{"id":5065,"date":"2026-08-21T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:45:22","slug":"akitsushima-island-of-dragonflies-comes-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/akitsushima-island-of-dragonflies-comes-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibir \u2013 A History That United Poland and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWe warmly invite you to the special exhibition \u201cSibir \u2013 Prison of Nations: Poland and Japan \u2013 Stories of Memory and Solidarity,\u201d presented in Japan for the first time \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo.\nAugust 8, 2026 \u2013 end of March 2027\nThis remarkable exhibition tells the story of Poles who were exiled, deported, and imprisoned by the Russian and Soviet systems of repression, as well as the memory of these experiences that has survived across generations. The Japanese edition of the exhibition has been enriched with a special chapter highlighting the history that connects Poland and Japan. Visitors will learn about the life of Bronis\u0142aw Pi\u0142sudski \u2014 an outstanding Polish researcher associated with Hokkaido and Ainu culture \u2014 as well as the story of Polish Siberian children who found refuge in Japan following the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. We warmly invite you to visit the exhibition and discover the story that brought Poland and Japan together during one of the most difficult periods of the 20th century.     \n<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\" style=\"display: flex; justify-content: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/attachment-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2316\" style=\"object-fit:cover; width: 60%\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We warmly invite you to the special exhibition \u201cSibir \u2013 Prison of Nations: Poland and Japan \u2013 Stories of Memory and Solidarity,\u201d presented in Japan for the first time \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo. August 8, 2026 \u2013 end of March 2027 This remarkable exhibition tells the story of Poles who were exiled, deported, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polandjapanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}