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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
We Need an Alternative Peace Museum in Hiroshima -- Questioning the Hiroshima-centred War Memory in Japan (10th INMP Conference Presentation) 第10回世界平和博物館会議発表「広島にはもう一つのミュージアムが必要」
We Need an Alternative Peace Museum in Hiroshima -- Questioning the Hiroshima-centred War Memory in Japan
Satoko Oka Norimatsu
Abstract:
Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII this year, the author problematizes the general lack of recognition in the Japanese war memory for the history of the Empire of Japan’s seven decades of colonial rule and aggressive wars. This tendency is prevalent even in the “peace,” “anti-war,” and “anti-nuclear” communities, accentuated by what the author calls the “Hiroshima Historical View,” which centres itself around the Japanese suffering in the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This view of history omits what led up to the atomic bombing and depicts the event as a sudden tragedy that befell the otherwise “peaceful” lives of Japan's innocent people. The newly renovated Hiroshima Peace Museum is no exception. It neither touches upon Japan’s invasions of neighbouring countries and Hiroshima's role in them, nor does it point to the United States’ responsibility for the evil that it committed. The author will discuss how such sanitization of historical responsibilities contributes to today’s acceptance of the U.S.-Japan military alliance that enables further buildup in the region, including Iwakuni and Kure, constituting a permanent “war capital” identity of Hiroshima. The author will conclude by presenting a vision for an alternative museum in Hiroshima.
On September 20, 2020, I organized a member-hosted special event with my colleagues Yuki Tanaka, a historian based in Melbourne, Australia and Akari Kojima and Yoshiki Kanai, members of a new social action group RADICAL BANANA.
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