East Asia: An International Quarterly articles from September 2000

East Asia: An International Quarterly archives from September 2000

FROM THE EDITOR.
September 22, 2000... Certainly one of the most troublesome unresolved problems facing many Asian and Western countries after the Asia Pacific war (1931-1945) is the question of the atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army throughout Asia and the Japanese...

JAPAN'S WAR RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PAN-ASIAN MOVEMENT FOR REDRESS AND COMPENSATION: AN OVERVIEW.
September 22, 2000... Most readers of East Asia may already be familiar with pan-Asian efforts seeking apology from Japan for crimes against humanity committed by the Japanese military during the Pacific War. The Nanjing Massacre and the sexual slavery of "Comfort...

BRINGING A JUST CLOSURE TO THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II IN ASIA: OPENING REMARKS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS' FORUM.
September 22, 2000... I would like to begin my remarks by noting that in his book entitled A Passion for Justice, Robert C. Solomon quotes the following words from Mencius: "Anyone without the heart of sympathy and compassion is not a human being, anyone without the...

ACCOUNTABILITY, JUSTICE, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MEMORY IN THE "ERA OF WAR".
September 22, 2000... Today we come together to begin sharing a deeply painful part of Asian history; but we are also ourselves making history today in more ways than one. We at Canadian Jewish Congress are indeed honored by the invitation to address such a...

JAPAN'S WAR CRIMES: HAS JUSTICE BEEN SERVED?
September 22, 2000... I am here today to address the issue of Japan's war crimes. I was invited to speak primarily because I authored an Assembly Joint Resolution in the 1999 session of the California State Legislature calling on Japan to formally apologize for war...

THE NANJING MASSACRE: THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS.
September 22, 2000... The savage cruelty of the Nanjing Massacre was an event seldom seen in human history. The physical and spiritual injury inflicted on the people by the invading Japanese troops were deep and massive. Using historical documents and close to 100...

JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN THE PACIFIC WAR: ONE ARMY SURGEON'S ACCOUNT OF VIVISECTION ON HUMAN SUBJECTS IN CHINA.
September 22, 2000... JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN THE PACIFIC WAR: ONE ARMY SURGEONS ACCOUNT OF VIVISECTION ON HUMAN SUBJECTS IN CHINA Introduction When human beings live within small groups and spend their days close to the rhythms of nature, their change of...

THE TOKYO APPEAL.
September 22, 2000... As the curtain for the 20th century soon will descend, it is time for us to reflect on these past one hundred years. In the first half of this century, Japan kept expanding its war of aggression, inflicting immense suffering and woe on the...

JAPAN'S HISTORICAL MYOPIA.
September 22, 2000... Teaching in 1999 at Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto, Japan, brought to my attention two different and yet closely related facts: the vast ignorance and misinformation that Japanese college students have concerning their own history, and the...