"Military mail" exhibition sent by soldiers from the battlefield to hometown Tokyo Bunkyo-ku January 24 16:40
Soldiers who have gone to the battlefield during the Pacific War have sent letters and postcards to families in their hometown, and an exhibition of "military mail" is being held in Tokyo.
The exhibition is being held at the `` Wadatsuminokoe Memorial Hall '' in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, which displays the notes of students who died in the battle and the students who died in the war, and about 50 `` military mails '' during the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War are on display It has been.
A letter sent to a sister by a man who has joined a school spells out the words, "Please study hard so as not to lose to the outside world." In addition, a letter sent by another man to his wife spelled the words saying, "I have a hair that I handed to Kuniko, so I can die with peace of mind."
This time, the military mail held in the exhibition hall in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture is also specially displayed. At that time, a part of 7000 letters sent to his teacher from more than 900 students who went to the battlefield said, `` The corpse builds a mountain, and the smell smells like a nose. '' Looking back on when he died in the war, he said, "When you die, you say your mother first." Also, his thoughts on his hometown are written, such as "leaves of the trees fall down and the inner lands cannot be remembered more and more."
`` Since 75 years have passed since the war, people have become unable to speak, so please think about the war through the misery of the battlefield and the thoughts of soldiers in the letter, '' said Masahiko Yamabe, director of the Wadatsu Minokoe Memorial Museum. I was talking.
The exhibition is open until next month.