World Council of Churches - WCC welcomes initiatives for dialogue between USA, North Korea
20 April 2018
On it's official homepage, the World Council of Churches recently stated:
"On 19 April, the World Council of Churches (WCC) welcomed recent initiatives to establish meaningful and constructive dialogue between the United States of America and North Korea."
For the full statement and for the source, see:
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wcc-welcomes-initiatives-for-dialogue-between-usa-north-korea

Studientagung der DOAM
in der Evangelischen Akademie Bad Boll, 3. - 5. April 2018

Eine Renaissance des Nationalismus im Land der aufgehenden Sonne?
Aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in Japan und Ostasien
 
Tagungsbericht

Felix Doege
Bedenklicher Rechtsruck in Japan

Vom 03. bis 05. April 2018 trafen sich Experten sowie Japan-Kenner und -Interessierte unterschiedlicher Professionen in der Evangelischen Akademie Bad Boll zu einer gemeinsam von der Deutschen Ostasienmission (DOAM), der Evangelischen Mission in Solidarität (EMS), dem Berliner Missionswerk (BMW) und dem Evangelischen Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) ausgerichteten Tagung mit dem aktuellen Thema „Renaissance des Nationalismus in Japan“. Die Teilnehmer vereinte die gemeinsame Sorge um Demokratie und Rechtsstaat im Land der aufgehenden Sonne, die sie durch aktuelle politische Ereignisse zunehmend in Gefahr sehen.

Den Anfang machte

International Conference in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the 88 Declaration of the NCCK: 

“Cultivating Peace, Proclaiming Hope”

Seoul - March 5-7, 2018, in Seoul the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) is holding an international conference, the International Conference in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the 88 Declaration of the NCCK: "Cultivating Peace, Proclaiming Hope".

This conference is taking place in significant times, since, as it is reported by different news outlets, also currently, high level talks between officials of the ROK and the DPRK are behing held.

To use words of Lutz Drescher (DOAM chair person): "We are living in exciting times. May be after a long cold winter, spring is coming on the Korean peninsula. Christians in North- and South Korea have not become tired of calling for dialogue and are grateful that such dialogue on a high level is taking place these days".

The Full text of the Communiqué "Cultivating Peace, Proclaiming Hope"

The full text of the 88 Declaration of the NCCK

Fukushima  11.3.2011  -  11.3.2018
Quellen: Yomiuri Zeitung vom 13.03.2018. Wikipedia. Privat.

Shintoismus – Buddhismus – Christentum:
Drei Religionen beten gemeinsam vor dem Großen Buddha von Kamakura

Beim gemeinsamen Gebet, jeder nach seiner Tradition, vor dem Großen Buddha von Kamakura am 11.3. Nachmittag. (Foto: Yomiuri)
Am 11. März 2018 trafen sich Gläubige des Shinto, Buddhismus und Christentum im Kōtoku-Tempel in Kamakura zu einem gemeinsamen Gedenken an die Opfer

Die Verfassung Japans.  Hate Speech
Quelle: The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 16 | Issue 3 | Number 2 | Jan 31, 2018
http://apjjf.org/


Japan’s Far-right Politicians, Hate Speech and Historical Denial – Branding Okinawa as “Anti-Japan”

Mark Ealey, Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Introduction
As part of this latest phase of what Japanese right-wing extremists refer to as the rekishi-sen (history wars), the Abe administration is now mobilizing female storm troopers such as Sugita Mio into the fray launching an aggressive, almost libelous, attack on overseasbased Japanese peace-activists. In her article Norimatsu outlines some of the key characteristics of how Japanese history deniers operate when overseas.

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