Taiji is both a martial art and a good health exercise for people of all ages. As a matter of fact, when it was first invented several hundred years ago, it was even more used as a martial art, e.g., to protect villages from bandits or as body guards for transporting people and goods. That […]
Archive for September 2017
New Nanking Massacre Petition for 80th Anniversary – December 2017
September 2017
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Over a period of about six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, a huge number (around 300,000) of Chinese, mostly civilians including women and children, were massacred by the Japanese army in Nanking (now called Nanjing). Countless women and girls were also raped. These gruesome events were recorded by eye witnesses from around the world, […]
Highlights of the 2017 Peace and Reconciliation Asia Study Tour
On July 14-27, 2017, a group of 17 people participated in a two-week immersion program to study WWII history in Asia. Ten are from the U.S., six are from Canada, and one is a Canadian citizen currently living in Hong Kong. WWII history in Asia is seldom taught in American or Canadian high schools […]