Peace prayer display museum(Shinjuku Sumitomo building)

"The peace prayer display museum" is established as the place to inherit by telling the slavery of the war experience to the 31th floor Shinjuku Sumitomo buildings in the skyscraper town. The independent administrative agency peace prayer display museum is doing a management and to be due to World War II is noble. "IWAYURU" for the war sacrifice to strike and to pray for eternal peace at the same time It is the organization which was established based on "the law about the peace prayer business special foundation and so on" in 1988 to deepen the understanding of the people about the slavery of the pension disqualified person, the postwar compulsion detainee, the people of the repatriate and so on. Peace prayer museum in Okinawa Prefecture, too, is a museum by the same organization.
It consists of "introduction", "the pension disqualified person corner", "being a compulsion internment corner after the war", "the draw corner from the foreign countries" and "the place to inherit a talk", dividing display contents roughly. In the entrance, when entering, a chronological table from the Showa first year begins with the pasted introduction and the status of spot "the summoning red paper" and "the army notebook", "the overcoat which is against the cold weather which is without sleeves", the life of accommodating abroad and the state of the draw and so on are easy-to-understand and then is vividly displayed. A display is done as the place which it is said that it does for the war to end and for 60 to pass and to weather a war experience, too, and it is inherited. The entry is free of charge. Because the inside of the building was photography prohibited, it includes only status outside.

The the 31th floor Sumitomo building floor

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