Muse No. 35
Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: June 2017
The Editorial Office: Daisuke Miyahara at Peace Aichi
2-820 Yomogidai, Meitoku, Nagoya City, Aichi 465-0091
Tel/Fax: 052-602-4222
http://www.peace-aichi.com/
Editor: Kazuyo Yamane, Masahiko Yamabe, Ikuro Anzai
Translator: Kazuyo Yamane
Illstrator: Erico Tosaki & Pegge Patten

celebrated at the conference.
The reason why it was held on April
10 is that it was 19th anniversary ofBelfast Agreement between Britain and
Ireland on April 10 1998. However, it
was the beginning of new term at school
in Japan and some peace researchers
could not attend the conference.
There were 140 participants from 22
countries and 25 (27 including Ryukyu
Broadcasting Company) attended fromJapan.
Professor Ikuro Anzai (theINMP board member) could not attend it
because of his Fukushima Project, but hemade a draft program of the conference,
Japanese version of abstracts forJapanese members who cannot read
English with Kazuyo Yamane. He also
gave precious advice to the INMP board
members to improve the management of
the INMP.

The 9th INMP Conference in Belfast
INMP Board Member
Kazuyo Yamane
The 9th INMP Conference was heldon April 10-13 at Ulster University in
Belfast in Northern Ireland. The INMP
conferences used to be held where
museums for peace exist, but it was thefirst time that the conference was held at
Belfast where efforts have been made forpeace and reconciliation after conflicts.
The first conference was held at the
University of Bradford in 1992 andconference was held almost every three
years. It was the 9th INMP conference
and the theme was ‘Cities as Living
Museums for Peace’ to highlight
Belfast’ssocialandpolitical
transformation from a divided andtroubled city to one which models peace
consciousness through its post-conflicthealing and reconciliation processes. The
25th anniversary of the INMP was-1-website of Anzai Science & Peace Officeand the INMP. CD on Museums for
Peace Worldwide was edited by Kazuyo
Yamane and it is hoped that the
information will be available on the
INMP website.
By the way, the INMP Newsletter 18
was edited by Professor Anzai and it
celebrates the 25th anniversary of the
INMP
It consists of INMP history, messages forthe 25th anniversary from manyorganizations
andindividuals,
publication by the INMP, andintroduction of board members, advisorycommittee members, secretariat andvolunteers. Japanese version of the
INMP Newsletter 18 is available on the
INMP website.

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There was a chance to visit Peace
Museum in Bradford and the Universityof Bradford before the INMP
conference. 17 people visited there
from Japan. There are exhibitions not
only peace movement but also paintings
by refugees according to a visitor. He
wrote his impression as “I was
impressed to see various records,
documents, posters and banners related
to peace activites.”
There were many sessions held at
the same time on April 11 and 12 aswell as plenary sessions. It was notpossible to participate in all thesessions, but fortunately it is possible toread abstracts and papers of presenters
online in the this website:
Japanese version of abstracts was edited
by Ikuro Anzai and Kazuyo Yamane andit was good for those who cannot read
English. Japanese participants wrote
their impression and it has been editedby Prof. Ikuro Anzai.
The wholepicture of the INMP conference will bemade clear by reading it.
It is possible for participants to
exchange ideas, exhibits, etc. one anotherat such an international conference. I
leanred much and enjoyed seeing oldfriends and meeting with new friends.
I edited list of Museums for Peace
Worldwide and it is available on the

Mayor of Belfast City with participants at
Belfast City Hall

Meeting Chorokan (Morning Dew Art
Museum) and Invitation:
Another Mashikoyaki and Art
MuseumChorokan: Shiro Yoshioka
There is Chorokan which is an art
museum where Kojin Sekiya’s ceramic
panels are exhibited. He is 85 years old-2-and he went to Mashiko in 1981 when hewas 49. He made art works using
ceramic panles to express voices ofvoicelesspeoplesuch
as
KOREA-Halla-san in which names ofvictims of 4.3 massacre in Jeju Island areengraved. His other art works show
victims of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, a poemof “Haveyou ever been to
Chidorigafuchi?” by Itsusko Ishikawa,
his wife. She wrote the poem for therepose of soul of victims of Asia andPacific War. There are also art works
on a poem by Korean Yun Dongju,
Shoahonholocaust,
Svetlana
Alexandrovna Alexievich’s Chernobyl
Prayer / Voices from Chernoby, nuclear
accidents in Fukushima, Hanaoka
uprising by forced laborers of Chinese
people and so forth.
I met him in May, 2015 when the art
museum was reopened after renewal of
exhibitions and I have been helping him
though my ability is limited. I attended
the conference of the Japanese Citizens’
Network of Museums for Peace held at
Auschwitz Peace Museum in Shirakawa
City in Fukushima in October in 2016.
Activities of Morning Dew Museum wasintroduced in the INMP Newsletter 18
published in December 2016 by Kazuyo
Yamane. She also introduced it at the
INMP conference held in Belfast in
April. Please visit this art museum forpeace. It is open from 12:00 to 16:00
on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday inspring (April to June) and Fall
(September to November). If you comefrom Tokyo, an express bus called Kanto
Yakimono Liner from Akihabara isconvenient to use.
The details areavailable on the website in Enlgish,
Chinese and Korean language withinformation
and
news:
http://chorogan.org/english.html

KOREA-Halla-san

Chukiren Peace Museum
Secretariate Nobuo Serizawa
We celebrated the 10th anniversary of
Chukiren Peace Museum in November
2016 and over 200 people attended the
ceremony. Ms. Hideko Ito (lawyer andformer member of the House ofRepresentatives) gave a lecture about her
bereavedfamily,Mr.
Tetsuichi
Kamitsubo, who sent twenty-two
Chinese to 731 Unit for humanexperiment during World War II. Mr.
Kamitsubo was the former head of amilitary police unit, but he became amember of Chukiren after regretting
what he had done. Dr. Daisaku Muno
also gave a lecture. His father, Mr.
Takeji Muno, was an honorary advisor to
the peace museum and passed away inAugust 2016. We also organized a panel
discussion and an exhibition at theceremony.
The museum is visited by Japanesecitizens as well as a Chinese TV station
called CCTV and one in Jiangsu, a-3-

Korean editor of Environmental News.
Scholars such as Emeritus Professor
Kokichi Shoji of Tokyo University also
visited there.
Chukiren was also
introduced in a series called “Newspaperand Article 9 of the JapaneseConstitution”
inAsahi
evening
newspaper.
There was a symposium on Japanese
war criminals in Bejing in August 2016.
Professor Takao Matsumura and Ms.
Hideko Ito presented their papers.
We participated in the conference
organized by National Network for
Preserving War Remains in August 2016
in Matsushiro City in Nagano Prefecture.
Seven members including Director
Matsumura attended the National
Conference of the Japanese Citizens’
Network of Museums for Peace held at
Auschwitz Peace Museum in Fukushima
in Novmeber 2016. There were also
visitors from the Chinese Association for
Promoting Friendship, Bujun Center ofManaging War Criminals and so forth topromote exchanges of ideas.

War Damage
Masahiko Yamabe
I’d like to introduce main activities atthe center since March 2017.
A joint historical research on news
photographs and photographers during
and after World War II was finished after
two reports were published.
Anemphasis was put on cameramen
working for Tohosha. One is a reporton cameramen who took photographs on
damage by U.S. air raids of Tokyo
published in 2015. The other is a reporton documentary photographs of Shigeo
Hayashi, Shunkichi Kikuchi and
Yahachiro Bessho during and after the
war published in 2016.
The 1st special exhibition on victimsof U.S. air raids and Japan after WWII
was held from February 25 to April 9 asa result of historical research of amovement of victims of U.S. air raids incities after WWII. There were 1300
visitors.
Two lectures were given: one was given
by Ms. Teruko Yasuno of Osaka
Association for Conveying Air Raids on
Feb 25. The title was “What I want toconvey to future generations as one of
injured persons by war.
Mr. Tatsuya Iwasaki of the former
secretary general of the National
Association of Injured People by War
Damage talked about Ms. Chisako
Sugiyama who made history of injured
people by war damage on March 4.
A film of “Che and Air Raids” by
Chukyo TV was shown on March 19 andhttp://npo-chuukiren.jimdo.com/

The Center of the Tokyo Raids and-4-memory of Japan’s aggression of othercountries such as “comfort women”
issues and Nanjing massacre.
Both
KoreanandJapanesegovernments announced that they made afinal agreement on sex slave issues
which was irreversible at the end of
2015. However, Korean victims of sex
slave system and Korean people strongly
protested against it as well as the new
Korean Prime Minister. However, theJapanese media which did not criticize
the government reported that thisagreement solved the issues, which madethe public opinion for the agreement.
Thus the gap of the public opinion
between Korea and Japan has beengetting bigger and bigger.
On the other hand, NGOs in Japanand other Asian countries supporting
such women contacted the UNESCO sothat voices of such women would
become one of World Memory Heritagein May 2016. WAM has been playing
the main role in Japanese Committee andnationalistic media has been attacking
WAM
repeatedly.
Even
twothreatening letters to blast the peacemuseum were sent to the WAM.
However, the members of WAM
have been encouraged by widespread
joint activities in Japan and abroad andhave been making efforts to convey theissues to future generations by collecting,preserving and sharing victims’ sufferingand memory of Japan’s aggression ofother countries. Making archive has
been improved, for we invited guests
from each museum working for victimsof sex slavery in the Republic of Korea,

April 1. There were about 140
participants who listened to a lecture fourtimes and saw the film.
There was the 15th anniversary of theCenter of the Tokyo Raids and War
Damege at Edo Tokyo Museum on
March 5 in 2017. There were 350
participants. A lecture on conveying
U.S. air raids in Tokyo to future
generations was given by Ms. Yuriko
Shirakami, Mr. Hiroo Fujima talked
about his experiences of U.S. air raids ofTokyo.
There was a rally of the 16th
anniversary of Peace Statue of Children
in the World on May 5 in 2017. Mr.
Takayu Yasujima, a photographer, talked
about the remains of former Japanesesoldiers left at battlefields in the Pacific
Ocean.

WAM’s Activities against
Nationalists
Eriko Ikeda:
Director of Women’s Active Museum inTokyo
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that
he would change the JapaneseConstitution by 2020 on May 3rd, the dayof the 70th anniversary of enforcement of
the constitution. He has been changing
Japan to wage war in the future bymaking Special Secret Protection Law,
Security related laws and Conspiracy
Law which is like the modern “Peace
Reservation Law.” Those who want towage war want to get rid of facts and-5-the 5th Lucky Dragon Boat

the Philippines, China, Taiwan and the
USA and held the first conference on
museums for victims of sex slavery in
April. The conference was successful
with fruitful reports and discussion.
We shared the idea that it is important tocollect records and memory in order tofight against history revisionists who
don’t want to recognize the existence of“comfort women” and Japan’s war
crimes during WWII. It was impressive
to know that younger generation in eachcountry continues to deal with the issues.
TheirvoicesagainstJapanesegovernment would never be stopped
even after all the victims passed away
and such issues are not solved.
We have an exhibition on women
who were forced to work as sex slaves in
Burma during WWII until the end of Julyand we will have the 15th special
exhibition with an emphasis on Japanese
victims of sex slavery in August. We
will continue to collect victims’ voices
and precious materials and disseminate
them working together with Asianpeople so that these issues will never be
erased and forgotten by “assassins ofmemory”.

Yusuke Hasunuma
Curator of Daigo Fukuryu Maru
Exhibition Hall
There are many visitors fromelementary schools and junior highschools in May when there are many
school excursions: ten schools a day atmost. The exhibition hall is full ofchildren who learn the 5th Lucky Dragonboat eagerly.
Seventy years passed since the boat
was built in 1947. It is important in termsof culture and industry as a wooden
fishing boat that was built during chaotic
period after the end of WWII and wasused for deep-sea fishing. I think that it
is important to appeal the significance of
this wooden fishing boat in order to show
the role of the 5th Lucky Dragon boat forpeace.
An exhibition about the 70-year
history of the 5th Lucky Dragon boat washeld till the end of March: the history of
the boat from its construction to today
was exhibited.
An exhibition of “Craftsmen’s Skillsof Making the 5th Lucky Dragon Boat”
was held since July 17th. Exhibited arephotographs on making a wooden
fishing boat which is similar to the 5th
Lucky Dragon boat offered by Mie
Fisheries Laboratory, and testimony of a
shipbuilder in Ise City, Mie Prefecture.

Entrance of WAM

Craftsmen’s Skills of Making-6-was reported in Hokkaido Newspaper on
January 15 and Tokyo Newspaper on
January 29. The influence of Tokyo
Newspaper was so big that there aremany visitors and contacts from Tokyoand neighboring prefectures since
January 29.
Political situation in Japan waschanged greatly since the peacemuseums was opened in 2007: the rulingparty was the LDP, but it was changed to
the Democratic Party and then the LDP
became dominant again. The second
Abe regime since 2012 has denied
constitutionalism by establishing theSpecial Secret Protection Law in 2013,
forced passage of Security related law in
September 2015 and controversial
anti-terror conspiracy law recently,
covering up a scandal of sellingstate-owned land to Moritomo school
illegally with help of Prime Minister Abe
and so forth: national administration ismisappropriated for Abe’s personal use.
The Japanese Constitution, peace anddemocracy that we established andmaintained after the end of WWII is indanger. I also think that the value of the
Yamanashi Peace Museum in society isalso questioned. I would like to makenew steps studying the past to learn newthings. I hope that you will continue tosupport us with your cooperation andencouragement.
The planned exhibition on Tanzan
CabinetandTanzanIshibashi(1884-1973) was closed and new
exhibition of “Port of Peace” was opened
on June 4 in 2017. A book called The 10
Year History of Port of Peace (112 pages

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of
the boat, we invite painting of the 5th
Lucky Dragon boat from children.
Any painting with free imagination is
welcome such as the fishing boat whichchildren saw at the exhibition hall, theboat sailing toward a port of peace, theboat surrounded by children appealing
peace and so forth.
The deadline is August 31st.
Works of prize winner will be exhibitedat the exhibition hall in October. All
the applicants will be sent acommemorative item.

The 10th Anniversary of
Yamanashi Peace Museum
Director Tamotsu Asakawa
Ten years have passed since
Yamanashi Peace Museum was opened
on May 26 in 2007 in Kofu City. We
had the 10th anniversary on June 25
inviting Mr. Ukeru Magosaki as alecturer.
Fortunately we had over
14.000 visitors during this period. A
feature exhibition was held every six
months and a feature event wasorganized actively. The peace museum-7-1000 yen) will be published in August
and main points will be exhibited using
panels, newsletters, newspaper articles
and so forth. I hope that you will visit thepeace museum.

children in war, it reminded me of
Kathe’s lithograph of “Don’t Grind
Seeds into Powder”

Peace Aichi and Kathe Kollwitz
Peace Aichi: Yutaka Maruyama
Mother and child in Toshi’s
Hiroshima Panles reminded me of
Kathe’s work of Pieta: Mother holding
her Dead Son.”
Toshi was greatly influenced byKathe’s art works at an art museum in
Moscow before WWII. She must havetalked about her impression to Chihiro.
It is possible to see similar way of life intheir art works.

There will be an exhibition on
Chihiro Iwasaki this summer. There wasan exhibition on Hiroshima Panels in
March. Both Mr. & Mrs. Maruki andIwasaki are connected at Peace Aichi,
which is epoch-making.
In the exhibition by Maruki, theirsketch of nude was talked about among
visitors. This is because the model was
Chihiro Iwasaki. As it is known, Chihiro
studied under Toshi Maruki. Their way
of expression was totally different, butthey are essentially connected. I guessthat the reason is that both of them were
influenced by Kathe Kollwitz who was
oppressed by Hitler, a German female
artist.
I saw her lithograph called“Don’t Grind Seeds into Powder” in aschool textbook of World History
published by Jukkyou Shuppan in 1984
for the first time. I was impressed bymother who glared at someone holding
her face resolutely holding her threechildren.
I asked questions to mystudents: “who does the mother glaringat?”, “what does it meant to grind seeds
into powder? ” and “Who is the mother?”
When I saw Chihiro’s painting of
mother and a child in an exhibition of

Kyoto Museum for World Peaceat Ritsumeikan University
Expert advisor: Kazuyo Yamane
A special photo exhibition of Days
Japan was held from April 15 to July 92017. Various current issues such aswar, poverty, environmental issues, etc.
are dealt with by Days Japan thatquestion the way the media should betoday. Prizes are given to international
journalists by Days Japan, which is thefirst one in Japan. Themes are various
such as photographs that report lost
dignity of human beings and nature,-8-

express their dignity, heartwarming
stories, and documentary works onnature and animals. Awarded photos are
exhibited so that visitors would know
current issues in the world and how
people live to think what peace is again.
The 108th mini exhibition was heldfrom June 1 to June 30. July 23 is the
day to console the spirit of deceased
victims of the battle in Okinawa.
Powerful block prints of Mr. Hiroshi
Gima (1923-2017) were exhibited: thethemes are the battle in Okinawa, US
military bases in Okinawa and so forthfrom people’s viewpoints.
A film called Human Battlefields by
Koichi Hirokawa was shown and his
lecture was given on May 4th. So many
people attended it that there were notenough seats.
Kyoto Museums for World Peacecelebrated its 25th anniversary on May
19th. It is the first peace museum thatwas founded in university in the worldon the 19th of May, 1992. It promotes
peace education and peace building
collaborating with the community as
well as national and international
network of museums for peace.
Peace Education and ResearchInstitute was founded in 2016 and there
is a plan of renewal of the exhibitions in
2020. Various issues (such as conflicts,
human rights, wealth gaps, education,
environmental issues, etc.) are dealt withthrough exhibitions, education andresearch.
Student staff members organized aworkshop on refugee issues in Iraq on
June 14th and many students attended it.

Poster on Workshop on Refugees by Setsu
Morii, a student of Ritsumeikan University

Exchanges of Ideas between Museumon 731 Unite and Grassroots House
Vice Director: Keisuke Okamura
Director of Museum of 731 Unit
(Site of Former Japanese Germ Corpe.
No.731) and
four
other
peoplevisitedGrassroots
HouseinMarch 2016.
We agreed on
exchanging ideas in the future. Fourmembers of the Grassroots House visited
the Museum for 731 Unite in June 2017.
Keisuke Okamura, the vice director of
Grassroots House, introduced activities
of Grassroots House to over 30 staff
members of the museum on 73d1 Unit
about an hour. He made clear thatJapanese doctors of 731 Unit gave secretdocuments of human experiments to the
USA after WWII, which made it possible
for them to receive immunity from theirwar responsibility. Japanese doctors
were used to cover facts of atomic
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as-9-well as US hydrogen bomb tests on the
Bikini Atolls in Marshall Islands in orderto support US nuclear development.
Their followers under-estimated damage
by radiation after nuclear accidents inFukushima. Mr. Okamura made clearthat such dark legacy continues to exist
in modern Japan.
Both museums agreed that theywould promote friendly relationship andresearch historical facts together.

for 60 years. It also made clear why
this historical fact at Bikini Atolls was
hidden by the US and Japanese
governments, and also issues of national
reparation for damage by US nuclear
tests.
The book includes the Treaty to Ban
Nuclear Weapons adopted at the United
Nations: the preamble and Article 6
which pointed out the importance ofhelping not only victims of nuclear
weapons but also victims of nuclear
tests.
The price of the book is 1000 yen:please contact Grassroots House.
℡: 088-875-1275 fax: 088-821-0586

In Kochi, the 39th Peace Wave eventswere carried out.
There are various events such as 35th
Peace Star Festival(7/2 ～ 7/31), 34th
Peace Concert(7/2), 34th Peace Art
Exhibition(7/4～7/9), 39th exhibition on
War and Peace(7/9～7/17), 34th Peace
Film Festival(7/15 、 7/16), 21st Peace
Action in Kochi(7/22), 11th Concert at
Entai (a former place for airplaneemplacement)(8/27) and so forth. The
21st National Symposium for Preserving
War Remains will be held in Kochi.
℡: 088-875-1275
A book called Notebook on Nuclear
Damage at Bikini Atolls: Researching
Hidden Truth afterr 60 years of US
Nuclear Tests was published. It is
testimony of 32 fishermen who were
exposed to radiation by US nuclear tests
in 1954. The book made clear hiding
truth and lies by Japanese government

Oka Masaharu Memorial
Nagasaki Peace Museum
Secretary General: Noboru Sakiyama
Director Yasunori Takazane passed
away on April 7 because of heart failure.
He was hospitalized because ofpneumonia last fall. We are very sorrythat he could not recover though we kept
praying for his recovery. We had afarewell meeting to Prof. Yasunari
Takazane on May 7th and cherished his
activities for peace. We decided tofollow his wishes for peace andreconciliation again.
We had a board meeting on Aprilth
27 and chose Mr. Naohiro Sonoda as
the director and decided to carry on Prof.
Takazane’s wishes.
By the way, we made a new corneron war resisters on August 2nd in 2016.

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We realized Mr. So Sung as well as Mr.
Masaharu Oka.
We organized a trip to Germany from
August 27th to September 3 in 2016.
The purpose was to see German COs
who worked at Oka Masaharu Memorial
Peace Museum, exchange ideas withmembers of Peace Forum of Germany
and Japan and learned how Germany
dealt with the past. Director Takazane
was the group leader and nine people
visited there including a college student.
We welcomed Mr. Zhu Chengshan,
the honorary director of Nanjing
Massacure Museum on December 3 rd in2016.
I visited Nanjing to attend the
ceremony for victims of Nanjing
Massacre with two college students on
Dec. 11-16. We joined a group called
Meishinkai whose head was Ms. Tamaki
Matsuoka.
I strongly felt that weshould realize missions of the peacemuseum in order to convey the history to
young generations.

Himeyuru Peace Museum
Curator Katsumi Maedomari
A lecture for peace was given fourtimes during winter vacation in
December 2016. Such a lecture isgiven in summer because families visit
the peace museum. We held a guidetour of exhibition for teachers on Dec.
24th 2016.
We also gave a lecture to bus guides
and peace guides on March 13 th. We

took them to the exhibitions in the peacemuseum and Tower of Himeyuri and we
had time for questions and answers.
Seven survivors of Himeyuri Student
Corps
talked
about
their
war
experiences in the battle in Okinawa andemphasized that war should never be
repeated in the time for questions andanswers. There are young bus guides
and such an occasion is a good chancefor them to learn the survivors’ strong
wishes for peace through learning fromthem.
A study meeting was held for peace
guides of various organizations on
March 19th. It was related to a special
exhibition on teachers who took
students as Himeyuri Students Corps tobattlefields. There are former teachers
who work as peace guides and some ofthem felt that the time in the past issimilar to current situation and they
could imagine the past as their own life
event.
The special exhibition wasplanned to close at the end of March,but it was held until late in November
because it was so popular. This was an
exhibition for many people, especiallyteachers and staff members of schools
who teach children.
Four members of the peace museum
attended the INMP conference held in
Belfast in April.
They made apresentation
andlearnedmuch
participating in the conference andvisiting other peace museums. I am
sure that they will use lessons learned in
the future. Members of the Japanese
Citizens’ Network of Museums for
Peace took good care of them, which we- 11 -

appreciate.
We have a plan of making an
exhibition on how to convey war
experiences to future generations as wellas the peace trip to Europe in December.
Tel:098-997-2100 Fax:098-997-2102
HP http://www.himeyuri.or.jp
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https://www.facebook.com/HIMEYUIRI.PEACE.MUSEUM/

Dancing Tree by Pegge Patten(USA)

Sydney University Press.
✴Mr. Ariyuki Fukushima, Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum, is a peace researcher withhigh inquiry capability, and has been
continuing to introduce research literatures on
peace museums published in Japan forJapanese scholars, educationalists, students
and peace museum workers.

Editors Notes
The Japanese version of abstracts ofpapers presented at the 9th INMP
conference at Belfast, Northern Ireland,
U.K. during 10th-13th April, 2017 wasedited by Anzai and Yamane, which was
originally prepared for the participantsfrom Japan. Japanese participants’impression essays about the conference
are now being edited and will become
available soon.
The Japanese version of the INMP
Newsletter 18 and 19 were also editedby Anzai and Yamane in cooperation
with volunteers, and will be publishedon the INMP website.

SupposeNews on Museums for Peace Overseas
The INMP News is available inJapanese on the following website.
http://www.museumsforpeace.org/news/
newsletters.html
Publication
Citizen Power: Postwar Reconciliation
by Yasuko Claremont. Published by2017 National Gathering of the Japanese
Citizens’ Network of Museums for
Peace
to be Held in December in Kyoto
The 2017 national gathering above
will be held at Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, Ritsumeikan University,on the 9th and 10th of December, 2017.
According to the interim program,
Professor Akira Ide, Otemon University,
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so-called “Dark Tourism.”
Members of the network will thenmake reports on their activities in thepast year, and exchange views oncommon concerns.
In the afternoon on the second day,they will visit Kyoto Railway
Museum, approximately 20 minute
walk from Kyoto Station. It wasformerly
Umekoji
Steam
Loco-motive Museum until 2016
which was once one of the firsttargets of atomic bombing in 1945.
The museum is located almost in
the middle of Kyoto basin, and therailway turntable there wasthought to be the most attractive
target of atomic bombing by U.S.
Kyoto Railway Museum is thebiggest railway museums in Japan
which is owned by West Japan Railway
Company (JR West) and is operated byTransportation
CulturePromotion
Foundation.

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