This book is based on four visits to China between 1971 and 1989 by
Honda Katsuichi, an investigative journalist for Asahi Shimbun. His
aim is to show in pitiless detail the horrors of the Japanese
Army's march to and seizure and capture of Nanjing in December
1937. Unvarnished accounts of the testimony -- of Chinese victims
and Japanese perpetrators -- to the rape and slaughter are
juxtaposed with public relations announcements of the Japanese Army
as printed in various Japanese newspapers of the time. The bland
announcements of triumphant victories stand in bitter contrast to
the atrocities that actually took place on the scene.
The story unfolds with horrible detail as we watch the progress
of the Japanese army whose troops were bent on rape and killing in
the so-called "heat of battle." Yet by recalling the testimony of
Japanese soldiers and reporters who were on the scene, as well as
reproducing dispatches by Japanese Army authorities at the time,
Honda makes it clear that the atrocities were part of a studied
effort directed by the Japanese high command to impress the Chinese
people with the power of its army and the folly of resistance. The
estimate of at least 100,000 killed in these "military operations"
is no exaggeration. The Chinese side of the story is based on the
author's interviews with dozens of survivors.
Honda, along with other Japanese journalists and scholars, aims
to reveal the truth of the Nanjing massacre, provoked by the
efforts of right-wing Japanese, including, sadly, many government
officials, to whitewash the whole incident, even to the point of
contending that a "massacre" never happened. This gripping account
of the atrocities and cover-up joins otherrecent exposes in keeping
alive the memory of this shameful event.
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