知事メッセージ
沖縄戦は、日本における県民を巻き込んだ唯一の地上戦であり、90日におよぶ激戦により、島々の姿は変わり果て、多くの尊い命とかけがえのない文化遺産を失いました。
沖縄県は、戦争の犠牲になった多くの御霊に哀悼の意を表し、二度と戦争を繰り返さないように、6月23日を「慰霊の日」に定めるとともに、戦争から学んだ教訓を正しく次世代に伝えるため、沖縄県平和祈念資料館や平和の礎の建設、沖縄平和賞の贈賞などの平和発信事業に取り組んできました。
沖縄戦が終結してから、74年を迎えようとしております。戦争を経験された方々の高齢化に伴い、戦争体験を聞く機会が減少しており、沖縄戦の記憶が、現実味のない記録へと風化するのではないかと危惧されています。
そこで、沖縄戦の記憶を語り継ぎ次世代へ継承するため、このたび、新しい平和発信の取り組みとして、「沖縄平和学習アーカイブ」を公開しております。
「沖縄平和学習アーカイブ」は、沖縄県平和祈念資料館と沖縄県公文書館が所蔵する資料を、デジタル化された地図上に重層表示した多元的デジタルアーカイブズです。1945年当時の体験談、写真、地図といった資料を、現在の航空写真、立体地形と重ねあわせ、時空を超えて俯瞰的に閲覧することができ、沖縄戦の実相を、多角的・総合的に学ぶことができます。
国や世代を超えて、多くの方々にこの沖縄平和学習アーカイブを利用して悲惨な沖縄戦の実相を知っていただけるよう、また、その平和学習を通して、平和を希求する心が育まれ、世界の恒久平和の創造に貢献できますことを強く願っています。
沖縄県知事
玉城デニー
Message from the Governor
The Battle of Okinawa was the only land battle that took place on Japanese soil. The fierce fighting, which continued for 90 days, left the islands were left devastated by its end, and countless precious lives and irreplaceable cultural assets were lost in the process.
Okinawa mourned and consoled the spirits of the many victims that were lost. To never repeat such tragedies of war and to pass on the lessons that we learned to the future generations, we have declared June 23rd “Okinawa Memorial Day” and worked on a number of projects to deliver our message of peace. These efforts include the establishment of the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum and the Cornerstone of Peace, and the awarding of the Okinawa Peace Prize.
We will soon mark the 74th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa. With the advancing years of those who survived the ravages of war, we are seeing a decline in opportunities to hear first-hand experiences of the Battle of Okinawa. Consequently and with this, we are left with a deep concern that the memories of that war will only remain in unconvincing and weathered records that may seem like tales far from reality.
With these concerns, we are setting forth on a new project to deliver our messages of peace and to pass on the memories of the Battle of Okinawa to the next generation, and opening the Peace Learning Archive in Okinawa to the public.
The Peace Learning Archive in OKINAWA is a pluralistic digital archive that displays documents and materials from the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Museum and Okinawa Prefectural Archives, multilayered on a digitalized map. The Archives will contain actual experiences, photographs, and maps from that time in 1945, overlaid with aerial photos taken in current as well as tridimensional terrain. It will allow the user to cross over time and space for a panoramic view of the Battle of Okinawa, and learn of the realities and plight of the war multilaterally and comprehensively.
It is our hope that through the Peace Learning Archive in OKINAWA, a great number of people across borders and generations will know about the tragic realities of the Battle of Okinawa. Through knowledge, our earnest wish is for all peoples to develop strong aspirations for, and bring to pass, everlasting peace throughout the world.
Denny Tamaki
Governor of Okinawa Prefecture