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60 minutes
Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum
対馬丸記念館Naha, Okinawa
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The Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum is a small museum in the Wakasa area of Naha. It preserves the story of the Tsushima-maru, a ship carrying evacuees that was sunk in 1944, and opened in August 2004 as a memorial project funded by the national government.
The ship left Naha on 21 August 1944 with about 1,800 people aboard, including more than 800 schoolchildren, and was torpedoed the next night by the US submarine USS Bowfin near Akusekijima island. Most of those aboard died, and the identified dead include 780 children. Portraits of the victims hang in the museum. The building is designed as an image of the ship: its roof stands about 10 meters high, the height of the deck above the waterline. The entrance is on the second floor like a gangway, and the stairs to the lower gallery recall the descent into the hold. Naminoue Shrine and Wakasa seaside park are nearby.
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