An International Education Conference on “History of Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific War: 1931-1945” was held on October 8-10, 2010 in Mays Landing, NJ. [1] The conference presented an excellent program with speakers from the U.S., China, Japan, Canada, and Europe. There were several highlights from the conference. This article reports on one of these highlights. It was a presentation by Kang Jian, a Chinese woman lawyer based in Beijing who was invited by the Japanese lawyers to help represent the Chinese plaintiffs in lawsuits in Japan.
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Highlights of Forced Labor Litigation in Japan of Chinese Laborers
October 2010
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Modern Scientific Analysis of Medical Qigong
August 2010
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Is there any scientific analysis of the medical benefits of Qigong, which is a type of health/healing/martial arts exercise that has been practiced in China and other countries for at least two thousand years? Recently an important book “Chinese Medical Qigong” [1] has just been published. It provides a comprehensive summary on the theory, practice, clinical applications, and modern scientific research on Qigong. This article reports on excerpts from this book in the area of modern scientific research on Qigong. Readers can get an introduction to Qigong from an earlier article in my website “A Proposal to Perform Scientific/Medical Analysis of Qigong“.
The book reports on modern scientific research in control settings that could be repeated. The results so far are very encouraging, showing positive evidence of physiological effects, psychological effects, biochemical and immunological effects, and physical effects. These encouraging results definitely show that more research in this field at a larger scale is warranted, and show hints of an alternative medical approach that could complement and supplement the traditional western medical approach, and could help to slow down or even reverse the rapidly rising cost of healthcare.
Reflections on a Recent Visit to Xinjiang
August 2010
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In terms of size, location, and natural resources Xinjiang has strategic importance to China. In terms of history, people, and culture, Xinjiang is different from many parts of China. This article describes some of the opportunities and challenges facing China with respect to Xinjiang based on observations from a recent two-week visit to Xinjiang. We flew to Urumqi (烏魯木齊), the capital of Xinjiang, located north and east of the central part of Xinjiang. From there except for the last leg, we (group of 14) traveled via our tour group bus. We covered the middle part and the southwestern part of Xinjiang. For the last leg, we flew from Kashgar (喀什), located in the southwestern part of Xinjiang, back to Urumqi.
Our observations are discussed in terms of geography, political history, religion, culture, livelihood, and government structure.
International Education Conference: History of Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific War: 1931-1945
An excellent international education conference will be held in Mays Landing, NJ on October 8-10, 2010 on the “History of Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific War: 1931-1945.” Unlike Germany that has admitted to committing the Holocaust and has apologized and compensated the victims (or their heirs), Japan up to today still has not acknowledged the existence of these atrocities. As a matter of fact, they have rewritten their school history books, denying that these events ever happened or at least minimizing the atrocities committed, and many of their political leaders have gone even as far as claiming that the atrocities were fabricated by China and other Asian countries.
The theme of the conference is “Acknowledge, Apologize, Reconcile.” The purpose of the conference is not to dig up old wounds, but because its importance is so eloquently captured in the following three quotes:
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it” — George Santayana
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing” — Albert Einstein
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