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The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes (Paperback))

The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes (Paperback))

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I can't bear my angry to the Japenese who wrote nonsense
Review: I am a Chinese and I have read some books and watched some videos about the Nanjing Massacre. I can't hold my angry towards the Janpenese who wrote some nonsense below.

I'd like to ask some questions to him/her. Frist, how could he/she explain why there are plenty of survivers of the Nanjing Masscare who still live in China and can show uncountable injuries throught their bodies? Don't forget that it happened only 60 years ago and the survivers hasn't died out. If you want to lie, please wait to those people pass away.

Secondly, what is the casue of the war? Did China invaded Japan? Tell me which one happened frist, Pearl Harbor or bombing of Tokoy? Why there are 3 million Japanese troops stayed in China during 1937-1945? What did they do? Were they in vacations?

Third, why there are millions of Japanese "residents" lived in Machuran, or the northeast part of China? And Why they could occupy most of the land, forcing Chinese people to leave? Why the Japanese "residents" did not pay tax to local Chinese government but pay tax to the Japense troops? (The truth was the Japanese occupied the whole area, which is 5-6 times larger than Japan itself, and wanted to change the land as a "new Japan.")

Could you answer these questions?

Yes, the Nuke bombs killed thousands of hundreds Japanese, but Japanese killed at least 25 million Chinese during WWII. 25 million! Who was "brainwashed"? Why don't you say that it is a lie of Pearl Harbor, the truth is Americans attacked Japnese?

We never refused to admit that the Japnese suffered by the nuclear weapon. But we can's understand why there always be some Japnese who refuse to grant the history? History is history. There is no need and to lie. If Japan wants to become a normal country and get respect from other nations, it should stop to "modify" the history. Please watch what the German did and compare to yourself!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: if it's true, they will be a tokyo massacre
Review: if it's true, they will be a tokyo massacre

too sad and brutal

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Misreading and Misconceptions
Review: In China, a dynasty's history is written by its conqueror so that the conquest is totally justified.
At Tokyo Trial, a.k.a. International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Allied powers, especially the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union and China, did the same thing to Japan.
To justify their own atrocities against the Japanese civilians, such as the U.S.A.'s atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other carpet bombimgs with napalm on over 60 cities of Japan, Soviet Union's unlawful attack on the Japanese residents in Manchuria, lots of, lots of "more barbaric crimes" were needed to be fabricated at the trial.
Furthermore, most importantly, the fabricated history should be regarded as "legally" validated truths.
In the following 7 year occupation of Japan, the Supreme Comander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) and the General Head Quarter (GHQ) ran a "brain washing" programme called " War Guilt Information Programme" in order to "disarm" Japanese fighting spirit that concerned the U.S. authority a lot. It completed with the meticulous censorship that covered over the whole madia, publications and education. Even the very existence of the censorship was completely concealed.

I have to admit that the "brain washing" have been very successful as regards the whole world still believe the judgments of the trial are all true, with the exception of some patriotic Japanese scholars and researchers who are trying to refute the unjust accusations Japan had to accept.

By the way, I rated this book with 3 stars just because it has good, extensive bibliography including the books that demonstrate how the Tokyo Trial proceeded one-sidedly, that how the "Nanking Massacre" story have been fabricated for the propaganda purposes and that debunk most of those alleged atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army.
Not to mention the contemporary documents that, in fact, admit no massacre was actually witnessed by those "objective" foreigners other than the Chinese Army propagandists.

In fact, according to a document written by the Chinese prosecutor of Nanking Justice Court, when the Court sent people to interview citizens of Nanking after the war ended, almost nobody accused the Japanese Army. Furthermore, some even claimed that the atrocities occurred in Nanking were, actually, done by the Chinese Army.

Those are the facts that every scholarly work should include at least for verification. And if you read those books, written by so-called "Massacre Denial Fuction" authors like Higashinakano Shudo and Tanaka Masaaki etc..., you should get much more broader picture of what really happened in Nanking, December 1937.

Unfortunately, however, the authors of this book simply dismissed the denial theses without examining them while ignoring their own misreading and misconception towards whole issue. Consequently, they grossly failed to make good counter-arguments to the denial theses. That means, I hate to say this but, this book is just another representative of "Nanking Massacre" theses that are unsubstantiated and sloppy, and yet emotional enough to make a forced analogy as if denying the "Nanking Massacre" is the same horrible act as the denial of the Nazi Holocaust.

Precisely because of that belief, it appears, they would never come to think that the denial theses of the massacre may contain some truths, like Inquisitors never recognised the heliocentric theory.

Maybe, it is these people who must face some painful truths, not the Japanese they are accusing.


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