Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum | |
Native Name: | 万世特攻平和祈念館 |
Address: | 1955-3 Kasedatakahashi |
Location Town: | Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture |
Location Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 31.4372°N 130.2953°W |
Opened Date: | 1993 |
is a war museum in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. Opened in 1993, the museum commemorates the 201 airmen from the who died in a kamikaze attack in the final months of the Pacific War.[1] [2] [3] Hichiro Naemura, a flight instructor at the Bansei base in 1945, spearheaded the effort to establish this institution as a memorial to his fallen comrades.[4]