Following the lead of the trail blazers, among those: “The Society for Studies of Japanese Aggression Against China”, “Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War” and “The Global Alliance for Preserving the Truth of the Sino-Japanese War,” APWAM (formerly named CHMUS and founded in Washington, DC in 2002), is registered in Maryland and is an approved not-for-profit educational organization under the 501 (c) (3) code of the Internal Revenue Service