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Kawasaki Peace Museum

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Kawasaki Peace Museum (Kawasaki-shi Heiwa-kan) is a peace museum that opened in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1992. The permanent display adopts a holistic approach, presenting poverty, hunger, and environmental issues alongside war as barriers to peace. The museum is one of ten institutions that came together in 1994 to establish the Association of Japanese Museums for Peace.

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