This article aims to reveal how the movements to record air raids in Fukuoka began in 1970s, expanded in 1980s, and have continued until now. Fukuoka, which has the large industrial cities and the experience of the air raids and of the fortification for the Korean War, had invented the various peace movements by the labor union cultural circles in the context of anti-base movement since 1950s. In 1970s, these peace circles organized the Society to Record Air Raids in Kiakyushu-shi, Omuta-shi, and Fukuoka-shi on their own initiative, and began to collect the notes about the experiences of the air raids in Fukuoka and the sources of US Strategic Bombing Surveys. In 1980s, The Teacherʼs Union in Fukuoka, women’s groups, and Local Union and Junior Chamber in Amagi-Asakura area also proceeded to undertake the movements to record air raids.

After the latter half of the 1980s, there appeared various measures of the movements to record air raids. For example, the exhibition about air raids was held on Fukuoka-shi in 1985. Moreover, the movement for erection of the peace monument arose among the citizens of Omta city, involving the city assembly in 1988. In recent years, the memorizing of the achievements of the activists who have taken part in the movement to record air raids is proceeding.

These circumstances show that the movements to record air raids in Fukuoka have four features as follows. Firstly, “free agency” of the residents in each town led the movements sustainable. Secondly, cooperation with each civil group was based on “communality”. Thirdly, the participants of the movements shared “actuality”, their attitude to understand the Vietnam War or the environmental problems as their own problems. Lastly, the civil movements were “influential” in public policies by local government.