Main Focus Asia
In 2006 the first Austrian peace servant had his activities in Hiroshima. In Nanjing in China the Peace Service partner organization exists since 2008, it is in the John-Rabe-house, which refurbishes the Massacre of Nanjing 1937. This swamped out event still puts a strain on the Sino- Japanese relations and in 2005 it was a crucial factor for wide protests in Peking and other cities. The Japanese history textbook controversies led to movements in China against Japanese history falsification in schoolbooks. For this reason, the John Rabe Communication Centre built by Thomas Rabe and the Austrian Peace Service founded the John Rabe Award in 2009.
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