About Heiwa-no-tameno-Sensouten (the war exhibition for peace)

Heiwa-no-tameno-Sensouten (the war exhibition for peace) helps you learn the issue on the war and peace. It is held every summer before or after August 15 in Tokyo, and a couple of thousand of people usually come. At the site, you can see the paneled pictures and the goods used in wartime. It is run by the executive committee, which is formed by a variety of people with different backgrounds. There are both high school and college students, office workers, teachers, housewives and the retired no matter if they have any war experiences or not.

92-front We, the executive committee of our Sensouten, holds the exhibition in Tokyo every summer before or after August 15. The first Sensouten was held by the executive committee consisted of 25 organizations and 6 persons from various circles in 1980. Sensouten has been held every year since then.
At that time, those who have never experienced the hardships of the war accounted for more than half the population. Weathering of the memories of the war caused the movement towards the revival of the militarism. In 1978, the Japanese government agreed to give sympathy budget to the U.S. army in Japan, and the Cabinet council agreed to the guide of the joint efforts for the Japan-United States Security Defense (the former Guideline). In 1980, the second attack to the high school textbooks (especially on the Japanese history) was started by the people from the politics, business circles and right wings. They strengthened the official approving system to the textbooks on Japanese history, and forced the authors to change the word "invasion" to "advance".
Those who try to hand down the memories of their hardships in wartime to the next generation have started publishing books and arranging the exhibitions. Around this time, a variety of other exhibitions started all over the country. Kuusyuuten (the exhibition on air raid), Anne's Diary Exhibition and Himeyuri (a red star lily) Girls Unit in Okinawa Exhibition are all aiming at establishing the peace and hand it down to the next generation. Heiwa-no-tameno-Sensouten is one of these exhibitions, and there are several other sensoutens besides in Tokyo. Osaka, Kyoto, Wakayama, Saitama and more other cities have their own sensoutens.
Our Sensouten committee is managed by volunteers and donations.
92-goods Our Sensouten is made mainly by the paneled pictures. The topic and how to organize the exhibition are decided through the careful discussion by the committee members. Here is the brief sketch of the site.

1st section displays the actual condition of the Japanese invasive war.
2nd section introduces the insufficient way of Japanese government on the matter of questioning the war responsibility and the postwar compensation.
3rd section helps you learn how we can establish the peace, discussing the problem of revising the present Japanese constitution or the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
Special section is originally established when there is an important issue to be discussed.
High school students section helps you see the war through the eyes of the younger generation.
　There are also the sections of the goods in wartime, the mementos of the dead, the testimonies of the war witnesses and showing the videos.