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 takes place every Wednesday at 12:00 noon in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. [1] This event was one of many meaningful and educational events that took place during this year’s July 12-24 “2014 Peace and Reconciliation Asia Study Tour.”[2] Besides Seoul, the tour also visited Shanghai, Nanjing, and Harbin in China. This article provides a brief summary [3] of some reflections from this Asia Study Tour.
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Reflections from 2014 Peace & Reconciliation Asia Study Tour
Taiji and Alzheimer Disease
A recent research study shows that practicing Taiji can increase the brain size and results in improvements in several cognitive tests that may suggest reducing the probability of getting Alzheimer Disease or delaying its onset.
Two Recently Revealed Japanese Documents on Japanese WWII Atrocities
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 Osaka in 2007. The other is a massive collection of 89 documents written by Japanese officers and soldiers discovered underground in 1953 and recently released by the Jiling Provincial Archives in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province in China’s northeast.
Assessing U.S.’s Foreign Policy Toward China
Image of China from U.S. Government and Media:
If your knowledge of history is based only on the recent comments and headlines from the U.S. government leaders and media reports about China, the image that you paint of China will be something similar to the following:
Is that image consistent with facts? Let’s analyze each of these issues.
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