When I think of my 103 year-old mother, so many memories flash through my mind, from her winning the 50-meter sprint championship as a teenager, to a mother who lost her oldest son at a young age, to her raving beauty throughout her life, to a woman who had to pull up roots five times, […]
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Reflections from 2014 Peace & Reconciliation Asia Study Tour
September 2014
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This summer I had the opportunity to participate in a weekly demonstration that has been going on since January 8, 1992, making it the world’s longest longevity demonstration in history. The official name of this demonstration, also called weekly meeting, is the “Wednesday Demonstration Demanding Japan to Redress the Comfort Women Problems,” and it […]
Two Recently Revealed Japanese Documents on Japanese WWII Atrocities
June 2014
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Two sets of recently released Japanese documents should remove any doubts that people may still have on the veracity of the massive and inhumane atrocities committed by the Japanese military in Asia during WWII. One is the “Exhibition of the 27th General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress: WAR & Medicine” that was held in […]
Living Through the UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement of 1964
March 2014
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As difficult as it may be believed, a lot of freedom of speech activities that we now take for granted were actually not allowed in many college campuses in the U.S. about 50 years ago. Activities, such as advocacy for civil rights causes, recruitment of people to support off-campus activities like voter registration drives […]
