The Himeyuri Peace Museum in Itoman City, Okinawa Prefecture will be reopened on the 12th.
Prior to this, on the 11th, we visited an exhibition that was newly devised so that former student women could be passed down to the younger generation.
The Himeyuri Peace Museum is a facility that conveys the footsteps of the Himeyuri students who were mobilized as nursing staff during the Battle of Okinawa, and the contents of the exhibition have been renewed for the first time in 17 years.
On the 11th, former student women visited before the reopening.
The new exhibition was conceived mainly by postwar-born staff working at the museum, so that it is easier to imagine the process in which the school life that the female students at that time were having fun was gradually affected by the war. Photos and exhibits have been devised.
In addition, the burial of the body of a soldier who was carried at a field hospital is also shown concretely with illustrations.
Yoshiko Shimabukuro (93), a former student who was interviewed by the video conferencing system, said, "I think it was an easy-to-understand exhibition for generations who do not know the war. I want you to think about the weight. "