After Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, Maizuru city in Kyoto Prefecture received Japanese military and civilian repatriates mainly from northeastern China, the Korean peninsula, and Siberia. Maizuru city itself received approximately 660, 000 people in a 13-year period. Among the military repatriates there were many internees forced to do hard labor in Siberia, U. S. S. R. “ Documents Related to the Internment and Repatriation Experiences of Japanese (1945-1956)” in the city of Maizuru were selected for UNESCO World Memory Heritage registration in September 2015. This registration offered a chance to reconsider a“place that received military and civilian repatriates” and recall the local identity, and further, carry out a tourism policy related to peaceful learning in Maizuru.
This paper clarifies the development of the tourism policy from cultural resources and historical materials and how they can be used for restoration of regional history recognition through the case of Maizuru city.
