ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of history education and activism in unearthing of Sapporo city's history. A movement began with the aims of recording air raids and war devastation for educational purposes, preserving war sites and artifacts, building museums and realizing a law to support those disabled during the war. In 1997, the Japan Association for Preservation of Cultural Properties, History Educationalist Conference of Japan and other groups formed the National Network for the Preservation of War Sites. Putting together the information in all these presentations and the newspaper article, the author wrote 'The real account of the Sapporo air raid' for the official city history magazine Sapporo History. The plan for junior and senior high school included showing signal records from American ships and reconnaissance planes. The only towns that were subjected to naval bombardment were Muroran, Kamaishi, Hitachi and Hamamatsu.
