Chiran Peace Museum kagoshima
It is a Chiran Peace Museum that my friend taught me when I went to Kagoshima in July 2020.
I didn’t know this place until my friend told me.
First of all, what I came to realize was the misery of war and the importance of peace
The airbase at Chiran, Minamikyūshū, on the Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima, Japan, served as the departure point for hundreds of Special Attack or kamikaze sorties launched in the final months of World War II. A peace museum dedicated to the pilots, the Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots ( Chiran Tokkō-Heiwa-Kaikan), now marks the site.
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Kamikaze ( [kamiꜜkaze]; “divine wind” or “spirit wind”), officially Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (“Special Attack Unit”), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks. About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war, and more than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by kamikaze attacks.[2]
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Outside the museum
Exhibits such as materials that convey the war at that time from the outer circumference
Museum admission
Admission fee is 500 yen for adults
When you enter the museum, you will notice the large paintings.
A figure that 6 celestial maidens rescue the spirits of a special attacker and ascend from a fighter that raises flames and burns
Zero fighter
I couldn’t take a picture in the main exhibition room, which was a ban on photography, but when I was looking at the letters of the innumerable special attackers who were on display, it became empty and tears came.
I couldn’t stop crying when I was reading the letters of a young man who became a special attacker at the age of 17, a man who had a wife and children, and a man who had a wife.
Most of the letters were written to mothers, and many other letters were written to protect the country.
A special attacker was sleeping overnight next to the museum. The triangular barracks are reproduced
Triangular barracks
This is a restoration of the semi-underground triangular barracks that had been in use until the special attackers had set out in Sugibayashi.
In the triangular barracks, the members were writing insignia on the national flag and writing wills and letters to send to their hometowns.
I learned about modern history in World War II, and I didn’t know about this place during the class from elementary school to high school, so I learned about history and realized the importance of peace. On the way home that day, I thought about peace and Japan.
I pray for a peaceful world
GARA GARA PON！
Writer/garapei
