YOKAREN Peace Memorial Museum

Small Memorial

There are 7 sections at this memorial depicting the recruitment, training and deployment of these navy daughter pilots during WWII. All exhibits and explanations are in Japanese only. If you are into ...

Small Memorial

There are 7 sections at this memorial depicting the recruitment, training and deployment of these navy daughter pilots during WWII. All exhibits and explanations are in Japanese only. If you are into ...

Part of Japan and aviation history

While reading Saburo Sakai´s (japanese navy ace pilot) biography, he mentions earlier Tsuchiura as the place for his flight training. The museum shows how was training for the young boys to become nav...

Part of Japan and aviation history

While reading Saburo Sakai´s (japanese navy ace pilot) biography, he mentions earlier Tsuchiura as the place for his flight training. The museum shows how was training for the young boys to become nav...

unexpected

I visited here with a Japanese colleague when we were rained out of a hike to Mt. Tsukuba. This is a museum to the young men who were trained aviators in WWII, the yokaren, some of whom went on to bec...