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Muse No. 35 Japanese Citizens Network of Museums for Peace 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.
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