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Revising the Past, Complicating the Future: The Yushukan War Museum in Modern Japanese History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Takashi Yoshida
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In this three part series, we introduce historical museums in Japan and their role in public education. Following this introduction to peace museums, Ms. Nishino Rumiko, a founder of the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM), introduces WAM's activities and the 2000 Citizens Tribunal on the ‘comfort women’. The final article is by Mr. Kim Yeonghwan, the former associate director of Grassroots House Peace Museum who describes the peace and reconciliation programs that the Museum sponsors.

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Part 3: Sites of Japanese Memory: Museums, Memorials, Commemoration
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Special Issue S7: Course Reader No. 7. The Politics of Memory in Japan and East Asia , January 2013 , pp. 399 - 408
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Notes

[1] Terabayashi Nobuaki, “‘Nihon no hakubutsukan ni okeru Meiji-ki iko no senso kankei shi tenji no genkyo to kokusai kankei ninshiki no kadai ni tsuite’ ni kansuru hakubutsukan ankêto chosa ichiran” (A Survey of Museum Exhibitions Regarding “Contemporary Exhibits of the History of Wars Since the Meiji Period in Japanese Museums and Their Perceptions of International Relations”). This report, funded by the Japanese government, was printed in 2004.

[2] “The National Defense Hall: A Newly Opened Museum in Kudan Where You Can Learn Everything about Weapons,” Boy's Club 21:6 (June 1934), p. 37.

[3] Yasukuni jinja Yushukan, Yushukanshi (The History of the Yushukan), 1938, p. 477. Yasukuni jinja Yushukan, Yushukan (The Yushukan War Musuem), 1941, p. 23.

[4] Ohara Yasuo, Yasukuni jinja Yushukan no sekai (The World of Yasukuni Shrine's Yushukan War Museum), p. 96.

[5] Toshifumi Murakami, “The Role which Peace Museums Should Play,” in Exhibiting Peace: The Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Peace Museums, ed. Ritsumeikan University, 1999, p. 50.

[6] Hanaoka no chi Nit-Chu fusaisen yukohi o mamorukai (Association to Preserve the Hanaoka Monument in the Name of Friendship and Peace with China), Hanaoka jiken goju shunen kikanshi (A Booklet Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hanaoka Incident, pp. 191209.

[7] Park Kyong Sik, Chosenjin kyosei renko no kiroku (Record of Forced Mobilizations of Koreans), (Tokyo: Miraisha, 1965).

[8] See, for example, Jon Junkerman, Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima (First Run Features, 1986), a 58 minutes DVD.

[9] See, for example, Fujioka, Nobukatsu and Nishio Kanji, Kokumin noyudan (Negligence of the Nation), (Tokyo: PHP kenkyujo, 1996). Kobayashi Yoshinori, Sensoron (On War), (Tokyo: Gentosha, 1998).

[10] Tanaka Nobumasa, Senso no kioku (Memory of the War), (Tokyo: Rokufu shuppan), pp. 246-95.

[11] A leaflet titled “Invitation to the Society of the Friends of the Yushukan” (Yushukan tomo no kai no shiori), available at the Yushukan in 2003.

[12] See a statement on the museum website here.