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John Junkerman's report on the "Global Article 9 Conference Towards the Abolition of War" & Hayashi Kyoko's portrait "From Trinity to Trinity" at Japanfocus.org

One of many crowded discussion panels at the Global Article Nine Conference to Abolish War
(photo credit: Stacy Hughes/Peace Boat -- more photos at Flickr)

This week Japan Focus spotlights filmmaker John Junkerman's report on the Global Article 9 Conference Against War and "From Trinity to Trinity," an essay by Japanese Hibakusha writer, Hayashi Kyoko, translated by Kyoko Selden:

"Article 9 and Japan's Peace Constitution have been debated within Japan for six decades. Filmmaker John Junkerman reports on the Global Article 9 Conference held in Chiba, Kansai and elsewhere throughout Japan in an attempt to assess the principle of Article 9 from an international perspective at a time with mounting threats to the Constitution in Japan and in a world with numerous wars in progress and imminent. The companion to this article is Hayashi Kyoko's portrait 'From Trinity to Trinity.'"

The e-journal's currently featured articles that range in topic from nuclear proliferation, to Yasukuni Shrine and other forms of historical memorialization and remembering, and historical reconciliation are also essential reading on the broadly framed topics on armed conflict and peace addressed by the Global Article 9 conference organizers, at japanfocus.org:

Twilight of the NPT? The US, Syria, Iran, North Korea and the Control of Nuclear Weapons by China Hand

"Yasukuni: The Stage for Memory and Oblivion: A Dialogue between Li Ying and Sai Yoichi" translated by John Junkerman

"War Responsibility and Historical Memory: Hirohito’s Apparition" by Herbert P. Bix

"Japanese and American War Atrocities, Historical Memory and Reconciliation: World War II to Today" by Mark Selden

"The Bataan Death March and the 66-Year Struggle for Justice" by Kinue TOKUDOME

“Will you go to war? Or will you stop being Japanese?” Nationalism and History in Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Sensoron" by Rumi SAKAMOTO

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