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 9th INMP Conference in Belfast The reason why it was held on April INMP Board Member 10 is that it was 19th anniversary of Kazuyo Yamane Belfast Agreement between Britain and Ireland on April 10 1998. However, it The 9th INMP Conference was held was the beginning of new term at school on April 10-13 at Ulster University in in Japan and some peace researchers Belfast in Northern Ireland. The INMP could not attend the conference. conferences used to be held where There were 140 participants from 22 museums for peace exist, but it was the countries and 25 (27 including Ryukyu first time that the conference was held at Broadcasting Company) attended from Belfast where efforts have been made for Japan. Professor Ikuro Anzai (the peace and reconciliation after conflicts. INMP board member) could not attend it The first conference was held at the because of his Fukushima Project, but he University of Bradford in 1992 and made a draft program of the conference, conference was held almost every three Japanese version of abstracts for years. It was the 9th INMP conference Japanese members who cannot read and the theme was ‘Cities as Living English with Kazuyo Yamane. He also Museums for Peace’ to highlight gave precious advice to the INMP board Belfast’s social and political members to improve the management of transformation from a divided and the INMP. troubled city to one which models peace consciousness through its post-conflict healing and reconciliation processes. The 25th anniversary of the INMP was

- 1 - website of Anzai Science & Peace Office and 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 erico INMP website. There was a chance to visit Peace By the way, the INMP Newsletter 18 Museum in Bradford and the University was edited by Professor Anzai and it of Bradford before the INMP celebrates the 25th anniversary of the conference. 17 people visited there INMP from Japan. There are exhibitions not It consists of INMP history, messages for only peace movement but also paintings the 25th anniversary from many by refugees according to a visitor. He organizations and individuals, wrote his impression as “I was publication by the INMP, and impressed to see various records, introduction of board members, advisory documents, posters and banners related committee members, secretariat and to peace activites.” volunteers. Japanese version of the There were many sessions held at INMP Newsletter 18 is available on the the same time on April 11 and 12 as INMP website. well as plenary sessions. It was not possible to participate in all the sessions, but fortunately it is possible to read abstracts and papers of presenters online in the this website:

Japanese version of abstracts was edited by Ikuro Anzai and Kazuyo Yamane and it was good for those who cannot read Mayor of Belfast City with participants at English. Japanese participants wrote Belfast City Hall their impression and it has been edited by Prof. Ikuro Anzai. The whole Meeting Chorokan (Morning Dew Art picture of the INMP conference will be Museum) and Invitation: made clear by reading it. Another Mashikoyaki and Art It is possible for participants to Museum exchange ideas, exhibits, etc. one another at such an international conference. I Chorokan: Shiro Yoshioka leanred much and enjoyed seeing old friends and meeting with new friends. There is Chorokan which is an art I edited list of Museums for Peace museum where Kojin Sekiya’s ceramic Worldwide and it is available on the panels are exhibited. He is 85 years old

- 2 - and he went to Mashiko in 1981 when he convenient to use. The details are was 49. He made art works using available on the website in Enlgish, ceramic panles to express voices of Chinese and Korean language with voiceless people such as information and news: KOREA-Halla-san in which names of http://chorogan.org/english.html victims of 4.3 massacre in Jeju Island are engraved. His other art works show victims of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, a poem of “Have you ever been to Chidorigafuchi?” by Itsusko Ishikawa, his wife. She wrote the poem for the KOREA-Halla-san repose of soul of victims of Asia and Pacific War. There are also art works on a poem by Korean Yun Dongju, Chukiren Peace Museum Shoah on holocaust, Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich’s Chernobyl Secretariate Nobuo Serizawa Prayer / Voices from Chernoby, nuclear accidents in Fukushima, Hanaoka We celebrated the 10th anniversary of uprising by forced laborers of Chinese Chukiren Peace Museum in November people and so forth. 2016 and over 200 people attended the I met him in May, 2015 when the art ceremony. Ms. Hideko Ito (lawyer and museum was reopened after renewal of former member of the House of exhibitions and I have been helping him Representatives) gave a lecture about her though my ability is limited. I attended bereaved family, Mr. Tetsuichi the conference of the Japanese Citizens’ Kamitsubo, who sent twenty-two Network of Museums for Peace held at Chinese to 731 Unit for human Auschwitz Peace Museum in Shirakawa experiment during World War II. Mr. City in Fukushima in October in 2016. Kamitsubo was the former head of a Activities of Morning Dew Museum was military police unit, but he became a introduced in the INMP Newsletter 18 member of Chukiren after regretting published in December 2016 by Kazuyo what he had done. Dr. Daisaku Muno Yamane. She also introduced it at the also gave a lecture. His father, Mr. INMP conference held in Belfast in Takeji Muno, was an honorary advisor to April. Please visit this art museum for the peace museum and passed away in peace. It is open from 12:00 to 16:00 August 2016. We also organized a panel on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in discussion and an exhibition at the spring (April to June) and Fall ceremony. (September to November). If you come The museum is visited by Japanese from Tokyo, an express bus called Kanto citizens as well as a Chinese TV station Yakimono Liner from Akihabara is called CCTV and one in Jiangsu, a

- 3 - Korean editor of Environmental News. War Damage Scholars such as Emeritus Professor Kokichi Shoji of Tokyo University also Masahiko Yamabe visited there. Chukiren was also introduced in a series called “Newspaper I’d like to introduce main activities at and Article 9 of the Japanese the center since March 2017. Constitution” in Asahi evening A joint historical research on news newspaper. photographs and photographers during There was a symposium on Japanese and after World War II was finished after war criminals in Bejing in August 2016. two reports were published. An Professor Takao Matsumura and Ms. emphasis was put on cameramen Hideko Ito presented their papers. working for Tohosha. One is a report We participated in the conference on cameramen who took photographs on organized by National Network for damage by U.S. air raids of Tokyo Preserving War Remains in August 2016 published in 2015. The other is a report in Matsushiro City in Nagano Prefecture. on documentary photographs of Shigeo Seven members including Director Hayashi, Shunkichi Kikuchi and Matsumura attended the National Yahachiro Bessho during and after the Conference of the Japanese Citizens’ war published in 2016. Network of Museums for Peace held at The 1st special exhibition on victims Auschwitz Peace Museum in Fukushima of U.S. air raids and Japan after WWII in Novmeber 2016. There were also was held from February 25 to April 9 as visitors from the Chinese Association for a result of historical research of a Promoting Friendship, Bujun Center of movement of victims of U.S. air raids in Managing War Criminals and so forth to cities after WWII. There were 1300 promote exchanges of ideas. visitors. Two lectures were given: one was given http://npo-chuukiren.jimdo.com/ by Ms. Teruko Yasuno of Osaka Association for Conveying Air Raids on Feb 25. The title was “What I want to convey 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 The Center of the Tokyo Raids and Chukyo TV was shown on March 19 and

- 4 - April 1. There were about 140 memory of Japan’s aggression of other participants who listened to a lecture four countries such as “comfort women” times and saw the film. issues and Nanjing massacre. There was the 15th anniversary of the Both Korean and Japanese Center of the Tokyo Raids and War governments announced that they made a Damege at Edo Tokyo Museum on final agreement on sex slave issues March 5 in 2017. There were 350 which was irreversible at the end of participants. A lecture on conveying 2015. However, Korean victims of sex U.S. air raids in Tokyo to future slave system and Korean people strongly generations was given by Ms. Yuriko protested against it as well as the new Shirakami, Mr. Hiroo Fujima talked Korean Prime Minister. However, the about his experiences of U.S. air raids of Japanese media which did not criticize Tokyo. the government reported that this There was a rally of the 16th agreement solved the issues, which made anniversary of Peace Statue of Children the public opinion for the agreement. in the World on May 5 in 2017. Mr. Thus the gap of the public opinion Takayu Yasujima, a photographer, talked between Korea and Japan has been about the remains of former Japanese getting bigger and bigger. soldiers left at battlefields in the Pacific On the other hand, NGOs in Japan Ocean. and other Asian countries supporting such women contacted the UNESCO so that voices of such women would WAM’s Activities against become one of World Memory Heritage Nationalists in May 2016. WAM has been playing the main role in Japanese Committee and Eriko Ikeda: nationalistic media has been attacking Director of Women’s Active Museum in WAM repeatedly. Even two Tokyo threatening letters to blast the peace museum were sent to the WAM. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that However, the members of WAM he would change the Japanese have been encouraged by widespread Constitution by 2020 on May 3rd, the day joint activities in Japan and abroad and of the 70th anniversary of enforcement of have been making efforts to convey the the constitution. He has been changing issues to future generations by collecting, Japan to wage war in the future by preserving and sharing victims’ suffering making Special Secret Protection Law, and memory of Japan’s aggression of Security related laws and Conspiracy other countries. Making archive has Law which is like the modern “Peace been improved, for we invited guests Reservation Law.” Those who want to from each museum working for victims wage war want to get rid of facts and of sex slavery in the Republic of Korea,

- 5 - the Philippines, China, Taiwan and the the 5th Lucky Dragon Boat USA and held the first conference on museums for victims of sex slavery in Yusuke Hasunuma April. The conference was successful Curator of Daigo Fukuryu Maru with fruitful reports and discussion. Exhibition Hall We shared the idea that it is important to collect records and memory in order to There are many visitors from fight against history revisionists who elementary schools and junior high don’t want to recognize the existence of schools in May when there are many “comfort women” and Japan’s war school excursions: ten schools a day at crimes during WWII. It was impressive most. The exhibition hall is full of to know that younger generation in each children who learn the 5th Lucky Dragon country continues to deal with the issues. boat eagerly. Their voices against Japanese Seventy years passed since the boat government would never be stopped was built in 1947. It is important in terms even after all the victims passed away of culture and industry as a wooden and such issues are not solved. fishing boat that was built during chaotic We have an exhibition on women period after the end of WWII and was who were forced to work as sex slaves in used for deep-sea fishing. I think that it Burma during WWII until the end of July is important to appeal the significance of and we will have the 15th special this wooden fishing boat in order to show exhibition with an emphasis on Japanese the role of the 5th Lucky Dragon boat for victims of sex slavery in August. We peace. will continue to collect victims’ voices An exhibition about the 70-year and precious materials and disseminate history of the 5th Lucky Dragon boat was them working together with Asian held till the end of March: the history of people so that these issues will never be the boat from its construction to today erased and forgotten by “assassins of was exhibited. memory”. An exhibition of “Craftsmen’s Skills of Making the 5th Lucky Dragon Boat” was held since July 17th. Exhibited are photographs 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 are many visitors and contacts from Tokyo and neighboring prefectures since January 29. Political situation in Japan was changed greatly since the peace Celebrating the 70th anniversary of museums was opened in 2007: the ruling the boat, we invite painting of the 5th party was the LDP, but it was changed to Lucky Dragon boat from children. the Democratic Party and then the LDP Any painting with free imagination is became dominant again. The second welcome such as the fishing boat which Abe regime since 2012 has denied children saw at the exhibition hall, the constitutionalism by establishing the boat sailing toward a port of peace, the Special Secret Protection Law in 2013, boat surrounded by children appealing forced passage of Security related law in peace and so forth. September 2015 and controversial The deadline is August 31st. anti-terror conspiracy law recently, Works of prize winner will be exhibited covering up a scandal of selling at the exhibition hall in October. All state-owned land to Moritomo school the applicants will be sent a illegally with help of Prime Minister Abe commemorative item. and so forth: national administration is misappropriated for Abe’s personal use. The Japanese Constitution, peace and The 10th Anniversary of democracy that we established and Yamanashi Peace Museum maintained after the end of WWII is in danger. I also think that the value of the Director Tamotsu Asakawa Yamanashi Peace Museum in society is also questioned. I would like to make Ten years have passed since new steps studying the past to learn new Yamanashi Peace Museum was opened things. I hope that you will continue to on May 26 in 2007 in Kofu City. We support us with your cooperation and had the 10th anniversary on June 25 encouragement. inviting Mr. Ukeru Magosaki as a The planned exhibition on Tanzan lecturer. Fortunately we had over Cabinet and Tanzan Ishibashi 14.000 visitors during this period. A (1884-1973) was closed and new feature exhibition was held every six exhibition of “Port of Peace” was opened months and a feature event was on June 4 in 2017. A book called The 10 organized actively. The peace museum Year History of Port of Peace (112 pages

- 7 - 1000 yen) will be published in August children in war, it reminded me of and main points will be exhibited using Kathe’s lithograph of “Don’t Grind panels, newsletters, newspaper articles Seeds into Powder” and so forth. I hope that you will visit the peace museum.

Peace Aichi and Kathe Kollwitz

Peace Aichi: Yutaka Maruyama

There will be an exhibition on Mother and child in Toshi’s Chihiro Iwasaki this summer. There was Hiroshima Panles reminded me of an exhibition on Hiroshima Panels in Kathe’s work of Pieta: Mother holding March. Both Mr. & Mrs. Maruki and her Dead Son.” Iwasaki are connected at Peace Aichi, Toshi was greatly influenced by which is epoch-making. Kathe’s art works at an art museum in In the exhibition by Maruki, their Moscow before WWII. She must have sketch of nude was talked about among talked about her impression to Chihiro. visitors. This is because the model was It is possible to see similar way of life in Chihiro Iwasaki. As it is known, Chihiro their art works. studied under Toshi Maruki. Their way of expression was totally different, but they are essentially connected. I guess that the reason is that both of them were Kyoto Museum for World Peace influenced by Kathe Kollwitz who was at Ritsumeikan University oppressed by Hitler, a German female artist. I saw her lithograph called Expert advisor: Kazuyo Yamane “Don’t Grind Seeds into Powder” in a school textbook of World History A special photo exhibition of Days published by Jukkyou Shuppan in 1984 Japan was held from April 15 to July 9 for the first time. I was impressed by 2017. Various current issues such as mother who glared at someone holding war, poverty, environmental issues, etc. her face resolutely holding her three are dealt with by Days Japan that children. I asked questions to my question the way the media should be students: “who does the mother glaring today. Prizes are given to international at?”, “what does it meant to grind seeds journalists by Days Japan, which is the into powder? ” and “Who is the mother?” first one in Japan. Themes are various When I saw Chihiro’s painting of such as photographs that report lost mother and a child in an exhibition of dignity of human beings and nature,

- 8 - express their dignity, heartwarming stories, and documentary works on nature 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 held from 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: the Poster on Workshop on Refugees by Setsu themes are the battle in Okinawa, US Morii, a student of Ritsumeikan University military bases in Okinawa and so forth from people’s viewpoints. A film called Human Battlefields by Exchanges of Ideas between Museum Koichi Hirokawa was shown and his on 731 Unite and Grassroots House lecture was given on May 4th. So many people attended it that there were not Vice Director: Keisuke Okamura enough seats. Kyoto Museums for World Peace Director of Museum of 731 Unit celebrated its 25th anniversary on May (Site of Former Japanese Germ Corpe. 19th. It is the first peace museum that No.731) and four other people was founded in university in the world visited Grassroots House in on the 19th of May, 1992. It promotes March 2016. We agreed on peace education and peace building exchanging ideas in the future. Four collaborating with the community as members of the Grassroots House visited well as national and international the Museum for 731 Unite in June 2017. network of museums for peace. Keisuke Okamura, the vice director of Peace Education and Research Grassroots House, introduced activities Institute was founded in 2016 and there of Grassroots House to over 30 staff is a plan of renewal of the exhibitions in members of the museum on 73d1 Unit 2020. Various issues (such as conflicts, about an hour. He made clear that human rights, wealth gaps, education, Japanese doctors of 731 Unit gave secret environmental issues, etc.) are dealt with documents of human experiments to the through exhibitions, education and USA after WWII, which made it possible research. for them to receive immunity from their Student staff members organized a war responsibility. Japanese doctors workshop on refugee issues in Iraq on were used to cover facts of atomic June 14th and many students attended it. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as

- 9 - well as US hydrogen bomb tests on the for 60 years. It also made clear why Bikini Atolls in Marshall Islands in order this historical fact at Bikini Atolls was to support US nuclear development. hidden by the US and Japanese Their followers under-estimated damage governments, and also issues of national by radiation after nuclear accidents in reparation for damage by US nuclear Fukushima. Mr. Okamura made clear tests. that such dark legacy continues to exist The book includes the Treaty to Ban in modern Japan. Nuclear Weapons adopted at the United Both museums agreed that they Nations: the preamble and Article 6 would promote friendly relationship and which pointed out the importance of research historical facts together. helping 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 events Oka Masaharu Memorial were carried out. Nagasaki Peace Museum There are various events such as 35th Peace Star Festival(7/2 ～ 7/31), 34th Secretary General: Noboru Sakiyama Peace Concert(7/2), 34th Peace Art Exhibition(7/4～7/9), 39th exhibition on Director Yasunori Takazane passed War and Peace(7/9～7/17), 34th Peace away on April 7 because of heart failure. Film Festival(7/15 、 7/16), 21st Peace He was hospitalized because of Action in Kochi(7/22), 11th Concert at pneumonia last fall. We are very sorry Entai (a former place for airplane that he could not recover though we kept emplacement)(8/27) and so forth. The praying for his recovery. We had a 21st National Symposium for Preserving farewell meeting to Prof. Yasunari War Remains will be held in Kochi. Takazane on May 7th and cherished his ℡: 088-875-1275 activities for peace. We decided to A book called Notebook on Nuclear follow his wishes for peace and Damage at Bikini Atolls: Researching reconciliation again. Hidden Truth afterr 60 years of US We had a board meeting on April Nuclear Tests was published. It is 27th and chose Mr. Naohiro Sonoda as testimony of 32 fishermen who were the director and decided to carry on Prof. exposed to radiation by US nuclear tests Takazane’s wishes. in 1954. The book made clear hiding By the way, we made a new corner truth and lies by Japanese government on war resisters on August 2nd in 2016.

- 10 - We realized Mr. So Sung as well as Mr. took them to the exhibitions in the peace Masaharu Oka. museum and Tower of Himeyuri and we We organized a trip to Germany from had time for questions and answers. August 27th to September 3 in 2016. Seven survivors of Himeyuri Student The purpose was to see German COs Corps talked about their war who worked at Oka Masaharu Memorial experiences in the battle in Okinawa and Peace Museum, exchange ideas with emphasized that war should never be members of Peace Forum of Germany repeated in the time for questions and and Japan and learned how Germany answers. There are young bus guides dealt with the past. Director Takazane and such an occasion is a good chance was the group leader and nine people for them to learn the survivors’ strong visited there including a college student. wishes for peace through learning from We welcomed Mr. Zhu Chengshan, them. the honorary director of Nanjing A study meeting was held for peace Massacure Museum on December 3rd in guides of various organizations on 2016. March 19th. It was related to a special I visited Nanjing to attend the exhibition on teachers who took ceremony for victims of Nanjing students as Himeyuri Students Corps to Massacre with two college students on battlefields. There are former teachers Dec. 11-16. We joined a group called who work as peace guides and some of Meishinkai whose head was Ms. Tamaki them felt that the time in the past is Matsuoka. I strongly felt that we similar to current situation and they should realize missions of the peace could imagine the past as their own life museum in order to convey the history to event. The special exhibition was young generations. planned to close at the end of March, but it was held until late in November because it was so popular. This was an Himeyuru Peace Museum exhibition for many people, especially teachers and staff members of schools Curator Katsumi Maedomari who teach children. Four members of the peace museum A lecture for peace was given four attended the INMP conference held in times during winter vacation in Belfast in April. They made a December 2016. Such a lecture is presentation and learned much given in summer because families visit participating in the conference and the peace museum. We held a guide visiting other peace museums. I am tour of exhibition for teachers on Dec. sure that they will use lessons learned in 24th 2016. the future. Members of the Japanese We also gave a lecture to bus guides Citizens’ Network of Museums for and peace guides on March 13th. We Peace took good care of them, which we

- 11 - appreciate. Sydney University Press. We have a plan of making an exhibition on how to convey war ✴Mr. Ariyuki Fukushima, Hiroshima Peace experiences to future generations as well Memorial Museum, is a peace researcher with high inquiry capability, and has been as the peace trip to Europe in December. continuing to introduce research literatures on peace museums published in Japan for Tel:098-997-2100 Fax:098-997-2102 Japanese scholars, educationalists, students and peace museum workers. HP http://www.himeyuri.or.jp

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The Japanese version of abstracts of

papers presented at the 9th INMP conference at Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K. during 10th-13th April, 2017 was edited by Anzai and Yamane, which was originally prepared for the participants from 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 edited

by Anzai and Yamane in cooperation Dancing Tree by Pegge Patten(USA) with volunteers, and will be published

on the INMP website.

Supposed target of atomic bombing

2017 National Gathering of the Japanese News on Museums for Peace Overseas Citizens’ Network of Museums for

Peace The INMP News is available in to be Held in December in Kyoto Japanese on the following website.

The 2017 national gathering above http://www.museumsforpeace.org/news/ will be held at Kyoto Museum for newsletters.html World Peace, Ritsumeikan University,

on the 9th and 10th of December, 2017. Publication According to the interim program, Citizen Power: Postwar Reconciliation Professor Akira Ide, Otemon University, by Yasuko Claremont. Published by will make a memorial lecture on

- 12 - so-called “Dark Tourism.” Members of the network will then make reports on their activities in the past year, and exchange views on common concerns. In the afternoon on the second day, they will visit Kyoto Railway Museum, approximately 20 minute walk from Kyoto Station. It was formerly Umekoji Steam Loco-motive Museum until 2016 which was once one of the first targets of atomic bombing in 1945. The museum is located almost in the middle of Kyoto basin, and the railway turntable there was thought to be the most attractive target of atomic bombing by U.S. Kyoto Railway Museum is the biggest railway museums in Japan which is owned by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and is operated by Transportation Culture Promotion Foundation.

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