Kaiten Memorial Museum

Kaiten Memorial Museum (回天記念館, Kaiten Kinen-kan) is a museum on the island of Ōzushima in the Inland Sea, in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, dedicated to the history and memory of the Kaiten, a Special Attack Unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The museum first opened near the remains of the island's training base in 1968, reopening in today's building in 1998. The collection of some one thousand items includes wills, letters, uniforms, personal belongings, and photographs. The displays combine these exhibits with information panels on the background and history of the unit and the lives of those served in it. The museum is "a facility for learning about Peace through the minds and hearts of the Kaiten".[note 1][1][2]

Kaiten Memorial Museum
回天記念館
Map of Japan marked with the location of Kaiten Memorial Museum
Map of Japan marked with the location of Kaiten Memorial Museum
Kaiten Memorial Museum
General information
Address1960 Ōzushima
Town or cityShūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture
CountryJapan
Coordinates33°59′36″N 131°43′03″E
Opened1968
Renovated1998
Website
Official website (ja)

See also

Notes

  1. 「「回天」の心を通じ平和について学習する施設」

References

  1. 回天記念館展示内容 [Kaiten Memorial Museum and its Exhibits] (in Japanese). Shūnan City. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. Seaton, Philip (2019). "Islands of "Dark" and "Light/Lite" Tourism: War-Related Contents Tourism around the Seto Inland Sea". Japan Review. International Research Center for Japanese Studies. 33: 299–328, esp. 316–9. doi:10.15055/00007274.


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