Although the Japanese government has admitted to the acts of killing of a large number of non-combatants, looting, and other violence committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of Nanking, and Japanese veterans who served in Nanking at that time have confirmed that a massacre took place, a small but vocal minority within both the Japanese government and society have argued that the death toll was military in nature and that no such crimes ever occurred. Denial of the massacre (and a divergent array of revisionist accounts of the killings) has become a staple of Japanese nationalism. Again the theme of a culture of denial, for the sake of nationalism. It always struck me how everyone knows of the Nazi regime, but how the Japanese have no such historic stigma despite their actions -- presumably because of the US economic interests in the area realized secondary to Hirohitos submission. The Rape of Nanking: youtu.be/aQnBvs3LTZw
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:28:55 +0000
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