the opening of the

Tel & fax: 026-228-8415

Oka

Masaharu

Peace

Museum.

We

learned the mission of independent peace12museums where citizens face the past for

Aomori City Museum: Aomori

the future not allowing the present situationin which historical truth has been hidden

An Exhibition on the U.S. Air Raids on Aokori

and distorted.

It should be also noted thatthth
was held from 6 Aug to4 Sep. 2005.

Ms

YamaneKazuyoattendedthe

TEL: 017-773-1770

FAX: 017-773-1547

anniversary all the way to Nagasaki andhttp://www.city.aomori.aomori.jp/koho/ksi/mp016.

gave information on peace museums in otherhtml

countries for the solidarity in the future.
Hachinohe Museum: Aomori
The 6th rally on the Nanjing Masaccre washeld in cooperation with the China-Japan“
Hardship of the Citizens of Hachinohe in the

Friendship Association in Kumamoto in

War”was held from 1st July to 21st Aug. It was the

Decemberfirst synthetic exhibition. It showed the hardship ofandChinesevictimsgave

testimony.

the citizens and it made people consider the miseryof the war and the importance of peace. It consists

The

collectionofNishizaka

Dayoriof Japan’s aggression from the Manchurian(Newsletter) was published in three volumes“
Incident” to the Japan-Chine war, the role ofin 2005. ¥2000

people who supported soldiers in the front, the(Postage: ¥450 in Japan)

If you’d like toeducation and life in the war, the system of the

buy them, please contact the following

all-out war, the way to defeat, and how to survive

address by fax or email.

after the war. A model of a shelter was displayed.

Tel & fax: 095-820-5600

Pictorial records were published.

tomoneko@land.linkclub.or.jp

The war experiences were spoken on 10th, 17th, 31st

http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen/annnai.

July, and on 14th Aug.

html

TEL: 0178-44-8111

FAX: 0178-24-4557

http://www.hachinohe.ed.jp/haku/

Japanese Network News
Kitakami Peace Memorial Museum: Iwate
Muroran City Folk Museum: Hokkaidou
As the 60th Anniversary of the end of the war,
As the 25th Anniversary of the Muroran City Folk“
The War and Us –the Picture which Show theMuseum and the Peaceful City Declaration, aWar”was hold from 20th July to 20th Aug. The

special event €War
3 4 and Peace 60 Years after themiserable experiences in the war and thethWWII”was held from 6 Aug. to 4 Sep. 2005.

importance of peace were shown by 750 picture

Articles used in the Pacific war (candles made of

postcards.

fish oil, substitute matches, uniforms), and the

TEL: 0197-73-5876

panels on the remains of the war were exhibited.

http://www.city.kitakami.iwate.jp/

TEL: 0143-59-4922

th

FAX: 0143-59-3715

http://www.city.muroran.hokkaido.jp/main/org944
0/13

Morioka Museum on Predecessors: Iwate

Riusso-Japanese War, the Pacific War, were
exhibited and the role of media in the wars werethconsidered.

ththe war was held till 17 July.

maps and fliers were displayed.

TEL: 019-659-3338

FAX: 019-659-3387

TEL: 024-534-9193

An exhibition on the 60 anniversary of the end of

http://www2.city.morioka.iwate.jp/14kyoiku/senjin

60 exhibits of postcards, old photos,

FAX: 024-534-9195

http://www.history-archives.fks.ed.jp//senjin/Fukushima Art Museum: Fukushima
SendaiMuseum on Recovery from War
In the regular exhibition “Takashi Yoshii and theDamages: Miyagi

After-War Art”was shown from 4th Nov. to 25th
An exhibition entitled “
The War in Sendai and theDec. The 11works in the war and his five friends€31

Reconstruction”was held on 9th - 12th July.

works were shown.

TEL: 022-263-6931

TEL: 024-531-5511

FAX: 022-262-5465

FAX: 024-531-0447

http://www.art-museum.fks.ed.jp/menu_j.html/

http://203.138.136.89/miyagiken/details/cities/sendaishi/sendaishi009.shtml

Making-Friend History Museum: Fukushima
Yamagata Museum: Yamagata“
Fukushima in Syowa Period”was exhibited fromThe exhibition entitled “War and Children - school

10th July to 7th Dec. An air-raid siren, a megaphone,and life”was held from 9th July to18th Sep. It

magazines, uniform, Hinomaru flag were shown toshowed the hardship and it made people consider

explain the recession, the war, the U.S. air-raids

the misery of the war and the value of peace. The

and the recovery in Fukushima.

misery should not be forgotten and it should be

TEL: 024-521-5318

remembered forever. The life of children in war

http://www.fks-wo.thr.mlit.go.jp/chusin/01_fuhusi

wasmago/01_07?fureai.html/

showedinthisexhibition.

Children’s

FAX: 024-521-8268

evacuation was shown using the exhibits of the
Toshima Museum. The movie entitled “Fighting

Hitachi Museum: Ibaragi

Children”was shown. The doll in blue eyes was
also shown. The illustrated book with the list of“
The War in Hitachi City”was exhibited from 20th

exhibits was published.

to 4th Sep. Twenty photos on the war damages

TEL: 023-645-1111

were exhibited.

http://www.pref.yamagata.jp/ky/museum/kymuseu

TEL: 0294(23)3231

m.html/Mito Civic Museum: Ibaraki
Fukushima History Museum: Fukushima
Senso no Kiokuten ~heiwaeno inorio komete“
The war in the Memory€35
was held from 1 July to~ (The memory of war exhibition ~wish for21st Aug.

peace~) was held from Jury 26th to AuguststIt was held in order to consider thehistory correctly.

21st 2005.

The Japan-Chine War, The
14This exhibition was held as the60-year anniversary of the end of the war.

Moreover, Professor Shousei Iwane made a

The similar exhibition was also held in 2000.

speech on Jury 24, 2005. The topic was

It displayed war-related articles contributed

Takasakirentai no heishi to senjyo (Soldiers

by citizens, and stories which were donated

who Enrolled the Takasaki Regiment andby people who experienced the war in orderthe BattleField).

to pass down the miserable and stern

Taikendan

episode in the war to the next generations.

Listening to Speakers of the Air-Raids on

It is constituted of eight parts. There were

Maebashi) was also held on August 6th 2005.

memories of soldiers, students, children,

Tel:027-346-5522 Fax:027 346-5534

women, memories in daily life, memories of

http://www.greksi.gsn.ed.jp

woMaebashi Kusyu no
Kikukai(Meetingfor

prisoners, memories of Mito air raids, andmemories of the end of the war.

It restored

Takasaki History and Folk Museum: Gunmaa room in blackout and showed a balloon
bomb and pictures which were drawn by the“
Syusen no Hi Sonotoki Takasaki wa€35(The

victims of the air-raids. Moreover, it made aday of the end of the war in Takasaki) was

quiz on the war.

held from Jury 23 to September 19, 2005.
This exhibition gave chances to speak on

Mito Civic Museum also held a hearing of

war and remember the war in order to pass

war experiences on August 2nd, 9th, andthe preciousness of peace to posterity.

15th.

displayed damages to soldiers and from theTel:029-226-6521 Fax:029-226-6549

air-raids on Takasaki, articles on the daily

http://wwwl.ord.ne.jp/-aap61310/

life in the war which were owned by theIt

Takasaki History and Folk Museum, and
Gunma

Prefectural

Historyburied relics of the infantry of the fifteenthMuseum:regiment.

Gunma

It also presented that labor andfarmer movements were active after WWI,
The exhibition on Kodomotachi to senso

but many speeches were regulated and(War and Children) was held from July, 23 to

many

August, 31, 2005.

exploitation in Manchuria then.

This exhibition was held

citizens

weremobilizedtotheMoreover,in order to give a chance to children to

it showed memoir of August 15th, the day of

considertheirthe end of the war as a message for thethefuture. A pamphlet was published with awarviewpoints.
dispatch

of

It

and

peace

was

constitutedoftofields,troopsfrom

distant

list of this exhibition.

mobilization of citizen and the change of
their daily life, changing process of schoolAs

life, the air-raids on Ota and Maebashi, andNakamura made a speech, Hakkutsusareta

children’s impression on the end of the war.

Jyugorentai (Finding Fifteenth Regiment’sThis museum also published illustrated

Relic) on Jury 30, 2005. A meeting forbooks.

listening to the experiences in the war wastherelatedprogram,held on August 14, 2005.
15

Mr.

ShigeruTel: 027-352-1261

2005. Thirdly, Tsuru ni notte On a Paper

http://www.city.takasaki.gunma.jp

Crane) and Tezuka Osamu Monogatari:Boku
ha Songoku (I am Songoku ~made by
Tezuka Osamu~) was shown on September

Saitama Peace Museum: Saitama

17, 2005. Fourthly, Sensuikan ni Koishita
This museum held the exhibition entitledKujira no Hanashi (The Story of a Whale“
Senso no Kioku ~ 205 mannin no Syogen~which Fell in Love with a Submarine) andMemory of War ~ Testimony from Two

Zou no Inai Doubutsuen (The Zoo without

Million and Five people~”from Jury 23 to

Elephants) was shown on October 8, 2005.

September 25, 2005.

A film was shown at the auditorium on

It displayed the life ofpeople on video with the testimony of people

August 13, 2005.

It was “Himeyuri no Tou€35

who experienced the war. These displays(The Himeyuri Spire)consisted three parts. There were theTel:0493-35-4111 Fax:0493-35-4112

experiences in the battlefield, people who

http://homepage3.nifty.com/saitamapeacemu

waited for their lovers, and people who ran

seum/

away from the fires caused by the U.S.
air-raids. It also exhibited relics of the

Maruki Museum: Matsuyama City, Saitama

air-raids which Toyonakaku Civic Local
Museum had. An illustrated book was

Thispublished.

support because of the lack of fund: themuseumbeggedurgentfinancialdecline of visitors and the cost for the repair
This museum had many projects. “
Yamaof its facilities.

Aoku Sato Uruwashi Syouka no Sekai€35(Green Mountain and Lovely Village ~the“Konnichi no Hansenten€35(Antiwar Today)

World of Songs ~ ) was held from October 15

was exhibited from Jury 20 to September 9,

to December 11, 2005.

2005.

DVD and video were

produced.

“
Nikan Gosedai no Sakka€35(The

Japanese and Korean Authors in fivegenerations) was exhibited from September

An exchange meeting was held with people

13 to

who experienced the war on August, 15 2005.

anniversary of the end of the war accordingMr.

its newsletter No. 83 published on Jury 10,

Murakami

madeaspeechabout

experiences of Imphal Operation.

October

28,

2005 as

the

60th

2005.
Tel: 0493-22-3266 Fax:0493-24-8371

Animations were shown four times. First,

http://www.aya.or.jp/-marukimun/top/kikak

Nachan no Akai Tebukuro (Nacyan’s Red

u.htm,

Mittens) and Tushimamaru were played on
June

11,

2005.

Secondly,

HatoyoKamifukuoka History and Folk Museum:

Hiroshima no Sora (Pigeon Flitted around

Saitamathe Sky in Hiroshima) and Hi no Ame ga
Furu( Fire Rain Fell) were shown on Jury 16,“
Zouheisyo and Sensoiseki€35(The Factory of16

Weapons and Remains of the War ) was held
as the 60th anniversary of the end of the war
from August 6 to September 4, 2005.
Exhibited were relics and records from the

Chiba Prefectural Yasuhusa Museum

factory of weapons in Kawagoe, the model ofthe factory, records on a pot shaped aviation

Aoime no Ningyou ~Sanshimaiten~ (Bluefactory,

eyed dolls ~three sisters~) was exhibitedrecords

on

the

lives

of

the

noncombatants, the factory of protectivefrom Jury 10 to September 4, 2005.

clothes, Asano factory for grenades made ofdolls remain in south Bousou.

pottery,

Tel:0470-22-86-8

picturessoldiers’clothes.

of

war

remainsandA list of exhibits was

These

http://www.chiba-muse.or.jp/AWA/

published there.
Kamagaya Civic Local Museum: Chiba
As the related program, lectures on history
were given: the Factory of Weapons and the

The Memory of War in Kamagaya was

Army Facilities in Saitama on August 6,

exhibited as the 60th anniversary of the end

2005, and the Student Mobilization for theof the war from Jury 10 to September 4 2005.

Factory of Weapons on August 21st and theThis exhibition was the first attempt. It was

Army that was Stationed at Elementary

held at Mihashi Museum. Japan gave

School on August 28, 2005.

extensive damages to China and people hope

Tel: 049-261-6065

that Japan-China war would become the

http://www.city.fuji,imo.saitama.jp/

last war. It displayed Japanese-Sino War
and the Russo-Japanese War, region and

Warabi Civic History and Folk Museum

army, the way to the battlefield, Kamagaya: Saitama

as the battlefield, the end of the long war in
Kamagaya.

A picture book was published.

The 16th peace exhibition, “The War andTel: 047-445-1030

Children ~ memory of the fifteen-year war~)

http://www.city.kamagaya.chiba.jp/sisetsu/k

was held from August 2nd to 31st, 2005.

youdo.html

Itdisplayed the situation of daily life ofchildren in order to pass it from generation

Kimizu City Kururijoushi Museum: Chiba

to generation and give a chance to consider
peace. It is composed of exhibits on school in“
War Memory: 60 Years in Peace” wasthe war, the world of children, the air-raids,

exhibited from October 18th to December 4th.

Japan’
s defeat and the end of the war,

Mr. Shigeo Watanabe, a teacher at Jyousou

textbooks used in the war, and comfort bags

High School, made a speech of “
The War infor soldiers.

the Asia and Pacific from Local View Point)

Tel: 048-432-2477

on August 6, 2005.

http://www.city.warabi.saitama.jp/rekimin/i
ndex.htm
17

Tateyama Public Museum: Chiba

distributed the leaflet with the list of exhibits.
Tel: 0475-44-0290

th

The 12 exhibition of “
The Time of the Armedth

Fax:0475-44-0213

http://town.mutsuzawa.chiba.jp/shisetu/museum/mainstCity”was held from July 7 to August 31 , 2005.

.html

We displayed materials on battery, observatory,

The Center of the Tokyo Air Raid Damages:

marine flying corps, gunnery school’s monument,Tokyo

and related records from Minamibousou.

The

information on the lifestyle and education people

There is a campaign to raise funds from August,

had in the Army city, and things left by soldiers

2005 for enlarging the exhibition room in order towhen they were sent to the front were displayed.

have more space to display the resources.

We are now making the leaflet describing

Tomo no Kai (Association of Friends) published

Minamibousou’s remains and monuments of the“
Feeling the Great Tokyo Air Raids from thewar in the Armed City.

Center of the Tokyo Air Raid Damages on Foot.€35

Tel:0470-23-5212

Tel: 03-5857-5631

http://www.city.tateyama.chiba.jp/

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

Funabashi Local Heritage Museum in Chiba

Daigo Fukuryumaru Exhibition Hall: TokyoThe

Fax:03-5683-3326

The 71st exhibition entitled “
60years after the War€35 The captain of the Fifth Fukuryumaru, Aikichi
was held from August 2nd to October 30th, 2005.

Kuboyama died on September 23rd half a year after

It was held not to repeat the tragic history by

the incident of being exposed to radiation at thelooking back at the disaster of the war affecting

U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll incitizens’life and the hardship of building up the1954. When he struggled with illness and after

peaceful Japan.

The first part displayed thehis death, many letters of condolence were sent.

resources on citizen’s lifestyle and war and peace.

People from the young to the old cheered him and

The second part

expressed wishes for peace so strongly that it

was

the

photographson

exploitation of Narashino plane.

reminds us of the time people claimed for peace

Tel:047-467-1399

nine years after the war.

http://www.city.funabashi.chiba.jp/kyodo/index.htm

possess, we displayed 100 letters sent from all overJapan.

Mutsuzawa Museum of History and Folklore: Chiba

From the 3000 letters we

And also the memoirs by Shizue Suzuki,

the wife of Shinzou Suzuki who was an ex-crew ofFifth Fukuryumaru.

The exhibition entitled “The Memories of the War

We held this until the 11th ofDecember.

Experiences of Mutsuzawa Citizens –Telling theTruth About the War”was held from July 16th tothSeptember 25 , 2005.

The booklet €34
Bikini Jiken no Kioku wo Kiroku ni”(Recording the memory on the Bikini Incident) is

It showed the result ofIt

made from 34 stories out of 50 stories collecteddisplayed the wreck of crashed airplane, machineand other 6 stories we strongly recommended.

guns, the pilot’s parachute and his marriage picture,

This makes us know about part of the effects bya diary written by soldiers, and more.

the Bikini incident.

gathering information on experiencing the war.

We
18

This is sized in A5 in 64

Katsushika City Museum: Tokyo

pages costing 500yen without the postage of 120
yen.

Please order it at the Peace Association.
Fax:03-3521-2900

The exhibition “
Ki94 (the name of a fighter plane)!

E-mail:fukuryumaru@msa.biglobe.ne.jp

Shoot Down B29 –Air Raids and Katsushika”was

http://d5f.org/top.htm

ththheld from July 20 to September 4 , 2005.

Tel: 03-3521-8494

The

newest advanced combat plane called Ki94 wasNakano District Peace Exhibition Room: Tokyo

displayed in terms of its plan, journal, record,model, and photographs.

We made the leaflet

The exhibition has been renewed on July 22nd,

with the list of exhibits.

There are also the2005.

materials about the air raids such as high school

To tell the importance of peace and thecruelty of war to the next generations, it displayed

students

the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

photographs on the remains of dugouts and thethe war damages in Nakano, the lifestyle interritory of antiaircraft gun.

Nakano, evacuation of school children, the peace

Tel: 03-3838-1101

history in Nakano, and so forth.

http://www.city.katsushika.tokyo.jp/museum/As the special event, “The Zoo During The War”ndkilled

by

the

first

air-raid,

and

Fax:03-5680-0849

Shinagawa History Museum: Tokyothwas exhibited from July 22 to August 16 , 2005.
There are photographs of Ueno Zoo’s animals that

The memorial exhibition for the 20th anniversary

have been killed during the war.

of declaring Shinagawa city as non-nuclear peace

Tel: 03-3228-8988

city, “The Evacuation of Student Children”was

Fax:03-3228-5644

http://www.city.tokyo-nakano.lg.jp/i/sh/sh-heiwa.hheld from July 23rd to September 4th, 2005.

tml

displayed the drawings, photographs, and records

Itfrom school to show the lifestyles students had in
Museum of Contemporary Art: Tokyo

the evacuation area.

And there was also themessage from people who experienced the
The 10th Anniversary Exhibition €Age
3 4 of Tokyo

evacuation that was about their memory and what

Art

held

from

they wanted to tell to the next generations.

September 23rd to December 4th, 2005.

It also

distributed the leaflet with the list of the exhibits.

Museum1926-1970” wasWe

introduced the Art Exhibition for Celebrating theTel: 03-3777-4060

Fax:03-3778-2615

Era of 2600 years which was held in 1940.

http://www2.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp/jigyo/06/historyhp/hsindex.html

The exhibition “Tokyo in 1920s”was held from
September 16th to December 18th, 2005 showing

Shinjyuku History Museum: Tokyo

pieces of Japanese artists such as Masamu Yanase,Tomoe Yabe, Touki Okamoto, Eitaro Ishigaki, andThe celebrating exhibition for the 20th anniversary

Yasuo Kuniyoshi.

of declaring Shinjuku as a peace city entitled

Tel: 03-5245-4111“
Peace Exhibition –Passing Our Memories andhttp://www.mot-art-museum.jp/top.htm

Records to the Future”was held from July 30th toSeptember 4th, 2005.
19

The first part “
The way tothe war and the life in Shinjyuku” displayedend of the war and the chaos that followed. Related

exhibits on children and war, patriotic general

to these, a lecture on history “Talking of the War”

mobilization, soldiers sent abroad and returned

by Keiko Utsumi, the President of the Associationfrom the front, culture in war time, people’s life inof Comic Dialogue by Two People, was held at theJapan, evacuation, air-raids and the end of war, andforth floor of the Ueno Ward’s Hall on 12

the situation after the war.

November.

There were also thetestimony on war experiences.

The second partthTel: 03-3823-7451“
To Pass on the Importance of Peace to the Future”

http://www.taitocity.net/taito/shitamachi/

displayed activities of the peace delegation,
recording and repairing cultural assets.

With thecooperation

Education

of

Tokyo

Holocaust

The Toshima Ward Local Museum: Tokyo

Resource Center, the “Hana’s suitcase€35was

The first exhibition of 2005, €34
The 60th Anniversary

We also held the “Exhibition of Peaceof the Air-Raids on Tokyo – Memories andexhibited.

Observations” was held from July 27th to

Posters.€35September 4th 2005. In the exhibition, the result of
The lectures were given by the representative fromthe investigation done with the Edo Tokyo

the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center,

Museum and the Sumida Local Cultural ReferencethFumiko Ishioka: “Hana’s suitcase”on July 30 ,Library were incorporated. In the section 1 “
The

and “
The War and Cultural Heritage –To Pass on

War and Toshima Ward”, the data on thethe memories”by Professor Masahito Ando fromprevalence of groups that control the freedom of

the Institute of Japanese Literature on August 13th.

one another and ideas on the air defense were

The meeting for reporting on the trip to Hiroshima

shown.

in 2005 was held on August 27th.

The movieof the air-raids”were displayed using almost all“
Chichito kuraseba” (Living with Father) was

devastated articles the museum owns. In theshown on August 13th and 27th.

section 3 “
The Records of the US Army”, theTel: 03-3359-5036

information on the US army on April 13th 1945

Fax:03-3359-5036

http://www.regasu-shinjuku.or.jp/46.html

In the section 2 “
The real circumstances

was analyzed.

The aimed places of the attack

were compared with the actual bombarded places
The Taito Ward Museum on Shitamachi

and the differences of these are indicated.

Custom: Tokyosection 4 “
The Record of Victims”, the ways

In thepeople traced and died are illustrated (“The map ofthdevastated areas by the air-raids on April 13th”). In

Anniversary of the End of the War: War andthe section 5 “
The Memories of Sufferers”
, the

The

specialexhibition

entitled“
The

2005 topictures on the experiences on April 13th are

January 29th 2006. This exhibition was held todisplayed. Also, the illustrated books werereconsider the period of war from the viewpoint ofpublished.

children at that time. The materials can be seen in

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

this exhibition: the air defense system and air-raids,

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

Children” was held from October 1

st60

education and amusement in wartime, evacuation
The Nerima Ward Local Library: Tokyo

of schoolchild, lives of people during the war, the20

give lectures, and lend panels. Schedules of the
The exhibition “
The Lives of People in thelectures, seminars, and the photo exhibitions are

Wartime”was held from July 30th to September

informed in the mail magazine, so please register ifth

19 2005. In this exhibition, the lives of people inyou’
d like.

wartime and the experiences of the war such as the

In August 2005, Karen Levin, the author of

departure to the front, lives of non-soldiers and“Hannna’s Suitcase”, visited Japan for the firstchildren were introduced. The brochures of thetime by the support of Canadian government. She

Training School for Pioneers, the guidance ofgave lectures at the pavilion of Canada in Aichi

entering Tokyo City Koua Industry Training Center

Expo, Sakai, Kobe, and Yokohama with Fukiko

and its application were also displayed. Booklets

Ishioka, the ambassador of The Tokyo Holocaust

on the exhibits were published.

Education Resource Center.

Tel: 03-3996-0563

Levine found the article about €34
Hanna’s Suitcase”

http://www.city.nerima.tokyo.jp/shiryo/bunkazai/sin the local paper of Toronto, and interviewed

hitsu/

Fukiko Ishioka during her stay in Canada with her

In 2001, Karenbother, George Brady, who also lived in Toronto.
The Kourai Museum: Tokyo

She then made the radio documentary €Hanna’34 sSuitcase”and received the gold prize of the US

The special exhibition “Think of the Koreaninternational radio festival. In 2002, she publishedmobilization to servitude in wartime –the memory

the juvenile book €Hanna’3 4 s Suitcase”. Now sheof the assailants and reconciliation”was held fromgives lectures in Canada, the US, Germany,

August 10th to October 16th 2005. Materials related

England, Italy and so on. Please check theto the servitude in Japan Steel Pipe, Lake Sagami,

homepage for more detailed information.

Tokiwa charcoal field were displayed. Related tohttp://www.ne.jp/asahi/holicaust/tokyo/topmember.

ththis topic, a lecture was given on August 10 and ahtm

symposium was held on October 10th.

holocaust@tokyo.email.ne.jp

Tel: 03-5272-3510 Fax: 03-5272-3510
http://www.40net.jp/ˉ
kourai/

The Hachioji City Museum: Tokyo

The Museum on Life in Showa Era: Tokyo

The special exhibition “
The lives of citizens inwartime” was held from 2nd August to 4th“
War exhibition on remains in Koizumi familyndSeptember, 2005. The keystone of this exhibitionst2005”was held from August 2 to 31 .

was to transmit the reflection of the war and also

Tel. &Fax: 03-5272-3510

the importance of peace from generation to

http://www.digitalium.co.jp/showa/index.html

generation. Materials about the way to the war,
generalmobilization orders,children’s livesTokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center:

including school lives during the war, lives of theTokyo

citizens, air-raids, Japan’s defeat, and the way tothereconstruction

wereshown.

They

also

The Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center

exhibited a train that had been air-raided at

was closed in 2003 and now we visit schools andYunohana tunnel. Booklet “Hachioji Air Raids”
21

was published.

the International Cooperation−from Angkor Watthth−”was held from 30 July to 28 August, 2005 at

Related to this, two lectures were given. “
The warthe exhibition room on the third floor.

and Hachioji”by Tutomu Saito, the teacher of thepanels showed the real circumstances of Angkor

Matsugatani Metropolitan High School, was given

Wat and the activities of the internationalthon 6 August at the meeting room of the City Hall.

The photoorganizations trying to conserve and rehabilitate it.

The other one “Experiencing food in wartime”washeld on 25th and 26th August.

Another exhibition “
Global Treasures, the World

Tel: 0426-22-8939

Heritage”, which introduced the present condition

http://homepage3.nifty.com,hachioji-city-museum/of the World Heritage by using photo panels andindex.html

videos, was held from 1st to 23rd October, 2005 at
the exhibition room on the third floor. Related tothis, “Mongolian Batoukin” was played on 9th

The Fussa Local Reference Library: Tokyo

October.

The lecture was given by Kazuo Joudo,

The special war exhibition for peace “Coloreda member of the Special Committeeman for World

woodcut on the Russo-Japanese War 100 years ago

Heritage of the UNESCO, on 15th October, and−the Russo-Japanese War and Hussa−”was held“
Cambodian court dance” was played on16th

from 2ndthOctober.

July to 25 September. The keystone ofthis exhibition was to look at the history of the war(Cited from “
The Global Citizen Report”No.22,

and reconsider the precious peace. The coloredpublished in July 2005 and No.23 published inwoodcut of the Russo-Japanese War was the main

October 2005)

exhibition, and other exhibition was about theTel: 045-896-2121 Fax: 045-896-2299

military mails, journals, monuments related tohttp://www.k-j-a.or.jp/plaza/

Hussa and the Russo-Japanese War. An illustrated
book was published.

The Yokohama Kaikou Museum: Kanagawa

Related to this, a memorial lecture “
The military“
Don Brown and the postwar Japan−From themails during the Russo-Japanese War − letterscollection of a journalist who knew Japan well−”from soldiers in the battlefield−”by Katsuhiro

took place from 3rd August to 30th October 2005.

Arai, a professor of the Sensyu University, wasHandouts of the US and Japanese military and thegiven on 10th September at the meeting room of

related information on Ayako Ishigaki were also

the central library.

exhibited. An illustrated book was published.

Tel: 0425-53-3111

Tel: 045-201-2100 Fax: 045-201-2102

http://www.city.fussa.tokyo.jp/town/m005/32iopi0

http://www.kaikou.city.yokohama.jp/

000004uv7.html
Hiratsuka City Museum: Kanagawa
Kanagawa

Plaza

for

GlobalCitizenship:“
The Air-aids on Hiratsuka Researched by

Kanagawa

the Citizens” was held as the 60-year
anniversary of the end of the war until July

The exhibition “Asian World Heritage Sites and22

31st, 2005 in a donation corner.

This

3rd 2005 to December 11th.

This was held

included the special exhibition held as theto think the proletarian art movement and50-year anniversary of the end of the war,

the war art as the art which has its own aim.

and also exhibited the results of the

An illustrated book was published.

fact-finding and materials collected by theTel: 0258-28-4111 Fax : 0258-28-4115“
the Association for Recording the Air-raids
and the War Damages in Hiratsuka”. This

Tsunan Town Museum for Study andexhibition consists of articles on Hiratsuka

Experience of Farm and Jomon: Niigata

during the war, the damages of the air-raids
on July 16th, the period from the air-raids to

The exhibition “
The War Seen from thethe end and after of the war, and also thisTsunango” was held from August 1st to

displayed the container of the chemical

September 25th, 2005.

weapons such as yperite.

exhibition is to tell people about the denial

Tel : 0463-33-5111 Fax:0463-31-3949

of the war because we must not repeat the

The meaning of thismiserable events such as war anymore.
The Nagaoka Museum on War Damages:

The aim was also to tell that in the older

Niigatageneration,

peoplefearedhowtheneighboring countries looked at themselves
The

SpecialAnniversary

Exhibition

of

the

U.S.

“
the

60th

and

Air-raidsonbecause Japan had some prejudice to othersupportedtheJapan’
s aggression

Nagaoka”was held from July 23rd to AugustAsian nations.

21st, 2005.

This exhibition displayed thetelling the damages of the Japanese people

undisclosed information which the museum

could not be accepted by other countries.

had,

The exhibition consisted of the lives in“motherandchildstatue” andIt was pointed out that justreproduced pictures by Chihiro Iwasaki, theTsunanduringthewar, children

andpictures which were drawn by the victims ofeducation, departure to the front, requiem,

the big air-raids on Tokyo, and the posters

the war remains, and the ending and its

and essays of the children who lived during

meaning of the war. Especially, the fact theand after the war.

women who didn’t go to the war supported

Tel: 0258-36-3269

the aggressive war by raising children who
worshipped the emperor, and the fact that
the Japanese “
emigrants” to China were

Niigata Modern Art Museum: Niigata

actually aggressors were pointed out.

It

The German engraver “Käthe Kollwitz

was also mentioned that the Japanese

Exhibition”was held from September 3rd toshouldOctober 23rd, 2005.

Chinese people who had suffered from

also

mourn

Japan’
s aggression.
The special exhibition: 60 years after thewas published.

end of the war “
the art in Showa until 1945 -Tel : 0257-65-5511

history of the art”was held from November
23

over

Koreans

andAn illustrated bookTakaoka Civic Museum: Toyama

next generation who didn’t know how the
war could be cruel. And it was held fromThe exhibition €Children
3 4
in Taisho andthe viewpoint of pupils and students.

Showa Period”was held from July 15th tomain

September4th,

displayedchildren’s

2005.

This exhibition
paintings,

exhibits

were

incendiaryThebombs,

damaged stuff, magazines, a ration ticket,

schooland an application for the Navy to become asupplies, textbooks, toys, magazines, records

pilot.

which were used during the war.

blackened Textbooks after the war andTel: 0766-20-1572.

restored the rooms under the situation of

Fax : 0766-20-1570

This exhibition also displayed theblackout.

Tel: 055-252-2762

Funamijo Museum of Remains of Castle:
ToyamaKiyosato Photo Art Museum: Yamanashi

The exhibition “That time, that Persons

The 10th anniversary exhibition The WWⅡ

which are now Revived” was held until- Japan’s Defeat - : The Photos of Capa,

September 26th, 2005.

Smith, Swop, and Jun Miki was held from
July 2nd to October 23rd, 2005.

Yukinoshita Peace Culture Museum: Fukui
The 10th anniversary talk & concert was
As the special issue to learn and tell theheld on October 16th, and the director of thehistory as it is, €The
3 4 Report of the Meeting

Center of the Tokyo Air Raid and Damages,

to Learn the Constitution held on May 30th

Mr. Katsumoto Saotome, gave a lecture and2005”and €34
Report on the U.S. Air-Raids on

Mr. Shinichi Kinoshita played the Tsugaru

Fukui

Shamisen.

Re-created

by

the

Historical

Tel : 0551-48-5599

Materials”were published.
Suwa Civic Museum : Nagano
Please contact the following person if you“
Peace Education Exhibition - 60years ago

are interested in it.
Mr.

Tadao

Kato:

Yukinoshita

when the war ended-”was held until August

CultureAssociation

31st, 2005.

Tel & fax: 0776-52-2169

Tel : 0266-52-7080 Fax : 0266-52-6990

info@yukinoshita.net
Tomioka-Mura History & Folk Museum:

http://www.yukinoshita.net/

NaganoKofu Civic Fujimura Memorial Museum:The exhibition €The
3 4 Record of the War in

Yamanashi

Tomioka –the 60th anniversary of the war”
The exhibition “that time –60years after thewas held until August 30th, 2005.

end of the war-”was held from July 1st to

Tel : 0265-35-9066

November 27th, 2005.

It was held to tell the24Kakumuhara

City

Historyand

Folk

Chinese and Koreans were forced to work

Museum: Gifu

there was also dealt with.

We distributed

the extracts of “
the records of war€35: the
The exhibition €The
3 4 Hope for Peace: theair-raids, the suffering of the Chinese and60th

Koreans who were relocated to Japan andanniversary

of

the

air-raidson

Kakumura - the war and people’s lives-”wasforced to work.

held from August 5th to 14th, 2005.

Tel : 0583-89-5752 Fax : 0583-71-1145

It wasthe large scale exhibition held at theexhibition hall and lobby in the library andthe History and Folk Museum.

Shizuoka Peace Center: Shizuoka

In theexhibition, the following was dealt with:Memorial project for 60 years after the war,

arsenal

which

the

“
Exhibition of the Paintings and Pictures of

air-raids,

thepeople,Experiencing the U.S. Air-Raids on Shimizu,

people who prepare for the air-raids, theShizuoka”was cosponsored by the Association for

education for the loyalty to the emperor andEstablishing the Shizuoka Peace Museum, thepatriotism, moving from farm village to theBoard of Education in Shizuoka city and Shizuoka

arsenal in the town, the mobilization ofcity authority. It was held at Shizuoka City Hall’s

Junior high school students/ girl students/

Civic Gallery from August 13th to 21st in 2005.

the students of the business school, levy andExhibited were one hundred paintings and pictures

army, people’s lives during the war, people’scollected last year, and also the materials on theamusementelementary school during the war.

wasdestructeddamages

and

the

of

the

control

by

of

the

information, the play during the war, thebase of occupation forces, the beginning of

The tour of the war remains “
Let’s Walk aroundthe democratic education, the exploitation

the Remains of the Air-Raids”was held on August

after the war and so on.

20th 2005 and also the same project on October

The main exhibits

were about armament, air defense, toys,

23rd 2005.

commodity, a picture-story-show, militarymail, magazines, the essay on the war“
The Session of Listening to the Experiences ofexperiences.

the War”was held on August 28th, 2005 at Aisel 21.
Mr. Sen Kanehara talked about “Being in a

The characteristic exhibits were students’Commando”and Mr. Ishhara talked about “
Wherepictures, calligraphy, replacement, poster, ato go with having Keloid”.

picture-paper-story, dolls which have blueeyes, the model of the balloon bomb, theThe exhibition of “
The U.S. Air-Raids on Shizuoka

textbooks, air-raided stuff, bombs and so on.

Taking Away 2000 People’s Lives”was held from

The pictures and postcards on the atomic

October 14th 2005 to March 5th 2006. There werebomb and Okinawa war were also displayed.

displays of the vivid aerial photos taken after the

We also dealt with the problem that the

air raids by the American military.

air-raids gave people nothing but the hugedamages using a quiz.

The fact that the“
Record of the Air-Raids on Shizuoka/Shimizu
25

~Requiem for more than 2350 people~” andAnjyou City History Museum: Aichi“
Paintings by the Citizens: Great Air-Raids on
Shizuoka/Shimizu and the Bombardment of Land“
Kenkyukikou”(Journal) No.12 was published inby Warships”were published.

stMarch 31 2005, which includes the report of a

Tel:054-247-9641

curator, Mr. Hiroyuki Saito, “To Live in War ~ Try

Fax:054-247-9641

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

to understand War Experience in terms of
Folklore”.

Numazu City Meiji History Museum: Shizuoka“
Touring War Remains”was held on October 8th.
The 60-year anniversary of the end of the war

Anjyou city archaeological research writer, Mr.

“
1931-1945 Numazu and the War”exhibition was

Tomokazu Shintani led the participants to theheld from July 1st

to September 29thNaval Isami Transmitting Center and the Navyin 2005.

This was held to think about the war in the pastMeiji Aeronautic Base Remains.

and the peace at present.

Tel:0566-77-6655

It is held using a part of

Fax:0566-77-6600

http://www.katch.ne.jp/~anjomuse/the permanent exhibition. The display was kept in
the museum, and there were new materials as well.

Okazaki City Local History Museum: Aichi

Each part of the displays is shown using Sasaki
Kozakura’s picture diary. There are materials on
the war dead, the severe life of the citizens, and the

Exhibition entitled “
60 Years after the War ~U.S. air raids on Numazu.

Also the displays ofThings on War, the Memory to Pass Down ~”wasthe sound study of the Naval Technology Institute,held from July 16th to September 4th in 2005.

Numazu Naval factory, Takunan Training Center

Since the building of this museum was used for theare interesting. Illustrated books were published.

examination of the young for the conscription,

At the same time, “Photo Exhibition on Life:

there were some exhibitions related to war so far.

Collecting the Ashes of the War Dead”was held.

This year’s exhibition was the comprehensive one
using what had been exhibited before. This was

A lecture on history entitled “
Numazu and War ~held to help find out the war records and memories,

Looking at the War from the Community ~”wasand the displayed materials were mainly offeredgiven by Mr. Shuji Arakawa, Professor of

from

rd

the

public.

Themainmaterials

areShizuoka University on September 3 at the course

incendiary bombs, an American army leaflet, air“
Think about Peace ~raid photo/map, reconstruction plans for war

Historic War Site Tour for Junior High Schooldamages, military goods/relic, senbonbari (1000Students ~”was held on July 27th, August 4th, 5th,

stitches for soldiers’good luck), words of goodroom on the 2nd floor.

thand 12 . Children’s history class €34
Let’s Experience

wishes on the national flag, draft card, militaryLife in the Wartime”was held on July 28th.

notebook, ashes, navy application, repatriate

Tel:055-923-3335

certificate, military education, nissandan (groups

Fax:055-925-3018

for praying the victory at Shinto Shrine),

http://www.city.numazu.shizuoka.jp/sisetu/meiji/

Manchuria

map,picturepostcardoftheManchurian Incident, postcards to soldiers, recordof the workers, groups for working at industry, air
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defense coif, respirator, air defense companion,

factory. Diagrams and materials on Toyokawa

government bonds poster, replacement, ticket fornaval factory were published.

clothing,

breadbakingmachine,blackened

textbook, and so on.

Related to this, a meeting to listen to the war

Tel: 0564-23-1039

experiences was held on August 21 . A lecture by

http://www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp/museum/ka351.htm

the curator on “Naval Factories in various places

st

and

the

construction

anddevelopmentofToyokawa Naval Factory”was given on July 31st.

Enan City History & Folk Museum: Aichi

A lecture “
6 Years of Toyokawa Naval Factory andExhibition entitled “
60 years after the Air-raids onafterwards” was given on August 27th.

Enan”was held till August 21st 2005. This was acurator’s lecture for children “
About Toyokawa

small exhibition using one corner of the permanent

Naval Factory”was given on July 30th.

exhibition.

Tel:0533-85-3775

It displayed the disaster by theth

A brochure including

materials,

explanation/diagram was

air-raids on July 13 1945.
displayedA

Fax:0533-85-3776

http://www.city.toyokawa.lg.jp/tanto/bunka/museu
m.htmlmade.
Chiryu City History & Folk Museum: Aichi

Tel: 0587-55-2321
http://www.city.konan.aichi.jp

Chiryu City History & Folk Museum exhibition“
Exhibition of 60 Years Anniversary after the War”

Sakuragaoka Museum: Aichi

was held from August 6th to September 3rd. It was
The exhibition for 60-year anniversary after theheld to realize how Japan has changed before andwar “
Toyokawa Naval Factory:

Huge Weapon

after the war by reconstructing a peace country.

Factory ~ Record of 60 Years after the War~”wasThere was an exhibition as the 50-year anniversary

held from July 23rd to September 4th in 2005. This

after the war, though the display at that time was

exhibition is held every year, though this year, thethe materials borrowed from other museums. This

whole permanent exhibitions were removed andyear, as they called for the materials related to thereplaced by the above exhibition. The intent of thiswar, there were valuable materials and the record

exhibition was to record the war again and pass itof war experiences offered by citizens were

down to the future generation, since we havedisplayed. The main materials are military goods,

forgotten the hard times in the war, for our country

army post, mobilization of the people for the war,has been peaceful after the war. The exhibition

encouragement of saving, women’s association,

including the above materials were collected andmaterials

kept in the museum and a memorandum was

coupon/passbook,published. The materials were mainly from what

aeronautic metal, and textbooks issues.

they had in the museum, though some materials

published diagram includes records of war

about Toyokawa naval factory were borrowed fromexperiences, Chiryu town official documents,

Kyoto Museum for World Peace at Ritsumeikanmaterials on education, and translation of foreign

University, and also some materials were borrowed

textbooks.

from some museum to reveal the whole naval
27

on

the

air

defensematerialsofexercises,
Nakajima
The

Related to this, Professor .G. Sheftal of Shizuoka

magazines, substitutes.

University gave a lecture on “
What lessons havewartime, Sugoroku, Kamishibai (a story told with

we learned from Tokkou (special attack corps) ~pictures), newspapers, textbooks were on display.

seen from Japanese history researcher that has blue

Tel:0599-55-2881

eyes ~”on August 6th.

http://www.city.shima.mie.jp

As for children in the

Fax:0599-55-2935

Tel:0566-83-1133
http://www.city.chiryu.aichi.jp

Norinaga Motoori Memorial: Mie

Nagoya City Museum: Aichi

The exhibition “
we cannot see Japan- 60 years
after the death of Kohzoh Takeuchi –”was held“
Research Association of Museum Related to War”

from 31st July to 21st August 2005.

made by Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya city hosted

his boyhood, poems on the joys of youth, diaries“
Exhibition for Peace”which was held from July

written when he was a soldier were on display.

27

th

to 31

st

Tel: 0598-21-0312

in 2005 at Nagoya Museum. The

Albums on

Fax:0598-21-0371

http://www.norinagakinenkan.com/

display was about the front, citizen’s life and the
U.S. air-raids.

Yokkaichi Municipal Museum: Mie

Tel: 052-853-2655
http://www.ncm-jp.com/

The exhibition “
The Air-raids on Yokkaichi andthe Lives in Wartime”was held from 18th June to

Shima Municipal Isobe Museum: Mie

30th

September,

2005.

Incendiarybombs,The exhibition €34
The Memory of the War”was held

substitutions, and military goods were on display.

from 24th June to 11th September 2005. Every year

Tel:0593-55-2700

things left by the decease have gone on display

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

Fax:0593-55-2704

little by little, and such a large exhibition was held
Nagahama Castle Museum: Shigafor the second time following in 1995. The purposeof this exhibition was that war deprives persons oflife, liberty, human right, and mind and they hoped

The exhibition €The
3 4 Change of Life in Shouwathat people would reconsider the value of peace

Period - that day, that time, and that period -”wasand to become a story teller for children so that theheld from 11th June to 22nd July, 2005.

war would never be repeated.

Tel:0749-63-4611

Fax:0749-63-4613

http://www.city.nagahama.shiga.jp/section/rekihaku/

As the articles left by soldiers, exhibited were
Doutaku Museum: Yasu City, Shiga

military goods, Senninbari, banners, letters fromthe battlefield, family pictures, wooden propeller
for the training plane of the Navy, and decorations

The exhibition concerning human rights and peaceof the special attack corps members.

As for the“Let’s send a Parcel for Peace to Afghanistan”was

lives in wartime, an air-defense hood, baggy work

held from 9th July to 4th September 2005 at thepants (Monpe), uniforms, Nenneko (a short coat

Entrance Hall. It introduces the Peace Pack Projectworn to protect the baby on the back), sashes,of the Girl Scouts League of Japan and a leaflet
28

was made.

sisterhood,”maiden associations, national defense

Tel: 077-587-4410

women’
s institute, and woman patriot society weredisplayed.

Rittou History and Folklore Museum: ShigaIn “
the national mobilization system

and neighborhood organization,”displayed werethe exhibits on a neighborhood community

The exhibition €The
3 4 Foundations of Peace 2005”

association such as notebook of an ordinary

was held from 24th July to 21st August 2005. Thissession, posters, and circulars, and materials on

exhibition has been held since 1991 every year

veteran’s associations, and a research material on a

(once a year) to look back the history of war andgroup consisted of five people. Finally, in thethe lives in wartime and consider peace from local

section on “
the silent return of soldiers,”displayed

viewpoints. The Modern Japan repeated the war of

were the announcement of death, the final letters,

aggression for the hegemony of Asia.

and the bloodstained Sennninbari (amulet).

This year a spotlight was put on the home front

Materials on conscription systems, organizationsgroups. The government has reorganized the local

of young people, organizations of neighborhood,autonomous organizations and transformed themand the veteran’s associations from the Satouchi

into the home front groups which affirmed andLibrary were fully displayed. The leaflet on a list

supported the war.

of the exhibits was published.

group,

young

As an example, veteransmen’s associations,maidenthe“
The excursion to war remains - the Toyokawa

Russo-Japan war, or, neighborhood associations inNavy military factory and women volunteer coups

wartime of the Asia-Pacific war. These have madethfrom Rittou –”was done on 4 August.

associations,

women’
s associations

after

people have the consciousness of supporting war.
“
The bulletin 11th” dated March, 2005 was
In the first section “
the modern conscription

published and included is the essay entitled “thesystem and the people,”the conscription system

lives of group evacuation of Ashihara public

and soldiers sent to the front were on display. The

school - a case study of the group evacuation in

guidance for the escape from the conscription andShiga prefecture”written by

the pray for the escape from a call in letters werethe curator.

also on display.

Tel: 077-554-2733

Toshiko Oonishi,

Fax: 077-554-2755

http://www2.city.ritto.shiga.jp/hakubutsukan/
In the 2ndsection “
the people’s lives in wartime,”
Asai-cho History and Folklore Museum: Shiga

the farmers who were forced to work to increase
the production, the enforcement of war loan,

The exhibition “
the 60th anniversary of the war’srationing systems, and substitutes are on display.

end - pass down the memory of the war-”was held
In the 3rd section “
the home front groups and local

from 23rd July to 4th September 2005. On the 1st

community,” Gyokubaisya, the young men’sfloor of the Study Center, materials that wereassociations for mental training was explained.

collected this year, and a narrative which was

In the section on “
the voluntary activities andcollected and recorded were on display. In the29section of “
women and the war,”

displayed

were a will and hair of the killed nurses, andA film, “The constitution of Japan”was put on thepapers for a call of the nurse and materials onscreen on 20 July at Ritsumeikan University.

women who were left at home.

There was also the talk between the director,

In the section on“
the preparedness for air-raids,”the records of air

Professor Ikuro Anzai, and the producer.

–raid drill in Imasou-ku and the relevant materials
on the air-raids were exhibited.

Kyoto Municipal Art Museum: Kyoto

In the section on“
the history of family,”soldiers’will, the relevantmaterials on the soldiers who were sent to China,

The special exhibition “
Between Syura (Asura)

student mobilization, and the lives in postwar era

and Bosatsu (Boudhisattva) - other human image”

were on display.

thth
was held from 25 October, 2005 to 15 January,

2006. The works of Eitaro Ishigaki “lynching,”3.1
On the 2nd floor, the articles on the evacuation of

independence movement, Korean war, the workschool children, the lives in wartime, the soldiers

describing self-burning in the Vietnam war, and ain the front and the A-bomb were on display.

war picture of Kanseki Hashimoto were on display.

0749-74-0101

Tel:075-771-4107

http://nsl.town.azai.shiga.jp

http://www.city.kyoto.jp/bunshi/kmma/

Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan

Historical Museum: Uji City, Kyoto

Fax:075-761-0444

University: Kyoto“
Postwar 60 years: An exhibition on Life
The special exhibition “
the original pictures ofduring the War”was held from July 23 tocomics - the memory of a boy repatriated from

September 11, 2005. The host of thisJune,exhibition was the Conference for Peaceful2005 on the 1st floor of Nakano Memorial Hall.

City in Uji City and this exhibition was held

This exhibition was held using the original pictures

in Historical Museum in Uji City.

of comic artist who belonged to “
the Association

purpose of this, the host wanted visitors toof Comic Artists who repatriated from China”

feel that all of us should not repeat such silly

possessed by Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Hall.

sin as the war through the exhibitions using

The memorial lecture was given at the conference

goods related to war and life during the war.

room in Soushikan on 29 May: Tetsuya Chiba,

Exhibited were materials displayed at “The

Takatuji Morita, and Jun Isiko who all belonged to

exhibition of articles left by the war”which

the association.

was held in postwar 50 and 55 years, andChina-“was held from 27th

May to 23

rd

As a

new materials which were provided bycitizens lately.

The special exhibition “
the World Press Exhibition

It had two rooms: in onethroom, articles left by the war and materials

October 2005 on the 1st floor of Nakano Memorial

related to life during the war were exhibited.

rd

October at theIn the other room, publications during theConvention Hall at Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific

war or after the war and original picture of

University in Beppu, Ouita.

“
the Scenery of Hometown; Sirakawa”werestof Photographs 2005”was held from 1 to 30

Hall, and also from 3

to 18

th

30

exhibited. We published pamphlets about

several things; textbooks used during thethe outline of this exhibition and its

war, instruments for playing, pamphlets oncontents.

traveling in Korea and so on.

Tel: 0774-39-9260

Tel: 075-952-6288

http://www.city.uji.kyoto.jp

http://www.kiis.or.jp/rekishi/kyoto/yamazaki
2.htmlCultural Museum: Muko City, Kyoto

Sonobe Cultural Museum: Kyoto

A lounge exhibition in summer “
Postwar 60

A special exhibition “
Looking Back Postwar

years; the War in Life” was held from60 years with newspapers and extra ones”

August 13 to September 11, 2005.

was held from July 23 to August 21, 2005.

We

think about war and peace through theTel: 0771-63-2982 Fax: 072-270-8159

materials from a familiar region and the

http://www.smc.town.sonobe.kyoto.jp

exhibition is held every year. Moreover it
was well compiled this year, and we

Osaka International Peace Center (Peace

exhibited specific materials together. We

Osaka): Osaka

exhibited

lots

of

thingslike

military

uniforms, materials connected with air

The exhibition of the 60-year anniversary ofdefense,schoolthe end of the war was held on the first floor

albums, magazines and illustrated ones

from July 12 to September 11, 2005.

sugoroku

Displayed were the facts of the war like thesubstitutes,

textbooks,

directedatpreschoolers,(Japanesebackgammon),toair-raids on Osaka, people’s lives during thesoldiers, label of match, military mails andwar and people’s relations to the war

official documents related to village likethrough things connected with the war forwork services, distributions of necessities,

mourning the victims and hoping for peace.

postcards

neighborhood associations, training for air
defense, and delivery of rice etc.

Special exhibition, “Living on the EarthTel: 075-931-1182 Fax: 075-931-1121

2005 –DAS JAPAN- Photo Exhibition on

http://www.city.muko.kyoto.jp/shisetsu/shiry

Photo Journalism”was held on the first floor

okan.html

from September 20 to November 5, 2005.

Historical Museum: Oyamazaki Village,“
The place where we mourn for the dead by

Kyoto

the U.S. air-raids on Osaka and hope forpeace”was made in a courtyard on the first

A

small

exhibition

“
the

7th

floor on August 14, 2005.

Peace

A list of members

Foundation”was held from August 9 to 21,of the dead whose names were made clear

2005.

was kept in the place and these names wereAs an opportunity for talking about

inscribed on the inner slab made of copper.

peace, we exhibited materials connectedwith the war, which were gathered by

On “August 15: the day of the end of the war

several townspeople. This year we exhibited31

- Peace Prayer Project”, a lecture, “No to thewar – August 15 for a little girl who

For children in the 21st century, a peace

worshipped the Emperor” was given bymeeting “Soap bubble shown by Sugiyama

Hidekobrothers”was held at a hall of the first floor

Niya,

who

December 4, 2004.

isanactress,on

A seminar for thinking

on July 24, 2005.

about peace in the 21st century was held.
Professor Ryuhei Hatsuse of Kyoto Women’s

The movie “Living with Father”was put on

University gave a lecture “
the New War andthe screen at a hall of the first floor on

the Old War”on June 25, 2005 in the 16th

August 14, 2005.

seminar. Moreover, Kayoko Ikeda, who is a(“
Peace Osaka Newsletter No,34”publishedtranslator of German literature, gave aon September 30, 2005)

lecture “
If the world were a village which

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has only 100 citizens…”on September 17,

http://mic.e-osaka.ne.jp/peace/2005 in the 17th seminar.

Each lecture wasgiven at a lecture hall on the first floor.

Peace Prayer Museum: Suita City, Osaka

The field work of visiting war remains

The exhibition “
the War in the Postcards”“
Walking tour of war remains by the US

was held from November 1 to 13, 2005.

air-raids on Taisho region”was done on June

More than 200 letters were exhibited out of

5, 2005 and “Visiting scars of the war left in

1500, whose theme was “
War memories in

Osaka Castle Park”was done on August 13,

postcards”and it had been organized by the2005 by Hitoshi Koyama, who is an

Japan Postcards Association. It was held

honorary professor at Kansai University.

with a purpose that we wanted the younger
generations to look at letters with pictures

As a lecture series of Peace Studies forwhich was written and drawn passionately

teachers, Professor Hitoshi Koyama gave aby people who experienced the war andlecture, “Conveying the US air-raids on

wanted to tell the preciousness of peace.

Osaka to the next generation”.

Professor

Toshifumi Murakami of Kyoto Education“
A Peace Movie Meeting”was held every

University had a workshop for peace studies

month, and “Devil Tank T-34”, which wason August 3, 2005. Moreover, Mrs. Takako

the movie of the Soviet Union in 1965, was

Iga, who is the head of the Association forput on the screen on May 14, 15, 28, and 29,

the Victims and Bereaved Family in Osaka

2005.

gave a lecture “
Talking about the air-raids

Childhood”, which was a Japanese movie inon Osaka”and Ms Kyoko Okumoto, who is

1981, was put on the screen on June 11, 12,

an assistant professor at Osaka Women’s

25 and 26.

University held a workshop for peace

Anymore”which was an American movie instudies on August 4.

1932, was put on the screen on July 16, 17,

Shungo Moriyama

“
There

was

the

War

in

Our

“
We don’t Need Weapons

held a piano concert at a hall of the first23, and 24.

floor on October 15, 2005.

Japanese animation produced in 1983, was
32

“
Anne’
s Diary”, which was aput on the screen on August 20, 21, 27 andwe could see original displays like the28. “Morocco”, which was an American

training of soldiers. Many materials related

movie in 1930, was put on the screen on

to life used during the war were displayed:

September 10, 11 and 25 and “
There is No

substitute, polishing rice, bonds, tickets forTrouble in the Western Front”, which was an

distribution

American movie in 1930, was put on themagazines and textbooks, things related toscreen on October 8, 9, 22 and 23.

preparation for air-raids such as materials

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on

http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/kobo/jinken/pmaterials related to “
air-raids”such as fuelage/000338.shtml

tanks of American armies, military uniforms,ofblackoutnecessities,

andrecords,

extinguishingfire,

military scripts and military mail services.
Osaka Historical Museum: Osaka

Tel: 072-723-2235 Fax: 072-724-9694
http://www2.city.minoh.osaka.jp/KYOUDO/

Wakuwaku Children Class “Look and Listen

home.html

to the Experiences of the War with Parents”
was held at a hall of the fourth floor on
August 14, 2005.

Doushu-cho Museum of Medicine: Osaka

It was held to tell the

younger generations about the misery of the

The exhibition, “Recovery of Japanese Medicine

air-raids and the war and the importance ofIndustry: 60 Years after the War”was held frompeace. The movie “Don’t forget the tragedy ofApril to September, 2005.

the war - the sea of flames in Osaka-”“
Sorry,

Oachan”were put on the screen and Mrs.

As for the medical history, the emergence of

Miyako Kubo, who is the representative ofantibiotics,

the Association of Speaking about the

medicines were introduced in the exhibition. The

Air-Raids on Osaka, talked about her war

introduction of the social insurance system andexperiences.

foreign technology of producing medicine, andTel: 06-6946-5728 Fax: 06-6946-2662

supplements boom, were also displayed in the

http://www.mus-his.city.osaka.jp/

exhibition.

Local Museum: Minoh City, Osaka

Tel: 06-6231-6958

anti-tuberculosis,

and

the

latesthttp://www.kusuri-doshomachi.gr.jp/
As the 60- year anniversary of the end of thewar, “the Exhibition of Materials related to

Himeji Peace Museum: Hyogo

Life during the War”was held from July 27
to August 28, 2005.

It was held to think

From July 17th to August 31st, Himeji Peaceabout the preciousness of peace and humanMuseum held an anti-nuclear peace exhibition.

rights, and to learn about life during the war

Some nuclear bomb records and art works ofthat enforced people to put up with hard life.

students were displayed in the exhibition.

The exhibition is held every year and it ismuseum held a peace concert by the chorus on

prepared by trainees of curator.

August 7th.

This year
33

The

Koumi Shyutou, an atomic bomb

survivor, was invited to share her memory,

Ono Municipal Kouko Museum: Hyougo

An Exhibition, “Youths in War Time - messages to

The Special Exhibition “Memory of POW in

the Parents”was held on the second floor of the

Aonohara’’ was held from October 1

museum from October 8th to December 23rd.

NovemberMr.

27th, 2005.

stto

On November 5th,

Kuroda Kenta was invited to share his war time

Professor Hajime Kishimoto of Kobe University,

memory on November 3rd.

Mr. Tatsuo Fujiwara, the principal of Yumeno

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

Junior High School, and Mr. Hiroyuki Fukushima,

http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/heiwasiryo/

the president of Kyoto Reference Library wereinvited to give a lecture at Ono high school. “
OurItami Municipal Museum: Hyogo

Home Town Concert’’- P.O.W. concert in war
period was held at Ono City on October 10th.
Tel:0794-63-3390 Fax:0794-63-3462

An Exhibition, “War and People in Itami”was heldthfrom July 9 to August 30 .

http://www.city.ono.hyogo.jp/~kokokan/

This exhibition particularly aimed at making

Wakayama Municipal Museum: Wakayama

thyoung generation understand the war and theMost of the exhibits belong

The special exhibition, “Memories on a Stoneto this museum, but some materials were brought–Hiroshima Nagasaki-’’
was held from July 2nd tofrom the Hyogo Historical Museum, and the Osaka

August 7th.

International Peace Center. There were also someTokyo University Museum.

importance of peace.

personal materials.

60th

It was the travelling exhibition of“
Exhibition on theanniversary of the air-raids on Wakayama’’

was also held from July 2nd to August 28th.
There were military mails, ration tickets, bonds,
findings from dugout, war time replacement ofComparing to the 50th anniversary exhibition incommodities, wartime mobilization records, and1995, the exhibition was mainly focused on life

children’s drawings, writings, and textbooks fromand air-raids. There were some new materials as

the war period. A part of a house in the wartime

well. The museum also provided worksheets on thewas displayed in the museum.

topic.

“
Wartime Experiences of Ordinary People’’was

The museum also provided two special lectures onthpublished on July 9 .
also.

related topics. The First one was given on July 9th:

This issue was exhibited

An illustrated book was also published.

Mr. Yoshinobu Takeuti, a curator, gave a lecture on
the topic of “Wartime history and air-raids on

Tel:072-783-0582、Fax:072-784-8109

Wakayama.’’
The second lecture was given by

http://www.city.itami.hyogo.jp/sub/03_asobu/

Professor Atsuhira Tagai of Tokyo University

5_hakubutsukan.html

Museum on the topic of “A memory of a stone–atomic bombed stone sample kept at Tokyo
University-’’
on August 6th.
Tel: 073-423-0003
34http://www.wakayama-city-museum.com/

60-year History of Hiroshima’’, movies, literature,
photographs on changes in town view after the war,

Tottori Museum: Tottori

relics and ashes of victims of the atomic bomb andmonument are displayed.

Tottori Museum held the exhibition “Life in War

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

Period –Asia-Pacific War and Tottori Citizens -’’in

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

the area called Windows to the History on the first

hpcf@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

thfloor of the Museum from August 6 to November
3rd. In the period of Sino-Japanese war to the

National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb

Pacific War Japan had caused vast damages to theVictims: Hiroshima

Asia-Pacific region. There were also domestic
tragedies in the period.

Japanese people had been

Associated with National Peace Memorial Hall forforced to support the war without being informed

Atomic Bomb Victims in Nagasaki, the exhibitionof the real situation of the war, and many lives had“
True Stories on nuclear attack experiences ofbeen lost by the air-raids and other reasons. This

Hibakusya’’from July 8th to November 30 . An

exhibition aimed at understanding true stories ofillustrated book was published.

wartime to create peaceful world. A painting

Tel:082-543-6271 Fax:082-543-6273

named “
Women’s Patriotic Songs”, a soldier’s

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

thletter from the battlefield to his brother, ration
tickets, and a flier on air-raid warning wereHiroshima City History and Crafts Museum:displayed.

Hiroshima

Tel: 0857-26-8042 Fax:0857-26-8041
http://www.pref.tottori.jp/museum/homepag

As the 60-year anniversary of the atomic bombing

e.htm

and the end of the war an exhibition was held from
April 23 to September 11, 2005.

Hiroshima

Peace

Memorial

The title of thisevent was “
civil life in wartime and postwar era ~Museum:Hiroshima

the period of our suffering which is known for the
first time by war memory ~”.

The 50th Anniversary of Opening the Museum
Exhibition “Overcoming the Ruined City -History

By picture and documents on life of those days, theof the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum andaim of this event was to look back over the history

Hiroshima-’’was held in the basement of theof civil life in wartime and postwar era when

museum from July 11th to December 18th. The

people were forced into a tough life and to shareexhibition can be divided in two parts. In the first

the understanding that the present peace is based

section on “
the 50th Anniversary of the Peaceon the reflection on the tragic history.

Museum’’, the history of the museum was focusedemphasis was put on their living, culture andon. The history of the Museum, photographs, blue

child’
s play in wartime.

prints, posters, books, booklets, tickets, voice

factory for producing military uniforms was

guiding services, and notebooks for dialogue

characteristic.

were displayed. In the 2nd

one entitled “Theexhibited.
35

The

The material on the

A blue-eyed doll was also

atomic bomb explosion drawn by Hatsusaburou
In association with this, a lecture was given by Mr.

Yoshida, the picture of the Museum for the

Ishimoto Masanori, the curator, was held on July

Encouragement

17: it was about the history of the armed city

bombing and the air photos of Hiroshima before

Hiroshima and the section in charge of food at theand after bombing taken by U.S. military.

of Industry before or after

Ujina army.
An illustrated book was published.
There was a tour of historic sites: to Hijiyama on

Tel 082-243-2583

Fax:082-542-8831

August 21 and Ujina on August 28.

http://www.coty.hiroshima.jp/kikaku/koubun/index.html

Some movies were shown: animation called“
Nacchan’s Red Glove’’, “
The first train in

Human Rights & Peace Museum: Fukuyama,

Hiroshima’’and “
Tsushima-maru ~ goodbye to

Hiroshima

Okinawa ~” on June 4 and 6, “Pigeon andHiroshima’s sky’’,“
Goodbye to a hippopotamus’’,

As the 60-year anniversary of the end of the war,and “
Kankarasansin’’on June 25 and 26, €34
Looking

theback over the history of Showa era by video

schoolchildren written in their diary’’
was held

picture’’on August 13 and 14.

from June 21 to July 31, 2005.

Two classes were held: ‘‘Play in prewar andChildren’s dairies and pictures of the groupwartime ~ let’s make a ship ~’’on July 16 andevacuation from Osaka were exhibited and the‘’Experiencing of washing clothes by hand’’on

exhibits were produced by an NPO.

exhibition

entitled“
EvacuationofAugust 7.
Tel: 082-253-2583

The exhibition entitled “
The US Air-Raids on

Fax:082-253-6772

http://wed.hiroins-net.ne.jp/kyodo/top/topfrm.html

Fukuyama’’
was held from August 4 to September
30, 2005.

Hiroshima Document Library: Hiroshima

The aim of this event was to review the

air-raids based on the documents of the U.S.
military and civil testimony.

The exhibition on Portrayed Hiroshima was heldfrom June 30 to September 30.

“
Student mobilization in wartime’’was exhibited

Pictures, maps,

paintings and official documents of Hiroshimafrom October 12 to December 18, 2005.

before and after bombing were displayed.

of this event was to reconsider the Pacific War by

The aimwhich women and children were forced to support
The aim was to convey the reality of bombing, thethe war through the aspect of children.

experiences of the atomic bombing and the
As a book for the 10th anniversary of opening the

preciousness of peace through this event.

museum, €34
Seeking Human Rights and Peace –the
This

event

displayedthedevelopmentof

war remains showing the preciousness of life’’wasHiroshima as the armed city, and the air defense.

published.

Exhibited were the picture on the moment of the36This book includes the records of events,

Emeritus Professor Mitsuo Okamoto of Hiroshima“
Unknown fact –the Fukuyama naval fleet’’,“War

Shudo University gave a lecture, “Big peace andRemains in Fukuyama’’and so on.

small peace.’’

Tel 084-924-6789

Ms Emiko Okada talked about her experiences of

Fax:084-924-6850

http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/jinnkennhe

the atomic bombing on August 23 and 24, 2005 at

iwasiryoukan/

the lecture hall in the center.

Fukuyama Literature Museum; Hiroshima

In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of
opening the peace center, a photo book on

The event “
The 60th anniversary of the atomic

air-raids on Takamatsu was published on July 4,

th

2005.

bombing: the influence of August 6 and Masuji
Ibuse and Yuji Koyama’’
was held from June 1 toNewsletter No. 19 published on July 2005 andAugust 31, 2005.

No.20 published on September 2005.
Tel: 084-932-7020

Tel: 087-833-722

Fax:084-924-6850

Fax:087-861-7724

http://www.city.takamatu.kagawa.jp/1740.html

http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/bunngakukan/

Tokushima Prefectural Achieves: Tokushima
Takamatsu

Civic

CultureCenter:Peace
A special exhibition, “Message of the 60th

Museum: Kagawa

anniversary of the war: the time that we would like
A photo exhibition on the air-raids on Takamatsu

to convey’’
was held from August 2 to October 30,

was held from June 28 to July 10, 2005 on the first2005.

floor of the center.
This event displayed photos of air-raids, theThe exhibition on the war remains in Takamatsu

allocation of necessities recorded in archives,

was held from August 1 to August 5, 2005 at themovie films, documents on high school education,

Takamatsu City Hall.

health, pollution, postwar history viewed from apersonal history of a woman born in 1945 and so

The peace film festival was held commemoratingon.

the Constitution on May 28,2005 at the lecture hall

An illustrated book was published.

in the center.

Animation, “Postcard without

Tel: 088-668-3700

letters’’and “White city: Hiroshima’’
were put on
the screen.

Fax:088-688-7199

http://www.archiv.comet.go,jp/

Masami Hanasaki who is an adviser
Fukuoka City Museum: Fukuoka

of the Citizen Group Conference gave a lecture on
war experiences in Takamatsu.

The exhibition “
War and Our Daily Life”was held
It was the 14th

A meeting “Discussion for Peace’’
was held on

from May 24 to July 18, 2005.

July 1, 2005 at the lecture hall of the center andexhibition using wartime documents of the37museum.

The document on food was mainly

Nagai’
s notes written during the rescue operation

exhibited.

with 37 pictures, and 20 memoirs at the exchange

Tel: 092-845-5011

lounge.

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

Tel.: 095-814-0055

Fax: 095-814-0056

http://www..peace-nagasaki.go.jp/
Chikusino City History Museum: Fukuoka“
60 years after the war: Exhibition on Wartime in
our Hometown”was held from August 6th to 31st,

Oita City History Museum: Oita

2005.
Tel.: 090-922-1911

The exhibition “
47 Infantry Regiment: the Photo

Fax: 092-922-1912

http://www.city.chikusino.fukuoka.jp/furusato/inde

Exhibition on the Japan-China War”was held fromx.htm

July 9th to October 16th in 2005. The pictures
which Mr. Satsuki Shin had taken as a member ofNagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum: Nagasaki

the regiment were exhibited to give a chance forpeople to think the misery of war and preciousness

The exhibition “
the Daigo Fukuryumaru (the fifthof peace afresh.

Lucky Dragon)” was held using pictures, andhttp://www2.city.oita.jp/guide/shisetsu/rekisi.html

panelsTel.: 097-549-0880

of

the

Daigo

Fukuryumaru
th

Peace

Fax: 097-549p-5766th

Association from October 4 to December 25 in2005.

Kagoshima Prefectural Library: Kagoshima

Mr. Kazuya Yasuda, the secretary-generalof the Daigo Fukuryumaru Peace Association, gave
a lecture on October 5th.

“
60 Years after the War Exhibition”was exhibited

Tel.: 095-844-1231

using pictures and books at the First Reference

Fax: 095-846-5170

Room from August 3rd to September 11th in 2005.

http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/m
useum/

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum
Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the“
The Drawing Exhibition which was Drawn by

Atomic Bomb Victims

People with the Experiences of Okinawa War”was
Associated with the National Peace Memorial Hall

held at the Exhibition Room from June 11th to Julyfor Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima, the

3rd in2005.

exhibition “Retrospect: Wishes for Peace –thatday in summer in photos and records on the atomic

The 6th special exhibition “
the Battle in Okinawa

bombed experiences’’
was held from July 8th toand the Evacuation –the Families Torn by the Warth–”was held in the Exhibition Room from October

September 30 .

10th to December 18th in 2004.
ExhibitedwereDoctorAfter that, theAkizuki’s medical

same exhibition was held at its annex, Yaeyama

apparatuses which were used for the rescue

Peace Memorial Museum. The exhibition showed

operation at the first Urakami Hospital and Doctor

the whole images of the evacuation of the Okinawa
38

Battle and the experiences of the evacuation as

during the war.

well as “hunger”, “cold”, and “loneliness”. The
illustrated book was published.

“
Newsletter for Commemorating Chinese People

Tel.: 098-997-3844

Fax: 098-997-3948

Who were Relocated to Japan and Forced to Work”

http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp(No.9 published on September 20th) says about theerection of a memorial monument of Chinese
people who were compulsively relocated to Osaka
to work.

Okinawa Prefectural Archives: Okinawa

Add.: The Committee for Memorial of Chinese
People:c/o

Mr.

Shimizu:

2-17-18“
The Exhibition on the Battle in Okinawa

Hukaeminami-machi Higasinari-ku Osaka City

Recorded at the Archives”was held from August537-0002

2nd to October 2nd in 2005.
Tel.: 098-888-3875

The Air-Raids and Mobilization:

Fax: 098-888-3879

http://www.archives.pref.okinawa.jp/

60 Years

after

the End of the War€35
by Hitoshi Koyama: Kaihou
Shuppansha, 2005, ¥2000.

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Peace Education Associates International(EPE) focuses on our global community’sprogresstowardsacultureMuseums for Peace in Berlin
Philipp Sonntag

ofpeace, i.e. a society of institutions and norms
based

on

sustainability,

nonviolence,socialecologicaljustice,

More than 10 years ago Kazuyo Yamanecame to Berlin with her family, and I was
happy to arrange meetings at four
institutions, which could be summarizedunder “museums for peace”. Now I looked
for an update, and at first sight just foundone, so I checked further, and found avariety of initiatives, which are active in theoverall context.

andparticipatory decision-making. It aims tocreate an understanding of the reciprocal
relationship between social and ecological
peace

-

a

prerequisitetoeffectively

responding to social peacelessness andecological degradation. You are invited toStill going strong, in new and larger rooms,
is the €34
Anti-War-Museum”of Tommy Spree,
who is ready for German as well as English
speaking visitors, whether local schooljoin the global network of educators working
to bring about this transition.
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classes or foreigners from far, includung
Japan:

about the impact of war, and the persecutionof pacifists.

Anti-Kriegs-Museum e.V.
Bruesseler Str. 21
D-13353 Berlin
Fon: 0049 030 45 49 01 10
open daily 16.00 - 20.00 (also sundays andholidays)
For group visits call also 0049 030 402 86 91
Anti-Kriegs-Museum@gmx.de
The museum had its 80th anniversary
recently! It is well marked on the official
map of Berlin, and there is a monument
about the hands cracking a gun, right acrossthe street in a park named after the founder
Ernst Friedrich. If you visit the URL
www.anti-kriegs-museum.de you will findhis text, which he wrote 10 years after
foundation of his museum, harassment anddestruction by the fascists, and escape to
Switzerland:

In the cellar, there is a real air-raid shelter,with a lot of equipment, which tells how thepeople tried to survive with primitiveequipment, like a simple pharmacy for firstaid, a fire fighting improvisation, and lots ofgovernmental instructions, while in reality
15 people had sought shelter, found no place
to lay down and sleep in the small room.
There were holes to adjacent shelters, withbricks to take out in between, but often
there was no escape. When you go down tothis shelter, you find on the walls a lot of
pictures from the impact of the atomic bombin Hiroshima, and visitors are instructed
about the fate of people there as well.
Alltogether the AKM (Anti-Kriegs-Museum)is alive and flourishing due to the spirit of
Tommy Spree, who is happy to succeed, withlittle financial means as in most cases forsuch institutions, but very impressive, and it
does have its impact on school classes andother visitors. The heading of the recent
report is: “Ein Museum fuer den Frieden”,amuseum for peace, and it is networking withlocal groups and initiatives.

»Germany is a republic - I thought.
Germany wants peace - I thought.
There should be a Peace Museum in apeaceful republic, I thought.
But as the pacifistic republic did nothave enough money for such a work ofpeace (an armoured cruiser being more
important and more expensive), thesilly idea came to my mind, to open an'Anti-War Museum': In the centre ofGermany, in the heart of Prussia, in the
midst of Berlin (five minutes away fromthe police headquarters).«

Looking for other museums I had to broaden
the viewpoint somewhat. As soon as theissue is on peaceful solutions, and on theoverall avoidance of violence, there areseveral institutions active in Berlin. Often incommon institutions with broader tasks,
there are at times exhibitions about theissue. Thus in my region, in Steglitz atsouthern part of Berlin, there has been an
exhibition about the local impact of the war,and the fascist regime with its strict andcriminal public regulations, especiallyagainst Jews. A lot of photos gave a vivid
impression of the sufferings of people along
the warfare.

Ernst Friedrich, »Vom Friedensmuseum
zur Hitlerkaserne«, St. Gallen 1935
Then Ernst Friedrich went to Belgium andagain established a museum for peace, but
soon the fascists arrived also destroyed it
there.
Since its opening in 1925 theAnti-War Museum was supposed to address
the youth. Young people should learn fromthe mistakes and wars of older generations.

Of course several Jewish institutions haveloads of information displayed in many ways
about their sufferings. At the Judaic Centre
there was an exhibition about €Art
3 4in
Auschwitz€35. Much like the pictures painted
by Hibakusha, I found these paintings anddrawings
very
impressive,
revealing
intimate details about the impact of violence
on desperately suffering victims.

As a cultural centre for meetings andmutual understanding, the museum had
been and is concerned to promote the values
and traditions of the peace movement,
co-operating with peace and conflictresearchers at the universities. The museum
displays lots of pictures and documents

A
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major

issue

is

the

documentation

“Topography of Terror”, in a space adjacentto the Martin Gropius building in the city. It
demonstrates the entire seize of power, withreference to the administrative center of the
SS-State,
its
regulations,buildings,
responsibilities. It has a chapter including
the “Bombs and Ruins”, and then “
The First
Post-war Years”. Another documentation“
Berlin 1945€35
also does attract many visitors.
It covers the entirety of warfare impact upon
Berlin, and the political reorganisation after
the end of war, with all its incomplete andoften arbitrary attempts to punish the guilty
persons.

to avoid such misery, there would be lessdebate about the context of own “
defence”. It
will be an ongoing task to inform the public
about the weapons of the future, the risks ofuncontrollable escalation, the ambivalence,
to say the least, about current contributionsof German soldiers worldwide. Until a few
years ago, there had been a taboo –strictly
defensive measures on the own ground only
were considered as possible. The museum
and exhibitions at Berlin do take up anddiscuss current events, and documentationof former sufferings are put in these vitalcontexts. Likewise important issues, forinstance the impact of atomic weapons areclearly shown at the Anti Kriegs Museum,and even groups of soldiers come to visit themuseum, and listen to Tommy Spree.
Imagine, how Ernst Friedrich would haveappreciated this fact.

There is a Kaethe Kollwitz Museum, where
an exhibition “
The war does accompany
until the end”April to June 2005 did reveal
the activities of this famous sculpture artist
until 1945. She died a short time before theend of the war. She had early on contributed
to the Anti War Museum of Ernst Friedrich.
16th of April 1945 she wrote an appeal to do
the “
hard work of pacifism”.

End of Second World War and Active Peace
Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst
Deutsch-Russisches
MuseumBerlin-Karlshorst
Zwieseler
Straße4(cornerRheinsteinstraße)
D-10318 Berlin
Tel.: 030.501 508-10 / 030.508 832-9
Fax: 030.501 508 40
E-Mail: kontakt@museum-karlshorst.deURL:
www.museum-karlshorst.de(in
German)There is a €Kreuzberg
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Museum”, with adocumentation about refugees who came tothe districts Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain,both within Berlin, during the last 300 years,“
after war and before peace …”.
The Alliierten Museum May-Sept. 2005 had
an exhibition displaying photography ofAmerican, British and French soldiers, andformer radio reports, revealing thetremendous destruction along warfare.

The German/Russian Museum is locatedwithin the S-Bahn (suburban train) range ofBerlin. It has been established in a common
effort by the Russian and the former
East-German governments. The building
had been the former headquarter of the 5th
Soviet Army, during the battle to conquer
Berlin 1945. In the night of May 8 to 9, 1945,
the unconditional surrender to the German
Army was signed in the grand salon of thisbuilding. With that, in addition to anaccording act in Reims/France on May 7,1945, the Second World War in Europe cameto an end.

These are just a few examples, in view of thelarge number of mostly local and small, but
altogether impressing exhibitions, lectures,
discussions, events –like the “Long Night ofRemembrance –60 Years after the End of
War in Berlin”.
I am impressed by the public interest in thelast war, and the precision regarding detailsof destruction presented. There is a kind ofsolemn silence, with a general impulse to
avoid such catastrophe. Looking atcontemporary politics, the impact is limited,
but important. There is a bitter debate,
whether German soldiers should “join
warfare” worldwide like in Afghanistan,
Kosovo, Iraq, or rather name the same thing“
assist peace making forces”. Without abroad public awareness about the war
inflicted by Hitler, and a deliberate intention

The Museum displays a realistic view of theeveryday sufferings on both sides, Russianand German. Many pictures and films
reveal the medical treatment under adverse
conditions. In addition the amount of rubble
in Berlin at the end of the war is impressing,
given the fact, that the military resistance in42the last months and days was nothing but afoolish and despairing attempt with nochance to defend Berlin against superior
military forces.

Beginning in the 1950s Dr. Rainer
Hildebrandt, the founder of the Wall
Museum – Museum House at Checkpoint
Charlie, registered the names of the victimsof the Soviet Occupied Zone/German
Democratic Republic/ Socialist Unity Party.
He erected wooden crosses along the Wall tobring home to people the brutal reality of theGerman-German border.

The Museum also gives evidence of the
suppression of fascist organizations against
many suppressed minorities, with massmurder organized in the mode of industrial
perfection. It documents the alliance
between Hitler and Stalin, and the ensuing
attack of Germany against the Soviet Union.
“
Famous” historical battles, like at
Stalingrad,areexplained
in
theirpreparation, details of destruction andsufferings, significance for the overalloutcome.

Checkpoint Charlie is famous the world over.
It was here that the people of the UnitedStates of America showed themselves
willing and able to stand up unconditionallyfor fundamental values such as humanrights, democracy and freedom.
Politicians came to Checkpoint Charlie inorder to fathom the geopolitical divisions forthemselves and do something towards
ending them. This was the spot where
Ronald Reagan held up a vision of Eastern
bloc leaders breaking the mould and tearing
down the Iron Curtain.

Altogether
theMuseumhad
beenestablished on the basis of a common
communist viewpoint in both the Soviet
Union and the East German GDR (German
Democratic Republic). It had been adedicated endeavor out of a common
experience during the war, with a common
viewpoint about fascism. After there-unification of Germany, the shift ofviewpoint has
beenaninteresting
compromise between a less leftist Germany,
and a Soviet Union in transgression. As
main issue a common spirit, different but
comparable in intention, prevailed, that a
war between the Soviet Union and Germany
shall be avoided by all means, and that theMuseum shall display the evidence of all the
war sufferings to be avoided, so thateverybody, especially young people, shallknow in detail about the dangers. While thehistorical place is a bit outside the city of
Berlin, still there are a lot visitors coming to
get the evidence –mostly from
Germany, but also some from far.

Millions of people visit Checkpoint Charlie,
which has its own place in world history.
It was inevitable that a monument to liberty
should be created here. The basic idea wasto build a commemorative Wall and crosses
to honour those victims of the German
divide who had failed in their bids to crossthe lethal German-German border. Eachcross was to bear the name and date ofdeath of a prospective escapee and they were
to be set in a bed of fine gravel symbolizing
the countless political detainees andpersecuted individuals in the GDR.
On 31st October 2004 we inaugurated the“
All They Wanted Was Liberty”Memorial.
Many relatives of those killed at the Wallcome to lay wreaths. For many the Memorialis the only physical focus for their grief. The
State Security Service of the GDR often
buried people shot at the border secretively,in concealed locations, without informing
relatives of their whereabouts.

PI Patent Interconsulting GmbH / Büro
BerlinDr. rer. nat. Philipp Sonntag
Lepsiusstr. 45
D 12163 BERLIN
Tel.: 030 / 791 97 77
phil.sonntag@patent-interconsulting.de
www.patent-interconsulting.com/

The Memorial has triggered a broad publicdebate. There have been a number of eventsand panel discussions.

WALL MUSEUM –MUSEUM HOUSE ATCHECKPOINT CHARLIE

While the “
All They Wanted Was Liberty”
Memorial at Checkpoint Charlie has
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produced the predictable range of partisan
opinions, understandings, assessments andnotions the citizens are united on thesubject: the populace has accepted theMemorial and this fact should be acceptedby politicians as their one, decisive criterion.



Politicians should not be afraid of memorials
that are charged with emotion. It isprecisely this capacity to affect people, evento the point of tears that acts as a conductor
allowing people to discharge their emotion.

The photos of the memorial "They Only
Wanted Freedom" being torn down havegone around the world. Life is easier now
for the PDS/SPD government in Berlin,
because the comrades are not reminded of
the crimes of the SED (that was the former
name of the PDS) on a daily basis. But what
about the victims and their relatives?

Free admission
STORYTELLERS(toscholars) “Pepita, a lostbullet” (Lapsus Espectacles)
at 11.30 a.m. in the Elai AlaiHallinGernika.
The
entrance will be free.
4 guided tours at 10.30a.m.,
12 noon, 5.00p.m. and 6.00
p.m.(without reservation)
The “
PEACE ONE DAY”
documentary will be shown at
11:15 a.m., 1:00p.m., and4:00p.m. in the Gernika
Peace Museum

ConcertOn September 22nd (Thursday), a “
for Peace” will be held by Lapsus
Espectacles. A show with an intelligent
blend of literature, music and irony. This
concert will be held in the Seber Altube
Auditorium in Gernika-Lumo at 7:00p.m. (incase of bad weather the concert would beheld in the Elai-Alai Hall at the same time).

Alexandra Hildebrandt
Berlin Wall Museum – Museum House at
Checkpoint Charlie
The Museum is open daily from 9 am to 10
pm and shows the history of the Berlin Walland the Non-violent Struggle for Human
RightsFriedrichstr. 43-45
D-10969 BerlinTel.
+49-(0)30 / 25 37 25-0
Fax
+49-(0)30 / 251 20 75
info@mauermuseum.de
www.mauermuseum.de

On September 23rd (Friday), and as the end
to the events celebrating the International
Peace Day, the screening of the film “A
Winter’s Night Dream”(Sam Zimske Noci),
centred on the issue, at 8:30p.m. in the Liceo
Theatre in Gernika-Lumo.
Making use of the celebration of this day, theGernika Peace Museum would like toencourage everyone—those who still haven’t
had the great opportunity to visit thisunique, innovative museum, -- to come andvisit it.

Program for the Celebration of theInternational Peace Day (21st September)

For more information contact:THE
GERNIKAPEACEMUSEUM
FOUNDATIONFORU PLAZA 1, 48300 GERNIKA-LUMO
TEL. 94-6270213
FAX: 94-6258608
E-MAIL: museoa@gernika-lumo.net
Web: www.peacemuseumguernica.org

Due to the celebration of the International
Peace Day (declared by the United Nations
General Assembly by means of theresolution 55/282 of 28 September 2001) on
21st September 2005, the Gernika Peace
Museum has organized a wide range ofactivities which will be held on the 21st , 22ndand 23rd September.

(This was sent to various peace museums byemail. This is a wonderful program and it
would be nice to share such a good idea.
Kazuyo)On the 21st September (Wednesday) the
Gernika Peace Museum (situated in the
Plaza de los Fueros , opposite the Town
Hall and about 50 metres from the Tourist
Office) will open at 10 in the morning andwill offer all visitors:

Germany: Hindelang: Friedenshistorisches
Museum (Peace History Museum)44

nonviolence, with possible help of new peace
The Friedenshistorisches Museum honours

literature. They find stories on forgotten

and commemorates peace figures and peace

women who worked for human rights. And

initiativesMoreso much more. The museum offers also

information on this rather concise, but very

special progams for schools and parishes.

interesting peace educative museum inFurther

formerLindauer Friedensweg (Lindau Peace Trail)fromeditions

twoof

millennia.

Newsletter

INPM,

may

be

mentioned

here

the

especially No. 12, p. 17. Memorable may beandhere the opening of the museum's fifth

Dreiländereck am Bodensee (Peace Pilgrim's

summer season in 2003, with a lecture by

Way in three countries neighboring Lake

peace museum director Thomas Wechs

Constanz).

about the English bishop Dr. Georg Bell andProgram 2005 included a memorable lecture

his strong protest in the British House ofof Jewish and Israeli historian Reuven

Lords against British bombings on German

Moskovitz, who worked during more thancivilian population during Second World War.

fifty

For 2006, the museum is organizing a small

German-Israeli reconciliation.

the

years

Friedens-Pilgerweg

The

for

museum'sinextensive

Jewish-Palestinianandpeace exhibition in Barock Pavillon (Flora
Temple) in Kempten, not far from Hindelang,

See about the museum also Newsletter

during Allgäu Festival Week in August.

INMP No. 15, p. 33-34. More details about

Museum address: Hindelangerstrasse 20,

the museum and its activities can be

D-87541

obtained from museum coordinator Mrs.

Bad Hindelang, Germany, tel.

00498324379

or00498217830.

PostalCornelia Speth.

address: Thomas Wechs, Burgkmaierstrasse

Museum

14, D-861652 Augsburg, Germany. Email:

Lindenhofweg 25, D-88131 Lindau i.B.,

info@friedensmuseum.de.

Germany. Tel./fax 0049838224594.

Internet:addres:Villa

Lindenhof,

www.friedensmuseum.de.

Email:(With thanks to Gerard Lössbroek)

Internet: www.friedens-raeume.de.

friedensraeume@freenet.de.

(With thanks to Gerard Lössbroek)
Germany: Lindau: friedens raeume (peace

The Book of Hope for the 21st century

rooms)

Millions of women are engaged daily inworking towards a better future. Without
regard for their own safety, they are active
on behalf of the community's well-being.
They call for reconciliation, demand justice,and rebuild what has been destroyed. They
work on the front in crisis and war regions
as well as in the background all over theworld. The project and book 1000 Peace
Women Across the Globe have the goal todraw the world’s attention to these womenand their thus far nearly invisible, buthighly important work.

The Lindau peace museum friedens raeume(peace rooms) of Pax Christi Augsburgpresents itself since 2001 not as a museumwith 'peace in the show case.' It wants to be
an interactive forum for museum visitors.
They can read about persons encouraging topeace and organizations in service of peace.
They receive impulses to think about thepeacequestion

betweenmilitary

and
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The Project

It
can
be
orderedwww.scalo.com/1000peacewomen
better bookstore in Japan.
ISBN 3-03939-039-2

The goal is to profile such courageous
women for their untiring pursuit of peace, tothrow light on their lives and work by meansof this book, films, photos and otherdocumentation. The initial idea came fromSwiss
politician,Dr.
Ruth-Gaby
Vermot-Mangold, an anthropologist andmember of the Swiss Parliament as well as
the Council of Europe. On each of her
numerous visits to crisis and war regions,
everywhere she met women who perform
reconstruction and peace work in extremely
dangerous surroundings. She also noticed
that their work is scarcely acknowledged
outside their respective sphere of activity.
This inspired her to publicize at least asymbolic number of 1000 women and to havethem nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize2005 – a goal that was reached by theorganization in January 2005. The next goal
is to continue publicizing the women and
their
work.
For
more
information:

throughorinwww.1000peacewomen.org
The Book

Atomic Bomb Museum On-line

The book introduces the 1000 women who
were carefully chosen to represent themillions doing similar work around theworld. Each one is presented on a double
page, with a short biography and most of thewomen with a portrait photograph. Both,images and texts, were compiled by local
journalists and authors, as well as byacademics and members of organizations.
The biographies give insight into the life andwork of each of the 1000 women. They also
reflect the cultural differences involved in
evaluating personal data and build acolorful patchwork of different styles andtypes of biographies. The book is produced
by Swiss publisher Kontrast and publishedinternationally by Scalo.
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
(Eds)

David Swain
Dear Friends & Colleagues:
Earlier this year my friend Jerry Levinurged me to work with him and a fellow
Japan expert to take the info in the books
related to Hiroshima and Nagasaki that I've
helped translate and/or edit, and put theessentials on a web site. All this on thecurrent view that young people no longer
read so much as look at screens, TV andcomputer.
So, for several months now I've worked on
the script, while a fellow Japan colleague
whose Japanese language ability is tops
(currently works for Hiroshima's mayor
part-time) gathered appropriate photos.
Jerry is vice-president of a high-techcomputer company in the Research Triangle
area (Durham-Raleigh-Chapel Hill). Some ofJerry's technician friends built the site.

1000 Peace Women Across the Globe is theultimate manifest of the Peace Women andwill become a reference guide for NGOs,
governments, Peace and Women’s networks
and Relief organizations as well as a generalaudience
interested
ingrassroots
movements working towards the growth of
democratic civil society.

This new web site is accessed as follows:
The photowww.atomicbombmuseum.org.
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captions were not done well at first, and I
have just spent this weekend re-doing themall. Anyway, in the first few weeks we had
several hundred "hits" and that has sincegrown to a monthly average of 20,000 since
September. We are quite surprised (at least Iwas) and of course pleased. Please have alook at it, and don't hesitate to share any
thoughts you might have to improve on it.

Muse 16 in JapaneseMuse 16 in Japanese was published in
November, 2005.

ApologyCall for your Article

I am sorry that the Muse was published solate.

It was decided to publish Newsletter of theStudent Volunteers of the College ofInternational Network of Museums for
Peace

at

the

5th

International

Museum Conference in 2005.

Special thanks goes to Undergraduate

International

Peace

Relations,

Ritsumeikan

University for helping translating articles

However,

into English.

articles were not sent to Yeongwhan Kim,
the editor of the Grassroots House.

Notice: The anonymous articles were edited with
Please send an article about 500 words to

the responsibility of the editor.

the Grassroots House in English by Marchsignatures do not show opinions of the secretariat

31st.

of the Japanese Network of Museums for Peace or

It will be published in Newsletter ofthe editor of Muse.

the International Network of Museums for
Peace on its website.

The articles with

Please write yourComments & Criticizm

article not only about recent news but also
news in the past that was not published inYour comments and criticizm of Muse andthe Newsletter of the International Network

peace museums in Japan will be veryof Peace Museums.

welcome.

It will be available at the following website.

Kazuyo Yamane

http://www.museumsforpeace.org/

The editor of Muse
GRH@ma1.seikyou.ne.jp
http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishi
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