July 22, 2019
Keio University
The Keio Osaka City Campus will co-host the special exhibition "Fragments of a Forgotten War" with the Fukuzawa Memorial Center for Modern Japanese Studies at Keio University, which is conducting ongoing research on students and university graduates from the war period. This exhibition delves into four themes that are not often addressed in exhibitions about the war.
(1) The Olympics and War (The achievements of pre-war university-graduate Olympians, their wartime experiences, and their deaths in combat)
(2) The Nakano School of the Imperial Japanese Army (Materials from the first class of students who studied at the Nakano School, known as an intelligence agent training institution)
(3) Ryoji Uehara and His Family (What do the vast materials from a family that lost three Keio University graduates in the war—a kamikaze pilot who left a famous last testament and his two brothers who also died in combat—tell us?)
(4) The Former Imperial Navy's Hiyoshidai Underground Headquarters (Artifacts and internal footage of the massive underground facility that still lies dormant beneath Keio University's Hiyoshi Campus)
Approximately 100 items, including original materials, photographs, videos, and VR content not usually open to the public, are scheduled to be exhibited. Exhibition commentaries and research presentations will also be held. We hope this will be an opportunity to reaffirm the social issue of "passing on wartime experiences" and to reconsider the role of "academics." We welcome members of the press to cover this event.
Please see below for the full press release.