Between 500 and 700 people, most of Chinese descent, met at 10am on May 4 at the Chinese cultural center in Vancouver to march to the Japanese consulate to protest cover-ups and revisionism in Japanese textbooks. Protesters also demanded that Japan not be seated as a permanent member of the UN Security Council; and that Tokyo provide reparations for victims of its wartime atrocities. Protester Jim Craven said: "The US and Canadian textbooks are as full of lies as the Japanese ones and one of the lies by censorship has to do with the fact that the principal Japanese war criminals of Unit 731 and the like were all sheltered from prosecution by the US government and placed on CIA payroll and in high positions in the Japanese government in return for turning over the results of their barbaric 'research'; the same was done with German nazi war criminals."
From Green Left Weekly, May 11, 2005.
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