Based on true incidents.
Posted on 06/21/2007 4:50:38 AM PDT by yankeedame
Although I would like to see a strong Japan on our side, facing North Korea and China, those ridiculous statements and outragous denials don’t do the Japanese any favour.
Their version of Holocaust denial.
Even if the total was 20,000 is that suppossed to make anybody feel better?The murder of civilians was the trademark of the Imperial Japanese Army,and there is no way to put a good spin on it.
More to the point.
Nanking was just one city. The Japs did very much the same throughout the area of China they invaded.
Nanking is remembered as a separate incident mainly because there were a couple hundred foreigners who were hands-off and who were thus able to report to the outside world on what the Japs did there.
I don’t see how anybody can accurately determine at this point in time whether the number was 150K or 300K.
The more relevant issue is that such atrocities were intentional Japanese policy. Soldiers were punished for NOT participating in the rape, torture and killing.
Based on true incidents.
That’s the same Jap mindset that changed the name of Iwo Jima to Iwo To. They’re hoping everybody forgets.
You are far to kind.
How can you be so politically incorrect, “Japs”.
GOOD JOB SIR.
Don’t forget that at this very moment the ChiComs are perpetuating genocide in Tibet and are involved in their own version of Holocaust denial.
Don’t forget that at this very moment the ChiComs are perpetuating genocide in Tibet and are involved in their own version of Holocaust denial.The official Chinese history of the boxer rebellion is pretty funny too. Slaughtering 10s of thousands of Chinese Christians is now "resisting colonial aggression".
Historical reference.
Nobody in America was concerned about Jap sensibilities at the time. Quite the contrary.
Watched it last night.
Excellent movie, but like most war movies hard to figure out what’s going on in the combat scenes.
OTOH, that’s pretty much what actual combat is like.
I agree that the Japanese should accept that the massacre at Nanking was a planned effort.
However, given China’s own expertise at eliminating entire nations and cultures (and at a far larger scale than Nanking), any response from them to this Japanese statement should be treated with the derision and contempt it deserves.
Agreed.
How long until they start claiming the Battan death march never happened. If you’re going to whitewash history you might as well use a very broad brush.
The Japanese were smart enough not to write down how many people they slaughtered unlike the Germans.
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