Tokyo Fox (東京狐)

Tokyo is absolutely packed full of museums and just when you think you’re aware of most of them you hear of another that has somehow bypassed you. I came across this one about 13 months ago whilst touring around Tokyo using my Grutto Museum pass to maximum effect. This one wasn’t included in that pass as it’s free to enter for all.

With a curiosity about the vast geographical region of Siberia and ever interested by any war-related museum, I was keen to check this place out as I thought it was about the Japanese intervention in Siberia (1918-1922) but it was actually to do with the Japanese prisoners of war at the end of WWII. It’s called Heiwa Kinen Tenji Shiryokan which in English is the not-so-simply named Memorial Museum for Soldiers, Detainees in Siberia, and Postwar Repatriates!

This small museum consists of three main zones designed to present the hardships suffered in WWII by Japanese soldiers, prisoners of war, and repatriates in a permanent exhibition of relics, graphics, footage and dioramas that can help ensure that the memory of what they were subjected to is  Continue reading →