{"id":146031,"date":"2022-04-20T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=146031&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:34:37","slug":"city-of-peace-museum-opens-in-kitakyushu-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/city-of-peace-museum-opens-in-kitakyushu-city\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Peace Museum Opens in Kitakyushu City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new museum to pass on the story of war and peace opened in Kitakyushu City on March 19. Mayor Kitahashi and war veterans attended the opening ceremony to celebrate the opening. The &#8220;City of Peace Museum&#8221; was built in Katsuyama Park on the site of the former Kokura Army Arsenal, which was an arms factory during the war. A life-size model of an incendiary device and 150 valuable documents convey the tragedy of war and the preciousness of life 77 years after the end of the war. <\/span><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=8518357&amp;ymd=2022-04-19\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KBC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146032\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fnn_kitakyushu-peace-museum_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1783%2C1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"City of Peace Museum Opens in Kitakyushu City\" width=\"1783\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fnn_kitakyushu-peace-museum_2022_cl.jpg?w=1783&amp;ssl=1 1783w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fnn_kitakyushu-peace-museum_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fnn_kitakyushu-peace-museum_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C689&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fnn_kitakyushu-peace-museum_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C517&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fnn_kitakyushu-peace-museum_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1536%2C1034&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitakyushu-peacemuseum.jp\/index.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kitakyushu Peace Museum official web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English reliably.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. 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Mayor Kitahashi and war veterans attended the opening ceremony to celebrate the opening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":146037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-146031","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/146031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}