Hiroshima peace museum unveils 1st chief's collection of materials

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum shows the press atomic bombing-related materials, collected by its late first director Shogo Nagaoka, on May 28, 2015, before transferring them to its building in the western Japanese city. The Nagaoka family donated nearly 12,000 items to the museum "not to waste my father's efforts," said Nagaoka's second son Renji (2nd from L). ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000070539

Registered date
2015/5/28 19:54:05

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
3968 × 2649 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
841.76(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Hiroshima to renovate iconic Rest House in peace park

Photo taken on Nov. 20, 2015, shows the Rest House in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, the only building in the park that looks the way it did prior to the 1945 atomic bombing. The Hiroshima municipal government announced the same day it plans to renovate the building to provide more resting space for tourists visiting the western Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Glass art museum opens in Toyama, central Japan

Ryoji Shibuya, pictured on Aug. 27, 2015, is the first director of the Toyama Glass Art Museum which opened at the end of the month in Toyama city. The central Japanese city has been promoting glass-based town-building since 1991, including the opening of a public school for glass artists, to attract young people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Guidebook critical of Osaka war museum published

Former high school teacher Kyoji Tomii shows a new guidebook, titled "Peace Osaka," for the Osaka International Peace Center, a war museum, in the western Japanese city on July 7, 2015. Tomii and four other former schoolteachers have compiled the guidebook to help visitors look critically at the center, which has removed exhibits and items showing the Japanese military's invasion of other countries and brutal deeds during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

CG-based image of Hiroshima A-bombing reproduced for peace museum

A computer graphics-based image of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima is projected on a floor screen in the western Japanese city on June 4, 2015, as one of sample exhibits to be chosen for display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum when it is reopened after renovation in 2018. But many members of a panel discussing the issue said it lacks a sense of reality, necessitating a review of the image. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Materials gathered by 1st head of Hiroshima peace museum unveiled

Atomic bombing-related materials, collected by the late Shogo Nagaoka, who served as the first director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, are shown to the press on May 28, 2015, before their transfer to the museum. The Nagaoka family donated nearly 12,000 items to the museum "not to waste my father's efforts," said Nagaoka's second son Renji (C). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

"Kamikaze" pilot museum to seek again UNESCO listing as world memory

Kampei Shimoide, mayor of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on May 13, 2015. He said the southwestern Japanese city will once again seek this year UNESCO recognition as a "Memory of the World" for a collection of materials related to World War II "kamikaze" suicide pilots kept at a peace museum in the city where their base was located during the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Transcripts by revolutionary feudal scholar Yoshida Shoin found

A detailed action plan handwritten by revolutionary 19th-century scholar and teacher Yoshida Shoin to convince his warlord to favor the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate is among 68 items of historical materials found recently and shown to the press on March 24, 2015, by a museum in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Transcripts by revolutionary feudal scholar Yoshida Shoin found

A memo handwritten by revolutionary 19th-century scholar and teacher Yoshida Shoin, including vocabulary in Dutch, is among 68 items of historical materials found recently and shown to the press on March 24, 2015, by a museum in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Transcripts by revolutionary feudal scholar Yoshida Shoin found

A handwritten list by revolutionary 19th-century scholar and teacher Yoshida Shoin of manuscript copies produced to earn income for running his school is among 68 items of historical materials found recently and shown to the press on March 24, 2015, by a museum in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The list, which recorded the names of publications transcribed and persons involved as well as the amount of payments received, bears Shoin's real first name Norikata. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Transcripts by revolutionary feudal scholar Yoshida Shoin found

Pages of a list handwritten by revolutionary 19th-century scholar and teacher Yoshida Shoin are among 68 items of historical materials found recently and shown to the press on March 24, 2015, by a museum in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. The document lists manuscript copies produced to earn income for running his school. The list, which recorded the names of publications transcribed and persons involved as well as the amount of payments received, bears Shoin's real first name Norikata. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo