"The Nanjing massacre was an orgy of violence in which Japanese soldiers murdered tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians.
Although it took place more than 70 years ago, it is still remembered with anger in China, and continues to taint the country's relationship with Japan." (BBC).
Japan, unlike Germany, has been in denial about the part they played in WW2. Millions of Japanese are still convinced that the act of aggression was first committed against them and they were only defending themselves.(Check out their school books on the subject). But nothing could be further from the truth. At that time they were a military nation, industrialized but with no raw materials to speak of, bent on building an empire. In this pursuit, they committed major atrocities against every country they overran. But before the Second World War, they had been engaged in a brutal invasion of China, where the Japanese regarded themselves as racially superior and the Chinese as sub human. Like the Nazis in Europe, the Japanese in Asia inflicted the most appalling crimes against the Chinese people.
This revisionist fiction of the Japanese of them as victim, unfortunately still remains part of their collective belief system. Any Japanese who cannot face the truth that they, as a nation, were the aggressors before and during WW2, should be placed in the same category as Holocaust deniers.
(Photo: Copyright Control).
Although it took place more than 70 years ago, it is still remembered with anger in China, and continues to taint the country's relationship with Japan." (BBC).
Japan, unlike Germany, has been in denial about the part they played in WW2. Millions of Japanese are still convinced that the act of aggression was first committed against them and they were only defending themselves.(Check out their school books on the subject). But nothing could be further from the truth. At that time they were a military nation, industrialized but with no raw materials to speak of, bent on building an empire. In this pursuit, they committed major atrocities against every country they overran. But before the Second World War, they had been engaged in a brutal invasion of China, where the Japanese regarded themselves as racially superior and the Chinese as sub human. Like the Nazis in Europe, the Japanese in Asia inflicted the most appalling crimes against the Chinese people.
This revisionist fiction of the Japanese of them as victim, unfortunately still remains part of their collective belief system. Any Japanese who cannot face the truth that they, as a nation, were the aggressors before and during WW2, should be placed in the same category as Holocaust deniers.
(Photo: Copyright Control).
