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Most formidable is Li's. In an interview weeks before the Beijing demonstration, he explained to TIME that he began studying Qi Gong at age 4 with masters "in the mountains," probably in Manchuria. In 1992 he went public with an amalgam of Qi Gong, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism aimed at moral rejuvenation and a spiritual "cultivation," culminating in supernatural powers and "freedom from the worldly state." (Asked if he is a human being from earth, Li replied, "I don't wish to talk about myself at a higher level. People wouldn't understand it.") His regimen, promoted through books...
Even though Japan said that it issued a formal apology to South Korea because it "colonized" Korea but never colonized China, it did invade Manchuria in 1931 and occupy it until 1945. Furthermore, the mass killing and rapes of 20,000 girls and women in Nanjing in 1937 continue to weigh heavy on the minds of Chinese people within national boundaries and abroad. This is a history of violence not easily forgotten...
...Angeles, has organized a trans-Pacific video conference, to take place on the Internet Aug. 16 and be covered by Japan's top TV network, NHK. Panelists in Los Angeles will question four Chu-Ki-Nren members in Tokyo, among them a veteran of Nanking and a doctor from Manchuria's infamous 731 medical unit. "I felt very conflicted," Cooper recalls when he first met with Chu-Ki-Nren in Tokyo. "Imagine sitting across the table from JOSEPH MENGELE." Still, he decided to help because "young people in Japan live in a historical black hole...
...Angeles, has organized a trans-Pacific video conference, to take place on the Internet Aug. 16 and be covered by Japan's top TV network, NHK. Panelists in Los Angeles will question four Chu-Ki-Nren members in Tokyo, among them a veteran of Nanking and a doctor from Manchuria's infamous 731 medical unit...
...fact, the name amurense is derived from the fact that it originates in the Amur River valley in Manchuria, host to harsh winters...