Abstract
The International Citizens’ Forum on War Crimes and Redress conference held in Tokyo on December 10-12, 1999 was co-sponsored by the Global Alliance for Preservation of the History of World War II in Asia, from the United States, and the Japanese Organizing Committee, in Japan. Japanese speakers and members of the audience at the Forum showed that there are numerous individual Japanese who are willing to face Japan’s unpleasant wartime record and enter into a dialogue with their Asian compatriots about Japan’s war responsibility. For the Asian victims of Japanese war crimes, Germany represented the “model�? of what a state ought to do in compensating its victims in war. The mood at the end of the Forum was hopeful but realistic, showing that participants understood well the nature of the obstacles that stand in the way of the movement for redress and compensation.
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | Japanese War Crimes |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 1-7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781351511094 |
ISBN (Print) | 0765808900, 9780765808905 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities