Muse No. 36
Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace
Newsletter: January 2018
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 & Ikuro Anzai
Translator: Noriko Hashimoto, Emi Karimata & Kazuyo Yamane
Illstrator: Erico Tosaki & Pegge Patten. Flower Arrangement: Yoshiko Yamane

The 14th National Exchange
Meeting of Japanese Citizens’
Network of Museums for Peace

Chair:

Prof.

Ikuro

Anzai

(Honorary

Director of Kyoto Museum for World
Peace)＊Open to the public（hosted by the Peace

The 14th National Conference of Japanese

Education and Research Institute）

Citizens’ Network of Museums for peace

16：00～ Reports from various museums

will be held at the Kyoto Museum forfor peaceWorld Peace. A special lecture was given

18：00～ 20:00 Social Gatheringin cooperation with Peace Education andResearch Institute of Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace.
Dates: Dec. 9-10
Place: Kyoto Museum for World Peace at
Ritsumeikan University
Schedule:
Dec. 9 (Sat)
13：00～

Registrationerico

13：30～Greetings by host organization

Dec. 10 (Sun)13：45～ Special lecture on dark tourism

9：30～ reports from various museums

Lecturer: Professor Akira Ide, Otemon

for peace (continued)

Gakuin University1

11：45～12：30 general meeting (report on

foundation of Yamanashi Peace Museum

activities, the next venue of the nationalin Kofu City in Yamanashi Prefecture in

conference, finance, etc.)

May 2007.

Mr. Toru Magozaki gave a

special lecture in celebration of the 10th
14：00～～16：10 Fieldwork: visit to Kyoto

anniversary of the YPM.

Railway Museum
Highlights of Fieldwork
Kyoto was the first target of theatomic bombing. It is said that a
round

turntable

of

steam

locomotives at Umekoji steam
locomotive garage, now at Kyoto
Railway Museum, was the targetof atomic bombing. The bomb
would have been dropped from

YPM published a booklet entitled The

the sky above about 10,000
meters.

Thetargetpoint

Port of Peace: 10 year History ofisYamanashi Peace Museum in September

located about 1 km west of Kyoto

reflecting on activities for ten years for

Station.

the better future, which consists of 110
pages of three chapters: (1)course of
establishment of YPM, (2)permanent
exhibition and special exhibitions, and(3)various events and programs.
In chapter 3, events such as Tanzen☆ Fees of participants○ 500 yen for special lecturer, etc. and
3,000 yen for social gathering.

Ishibashi

Peace

Prize

lecturesandsymposium on Tanzan Ishibashi wereintroduced based on newspaper articles,
which shows important part of activities
of YPM for ten years.

Publishing a book on
the 10th anniversary of YPM＊ Tanzan Ishibashi (1884-1973): a

Tamotsu Asakawa
Yamanashi Peace Museum (YPM)

journalist,an

educator

politician

who criticized Japan’s

policy of colonialism.
Ten

years

have

passed

since

the
2

and

a

Summaries of lectures by distinguishedwere sent as agricultural immigrants

speakers exemplified below are also

from all over Japan. Both sides ofavailable in the booklet: Prof. Ikuro

Japanese

Anzai’s lecture on “Creating Peace fromvictims are dealt with to think of thethe Community: Contributing to world

horror of war and preciousness of peace.

peace

The

throughout

peace

museumpeoplepeace

asaggressors

museumisaandprivatemovement” in June 2008, Mr. Magoroku

institution and it is not financially easy

Ide’s lecture on “Keep asking war: theto run. On the other hand, there is apast that cannot be erased” in June 2010

merit such as freedom of speech, and weand Ms. Hisae Sawachi’s lecture on

have been making efforts to pick up even

“Learning from history and living in thepolitically subtle issues from the citizens’

present” in June 2016

viewpoint.

Regarding

symposiumon

Many people support such

Tanzanmuseum’s standpoint and almost 30,000

Ishibashi which has been held every two

people from different parts of Japan

years, it is possible to find abstracts ofvisited. There is a volunteer support

special lectures on Ishibashi by thegroup called “Peace Labo” and theexperts such as Prof. Hiroshi Masuda of

numberRikkyo University and Prof. Jiang Keshi

includingof Okayama University, etc. The booklet

explaining exhibits to our visitors.

(1,200 yen) has been receiving high

The Emperor and the Empress of Japan

reputation.

Please contact: Yamanashi

visited the peace museum on Nov. 17 in

Peace Museum (1-1-30 Asake Kofu City).

2016 because they strongly hoped to do so.

ofvolunteers
young

is

increasing

generation

for

Thanks to their visit, the number ofvisitors increased this year. I understandConveying both Sides of Japan in
Exploiting Manchuria and Mongolia
during WWII

that there are various opinions on theemperor’s war responsibility, etc., and I
would like to convey historical facts ofJapan’s exploitation of Manchuria and

Hidefumi Terasawa: Vice Director of

Mongolia without any hesitation.

Manmo Kaitaku Peace MuseumWeshould not forget Japan’s national policy
to try to make civilians take part ofFour years and a half passed sincenational defense, and we should also

Manmo Kaitaku Peace Museum waslearn lessons from such “inconvenient

opened to convey the “development” ofhistorical facts” for peaceful future soformer Manchuria (North east part ofthat citizens would be able to be wise

China) by Japan. About 270,000 people

enough to criticize such a national policy.
3

UNESCO Memory of the World Registerof which the WAM is a part expressedthat the decision of UNESCO wasextremely regrettable. UNESCO seemed
to have succumbed to the pressure of theJapanese government. The committee isplanning to take further actions.
In

recentyears,

theJapanesegovernment has gradually been vocal todeny "comfort women" together with

Yoshiko Yamane

right-wing media and organizations. To

Women's Active Museum on
War and Peace (WAM)

counteract this wave, WAM has beenworking

Director Eriko Ikeda

with

both

national

internationalorganizations

society.

July

From

2017

and

in

civil

on,

these

organizations plan to make "Wednesday
NGOs in eight Asian countries (Southaction" once a month around the west

Korea,

theentrance of Shinjuku station and appeal

Netherlands, the Philippines, Indonesia"comfort women issue" on the streets inandsolidarity

China,

East

Taiwan,Timor)that

Japan,
have

been

with

Wednesday

advocating the "comfort women" issue

demonstration in Soul, South Korea.

jointly submitted "Voices of Comfort

On 14th August 1991, Kim Hak-Soon of

Women” to UNESCO as an applicationSouthfor UNESCO’s Memory of the World

experiences as a "comfort women". She(MOW) at the end of May 2016. The

was the first woman in her country tosubmission was examined by UNESCO’s

break the silence over decades. To

International Advisory Committee incommemorate

Paris in October 2017. In reaction, theorgani-zation advocates the day as "UNJapanese government moved to block the

Comfort Women Memorial Day” andregistration of Memory of the World

organized the event in Japan and abroad.

(MOW) and was even ready to suspend a

On the same day, WAM had a memorial

financial contribution to the institution.

ceremony to 179 victims whose portraits

Eventually, it was not approved as MOW.

are exhibited in the museum entrance.

The

Joint

During the ceremony, their names were

Nomination of the Documents on theread out and a white flower was offered toJapanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ to

them.

Japan

Committee

for

4

Korea

testified

this

about

fact,

her

citizens’On the 1st of April 2017, WAM organized"comfort women" have been limited. This

the first museum conference on Japanese

was a collaborative exhibit with themilitary 'comfort women'. Over three"comfort women" exhibition by a Korean

hundreditmuseum in Shinokubo, Shinjuku, which

including those who represent comfort

focuses on the Korean “comfort women”

women museums of respective countries

who were mobilized through so-calledin the Republic of Korea, the Philippines,

comfort women brothels all over the

China, Taiwan, the United States, East

country. Discounts for admission fees

Timor and Japan. The conference gave an

were offered for citizens who visited both

opportunity to share information formuseums.

peopleparticipatedinstoring memories and records of “comfort

An Art Exhibitionof the 5th Lucky Dragon Boat

women”, and to discuss future prospects.

WAM started a digital archive project in
2015.

It

is

time-consuming

andlabor-intensive to store, organize andYusuke Hasunuma: Secretariat ofdigitalize records. But, fortunately, all

Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall

resources needed for this project such as
donations, volunteers and staffs were2017 was the 70th year since the building

successfully secured which has beenof Daigo Fukuryumaru (Lucky Dragon), amaking the project work well.

Japanese

It is urgent issue to preserve the records

experienced radiation hazard due to theon this human rights violation case by

U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954. The

the state. In Japan the facts and the

Luck Dragon Exhibition Hall in Tokyo

relatedbeen

planned a special exhibition entitledconcealed. On the 3rd of November 2017,“Let’s learn about this boat” and “Let’s

WAM invited archive specialists from themake this boat.” The special exhibition

U.S.

international

which started on the 3rd of November

document2017 was entitled “Let’s draw this boat”

management and grassroots archives"in which five paintings by Mr. Kazuo Oga

with Japanese experts.

and 60 paintings drawn by Japanese

From the 5th of August 2017, WAM

children all over the country werestarted a special exhibition on "Silence of

exhibited.

Japanese

women;

Mr. Kazuo Oga is known as an art

state-controlled sex ", which aroused

director of many works by Studio Ghibli

visitors’such

and also as an artist of trees and forests.

information and testimonies of Japanese

He painted five art works: The 5th Luckymaterials

andsymposium

have

held

an

on

"official

long

comfortinterest

because5

tuna

fishing

boat

which

Dragon in the Forest of Yume-no-Shima

Yutaka Maruyama: Peace Aichi(Island of Dream), The 5th Lucky Dragon
Sailing for a Big Catch, Glass Float,

Are we aware of listening to children’s

Sextant, and Yaizu Port.

voices and muttering such as “Wow!

In the opening ceremony, speeches were

What’sDo

wegiven by Mr. Kazuo Oga, Mr. Matashichi

encourage them to ask questions?

Do

Oishi (crew member of the Luck Dragon),

we explain exhibits too much to visitors?

this?”

and“Why?”?

and Ms. Sayuri Yoshinaga (well-known
actress who has been continuing public

It is possible to ask the same questions toreading of poems written by A-bombteachers. They tend to aim at conveying

survivors). Many children who painted

the content of education and their ideas

the boat also attended it and Ms.

rather than listening to children’s ideas.

Yoshinaga addressed them, “Please talk

When children think by themselves,

about today’s experiences to your friends.

school textbooks are sometimes obstacles.

I would like much more people to know

It is important for children to ask

about the5th

Lucky Dragon which wasquestions and solve them in class.

exposed to nuclear radiations by the U.S.

Teachers tend to struggle to make ithydrogen bomb test in 1954. Let’s realize

possiblethe future free of nuclear weapons.” The

materials. An exhibition to make children

exhibition will be held by the

25th

of

and

make

good

teaching

think is the starting point if a peace

March 2018.

museum holds an exhibition for children,which is very difficult.
We hold an exhibition for children in fall
and winter every year. This year an
exhibition for them has 22 paintings bychildren of Unuma Elementary School in

Gifu Prefecture drawn in 1944. The
pupils painted their daily life and events
at school and I would like to introduce a“The 5th Lucky Dragon in the Forest of
Yume-no-Shima” painted by Kazuo Oga

painting which children may wonder
what they see.
For example, there is a painting ofPeace Aichi’s Exhibition on “Children inchildren peeling a mulberry tree. I myself

War” Admonishing their Surprise andwondered what it was. Visiting college

Wonderstudents told me that they had never6seen mulberry trees. They know aboutmulberry, silkworm culture and silkreeling, but they wondered why children
peeled mulberry trees. When I explainedthat clothes were made from them, they
were really surprised. Naturally they
becameinterested

in

the

painting

wondering what kind of clothes weremade for whom and why. Peels of
mulberry trees was used to make staple
fiber, but they were not popular because

Tree Angel by Pegge Patten

they could not be used often after
washing them. Later I regretted that I

Kyoto Museum for World Peace
At Ritsumeikan University

should have shown an article of Osaka

Asahi Newspaper of the 29th of June in1938.

According to the article, cotton

was used for clothes of the military andKazuyo Yamane: an expert advisor

soldiers while ordinary people had to put
up with staple fiber.

World Press Photo Exhibition in 2017:
Changed Destiny was held at the Kyoto

Children can learn that all the children

Museum for World Peace.

in Japan were forced to peel mulberrytrees by watching the painting of children

The World Press Photo Contest is held in

peeling a mulberry tree. There is also a

the Netherlands every year and about

painting of children catching locusts to5000 photographers from 125 countries in

eat, but the former painting would be

the world participated in it and overmore influential to learn how children

80,000 photos were applied.

were during World War II.

Awarded 45 photos from eight fields wereintroduced in the exhibition. Exhibited
were a photo awarded the best prize by
Mr. Burhan Ozbilici from Turkey whichshows that a policeman shot Russian
ambassador in Turkey at the opening of aphoto exhibition in Ankara, a photo of
refugee children who are forced to leave
their home because of their fear of the IS7and the shortage of food, a photo whichJulyshows highlights of the Olympics in Rio

Recollect Oka Masaharu " was held. It

de Janeiro, a photo of a sea turtle whose

was the first time after Takazane has

life was threatened by the left fishing net

passed away on the 7th of April 2017.

and so forth. They show the reality of theAfter they watched the video of Takazane

world which people do not see in theirtalking about Mr. Oka, participants

daily life.

exchanged their views and opinions.

2ndGatheringtoideas in Germany last year came to

25th anniversary of the Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace was opened on the"The

Three guests whom I had exchanges of

The special exhibition celebrating the
1st

2017,

Nagasaki. On the 2nd of August 2017, weof

invited Mrs. Heidemarie Dann of NGO

November 2017 and it will be held until

named Hiroshima and Hanover Coalition

the 23rd of December. It was a wood print

and organized the forum on Germany’s

exhibition about Okinawa by Hiroshi

anti-nuclear movement.

Gima from Nov. 1 to Dec. 23. His works

From the 22nd through 26th of Augustshow Okinawan’s life, their traditional

2017, I went to Korea with a deputy

festivals, the battle in Okinawa and sochairman, Mr. Tomohiro Shinkai and twoforth. Forty-five years passed in 2017

college students. Our travel aimed tosince Okinawa was returned to Japanlearn from Korean educators how theyfrom the United States. This was a good

discuss with their students about the

chance for visitors to think of the land

Japanese colonial rule such as thebattle in Okinawa and serious issues

Japanese army "comfort women" issue.

today such as U.S. military bases there.

The journey was fruitful and made us
learn a lot.
On the 15th of October 2017, China

Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki

marks 80th anniversary of Nanking

Peace Museum

Massacre. To commemorate the day, ourmuseum made a documentary film show

Director: Nobuyuki Sakiyama

of " Tàipíngmé, disappeared 1,300 people",
directed by Tamaki Matsuoka.

Since 2016, the former chair person, Mr.
Takazane’s health had been deteriorated,the board of director have been try to

Himeyuri Peace Museum

meet the needs of visitors (tour guide,
lecture, field work etc). Through these

Katsumi Maedomari, Curator

works, I could come to know how muchwork Takazane has done. On the 22nd of8

Since last May, we participated inaround the world (organized by Okinawa

many projects and events in collaboration

Prefecture). In September we held awith other associations. For instance, as

lecturepanelists,

Headquarterweparticipatedinameeting

about

Cave

Yamashiro(Japanesearmy

symposium in commemoration of thehospital during the war) to meet the“History of Okinawa

request from Okinawa Peace Network

Prefecture (No.6): The Battle of Okinawa”

which is an organization of peace guides.

in which 3 members from Himeyuri

It was encouraging for us to see that

Peace Museum wrote articles, and also

different generations of visitors andanother symposium entitled “Mabuni

participants are studiously trying toPeace Project.” We also hosted a training

understand history.

publication ofcourse for teachers during summer, andother events relating to peace education.
In August, a special lecture “War
Stories of Himeyuri Students” was held.
As many people still request to listen tostories from the survivors directly and it
was held during the summer vacation
with the attendance of many people. Due

Junior Study Tour: a study group of foreign

to very high average age of Himeyuri

children whose families are Okinawan
immigrants. They learnt history of theBattle of Okinawa at our museum andparticipated in a workshop to exchange
their opinions.

survivors,

werecently

have

been

concerned that “the next lecture meeting
would be the last…”
There was another lecture for peace

In October, the school excursion season

education by our museum staffs which

begins, and many high school students

was also well attended by many citizens

visit

with

meetingtheirfamilymembers.

Some

our

museums.
youngerWhile

enjoying

generations,ourchildren seemed to participate to learn

museum staffs need to work quite busily

about war history for their summer

during the season. It is hard to believe

vacation homework study on voluntary

but today’s high school students were

themes.

born in 2000’s! We sincerely hope thatorganized

visiting our museum can be a motivation

workshops for teachers, training courses

for them to know the history better. The

for teachers, “Uchina(Okinawan) Juniorschool excursion season usually continues

Studies Project,” a special peace project

until December.

Inaddition,themuseumAs mentioned in previous issue of thefor children of Okinawan immigrants
9newsletter, our new exhibition “Passing

Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall

on

for

the

Experience

of

War

to

the

the

A-BombVictims),

and

Mr.

Future—Our Trip to Europe and the

Hiroyuki Morita (A-bomb survivor who is

Himeyuri Future Generation Project” hasa member of the Nagasaki Council forfinally started since last December. With

Promoting Peace for Inheriting A-bomb

a report on the trip to Europe in April

Victims’ Memory). The ceremony was

2017, it introduces our effort to pass theattended by many people from Indonesia,

memory of the war from the survivors to

the Netherlands, Canada, Sri Lanka,

younger generations. It is the first time toCzech, New Zealand, Finland, Belgium

show our future generation project as anandexhibition.
If you have a chance to visit Okinawa,

othercountries

ambassadors,

residents

includingofJapan,

students who all ere interested in theplease come to see our museum as well.

exhibition.

Tel:098-997-2100 Fax:098-997-2102

The A-bomb exhibition was held until the

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

5th of November, and a number of panels

FB: https://www.facebook.com/HIMEYUIRI.

on the atomic bomb, experience of

PEACE.MUSEUM/

A-bomb survivors, folded paper cranes,
etc. were displayed.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Exhibition held in Hanoi, Vietnam

Vietnam is a country that has achieved
peace by overcoming severe wars for along time, and both Japan and Vietnam

Ryotaro Katsura: Professor of

can contribute to disseminate to theVietnam-Japan University in Vietnam
On

the

25th

of

Septemberworld"preciousnessofpeace"

byorganizing such peace exhibitions.

2017,

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Exhibition began at Hanoi University of
Humanities

andSciences,

A Photo Exhibition on Okinawa

National

University of Vietnam. In the opening

Hiroshi Inaba: Okinaka Peace Support

ceremony, following the greeting by Dr.
Pham

Quang

Minh,

Rectorofthe

Exhibition on Okinawans against new

University, there were speeches by Kunio
Umeda(Japanese

Michinobu

TomitaU.S. military bases has been displayed at

Ambassador),almost 100 places in Japan since 2014

(organizer of the

including photos showing sit-ins against

exhibition who is a member of the10

deploying new U.S. military bases in

caption. There are captions in Japanese,

Henoko and Takae which were taken by

English, Chinese and Korean. The size ofthe participants of such sit-ins. Over 70%

photos is mainly A3.

of the people in Okinawa are against new
U.S. military bases, but the JapaneseT-shirts, books and pamphlets are also

government does not listen to Okinawan

available. You can see photos in thevoices, which is against democracy. Bothfollowing youtube.

Henoko and Takae are full of beautiful
nature with various kinds of rare species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUg
gDvhcsU

Okinawans suffered from Okinawa land

Tel.0980-55-2244, Fax.0980-55-2245

battle over 70 years ago and now they are070-16296072

still suffering from big noise, crimes of
U.S. soldiers, accidents and so on.

Peace Academy at No Gun Ri Peace
Memorial and Jeju 4.3 Peace
Memorial in the Republic of Korea

Our slogan is “Never give up until wewin.” We have more than 200 photos.
The rental fee:

Kazuyo Yaman: Advisor to the Kyoto

10000 yen for 100 photos

Museum for World Peace

15000 yen for 200 photos
Please pay the postage about 1800 yen to

The Peace Academy was held at No Gun

send photos. The rental period: 1-10 days,

Ri Peace Memorial and Jeju 4.3 Peacebut if you want to rent them longer,

Memorial in the Republic of Korea fromplease let us know.

August 7 to 12. First, it started as thePeace Camp, but the name was changed
and it was the 10th time to hold the Peace
Academy.
Twenty seven students from ten countries
attended it and some students canceled it
because of a missile issue in North Korea.
It seems that it was shocking forJapanese student who had not studied
modern history to learn

about themassacre in No Gun Ri and Jeju Island.
The photos are laminated with short

However,11

theylearned

much

about

Korean people’s patient search for theway the Japanese media reported.

truth and efforts for demanding apology
and compensation leading these places

The APPRA Conference in Malaysia

for peace and human rights.
Students learned not only Korean history

Kazuyo Yamane: Advisor to the Kyoto

but also culture such as Korean drum

Museum for World Peace

and

old

templesandthey

enjoyedbeautiful scenery in No Gun Ri and Jeju

The APPRA (Asia Pacific Peace Research

Island.

Association) Conference was held during
August 23 － 25 at Universiti Sains

Students talked about their impression of

Malaysia in Penang. The theme wasthe Peace Academy that they could learn“Promoting Peace and Upholding the

Koreanvisiting

Transcendent Dignity of the Human

historical sites: it was not only increasing

Person in the Asia-Pacific”. Sixty sevenhistorical knowledge but also having apeace researchers attended it from 15

chance to imagine victims’ fear andcountries. Some sessions were held at thesorrow.

same time and it was not possible tohistory

deeplybyattend all of them.
I organized a panel on peace education
through peace museums as follows:
Panelists
1. Kazuyo Yamane: Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, Ritsumeikan University“The Present Situation of Museums for
Peace In Japan and Peace Education
Participants in front of No Gun Ri Peace

through Grassroots Museums for Peace”

Memorial
2. Yuchao Wang: John Rabe Memorial,
There was much report on missiles fromJohn

North Korea by the mass media in Japan,

University and Self-Formation

which“A Philosophicalmadeinsecurity.

people

feel

fear

and

On the other hand, there

Rabe

Memorialat

Nanjing

Perspective on

theReconciliation Process at Peace Museums

was not so much report in the Republic ofin Japan and China”

Korea, which made students question the12

3. Koodo Chung/ Hyeyeon Kim: No Gun

killed and suffered from damage done by

Ri Peace Memorial

Japanese military forces during World“Tragic Memories of No Gun Ri Victims’

War II. There was no time to visit War

Community and Review on their Efforts

Museum in Malaysia, but participantsfor Human Rights Enhancement, Social

could visit the cemetery of Malaysian

Healing and Reconciliation”

soldiers killed by Japanese militaryduring World War II. It was also nice to

4. Roy Tamashiro: Webster University,

visit a peace park where participants

U.S.A.

planted young trees for peace in Taiping.

“Lessons from Jeju 4.3: Social Healing &There was a welcome party in Taiping

Reconciliation at Sites of Massacre”

and

four

participants

talkedabout

museums for peace at the reception
5. Ahmad Murad Merican: Unversiti(Professor Takao Takahara of Daigo

Sains Malaysia

Fukuryumaru Display House, Mr. Ryozo“Representing Colonialism. A Museum

Teruoka of Kawasaki Peace Museum,Reminding Us “It Is Not Over.”

Professor Roy Tamashiro of Webster
University and Kazuyo Yamane of Kyoto

A peace researcher said that it was theMuseum for World Peace.)first time for him to learn efforts forpeace education through peace museums

It is said that the next IPRA Conferencein Asia.

will be held in December 2018 and thenext APPRA Conference will be held inIndonesia in 2019. It was a good
opportunity to promote peace researchand peace education by exchanging ideas
andnetworking

at

the

APPRA

Conference. A book with selected papers
will be published in the future.
The most impressive thing in Malaysia
was that people with different culture

Cooperation of Japanese Peace
Museums with the Nobel Peace
Centerand religion live together in harmony. It
is probably because children go to same
public school and learn how to respect
one another. However, it was not easy forJapanese

visitors

to

learn

Japan’s

Ikuro Anzai: Honorary Director of thecolonialism and how much people were

Kyoto Museum for World Peace
13

Ms. Sverdrup finally came to Japan onIt

wasannounced(International

that

Campaign

the

ICAN

the 15th of November and visited Kyoto

toAbolishand Hiroshima to collect five atomic

Nuclear Weapons) would be awarded thebombedartifacts.

Nobel Peace Prize on October 6 in 2017.

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum wereOn the next day Ms. Liv Astrid Sverdrup

carried to Hiroshima Peace Memorialof the Nobel Peace Center who is a board

Museumby the deputy director. There

member of the INMP emailed otherwere some limits to borrow artifacts

members to ask for their cooperation for

because the period of the exhibition is

exhibits related to the ICAN from the 11th

very long (from December 2017of December 2017, the day after theNovemberNobel Peace Prize Ceremony.

possible to borrow a rosary and a watch2018).

Artifacts

However,

from

it

to
was

from Nagasaki, a bag and an air-raid
Kazuyo Yamane, an executive board

hood from Hiroshima and a lunch box

member, emailed her about various ideas

from the Kyoto Museum for World Peace.

for the exhibition such as her father’s
atomic bombed experiences, her poem as
one of the second generation of hibakusha,
DVD wth hibakusha’s testimony, Peace
Masks of hibakusha, poems by Sankichi
Toge and Sadako Kurihara, Hiroshima
Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki, paintingsby hibakushas, hibakusha’s comics such
Ms. Liv Astrid Sverdrup with members ofpeace museums in Ritsumeikan in Kyoto,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki(taken on Nov. 17
at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)as Barefoot Gen and so forht.
I, Anzai, introduced Ms. Swerdrup some
artifacts kept at the Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace, and visited Hiroshima

Such

Peace

Nagasakithrough the INMP, which shows the

National Peace Memorial Hall for thevalue and importance of the network ofAtomic Bomb Victims, and Nagasaki

peace museums beyond border.

Atomic Bomb Museum on the 19th andexpected that such international network

20thof museums for peace will be developed

Memorialof

October

Museum,

to

seek

for

their

cooperation

more in the future.

cooperation for exhibits at the Nobel
Peace Center.

14

becamepossibleIt ispresident of the Kyoto University of Art& Design, Korean Consul General and soforth.Many people including Honorary
Professor Ikuro Anzai of Ritsumeikan
University, the head of the committee forbuilding the monument, attended thememorial meeting.
Yun Dong-ju was arrested by Kyoto
Prefectural

Shimogamo

PoliceHead-quarters on a charge of violating

Ms. Liv Astrid Sverdrup with Kazuyo
Yamane in front of artifacts (taken at
Ritsumeikan University on Nov. 18)

Peace Preservation

Law. The police

regarded that he was involved with
Koreanindependent

movementbywriting poems in Korean language. He
was sentenced to two years by Kyoto
District Court and died in a prison in
Fukuoka Prefecture when he was 27.

Yun Dong-ju’s Monument
Built Near Uji River in Kyoto
Nobuko Kontani: Secretary-generalof the Committee for Building
Poet Yun Dongju’s Monument
A monument of Yun Dong-ju was built at
the foot of Hakkou Bridge over Uji River

Yun Dongju

and an unveiling ceremony was held on

Before he was arrested, he went to hiking

the

28th

of October 2017 after 12-yearwith his friends to Uji River and enjoyedefforts by citizens. He was a Korean poetcooking a meal using a mess kit. A

who studied at Doshisha University whenphotograph was taken then and it

Korea was under the colonial rule ofbecame the last one so far found. ManyJapan. He became a victim of so-called

citizens outside Uji and researchers also

Peace Preservation Law.

cooperated with the project. It is expectedOver 200 people participated in thethat events will be held to disseminate

unveiling ceremony though it was rainy:

the oppressive politics against freedomYunand human rights during World War II

Dong-ju’s

bereavedfamily,thepresident of Yonsei University (Dong-ju’sand current issues.

old school), the head of the Korean Center

The monument was introduced at the

of

14th

Doshisha

University,adeputy15

national

exchangemeetingofJapanese Citizens’ Network of Museums
for Peace held at the Kyoto Museum forWorld Peace on the 9th and 10th ofDecember.

Japanese and Korean stones were used for
2-meter high monument. Round column at
the upper center sympolizes Dong-ju. Hispoem entitled “A New Way” is carved bothin Japanese and the Hangle.

News on Museums for Peace
AbroadAnnouncement of future exchange
meetings of the Citizens’ Networkof Museums for Peace

Japanese version of the INMP Newsletter

Ikuro Anzai

is available on the following website.

As introduced in pages 1~2, the14th National Exchange Meetingof Japanese Citizens’ Network ofMuseums for Peace was held at
Kyoto Museum for World Peaceon the 9th and 10th of December
2017.

https://www.inmp.net/newsletters-in-japa
nese/

Editors Notes
We’d like to thank Ms. Noriko
Hashimoto (freelancer living in The

At the general meeting, an offer
of Himeyuri Peace Memorial
Museum to organize the next
meeting in Okinawa wasunanimously approved. The
museum was established in
1989 in Itoman City and wasHague, The Netherlands) and Ms.
Emi

Karimata(Himeyuri

Peace

Memorial Museum, Okinawa) for
theirvoluntary

Kazuyocooperation

Yamaneinwithtranslating

articles into English.
In Muse newsletter it is possible forthose involved with peace museums
to share ideas, experiences, lessons
and issues with others. It has beeneditedby

KazuyoYamaneincooperation with Ikuro Anzai andtranslated into English to introduce
activities of Japanese peace museum

16awarded Kikuchi Kan Prize in1992 which honors achievement
in all aspects of Japanese
literary culture.
The general meeting also
approved an offer of Chorokan(Morning Dew Museum) to host