今年秋天温哥华九条会将会邀请来自琉球大学荣休教授,高岛申欣来加访问

With special guest speaker from Japan, Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA

Saturday, October 17, 2015

2015年是二战结束70周年。今年秋天温哥华九条会将会邀请来自琉球大学荣休教授,高岛申欣来加访问。

高岛申欣教授常年在琉球大学从事高校社会教学，教师培训和高校教材编写工作。他曾多次带领学生前往马来西亚和新加坡研究，学习和记录当地二战历史，特别是日军占领期间为当地带来的战争创伤。他出版了大量关于历史教育，历史教科书问题，战争回忆和责任（包括冲绳当地问题）的著作。他在东京教育大学（现在的筑波大学）的研究生学习期间曾是以三十年间不断抗争日本政府对教科书的审查制度而闻名的家永三郎的学生。

高岛申欣教授在1993年到2005年间对教科书中对媒体的不当描述（比如裕仁天皇去世和海湾战争问题等）采取法律手段进行过抗争。在温哥华期间，高岛教授将会讲述几十年间马来西亚，新加坡和日本普通民众之间的互相学习与分享信息，以及亚太区域草根阶层的和平与和解的努力。由于温哥华与亚太地区的紧密联系，我们认为此次的活动将会温哥华的多文化社区建设起到促进作用。我们也在此寻求本地有兴趣的个人与团体与我们合作。

温哥华对于高岛教授有着特殊的含义。高岛教授之父就是建立于1911年的史蒂文森日文学校的第一任校长。这也将是高岛教授第一次访问北美。

the Vancouver Committee presents:

With special guest speaker from Japan, Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA

Saturday, October 17, 2015

The year 2015 marks the 70^th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in the Asia Pacific. This fall, the Vancouver Committee will welcome Nobuyoshi TAKASHIMA, professor emeritus of the University of Ryukyus, to Vancouver. 

           Professor Takashima, a former high school social studies (geography and history) teacher and textbook author, a teacher educator at the University of Ryukyus, has been leading study tours to Malaysia and Singapore for the last four decades, researching, documenting and publishing on the history of the region, particularly war wounds, during the Japanese Army’s invasion and occupation from December 1941 to August 1945. He has published widely in the areas of history education, textbook issues, war responsibilities and war memory, including those of Okinawa. When he was in graduate school at Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University), he was a student of late Saburo IENAGA, who is internationally known for the “Ienaga Textbook Lawsuits,” the three-decades struggle from 1960s to 90s against the Japanese government’s censorship of the textbooks he authored. 

        Professor Takashima also fought a separate textbook lawsuit from 1993 to 2005, over the description of the media control over events such as emperor Hirohito’s death and the First Gulf War. In Vancouver, Professor Takashima will talk about his decades of collaboration with people in Malaysia and Singapore in learning and sharing memory of the war, as an example of grass-roots peace and reconciliation building in the Asia-Pacific region. We believe that such event will be significant in multicultural Vancouver with many of its residents closely connected to Asia, and we look forward to having cooperation and support from individuals and organizations who agree to the intent of this event. Professor Takashima also has a family connection to Vancouver – his father was the first principal of Steveston Japanese School, established in 1911. This is professor Takashima’s first public lecture tour in North America.