After 10:00 am on the 20th, the Emperor and Empress visited the “Peace Memorial Museum” in a building in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, more than 54,000 people were killed in the “Siberian detention” in which the former Soviet Union transferred former Japanese soldiers and civilians from China and other places to Siberia.
In the museum, many tools used by the detainees are exhibited, and now, as a special exhibition, we introduce postcards sent to their families in Japan.
The couple spent regarding an hour viewing the exhibition.
Together with the Empress Emerita, the Emperor emperor faced the history of war, and during his reign, he visited Okinawa, the bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Saipan, the site of fierce battles in the Pacific Ocean, to mourn the souls of the war dead. rice field.
