Share Amanda Zhao’s family has left, after staying two weeks in Vancouver looking for bringing justice to the murder of their only daughter. They acknowledged that headway has been made in the case and are satisfied with the outcome of the trip. Jason Kenney, minister of state for multiculturalism and PM Harper’s right hand man, [...]
Share CIV – Two NDP MLAs are paying for the visa application for Yang Baoying, mother of Chinese student Amanda Zhao murdered in BC 6 years ago, in a very low key way, Ming Pao reports. Yang has written a few times to the Canadian minister of justice, asking for action on bringing the suspected [...]
Share I heard some most ridiculous comments from Chinese community “advocates” yesterday (some claim to be justice, others claim to be anti-drug) on their opinions of the a recent BC Supreme Court’s ruling. The court decides that safe injection site “Insite” should be treated as a health care facility, and thus, shouldn’t fall under the [...]
Share Japan Times – The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court defamation ruling, ordering a historian and a publishing company to pay a combined 4 million to a female Nanjing Massacre survivor for calling her an impostor in a book about the atrocity. Dismissing appeals from both the plaintiff and the defendants, [...]
Share Was the Imperial Japanese Army guilty of any war crimes? “None,” he replies. “In war, atrocities will always be carried out by a small number of individuals, but did the Japanese army systematically commit war crimes? Absolutely not.” – Mizushima Satoru, filmmaker of The Truth of Nanjing Japan Focus has an expanded version of [...]
Share Reuters – China has published an eight-volume list of 13,000 victims of the Nanjing massacre in which it says invading Japanese troops killed 300,000 civilians, state media said on Tuesday. The Chinese publications, released to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the massacre, also known as the “Rape of Nanking”, include the [...]
Share The Independent – One way to learn what happened in one of history’s most noxious but disputed episodes is to ask Satoru Mizushima. After what he calls “exhaustive research” on the 1937 seizure of the then Chinese capital by Japanese troops, estimated to have cost anywhere from 20,000 to 300,000 lives, Mizushima offers a [...]
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Share Final version of the “comfort women” motion that was passed by the parliament of Canada on Nov 28, 2007: i. During its wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands, from the 1930s through the duration of World War II, the Imperial Armed Forces of Japan officially commissioned the acquisition of young women for [...]
Share CP – Members of all federal parties unanimously passed a motion Wednesday recognizing that Japan used women as sex slaves during the Second World War. The motion also encourages the Canadian government to press Tokyo to make a “formal and sincere apology” in its legislature to all victims, referred to as comfort women. The [...]
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