BTW, she had on-going disputes with the Japanese here and in Japan about her books.
I recall KSFO's Barbara Simpson who interviewed her several times saying that her fourth book had a substantial impact on her and IIRC Chang may not be able to finish it.
I returned to the wiki source and found that IRC, I recalled correctly. :)
Her fourth book was about the Bataan Death March (Now I recall that indeed it was). "Chang was also reportedly deeply disturbed by much of the subject matter of her research." She had talked to survivors and IIRC in some respects it was the worst ever she'd heard.
She traveled to Harrodsburg, Kentucky where there was a 'time capsule' of audio recordings from servicemen, "she suffered an extreme bout of depression that left her unable to leave her hotel." After a few days of treatment she returned to California.
She apparently wrote three suicide notes.. the last one:
"There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. Deep down I suspect that you may have more answers about this than I do. I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined. Whether it was the CIA or some other organization I will never know. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me.
"Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. I sensed suddenly threats to my own life: an eerie feeling that I was being followed in the streets, the white van parked outside my house, damaged mail arriving at my P.O. Box. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me."
Thanks for posting this.
Savage did make a tiny error. The “comfort women” were mostly Korean, though I guess that there were some of other nationalities.
It was always my theory that the Japanese got more if a pass for World War II atrocities than the Germans did because they were able to claim that it wasn’t planned, that it happened because of some out-of-control individuals,etc. that’s ridiculous, of course, but I think that it worked to some extent. The Germans, on the other hand, couldn’t claim it wasn’t pre-meditated, with carefully designed gas chambers, etc. And there was Hitler’s book. This is just my theory.