VIETNAM

Jan. 14—Feb. 19, 2006

• Jan. 14—Feb. 19, 2006
• Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
• Admission：Adults ￥800／College Students ￥700／High School and Junior High School Students,Over 65 ￥500

As well as two World Wars, other smaller-scale conflicts marred the 20th Century, leaving it with the unwanted title of the “century of war.” Inevitably, their tragic aftermath remains to be seen and felt around the world today. After World WarⅡ, many wars were intervened by the United States―the Korean War, the Gulf War and the Iraqi War. It is no exaggeration to say, however, that the Vietnam War far exceeded the others in terms of its military scale and the number of victims.
According to Vietnam News there were more than 2 million civilian victims, as well as over 1.1 million National Liberation Front (NFL) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers killed, including 300,000 who are still listed as missing. South Vietnam lost 223,748 soldiers, while 58,200 U.S. Army soldiers perished (2,211 of whom remain missing), along with 5,200 soldiers from the armies of South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.
After defeating the French in 1954 at the battle of Dien Bien Phu and finally ending the years of colonization, Vietnam continued to suffer from being divided into two during the Cold War era and, ultimately, being turned into a battlefield. The long hardship ended on April 30, 1975, with the electrifying fall of the South Vietnamese capital Saigon ― now known as Ho Chi Minh City. Even after unification, however, Vietnam continued to suffer under its new political regime.
A historic record of news reports were published on Vietnam War in quantity and quality. Hundreds of journalists plied their trade in Vietnam, risking their lives to get to the frontlines, where they wrote their eye-witness reports or aimed their cameras. Those photos have not faded, even 30 years later.
Most of the photos that were published previously, however, were from the South Vietnamese side. In this exhibition, “Another Vietnam,” we have tried to find photos taken from the North Vietnamese point of view in order to reflect on the war from both sides.
According to the Vietnam News Agency, a total of 256 North Vietnamese journalists lost their lives in the war, including many cameramen. Every image you see here was taken by cameramen risking their lives and the impression that is left behind cannot help but emotionally move the viewer.

	地域の人たちに見送られて ベトナム軍に入隊する若者たち (1966年) 北ベトナム・ハナム省で (撮影・Mai Nam)
	小銃で空爆の米軍機に立ち向かう北ベトナムの女性民兵、 後方に打ち落とされた米軍機の黒煙が上がっ ている (1972年) 北ベトナム(撮影・Mai Nam)