Chair: Mary-Woo Sims, former Human Rights Commissioner, British Columbia Human
Rights Commission

"Racism and the Rape of Nanking"
Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking

"Racism in Wartime Canada - Uprooting and internment of Japanese Canadians"
Judge Maryka Omatsu, author of Bittersweet Passage: Redress and the Japanese

Canadian Experience, first Canadian female judge of Asian descent.

"Japan's War Aims and Racism"
Professor ARAI Shin-ichi, Director of the Center for Research & Documentation on

Japan's War Responsibility.

Q & A

11:15 am - 12:35 pm
Plenary 2: Japan's Biological Warfare in the Asia Pacific War
(The First Nations Longhouse)

Chair: Bill Saunders, President and chief spokesperson of the Vancouver and District
Labour Council

"China during the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945)"
Professor Stephen Endicott, York University, co-author of The United States and

Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea.

Survivor Testimony
XU Jiaxie, a Chinese survivor of Japan's biological warfare

"Japanese Biological Warfare during the Sino-Japanese War: Lessons for Today"
Martin Furmanski, Clinical Prof of Dermatology at Univ. of California

Q & A

12:25 - 2:00 pm
Lunch Break (International House, Lower Lounge)

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Plenary 3: Japanese Military Sexual Slavery (The First Nations Longhouse)

Chair:Professor Tineke Hellwig, Chair, Women Studies Program, UBC

"Wartime Korea under Japanese occupation"
Professor Nam-lin Hur, Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC

Survivor Testimony
Grandma HWANG Geum Joo, a Korean survivor of Japanese military sexual slavery

Survivor Testimony
Grandma AHN Jeomsun, a Korean survivor of Japanese military sexual slavery

"From the Judgment of Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery to the protection of women in the context of modern day armed conflicts"
Indai Lourdes Sajor, co-convener of the International Organizing Committee of the

Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery,
2000

Q & A

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Break

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Workshops Session 1: Face to Face with History

Healing for Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
(Description)     (Geography Building, Room 200)
Moderator:Professor Tineke Hellwig, Chair, Women Studies Program, UBC
Resource persons:
Professor Nam-lin Hur, Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC
Grandma HWANG Geum Joo, Korean survivor of Japanese military sexual slavery
Indai Lourdes Sajor, co-convener of the International Organizing Committee of the
Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery
YOON Mee-Hyang, General Secretary of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for
Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (Speech)

Resolving the Aftermath of Japan's Biological Warfare in China
(Description)     (The First Nations Longhouse)
Moderator: Bill Saunders, President and chief spokesperson of the Vancouver and District

Labour Council
Resource Persons:
Martin Furmanski, MD, pathologist and medical historian
Wang Xuan, victims' representative of the germ warfare lawsuit against the Japanese
government
Professor Michael Franzblau, MD, Clinical Prof of Dermatology at Univ. of California
Professor Stephen Endicott, co-author of The United States and Biological Warfare:
Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea
XU Jiaxie, Chinese survivor of Japan's biological warfare
YANG Dafang, surviving family member of Japan's biological warfare and representative
of the germ warfare lawsuit against the Japanese government. (Speech)


Identifying Racism in Politics: Japanese Canadian Uprooting and Internment   (Description)     (International House, Board Room)
Moderator: Grace Eiko Thomson, former Director Curator of the Japanese Canadian

National Museum
Resource Persons:
Dr. Midge Ayukawa, survivor of Japanese Canadian internment and co-author of "The
Japanese," in the Encycolpaedia of Canada's People.
Mary Kitagawa, survivor of Japanese Canadian internment (Speech)
Art Miki, leader of Japanese-Canadian redress movement
Judge Maryka Omatsu, author of Bittersweet Passage: Redress and the Japanese
Canadian Experience, first Canadian female judge of Asian descent.

Terrors of the A bomb
(Description)     (Geography Building, Room 147)
Moderator: Randy Enomoto, former President of the National Association of Japanese

Canadians
Resource Persons:
Kinuko Laskey, survivor of Hiroshima A bomb
David Morgan, President of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms

Canadian Hong Kong veterans & other POWs: Wounds and Closure
(Description)     (Geography Building, Room 212)
Moderator: Herbert Lim, WWII Chinese Canadian veteran, Burma Star, board member of

Chinese Canadian Military Museum
Resource Persons:
Don MacPherson, Canadian Hong Kong veteran, POW in Hong Kong and Japan
Jan Solecki, POW in Hong Kong and Japan, author of Bitter Cherries and Escape to Life
Marius van Nooten, Dutch child slave labor and civilian internee in Java (Speech)
Tony Cowling, British veteran and POW in Java, author of My Life with the Samurai

Rape of Nanking: Remembering and Denying
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 214)
Moderator: Josephine Chiu-Duke, Senior Instructor, Asian Studies, UBC
Resource Persons:
Yoshiyuki Masaki, Curator of virtual World Holocaust Museum (Speech)
Iris Chang, author of Rape of Nanking

To show appreciation to our invited speakers, resource persons and moderators, a dinner reception will be hosted at UBC International House. Conference participants are welcome to join and meet the guests. Buffet dinner voucher can be purchased at the registration table on Friday (March 21) before 1:00 pm. Price of dinner voucher is minimum $10. Additional donation to help cover the food costs will be appreciated.

9:00 am - 10:30 am
Plenary 4: Facing the Past: Healing and Redress (The First Nations Longhouse)

Chair: Joseph Wong, MD, Co-chair of Canada Association for Learning & Preserving the
History of WWII in Asia.

"Asia Pacific War: How The Victims Have Fared - And Why"
Erna Paris, author of Long Shadows

"Redress for victims of Japanese Canadian internment"
Art Miki, leader of Japanese-Canadian redress movement

"Healing and Redress for victims of residential schools"
Prof. Roland David Chrisjohn, St Thomas University, principal author of

The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School
Experience in Canada

Q & A

10: 45 am - 12 noon
Workshops Session 2: Learning From the Past

Teachers' workshop on the Teachers' Guide "Human Rights in the Asia Pacific 1931-1945: Social Responsibility & Global Citizenship" 
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 212)
With the support from BC Teachers' Federation all participants of this workshop will receive a copy of the teachers' guide.
Moderator: Diane Graves, Social Studies Department, Cambie Secondary School,
Richmond
Resource Persons:
Rick Beardsley, Social Studies Department, Cambie Secondary School, Richmond
Mike Whittingham, Social Studies Department, Cambie Secondary School, Richmond
Thekla Lit, President of BC ALPHA and writing team member of the teachers' guide


"Comfort Women", Forced Labour & the International Labour Organization 
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 200)
Moderator: Joie Warnock, board member, Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network

(CAPRN)
Resource Persons:
Stephen Benedict, National Director, International Department, Canadian Labour
Congress
YOON Mee-Hyang, General Secretary of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for
Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

Crimes Against Humanity: Residential School Experience    
(Description)   (The Longhouse)
Moderator:Madeleine MacIvor, Associate Director, First Nations House of Learning, UBC
Resource Persons:
Gerry Oleman, Stl'atl'imx Nation, Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
Shane Pointe, Musqueam Nation, Indian Residential School Survivors Society.

Japanese Canadian Redress - Post Redress Community Development and Social Justice Values
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 147)
Moderator: Judy Hanazawa, Director of National Association of Japanese Canadians
Resource Persons:
Tatsuo Kage, author of Exiled Japanese Canadians after the end of WW II, published in

1998 in Tokyo, member of Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens'
Association Human Rights Committee (Speech)
Art Miki, leader of Japanese-Canadian redress movement
Judge Maryka Omatsu, author of Bittersweet Passage: Redress and the Japanese
Canadian Experience, first Canadian female judge of Asian descent.

International Humanitarian Laws
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 101)
Moderator: Greg Blue, Professor, Department of History, University of Victoria
Resource Persons:
Gary Caroline, human rights lawyer
Gail Davidson, lawyer and member of Lawyers Against War

1: 30 pm - 2:45 pm
Workshops Session 3: Applying lessons today to prevent crimes against humanity

Violence Against Women in War and Peace
(Description)     (Geography Building, Room 101)
Moderator: Anneke Van Vliet, Co-ordinator/Counsellor, Sexual Assault Service Resource Persons:
Susan Gill, community worker and activist
Kamilla Singh, advocate and human rights activist.
Anneke Van Vliet, Co-ordinator/Counsellor, Sexual Assault Service

Cultural Genocide and Self Determination: The Aboriginal Experience     (Description)   (The Longhouse)
Moderator:Madeleine MacIvor, Associate Director, First Nations House of Learning, UBC
Resource Persons:
Dr. Richard Vedan, Director of First Nations House of Learning, UBC

Peace and Justice in the Middle East    
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 100)
Moderator: Paula van der Hijden, former consular officer for the Netherlands Embassy in Israel
Resource Persons:
Mordecai Briemberg, founding member of Canada Palestine Support Network, board

member of the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada.
(Speech)
Dr. Marwan Hassan, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, a hydrology expert and currently a
member of the UBC faculty.
Sid Shniad, founding member of the Trade Union Committee for Justice in the Middle
East, member of Jews for a Just Peace. (Speech)


International Networking for Peace and a Better World
(Description)    (Geography Building, Room 200)
Moderator: Elsie Dean, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Resource Persons:
Ellen Woodsworth, Vancouver City Councilor
Professor Stephen Endicott, York University, co-author of The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea.
Professor SUH Sung, Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University, former prisoner of

conscience in South Korea
Alfred Lambremont Webre, Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space.

Racial Profiling 
(Description)   (Geography Building, Room 147)
Moderator: Mary-Woo Sims, former Human Rights Commissioner, British Columbia

Human Rights Commission
Resource Persons:
Riadh Muslih, Editor of Arab Canadian Monthly, Al Shorouq
Paul Winn, lawyer and past President of the Black Historical and Cultural Society of B.C

3:00 pm -4:20 pm
Plenary 5: Preventing Crimes against Humanity Today (The First Nations Longhouse)

Chair: Prof. John Price, Department of History, University of Victoria

"Toward Reconciliation and cooperation between East Asia and Japan: North Korea-Japan summit and after"
Professor SUH Sung, Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University, former prisoner of

conscience in South Korea

"Women, Globalization and Danger of War"
Professor Sunera Thobani, Women’s Studies & Gender Relations, UBC

Q & A