First edition: August 8, 2004
Published by
Himeyuri Alumnae and Himeyuri Peace Museum

●A4/160 pages ¥1,100-

A new 2004 edition of the comprehensive museum guidebook to all the exhibits, including the written testimonies exhibited in Chamber 4.

First edition: June 23, 1989.
Revised 2nd edition: March 1, 2005.
Revised 3rd edition: October 1, 2014.
A revised version edited and published by
the Himeyuri Peace Museum Archives Committee
Published by Himeyuri Alumnae

●A5/244 pages ¥1,500-

Contains portraits and episodes of 227 Himeyuri students and their teachers who were killed in the Battle of Okinawa. Written and edited by the archives committee of the Himeyuri Alumnae, based on compiled interviews with Himeyuri survivors detailing what they remembered about both the lives and deaths of their lost classmates and teachers.

Published June 1, 2006
Edited and Published by Himeyuri Alumnae

●A4/380 pages ¥3,000- [not for sale]

The Himeyuri Peace Museum overcame a number of obstacles before its opening, such as securing space for the museum and coming up with an appropriate way to exhibit the gama (natural cave). The book, covering the period before the opening of the museum until 2001, is a detailed description of the Himeyuri Alumnae and survivors of the Himeyuri Student Corps and their arduous activities working together to accomplish their goal—opening the museum—and their peace activities afterwards.

Published June 5, 2004
Edited and Published by Himeyuri Alumnae

●A5/256 pages ¥2,000- [not for sale]

Both the Female Division of the Okinawa Normal School and the Okinawa High School for Girls were closed as of 1945 since their campuses had been completely destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa. Their alumnae, however, published the 1987 version of The History of Okinawa Female Normal School and Girls’ High School in order to preserve the history of those Himeyuri schools for future generations. This 2004 version is a sequel, describing their activities from 1987 to 2004. It was published so that subsequent generations can learn and remember the experiences of the Himeyuri graduates now that even the youngest of them are in their 70s.

Published annually on June 23
“Visitors’ Responses” Committee, Himeyuri Peace Museum
Published by Himeyuri Peace Museum,
founded by Himeyuri Alumnae

●A5/approx. 200 pages [not for sale]

The museum receives about 20,000 responses every year, and those responses are the biggest support for the survivors of the Himeyuri Student Corps. Every response or opinion is valid and becomes an important suggestion for the museum to further improve its management and exhibits. Out of the 20,000 responses, 200 are selected to be published in the annual booklet Himeyuri: Visitors’ Responses. The booklets are sent free of charge to schools in Okinawa and to schools outside of Okinawa whose students visited the museum as part of their school trips.

Issued annually on May 30
Edited and issued by Himeyuri Peace Museum,
founded by Himeyuri Alumnae

●A5 [not for sale]

An annual newsletter that includes general information about the Himeyuri Peace Museum, the Himeyuri Alumnae Foundation, which founded the museum, and information about the museum’s activities and visitors.

Published December 1, 2000
Edited and published by Himeyuri Peace Museum

●B5/74 pages [not for sale]

This is the first volume of the archives series that is published by the museum. Included is information about the erectin of the Himeyuri Cenotaph and its changing outlook, the postwar life of the Himeyuri survivors, the activities of the Himeyuri Alumnae, and the founding the Himeyuri Peace Museum. The volume also contains lists of books, films, articles, and papers related to the Himeyuri, as well as a chronology of the events after the war.

Published March 1, 2002
Edited and published by Himeyuri Peace Museum

●B5/60 pages [not for sale]

This volume introduces the history of the Female Division of the Okinawa Normal School (Okinawa Female Normal School) and the Okinawa Prefectural High School for Girls (Okinawa Girls’ High School). It also shows pictures of their campuses, dormitory life, and classes from the pre-war period, when students at the Himeyuri schools were leading happy school lives, just like junior and senior high school students today, up until the period starting in 1944 when they and their schools were gradually driven to participate in the war. The volume also includes other information such as a glossary and a chronology useful for a better understanding of the Himeyuri schools.

Published December 1, 2004
Edited and published by
Himeyuri Peace Museum, founded by Himeyuri Alumnae

●B5/190 pages ¥500- (Out of stock)

This is the 3rd volume of The Himeyuri Peace Museum Archives, following volumes 1 and 2, which were published non-periodically: Vol.1, entitled “Postwar for the Himeyuri,” and Vol. 2, “Himeyuri Schools,” both of which were not for sale and have been out of stock. This volume focuses in particular on the period from March 23, 1945, just after the Himeyuri Student Corps was mobilized to the Okinawa Army Hospital until the students who survived were interned in camps. In addition to the students mobilized to the student corps, the volume includes information about the Himeyuri students who were not mobilized to the battlefield but who were killed in the war. Their names appear in different kinds of detailed documents providing comprehensive information about the Himeyuri Student Corps: (1) a list of the Himeyuri Student Corps members; (2) a list of the mobilized and those who died; and (3) the names of students who perished who were not Himeyuri Student Corps members. The volume also contains a chronology of the Himeyuri Student Corps and maps of war sites related to the Himeyuri Student Corps.

Published March 31, 1999
Edited and published by Himeyuri Peace Museum

●A4/182 pages ¥2,000- (Out of stock)

This is a report on the Himeyuri Peace Museum’s 10th anniversary special exhibition to commemorate all the student corps in the Battle of Okinawa, telling the stories of the students from all 12 boys’ high schools and 9 girls’ high schools in Okinawa in those days, how they were mobilized to the war, and how a number of them lost their lives during the battle.

Published March 20, 2002
Edited and published by Himeyuri Peace Museum

●A4/62 pages ¥1,200- (Out of stock)

Seizen Nakasone, a teacher who accompanied his students from the Himeyuri schools to the battleground, dedicated the rest of his life to promoting peace. The museum highlighted the activities of this respected teacher through a special exhibition. The guidebook contains a variety of materials that were on display in addition to his writings and the contents of a videotape shown at the exhibition.

Published January 31, 2004
Edited and Published by Himeyuri Peace Museum

●A4/76 pages ¥1,000- (Out of stock)

For the survivors of the Himeyuri Student Corps, life after the war was not easy because of emotional pain coming from a sense of guilt that they survived while their classmates perished. This booklet is a report on the special exhibition that depicted the postwar lives of the Himeyuri survivors who entirely dedicated themselves to peace activities, which they thought was their mission as survivors.

Published December 1, 2005
Edited by the Planning Committee,
Himeyuri Peace Museum
Published by Himeyuri Peace Museum,
founded by Himeyuri Alumnae

●A4/48 pages ¥1,000- (Out of stock)

Stationed at the Okinawa Army Hospital were not only the Himeyuri Student Corps but also army doctors, nurses, and medics, who were all working hard to save soldiers’ lives. On the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa in August and September 2005, the museum had a special exhibition, “The Battle of Okinawa for the Nurses at the Okinawa Army Hospital,” in order to inform a wider audience about the efforts and activities of doctors and nurses working at the Okinawa Army Hospital. This book is a comprehensive guide to the special exhibition, which showed the chronology of the hospital, mobilization to the hospital, medical activities in Haebaru, and the retreat to the south.