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TRIP TO KINKASEKI - TAIWAN - NOVEMBER 2009

I suspect the earliest part of planning for this trip actually must have started when I was a young boy - seven or eight years of age - at home in Clydach as I recall one day asking Dad why he had scars on his back and he told me that they were from working in the copper mine whilst he was at a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Kinkaseki - Formosa (now Taiwan).

Growing up I became more and more aware of the fact...

HISTORY GROUPS DEMAND JAPAN TO FULLY ACCEPT WAR RESPONSIBILITIES

August 2005

The Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition and several affiliated World War II Truth in History groups – including the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society, are demanding that Japan bring proper closure to all pending WW II issues on the 60th anniversary of the end of the war this V-J Day.

The groups express strong objection to the repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine – for the purpose of worshipping war criminals and promoting militarism - by Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet and LDP party members, as well as their distortion of...