Conference to focus on saving accurate record of Japan's war crimes, by Dwight Daniels (EXCERPT) UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 13, 2002 Preservation of accurate historical accounts of atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II will be the focus of a conference that will take place in San Diego Nov. 15-17. The Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia will hold its fifth biennial gathering downtown at the Clarion Hotel-Bay View at 660 K St., said Nancy Lo, a conference organizer. The alliance is made up of more than 40 organizations throughout the world. Among the alliance's missions is to combat a trend toward revisionist textbooks in Japanese schools. Some texts approved by the Japanese government for junior high students omit historical accounts of killings, rapes and torture by Japanese forces, including well-documented reports of crimes committed in Nanking, China. Other books have dismissed atrocities such as forcing Korean women to serve as sexual comfort women for Japanese officers. We wanted to open this conference to the public to help people understand that efforts are still needed for justice to be given to the victims of World War II, said Lo, who heads a San Diego group called the Association for Preserving Historical Accuracy in Foreign Invasions in China. The ultimate goal is for these kind of atrocities to never happe...         U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing         copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report         cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it         in full today, 14 Oct 2002, at the following URL. (COMBINE         the following lines into your web browser.) The         subject/content of this report is not necessarily the         viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided         for your information and discussion. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20021013-9999_1m13history...