To Forget Is Impossible
Posted in News on Jul 14th, 2010
Press Release
‘Silent Shame’, the darkest memories of her nation
Action on Film Festival nominee for
Best Documentary and
Best Political Statement Movie
by Akiko Izumitani
It will be screened at 2 pm on Friday July 23 at
Regency Academy Theater, Academy 3
1003 E. Colorade Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105.
The director says: ‘Silent Shame’ is a documentary that looks at why more [...]
Posted in News on Jul 9th, 2010
International Education Conference
on the History of WWII in Asia
sponsored by the
Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WW II in Asia
New Jersey-Alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia
New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
co-sponsored by the Holocaust Resource Center of the Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey, Brookdale Community College’s Center for WWII [...]
Posted in News on Jun 23rd, 2010
Documentary film “Silent Shame” by Akiko Izumitani at Beijing International Movie Festival – June 7-30
http://www.timeout.com/cn/en/beijing/aroundtown/feature/10088/beijing-international-movie-festival-june-7-30.html
Akiko Izumitani is a Japanese documentary filmmaker based in the US.
Inspired by Steven Spielberg, she is committed to using film to
convey untold stories, such as in Silent Shame, her own war documentary.
The director says: ‘Silent Shame is a documentary that looks [...]
Posted in News on Jun 16th, 2010
“The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang” edited and translated by Prof. Hua-ling Hu and Prof. ZHANG Lian-Hong is released in June and available in the bookstores. This is the FIRST day-to-day diary comparison between Minnie Vautrin’s diary, and Tsen Shui-fang’s diary during the Rape of Nanking.
See [...]
Posted in News on Jun 11th, 2010
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100611f4.html
Friday, June 11, 2010
‘Lost Battlefield’ of WWII found
Site of largest battle between Australian and Japanese forces discovered in Papua New Guinea
By KEDE LAWSON
Kyodo News
SYDNEY — The location of the largest World War II battle between Australian and Imperial Japanese forces in the jungles of Papua New Guinea has been discovered after 68 [...]
Posted in News on Jun 10th, 2010
Letter to Editor (New York Times)
The Legacy [...]
Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2010
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/special_news.html
SPECIAL NEWS PRESENTATION
Witness to war
To mark the 62nd anniversary of the end of the war, The Japan Times is publishing a series of interviews with firsthand witnesses of the country’s march to war and crushing defeat.
Each of our subjects — speaking with the authority that only those in the evening of life [...]
Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2010
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100520f4.html
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Taiwan’s Senkaku activists eye Chinese cash
By MARTIN WILLIAMS
Kyodo News
TAIPEI — With political and financial patronage drying up at home, Taiwan-based activists are working on an international alliance to claim the Senkaku Islands for China.
The uninhabited islands, which lie between Taiwan and Okinawa, are claimed by Beijing, Taipei and Tokyo.
For the governments, the [...]
Posted in News on Jun 7th, 2010
the German-produced movie, John Rabe, is now showing in So. Cal at the Laemmle Theaters. See this link for dates and time.
http://www.laemmle.com/viewmovie.php?mid=5641
Posted in News on May 27th, 2010
Nationalist Army’s records/memories are kept.
