Nanking Massacres, As Objectively As Possible

What's been happening.

2009-02-10T16:56:00.000-08:00

Things are kicking up again. How many times do I have to repeat?

THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT HAVE ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED THE NANKING MASSACRES.
Get that in your 5-in thick skulls.

They're like the Holocaust deniers--the scum of humankind. At least the German government did not shirk obligations.

2007-06-30T15:36:00.000-07:00

The Asian Auschwitz of Unit 731
August 29 2002

It was a secret Japanese military unit that used Chinese prisoners for gruesome medical experiments. Years later, Japanese authorities are still in denial. Shane Green reports.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/28/1030508070534.html

Japan's sins of the past

The memories of Japanese biological attacks on China in the 1940s are still fresh. Many Chinese want an apology, writes Justin McCurry

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Thursday October 28, 2004
Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.u k/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1338296,00.html

Credits to JWCAKA at YT for finding the info.

Shinzo Abe Apology?

2007-06-19T14:09:00.000-07:00

Why are the Japanese considering Shinzo Abe's apology on comfort women an apology on the Nanking Massacres?
Do they not realize that comfort women were only a part of what happened in Nanking at that time?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6495115.stm

Youtuberrrs

2007-05-09T21:26:00.000-07:00

How the Japanese are denying the massacres on Youtube is just very amusing. They think they're winning honor for their country of something?? But in reality, their country is back-stabbing them, educating them with Nanking as merely an "incident" where the Chinese suffered "some casualties." And so they believe their country, of course, and they make a fool of themselves in public- all because of the education Japan provided them. Also in return, Japanese are making other countries lose respect from them. Who likes people that has the courage to do things but not to admit it?

UK News

2007-05-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

THE forgotten war crimes of the 20th century are legion, but few matched in scale and brutality the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in 1937 in the Chinese city of Nanking (now Nanjing). Perhaps as many as 300,000 civilians were slaughtered during six weeks of massacres, and up to 80,000 women raped. Yet after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as Japan was slowly rehabilitated by the West as a bastion against Communist China, the victims of Nanking were largely ignored by history until their suffering was brought to light in the late 1990s

source: The Times [UK news agency since 1788]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article391293.ece

From BBC...

2007-05-02T16:58:00.000-07:00

For some you ignorant people who think CNN+Times+Wiki+various other sites aren't "good enough" for you.. here's a BBC site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/615457.stm

Some important highlights in the article:

A controversial conference disputing that Japanese troops carried out a massacre at the Chinese city of Nanking in the 1930s went ahead on Sunday despite Chinese protests. The meeting, titled The Verification of the Rape of Nanking: The Biggest Lie of the 20th Century, was organised by a nationalist group and held in a public museum in Osaka.

About 100 protesters, mostly Chinese and Japanese, waved banners outside the centre with slogans such as "Nanking is an undeniable fact".

The Japanese Government has distanced itself from the claims made at the conference.
"They certainly don't represent the government of Japan's view, nor do they represent the view of perhaps the majority of Japanese people" said Sadaaki Numata, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The BBC's correspondent in Tokyo, Juliet Hindell, says the incident reflects Japan's difficulty to face up to some of the dark periods of its history.
Many people are ignorant of the facts of the Nanking massacre she says, as it has only recently been mentioned in school history text books.

Well no wonder many people on youtube are so uneducated in this topic, yet arguing as if they were pros. HA figures, I think I might hide too if my ancestors did the things committed at Nanking that fateful year. TSK-TSK
What I don't get is why some Japanese are still arguing on youtube when THEIR VERY OWN government acknowledged that the massacres happened. That just brings down people's respect for these people.

Racists

2007-04-08T20:06:00.000-07:00

So... I guess Tamagawaboat really is retarded.
His blog says "AS SUBJECTIVELY AS POSSIBLE" when his blog posts are supposed to be "historical."

Dictionary.com :
Subjective (adverb: subjectively) : placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc.

So either this guy doesn't know his English and meant to say "objectively as possible" or he's just wacko- thinks its cool that "as subjectively as possible" can shortened to "asap" so it will impress others?!?

What a weirdo. But I do believe that he knows that Nanking is real. His actions reveal it all.

LMAOO He's trying to "educate" uneducated people with his lies. And then ignore the ones who KNOW.

Japanese Textbooks

2007-04-04T20:23:00.000-07:00

Many people are saying that things people read in China is all censored by the government...
There were 8 textbooks approved by the educational ministry in Japan for use in junior high schools.
One of them, the "New History Textbook" was written by a group of Japanese nationalists. South Korea, China and other Asian countries have sharply criticized the Japanese government for approving the book, which critics say distorts history and glosses over atrocities committed by the Japanese military in the years leading up to World War II.
Only one of the eight books mentions the Japanese Imperial army's enslaving tens of thousands of women in soldiers' brothels, and none mention the scale of the Nanjing, China, massacre.

Source: CNN
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/04/japan.textbook/index.html

Various Articles On Nanking Massacre

2007-04-04T19:51:00.000-07:00

"There probably is no crime that has not been committed [by the Japanese] in this city [Nanking] today."
-US Woman

Confession and Denial
After the Second World War was over, one of the Japanese soldiers who was in Nanjing spoke about what he had seen. Azuma Shiro recalled one episode: "There were about 37 old men, old women and children. We captured them and gathered them in a square."
"There was a woman holding a child on her right arm... and another one on her left."
"We stabbed and killed them, all three - like potatoes in a skewer. I thought then, it's been only one month since I left home... and 30 days later I was killing people without remorse."
Mr Shiro suffered for his confession: "When there was a war exhibition in Kyoto, I testified. The first person who criticized me was a lady in Tokyo. She said I was damaging those who died in the war."
"She called me incessantly for three or four days. More and more letters came and the attack became so severe... that the police had to provide me with protection."
Such testimony, however, has been discounted at the highest levels in Japan.
Former Justice Minister Shigeto Nagano denied that the massacre had occurred, claiming it was a Chinese fabrication.
Professor Ienaga Saburo spent many years fighting the Japanese government in the courts with only limited success for not allowing true accounts of Japanese war atrocities to be given in school textbooks.
There is also opposition to the idea among ordinary Japanese people. A film called Don't Cry Nanjing was made by Chinese and Hong Kong film-makers in 1995 but it was several years before it was shown in Japan.

Rape of Nanking
Based on estimates made by historians and charity organisations in the city at the time, between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, many of them women and children.
The number of women raped was said by Westerners who were there to be 20,000, and there were widespread accounts of civilians being hacked to death.
Yet many Japanese officials and historians deny there was a massacre on such a scale.
They admit that deaths and rapes did occur, but say they were on a much smaller scale than reported. And in any case, they argue, these things happen in times of war.

One of the Great Atrocities of Modern Times
At the time, the Japanese army did not have a reputation for brutality.
In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, the Japanese commanders had behaved with great courtesy towards their defeated opponents, but this was very different.
Japanese papers reported competitions among junior officers to kill the most Chinese.
One Japanese newspaper correspondent saw lines of Chinese being taken for execution on the banks of the Yangtze River, where he saw piles of burned corpses.
Photographs from the time, now part of an exhibition in the city, show Japanese soldiers standing, smiling, among heaps of dead bodies.
Tillman Durdin of the New York Times reported the early stages of the massacre before being forced to leave.
He later wrote: "I was 29 and it was my first big story for the New York Times. So I drove down to the waterfront in my car. And to get to the gate I had to just climb over masses of bodies accumulated there."
"The car just had to drive over these dead bodies. And the scene on the river front, as I waited for the launch... was of a group of smoking, chattering Japanese officers overseeing the massacring of a battalion of Chinese captured troops."
"They were marching about in groups of about 15, machine-gunning them."
As he departed, he saw 200 men being executed in 10 minutes to the apparent enjoyment of Japanese military spectators.
He concluded that the rape of Nanjing was "one of the great atrocities of modern times".

The Memories Cannot Be Erased
A Christian missionary, John Magee, described Japanese soldiers as killing not only "every prisoner they could find but also a vast number of ordinary citizens of all ages".
"Many of them were shot down like the hunting of rabbits in the streets," he said. After what he described as a week of murder and rape, the Rev Magee joined other Westerners in trying to set up an international safety zone.
Another who tried to help was an American woman, Minnie Vautrin, who kept a diary which has been likened to that of Anne Frank.
Her entry for 16 December reads: "There probably is no crime that has not been committed in this city today. Thirty girls were taken from the language school [where she worked] last night, and today I have heard scores of heartbreaking stories of girls who were taken from their homes last night - one of the girls was but 12 years old."
Later, she wrote: "How many thousands were mowed down by guns or bayoneted we shall probably never know. For in many cases oil was thrown over their bodies and then they were burned."
"Charred bodies tell the tales of some of these tragedies. The events of the following ten days are growing dim. But there are certain of them that lifetime will not erase from my memory and the memories of those who have been in Nanjing through this period."
Minnie Vautrin suffered a nervous breakdown in 1940 and returned to the US. She committed suicide in 1941.
Also horrified at what he saw was John Rabe, a German who was head of the local Nazi party.
He became leader of the international safety zone and recorded what he saw, some of it on film, but this was banned by the Nazis when he returned to Germany.
He wrote about rape and other brutalities which occurred even in the middle of the supposedly protected area.

Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/223038.stm

It's Sad How..

2007-04-04T17:53:00.000-07:00

Some people try and stop you from speaking out the truth :(
*cough cough* japanpro...
I would rather not mention the complete site URL
Just kind of feeling bitter right now.
THIS BLOG ARCHIVE IS NOT ANTI-JAPANESE!!
I'm just trying to show that Nanking Massacre is fact, not fiction.
How some people deny it is just sickening. And how they don't want other people to know too.
>:(

I feeling angry now :(

Why China Is Not Happy With Japan

2007-04-03T19:14:00.000-07:00

"But while Japanese school kids are not taught to hate the Chinese, they are sometimes offered a distinctly exculpatory version of World War II history. At Yasukuni's museum visitors learn that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt restricted energy exports to Japan not in protest at Japan's invasion of China, for example, but because in 1939, he had resolved to join Great Britain in the war, and used "embargoes to force resource-poor Japan into war." Likewise, an exhibit on the "Nanking Incident" of 1937 does not mention the tens of thousands (and perhaps hundreds of thousands) of Chinese citizens the Japanese military slaughtered there in 1937 and 1938. It says only that, "The Chinese were soundly defeated, suffering heavy casualties. Inside the city, residents were once again able to live their lives in peace."
And due to Japan's distinction as the only country to have suffered the effects of atomic bombs, many Japanese even perceive their country as one of the war's great victims. The growing popularity of nationalist pop culture, meanwhile, is only reinforcing the lapses in education. In "Introduction to China," a best-selling comic book, readers learn that Japanese atrocities like the massacre at Nanking or the biological experiments on Chinese prisoners by the Imperial Army's Unit 731 either never happened or have been cynically exaggerated for Chinese political gain. And today, the comic claims, China is a leading exporter to Japan of crime, prostitution and disease."

Source: TIME Magazine

Japan Keeps Provoking China

2007-04-03T19:08:00.000-07:00

So the Japan prime minister knows that he is not helping with maintaining the peace and he's still adding fuel to the already burning fire.
WHEN THOSE HONORED MEN ARE WAR CRIMINALS!!
"Shinto priests regularly honor men executed as war criminals after World War II, and memorabilia from kamikaze pilots, the Burma death railway and other highlights of Japan's wartime history are displayed at the shrine's museum. When Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Shinto sanctuary (as he has once a year, every year since taking office in 2001) on October 17, he knowingly ignited a firestorm of condemnation from China and South Korea. For those countries, the visits are a hurtful homage to Japan's warmongering past and are one of the main reasons Chinese premier Wen Jiabao called off a meeting with Koizumi at the East Asian summit starting December 12."

Source: TIME Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1139758,00.html

Search Old Archives For Nanking Articles

2007-04-03T19:00:00.000-07:00

In the United States, reports were published in the New York Times, Reader's Digest and Time Magazine.
Check in their old archives and be surprised.

Forgiveness

2007-04-03T16:15:00.000-07:00

Can only accomplished when the Japanese admit that they are wrong. And even so, that will hardly be enough for the Chinese that were personally affected. No matter what the Japanese does, it will never be enough for those people. Not to mention that the Japanese did not apologize and many even denied it. How can peace by accomplished between these two nations when the Nanking Massacres occured not even a century ago?? This year marks the 70th year anniversary of the massacres. Many [people] still live to tell the story. How can they forgot when they experienced it first-hand???
As the saying goes, "It is easier said than done."

DEAD

2007-04-02T10:45:00.000-07:00

It's not only the Chinese that claim for the Japanese atrocities.
DIED. SHIRO AZUMA, 93, Japanese World War II veteran who was one of the few ex-soldiers to admit to having participated in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma graphically described rapes and beheadings. "We were taught that we were a superior race," he told CNN in 1998. "But the Chinese were not. So we held nothing but contempt for them."

Shiro Azuma lived to be 93 years old while many other ex-soldiers did not have that kind of longevity. Many had nightmares every night, haunted by those they killed.

Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1147211,00.html

Shinzo Abe..

2007-04-02T10:24:00.000-07:00

Is right-winged! He put his repution in doubt when publicly expressing his doubt that the Japanese military had forced foreign women into prostitution. BUT... in 1993, after years of evading responsibility, the Japanese government issued a statement officially acknowledging the army's role — direct or indirect — in the forced prostitution. The reaction across Asia to Abe's remarks was instant and angry, with South Korea's foreign minister calling on Japan to "face the truth," while septuagenarian former sex slaves in the Philippines furiously denounced Abe as a liar. Although Abe's stance on "comfort women" looks set to spark a new wave of outrage in the region, in reality the Prime Minister is simply drifting back toward the right-wing opinions he expressed as a legislator.

More interesting is why he's choosing to do so now. One theory is that because his approval ratings have been falling for months ahead of vital elections to be held in the spring, he may feel the need to shore up his conservative support base. But in pandering to the right, he could throw away something far more important — Japan's improving relations with China and South Korea, its vital neighbors and trade partners. With the 70th anniversary of the Nanking massacre (when invading Japanese troops targeted the Chinese city) coming up at the end of 2007, attempts by Japan's leader to revise his country's wartime history potentially carry a heavy diplomatic price.

Abe might want to remember words written by his predecessor, Koizumi: "We must not evade the weight of the past, nor should we evade the responsibilities for the future." That was in a letter of apology to the "comfort women."

Source: TIME magazine

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1597434,00.html

Official Online Documentary

2007-04-01T19:40:00.000-07:00

This site has been approved by several educational institutions around the world as acedemic reference.

Evidence Proving Nanking

2007-04-01T19:05:00.000-07:00

I have posted some new information on the web.

The text is in large font so you don't have to squint to see it! :P

Photos From Germany Offer New Evidence On Nanking Massacres

The Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre on Monday accepted a...

Museum Of Nanking Massacres Has Opened In San Francisco!!

Tokyo War Trials

Japan Should Apologize

2007-04-01T15:24:00.000-07:00

Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"At present, both China and Japan have acknowledged the occurrence of wartime atrocities. However, disputes over the historical portrayal of these events have been at the root of continuing political tensions between China and Japan."

OK GET THIS: JAPAN HAS ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED IT.
And yet some Japanese are still arguing this. They are only disgracing themselves by not having the courage to admit their past mistakes.

But the thing about Japan is: Although they have acknowledged it, they refuse to give a formal apology. This is why many Chinese still hate Japan. 300,000 killed and Japan has admitted it, but will not say sorry?!?
How, then, can the Japanese say that the Chinese are trying to stir up hatred?
I would like to hear the opinions of others, especially Tamagawaboat, who seems to have some strong opinions on this particular subject.

So basically, no apologies, no money for the victims, and some even claiming that these hundreds of thousands of people just dissapeared from the face of this Earth?
No wonder the Chinese are still fuming when reminding of what happened in Nanking that unfortunate year.

Nanking Massacres: Truth or Fiction?

2007-04-01T14:39:00.000-07:00

I have seen many naive Japanese claiming that the Nanking Massacres are "Chinese Propaganda."
What I have also noticed, though, is that they do not state the sources.
So then, how can you believe these people, who many Japanese themselves claim are right-winged Nationalist?
One such "source" that they use is sdh-fact.com
Now you may ask yourself: How dependable is this website when sdh.fact.googlepages.com is giving a fair arguement?
sdh.fact.googlepages.com has stated their sources. But what about sdh-fact.com? Where is their proof? Anyone can make their website these days and post some bs so how can we believe them over others? Others, as in more trusted websites, such as cnn.com.
Another website I have seen that these "right-winged Nationalists" use is http://tamagawaboat.wordpress.com/
Now that is just RIDICULOUS. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS
How can a MERE BLOG be counted as for evidence??

I do admit that I am also posting a blog in the hopes of spreading some light on the Nanking Massacres, but I, on the other hand, have stated some sources from where I have gotten my information.
Whereas, this Tamagawaboat hasn't on tamagawaboat.wordpress.com. Instead, he has posted videos from youtube.com to try and convince people, which is as ridiculous as things can get. Tamagawaboat has been arguing on youtube.com for quite some while that most videos are Chinese propaganda, yet he himself is using "Japanese propaganda videos" to try and prove something??
I mean, what kind of srewed up logic is that?
Putting up things on blog and posting comments on youtube isn't really going to help unless the sources are stated, agreed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

(Read carefully, but don't lose your mind. Wikipedia is not always correct.)