AS the world remembers the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, Tong Zeng, a researcher who spearheaded the war reparation movement in China for six years, will be at home in Beijing.
Mr Tong wanted to attend today's ceremony in Tokyo, but was refused a visa and had his passport confiscated.
For the past six years, Mr Tong has devoted much of his time to the war reparation campaign. But he often ran into trouble with the authorities, who feared his activities might jeopardise delicate Sino-Japanese relations.
This year, hopes were high that Beijing would accept his mission when the Foreign Ministry endorsed the campaign by Mr Tong and his comrades.
His hopes were dashed a week ago when the authorities withdrew his passport and later told him to stay away from the World Women's Conference in Beijing. Mr Tong told the Sunday Morning Post he still believed in his dream.
'What we've lost is only one of the many channels to fight for the tens of millions of war victims in our country,' the head of the Chinese Committee for Demanding War Reparations said.
'The so-called blows were not important at all compared to the painful memories of numerous comfort women, slave labourers and tens of millions of our compatriots who fell in the Anti-Japanese War,' said Mr Tong.