Towards Reconciliation - Professor Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA will speak in Vancouver, BC, Canada to mark the 70th of End of WWII in Asia 戦後７０年記念「和解に向けて」高嶋伸欣バンクーバー講演１０月１７日に開催

ＮＥＷ！We added a flyer to the event. See below. It can be downloaded at: イベントチラシができました！ここでダウンロード。下方にも貼り付けました。
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwl-GS-oCYGpdEctcFl6WGI3Skk/view 


On the day to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Imperial Japan's surrender, let us introduce an important upcoming event in Vancouver.  第二次世界大戦、日本降伏の日（９月２日）７０年に、この秋バンクーバーでの重要なイベントを紹介します。

Those in and around Vancouver, BC, Canada, please mark your calendar! 高嶋伸欣琉球大学名誉教授の講演をカナダ・バンクーバーで１０月１７日土曜日（午後２時から５時まで、バンクーバーユニタリアン教会にて）行います。カレンダーをマークしてください。日本語での案内（概要）は下方を見てください。Visit our Facebook event page! フェースブックのイベントページはこちら。

Asia-Pacific War 70^th Anniversary Vancouver Committee invites you to:   

Towards Reconciliation

-  The 70^th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War in the Asia-Pacific -

Special Guest: Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA,

Professor Emeritus of the University of Ryukyus

Professor Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA 

Chaired by Ellen Woodsworth

(Chair of Women Transforming Cities, Former Vancouver City Councilor)

Saturday, October 17th, 2015

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Venue: The Unitarian Church of Vancouver

949 West 49^th Avenue, Vancouver, BC (Oak and 49^th)

Co-sponsored by the Social JusticeCommittee of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver

-    Admission by donation (suggested: $5)

2015 marks the 70^th anniversary of the end of the Asia-Pacific War. This fall, we will welcome Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA, professor emeritus of the University of Ryukyus, to Vancouver. Professor Takashima, a former high school social studies (geography and history) teacher and textbook author, a teacher educator at the University of Ryukyus, has been leading study tours to Malaysia and Singapore for the last four decades,

At a memorial for the Chinese victims of the Imperial
Japanese Army, August 15, 2014, in Kuala Lumpur,
with Takashima and his study tour members 

researching, documenting and publishing on the history of the region, particularly the massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army of tens of thousands of Chinese residents in the region, during the Japanese Army’s invasion and occupation from December 1941 to August 1945. 

Professor TAKASHIMA has published widely in the areas of history education, textbook issues, war responsibilities and war memory, including those of Okinawa. When he was in graduate school at Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University), he was a student of late Saburo IENAGA, who is internationally known for the “Ienaga Textbook Lawsuits,” the three-decades struggle from 1960s to 90s against the Japanese government’s screening of the textbooks he authored. 

Professor TAKASHIMA also fought a separate textbook lawsuit from 1993 to 2005, over the description of the media control over events such as Emperor Hirohito’s death and the First Gulf War. In Vancouver, Professor TAKASHIMA will talk about his decades of collaboration with people in Malaysia and Singapore in learning and sharing memory of the war, as an example of grass-roots peace and reconciliation building in the Asia-Pacific region. We believe that such event will be significant in multi-cultural Vancouver with many of its residents closely connected to Asia, and we look forward to having cooperation and support from individuals and organizations who agree to the intent of this event. 

Professor TAKASHIMA also has a family connection to Vancouver – his father was the first principal of Steveston Japanese School, established in 1911. This is professor Takashima’s first public lecture tour in North America. 

★  Professor Takashima will speak in Japanese and consecutive translation into English will be provided.

Please Support our Event!

-    DONATION: send a $20 cheque (payee: Vancouver Save Article 9) or any amount to: Mr. W. Matsuda, 9840 Francis Road, Richmond, BC V6Y 1B3

-    CONTACT our committee at van70th@gmail.com for volunteering opportunities and other inquiries.

Visit our event blog: http://van70th.blogspot.ca

アジア太平洋戦争終結70周年バンクーバー実行委員会主催

―和解に向けて―

講師：高嶋伸欣（琉球大学名誉教授）

司会：エレン・ウッズワース

　　（Women Transforming Cities代表、元バンクーバー市議会議員）

日時：2015年10月17日 （土）

午後２時から５時

会場：The Unitarian Church of Vancouver

949 West 49^th Avenue Vancouver

 (Oak and 49^th)

共催：バンクーバーユニタリアン教会ソーシャル・ジャスティス委員会

入場料は寄付でお願いします。($5)

★このイベントは英語で進行します。高嶋先生は日本語で講演し英語の逐次通訳が入ります。

琉球大学名誉教授、高嶋伸欣（たかしまのぶよし）先生は、元高校社会科教員としての経験を生かして、教科書執筆や、教員養成に取り組んで来ました。同時に４０年以上、戦争の傷痕に学ぶマレーシア／シンガポールの旅を引率し、日本による占領時代（１９４１年１２月から１９４５年８月まで）の歴史、特に日本軍による華人虐殺の歴史の調査研究や出版にも関わって来ました。今回の講演会では、高嶋氏が数十年に渡って、東南アジアの人々と、戦争の記憶について学び分かち合って来られた経験を語っていただき、これからのアジア太平洋地域の、草の根からの平和と和解への道筋を、皆さんと共に考えていきたいと思います。

ご協力お願いします！

―　寄附：＄20ドル（またはご希望の金額；チェックの宛名：Vancouver Save Article 9）のチェックを下記の住所までお送り下さい： W. Matsuda 9849 Francis Road, Richmond, BC V6Y 1B3

ー　ボランティアをしてくださる方はご連絡下さい。

連絡先：　van70th@gmail.com

イベントブログ：http://van70th.blogspot.ca　

Here is the event flyer. チラシです↓