| Alliance for Preserving the
Truth of Sino-Japanese War
P.O. Box 2066, Cupertino, CA 95015-2066 U.S.A. |
Press Release
July 31, 2001
Japan's Distortion of History
Triggers
Protest Rally at State Building
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What:
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A walking photographic exhibit and victim testimony reading will be conducted by community groups, led by the "Rape of Nanking" Redress Coalition (RNRC) and the Alliance for preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War (APTSJW), outside the State Building in contrast to the photography exhibit inside which only glorifies Japan's post-war economic and political influence and neglects its continuing denial and distortion of the history of its wartime misdeeds. |
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Where:
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In front of the State Bldg. at 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco |
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When:
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5:30PM, July 31, 2001 (Tuesday) |
| A photographyic exhibit in the State Bldg at
455 Golden Gate Avenue will be open -- purported to mark the 50th anniversary
of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. However, none of
its contents illustrates how and why the treaty came about and the bloody
conflicts resulting in tens of millions of deaths of people in Asia and
the Pacific all because of the Japanese brutal invasion of neighboring
nations. It totally ignores the fact that Japan, to this date, continues
to deny its war responsbilities and blatanly distorts history as its prime
minister, cabinet and ruling party officials openly worship war criminals
enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine
(http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/Asenpan/Asen-m.htm).
During WWII in Asia, the Japanese Army committed some of the most horrific war crimes in history, rivaled only by the Holocaust in Europe. An estimated 30 million people in China alone were killed. Massacres, live human biological experiments and forced sexual slavery were carried out on a large scale throughout Asia. Allied POWs were also tortured mercilessly and killed in slave labor camps. These events have been whitewashed in Japanese history books and denied by many right-wing Japanese officials, causing widespread amnesia in Japan. The protest exhibit attempts to educate through undeniable photographs and facts about this forgotten history. Consisting of 60 pictures from the "Rape of Nanking," a six-week rampage that left 340,000 people dead and more then 80,000 women and children raped. |