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Our Demands
We believe
when people all over the world learn the historical truth of this period,
there shall emerge a formidable consensus compelling the Government of
Japan to honor its postwar responsibilities. These are our goals based
on our mission: that Japan shall offer an official and unequivocal
apology with equitable compensations for its war victims and that it
shall rectify its distortion and whitewashing of its war history.
These are our minimal demands based on our goals, that through
Diet-enacted legislation which is signed into the law of the land, the
Government of Japan must:
- Offer an official and unequivocal apology
acknowledging the commission of atrocities in China, Korea and other
Asian countries and Pacific states during the Asia-Pacific War
- Authorize full disclosure and preservation of
documents relating to this dark chapter of history
- Mandate inclusion and teaching at all levels of
schooling lessons of humanity learned from Japan’s wars of aggression
and its related war crime issues in the first half of the 20th
century
- Provide just and due compensation to
- all
identified surviving victims and surviving family members of the
deceased victims, and
- victims whose properties were looted and/or
destroyed
- Amend all statutory limitations under Japanese laws
to make them non-applicable to war crimes and crimes against humanity
committed by Japanese Imperial Forces during the Asia-Pacific War such
that victims could seek due redress in the courts of Japan
- Provide funding for the creation of a memorial museum
in Tokyo dedicated to
- commemoration and remembrance of war victims of
the Asia-Pacific War
- preservation of documents declassified through
(B) above
- research and publication of information
pertaining to all facets of the war
- educational outreach focusing on lessons learned
through war crimes and related issues of this period and
- efforts to bring closure to this war and to
prevent future wars of aggression
- Outlaw public denial of war crimes committed by the
Japanese Imperial Forces, prosecute the living Japanese war criminals
that have escaped international war crime trials after the end of the
war, remove relics of all war criminals now enshrined in the Yasukuni
Shrine and prohibit honoring and worshiping of war criminals in that
Shrine or any other religious establishments of national significance
- Establish a national day of remembrance for victims
of the Asia-Pacific War
- Return all looted national treasures, including
cultural and historical relics
- Honor the "military monetary certificates" issued by
the Japanese occupational authorities for which people of victimized
countries were forced to exchange their national currencies with due
interest payment and adjustment for inflation
Only when Japan sincerely acknowledges and works toward discharging its
postwar responsibilities as set forth in our minimal demands is Japan
ready to become a responsible and respectable member of the
international community. And we assert only a responsible and
respectable member of the international community should be considered
for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
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