Backgrounder on the Asia Pacific War
(Teacher backgrounder from Human Rights in the Asia Pacific 1931-1945: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship published by the BC Ministry of Education, 2001)
International Agreements Related to Compensation Claims & Rules of War
Convention
for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field.
Geneva, 22 August 1864
Hague
Convention 1899: Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II)
Hague
Convention IV: Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land,
October 18, 1907
Geneva
Convention July 27,1929: Convention Between the United States of America and Other
Powers, Relating to Prisoners of War
Charter of
the International Military Tribunal, August 8, 1945
Charter of the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Charter of the United Nations,
June 26, 1945
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
December 9,1948
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
War, August 12, 1949
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of
War, August 12, 1949
Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg
Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, 1950
Convention on the
Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against
Humanity, 26 November,1968
Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court,
July 17, 1998
Related to San Francisco Peace Treaty
San Francisco Peace
Treaty
San Francisco
Peace Treaty: Has Justice Been Served and Peace Secured?
A Just Peace? The 1951 San Francisco
Peace Treaty in Historical Perspective by
Professor John Price
Related to Position of Japanese Government and Yasukuni Shrine
No War Resolution
Statement by Prime
Minister Tomiichi Murayama on August 15, 1995
Asian Women's
Fund
Yasukuni
Shrine
Related to What Victims and Survivors Want
Demands made by
Advocacy Groups of the Redress Movement
Dower, John
W. "Japan Addresses its War Responsibility" from The Journal of the
International Institute, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall, 1995)
"Assembly
Joint Resolution 27 - Has Justice Been Served ?" speech of Michael M.
Honda at the Whittier College of Law Symposium on Nov. 21, 1999
California State
Assembly Joint Resolution No. 27
Related to "Comfort Women"
Report
of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences
& the Report on the Mission to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
the Republic of Korea and Japan on the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery in
Wartime. (E/CN.4/1996/53/Add.1). 1996. Radhika Coomaraswamy. Special
Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. United Nations Commission on Human Rights
An
Analysis Of The Legal Liability Of The Government Of Japan For "Comfort
Women Stations" Established During The Second World War.
(E/CN.4/Sub.2/1998/13). 1998. McDougall, Gay J. Special Rapporteur on Systematic
Rape, Sexual Slavery and Slavery-like Practices During Armed Conflict. United
Nations Human Rights Commission
Interview of Kim Young-shil
Letter dated 11 August
1997 from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office
on Crimes Committed by Japan against Humanity
On the
Japanese Government's plan to Collect Money.
Nelia Sancho, Chairperson, LILA-PILIPINA (Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women)
Submission of the Korean
Council for the Women Drafted for Sexual Slavery by Japan to the Public
Prosecutor of the Tokyo District in Japan on the War Crimes and Crimes Against
Humanity committed against and the so-called "Military Comfort Women"
The Military
Sexual Slavery Issue And Asian Peace.
Hee Soon Kwon (The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for the Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan)
Why oppose
Sympathy Money?
Kim Kyung Hee (The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan)
Women's
International War Crimes Tribunal 2000 for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual
Slavery
Court rejects
women's appeal
Activities of the Korean Council for Solving the Issue of the Korean Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.
Prepared by The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan--
August 27, 2002
Related to Education in Japan
Collective
Amnesia: Japan's Crusade to Forget
Children
and Textbook Japan Network 21
The Wages of Guilt,
1994 by Ian Buruma
"Memorials, Museums, and
Monuments" pp 221 -224
Related
to Prosecution of Perpetrators
Women's
International War Crimes Tribunal 2000 for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual
Slavery
Related to Compensation & lawsuits
"LEGAL BASIS OF THE
CLAIM" by The Association of British Civilian Internees Far East Region
Reference List
References for Learning Resource on Human
Rights in the Asia-Pacific 1931 - 1945: Social Responsibility and Global
Citizenship