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Dear Mr. Thomas Bach:
My name is Christine Colligan and I am writing in my capacity as one of the co-presidents of the Korean American Parents Association of Greater New York (¡°KAPA-GNY¡±). By way of background, our organization exists to support the parents, students, and educators of the greater New York City area.
We are writing to address an urgent and important issue that you should be aware of. It has come to our attention that on September 2019, the 2020 Tokyo Organizing Committee has declined to ban Japan¡¯s ¡°Rising Sun¡± flag, a flag with a terrible, controversial history, and has turned a blind eye to its poignant political significance.
The Organizing Committee does not seem to understand the gravity of allowing such a distressing symbol to be displayed at an event as prestigious and renowned as the Olympics, or to be displayed at all. The Olympic Charter clearly states that ¡°no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.¡± (Olympic Charter, Article 50, Section 2; 2019) The Committee is choosing to ignore the fact that, historically, the imagery of Japan¡¯s ¡°Rising Sun¡± is affiliated with and symbolizes the atrocities, war crimes, and inhumane acts committed by the Japanese army during World War II. But the history of the ¡°Rising Sun¡± is irreversible and its imagery is equivalent to the Nazi Hakenkreuz that many are horrified by. In 1936, people around the world were outraged that the Hakenkreuz was displayed at the Berlin Olympic Games. Attendees of the 2020 Tokyo Games should not be allowed to parade around such a historically horrific symbol, one that is sure to evoke feelings of abhorrence and distress from attendees and viewers around the world, mirroring the events of 1936.
The ¡°Rising Sun¡± flag is not Japan¡¯s national flag and has no place at the Tokyo Games. We implore the Committee to reflect on what message we would be sending to our children and to their children by allowing the symbol of immense pain and trauma to be held high.
We are writing to you as expectant spectators and participants of the Olympic Games. We are writing to you as citizens of a country whose history reflects its willingness to learn from past mistakes and devotion to justice. We are writing to you as concerned parents and students. As such, we request the following action by the leaders of the International Olympic Committee:
(1) For the Committee to ban the ¡°Rising Sun¡± flag from Olympic stands in the 2020 Tokyo Games;
(2) For the Committee to issue an official statement recognizing its mistake in previously refusing to ban the display of this offensive imagery (and thereby implicitly condoning what the imagery symbolizes); and
(3) For the Committee to respond to this letter so that the concerned parents, students, expectant spectators of the Olympics can be reassured that the Committee has recognized and addressed their concerns.
KAPA-GNY thanks you for your attention to our concerns. We hope and pray that this would be a fruitful learning experience for everyone involved and that the following actions would inspire members of all participating nations to build a peaceful and better world, one free of discrimination—values that the Olympics stand for and values that I know we all wish to bestow upon our children. I can be reached at possible2015@gmail.com or at KAPA-GNY 39-25 150th Place Flushing NY 11354, should you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to hearing from you soon.