Subject: Nanjing Massacre exhibition called off protest
From: Chiu-yee Cheung <c.cheung@mailbox.uq.oz.au>
Date: 1996/08/14
Message-Id: <321178C2.7EA6@mailbox.uq.oz.au>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.china

MAKE URGENT PROTESTS TO THE CITY OF HIRAKATA
That Called Off the Nanking Art Exhibition, Yielding to the Rightist
Organization

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:36:00 +0900
From: "The Nanking Massacre Art Exhibition" citizens projecting group
in Osaka Japan

The City of Hirakata (Osaka Pref.) called off The Art Exhibition
Nanking 1937 painted by the Chinese American artists living in New York, which
was to be held from August 30 to September 4.

In the City of Osaka was the start of that art Exhibition, which has
been held in the cities of Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya and so on one after another.
TheChinese American artists started to paint the arts in 1982, when the
history w as rewritten in the process of the revision of history textbooks on
Japan,in order to record the historical fact, protesting against the Denials
ofthe Nan king Massacre and against Claiming the Nanking Massacre
"Phantom."

In Hirakata, the Exhibition had been prepared, sponsored by the City
of Hirakata and the Hirakata City Board of Education, cooperated by "the
Nanking Massacre Art Exhibition" citizens projecting group in Osaka

However, the City of Hirakata has decided to call off the Exhibition,
yielding to the "Protests" by the rightist organization at the Executive
Meeting, which was composed of the Mayor of Hirakata, Mr. Nakatsuka,
theSuperintendent of Education of Hirakata, Mr. Nakano and so on.

On August 9, the Superintendent gave an account of the calling off
which wasquite unclear and out of recognizing the seriousness of the problem,
to citizens projecting group.

That Decision of Calling Off the Exhibition means that the
administrative organ denies the historical fact of Japanese agression, yielding to
thethreats by the specific violent group. That Decision is, before
anything else, disrespecting the victims of Japanese agression, including those
of the Nanking Massacre.

We protest about the decision of Calling Off the Exhibition to the
City of Hirakata and the Hirakata City Board of Education and demand them to
hold the Exhibition, withdrawing the decision.

There is not a moment to lose till August 30. We ask the readers of
this article to make urgent protests to the City of Hirakata.

Address for Protests:
Mr. NATATSUKA Hiroshi, the Mayor of Hirakata
Mr. NAKANO Kazuo, the Superintendent of Education of Hirakata
2-1-20,Ogaito-cho, Hirakata-shi, Osaka-fu 573 JAPAN