Whitewashing history? ---- truth of alleged Nanjing massacre (2)
This time I'll focus just on Japanese propaganda carried out to inform that the Japanese troops helped Chinese people in 1937 after fall of Nanjing. (Note that I'm not negating all those incidents around that time. I'm just giving another perspective here.)
I hated those pictures a while ago because those pics were after censorship, and you never know what had happened behind those pictures. Look at the picture below. With a close look, you'll find a Chinese kid wearing Japanese flag around his left arm. That obviously stinks! Needless to say, Japan attempted to artifically produce a good mood.
(Dec. 20th in Nanking within a week after fall of Nanking.)However, my opinion has changed affirmatively due to the following reasons:
1)Japanese troops allowed many Japanese camera crew to enter Nanking; it indicates that Japan knew Kuomintang started negative canpaign activities in US. The Japanese in Nanking were desperate not to let Kuomintang government do it.
2)Those pictures decorated headlines in newspapers in Japan after fall of Nanking, saying "do not hate Chinese" or "Japanese troops have a warm relationship with Chinese people." Although those phrases would arouse criticisms or evoke disgust, those attitude by newspapers contributed to cultivating humanity in Japan. Moreover, it must be a good education to soldiers who go on the warpath. Japanese people still held the concept of human rights even after they were hurt by a brutal killingfield, Tongzhou Incident in 1937 near Beijing (Japanese civillains were killed, and it indirectly triggered full-scale war). At least it seems that general opinion in Japan didn't accept a radical opinion, "You can do whatever to Chinese."
Anyway, it was evident that information war for morality was very significant to obtain support from people. Kuomintang got to be known to have killed very brutaly in China mainland throughout the war. It led Kuomintang to be defeated by Communist party in a long run.
(Dec.20 or 23 where a Chinese kid was treated by a Japanese medical troop.)
(Dec. 17th, some restrants were already open in the safe district. A japanese soldier is eating dumplings.)
(Dec. 16th, cf. Nanking fell at night on Dec 12th.)
(Dec. 19th, a kid is adored by Japanes soldiers.)
(Feb. 26th, Japanese women walking in the street in Nanking.)Do you totally believe after seeing those pics that Japanese troops really gave good administration? I don't think so. I don't want you to think so, either. But I just want yout to agree that the world 70 years ago was just like Iraq where visual information plays an important role in shaping international opinion.
(made in spring through summer in 1938, a postcard of a market sold in Nanking. A careful check allows you to read "Sino-Japanese blur blur" in the banner. If the order was "Japan-Sina blur blur", it would have hurt people's feeling. )
(This pictures reached Osaka Oct.15th 1937 before fall of Nanking. The bombardments by Japanese bombers destroyed buildings. These pictures were not permitted to appear due to censorship. The red stamps say it.)In essence, all those pictures I have shown shouldn't have much value although they are effectively appealing more than writings. I'm just showing them just for giving another perspective.
Here's a link to my first article:(1)
posted by yellowpeep @ 5:20 PM
11 Comments:
To be honest, the other comments disgust me.
It's sounds plain stereotypical.
It's the Japanese government who are bad, and not the Japanese themselves.
Censorship. Who doesn't do that?
Think before you dig lower before they do.
Nanjing played a pivotal role in history during WWII. The year of 1937 was a tumultuous time in its history. In 1937 Nanjing was invaded by Japanese forces, which overtook the military protecting the then capital of the Republic of China. The Japanese troops annihilated the military and civilians in what came to be known as the “Nanjing massacre.” It was a short but horrible time in history. Though the exact death toll of the massacre was never confirmed, the military tribunal and war crimes tribunal charged with investigating the Nanjing massacre put the death toll upwards of 300,000 in Nanjing alone. The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall was constructed after the 1937 massacre in remembrance of this horrible time in history where so many military and civilians were killed.
Does anybody really belive what Japanese rightiests claim about Nanjing massacre?
There is no one who will believe what Japaense rightists insist about Nanjing massacre unless there is no moron or retard around here.
It was evident that information war for morality was very significant to obtain support from people. Kuomintang got to be known to have killed very brutaly in China mainland throughout the war. It led Kuomintang to be defeated by Communist party in a long run and it couldn't be helped anyway, because was it's like that.
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Dear anonymou person, if you are going to insult Japanese people like that, at least use proper grammar and appropriate vocabulary instead of unnecessarily repeating the word, "shithole" over and over again. In addition, your comments only resemble some sort of unjustified rant, which will, in no manner, ameliorate any type of situation. In addition, if you so dislike Japanese people, please refrain from driving cars, watching TV, or using any of the electronic appliances you have around you. In some way or another, Japanese technology is being utilized.
China has submitted exactly 143 photos as evidence for the Nanking Massacre. However, all of these photos (ALL) have been proven scientifically to be fake. China has not sent in any more photos. Another major area of concern is that no corpses have been found and scientifically proved to have been from the massacre. China does display corpses of alleged victims in its exhibitions--however, China has never done any sort of test on these corpses to demonstrate that they do indeed evidence the massacre. Mao Ze Dong has also never mentioned the Nanking massacre, which seems somewhat odd.
I am not attempting to disprove the Nanking massacre. However, I do feel it unjust for the world to only turn to one side of the story (China's side). What about the massacre of Tibet that China has conducted? (It's proven too!) And the Tinnammen square incident? China is in no position to continually condemn Japan's actions without reflecting upon its own dark past. Perhaps the Nanking massacre did occur--however, further excavation of proof is necessary in order to write the events/statistics in stone.
FUCK CHINA
FAKE OF NANKING. COMMUNIST CHINA PROPAGANDA
It is the fact that the International Committee of the Nanking Safety Zone stated clearly in their famous Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone: They eyewitnessed NO MASSACRE of the civilians other than only one "legitimate execution" of a Chinese soldier.
Farthermore, they admitted that almost entire reports shown in the Documents that came from their Chinese "friends" were, in fact, unsubstantiated second-hand hearsay.
In the first place, the Committee stated officially that they had 200,000 Chinese refugees in the Safety Zone which figure never decreased but soon after the city's capture increased to 250,000.
On top of that, when the Nanking Criminal Court conducted a survey with the Nanking citizens after the war ended in order to prosecute some Japanese Army "criminals", the people of Nanking never wanted to speak up and remained in silence "like a winter cicada".
Amazingly, some even told the surveyer that the atrocities happened in Nanking were, in fact, done by the Chinese soldiers.
It suggests, in reality, the refugees had no family members who were killed by Japanese Army in neither case of being misunderstood as if they were ex-soldiers nor being "massacred".
If you really study this issue or other topics in the modern history of the Far East, you should never miss out the fact: "China was purely innocent victim of Japan's aggressive war" is grossly untrue.
More precisely speaking, it was only the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Union who were profitting from the war at the expense of real innocent civilians of China. If you read books on history of China and Russia in that period, there are evidences that of Chinese Communist Party and Soviet Union waging the war against Japan putting their real enemy, the Chinese Nationarist Party, in the front line to fight the Japanese so that they could eliminate both Japan and the CNP at the same time, and that of Chinese propagandists were in action hiring the American missionaries in Nanking and some other jounalists in other places to propagate the Japanese Army's "atrocities against the poor Chinese people" so that the foreign countries could be convinced the story was true and become by their side.
Ignoring and dismissing those facts (some are even stated in Chinese documents and books) plainly as "revisionist's view" is like studying astronomy using textbooks written by the Inquisitors who never ever recognised the heliocentric theory as a proper science.
Do you think it is absolutely justifiable that a former Nazi member can be charged with crimes that he never committed and can be sentensed to death even though the court have found no evidences that support the crimes? Just because he was Nazi, and therefore, he IS evil, do you think that he has no right to refute his false accusation and has to accept it?
I hope many of readers are not that irrational to let the prejudice conquer their reasons like the masses who were eager to burn the "witches". Were the "witches" all genuine? Who knows?
Fortunately, there are a mass of evidences that support the counter-arguments of the "Nanking Massacre" and other crimes the Japanese Imperial Army was falsely accused in the Tokyo Trial.
And some judges of the trial acctually offered their dissentient opinion suggesting the whole procedure of the trial was, indeed, defective, if not plain unfair or one-sided.
In the course of rethinking the whole issue of history of war-time Japan, that is directly related to the post-war policy of the Allied powers including the Tokyo Trial and the notorious "War Guilt Information Programme", the "brain-washing" of the Japanese nationals during the 7 year occupation, the readers from the U.S.A. and Russia and China themselves may have to face the music.
Those who believe Nanking Massacre actually took place must visit this site.
False Accusations of Nanking Massacre
http://www.howitzer.jp/nanking/index.html
People wear Japanese flag marks in order to express their allegiance to the conquring army. You have to know the cultural background of China before making ant comment. They have no allegiance to the nation. They are loyal to good ruler.
Just asking out of curiosity, who in their right mind has the audacity to ask this question? Seriously, the Nanjing Massacre is undoubtedly the most heinous and most atrocious war crime committed in the 20th century. In Western belief the systemic genocide the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany conducted on Jews, Slavs, and other minorities is framed as the worst crime against humanity in recent history. However, after doing the slightest of research on the conduct of the Japanese in the Pacific and Pan-Asian theater, one can’t help but feel blood filling their heads in rage and disgust (this is me as an American so please imagine what the Chinese would feel about this). The actions of the Japanese in Asia cannot even be called human. Even the devil would shudder at the actions of the Japanese in Nanjing. Thousands of grandmothers, mothers, and young daughters were raped to death in Nanjing. The Japanese viewed the Chinese as a mere commodity. In one account, Japanese Officers conducted a “friendly competition” where they tested the sharpness of their family swords. Records say that each officer murdered over 100 innocent citizens each. To save ammunition the Japanese would throw infants in the air and catch them on their bayonets. Even John Rabe, who was a zealous sympathizer of the Nazi Party, was absolutely appalled by the behavior of Japanese and even went out of his way to save Chinese women and children. The stories and primary records regarding this atrocity are no short of being comparable to what we can imagine occurs in the depths of he
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