Truth of Nanjing

[Takechanpoo]

A veteran foreign correspondent defended a statement in his war history book that a massacre of Chinese citizens by Japanese soldiers in Nanjing in 1937 never took place. The comments came after recent reports suggested the team who helped put the book together may have altered its content without the author’s knowledge.

“I am saying that the so-called Nanking Massacre by Japanese troops had never occurred,” Mr. Scott-Stokes said in the video. “I am very insistent on this. I am not willing to be called a liar by anybody on this subject. I have pledged my existence on this.”

He described what happened in 1937 in the Chinese city as “sporadic violence here and there” that should be referred to as “incidents” rather than as a “massacre.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014 ... -massacre/
hes a truly real journalist unlike other gaijin dudes who are on the SAFE side rather than on the correct side.
fucking Spielberg should read his book.

btw hes suffering from Parkinson's disease...

[Russell]

You might have wanted to post in this thread.

Anyway, I take it that you would find the account of a Japanese more reliable, especially if that person happens to have been there at the time and to be a member of the Imperial family.

Hirohito's Brother Assailed Japan's WW II 'Aggression' : Asia: Late emperor's sibling confirms a bold 1944 speech to troops condemning military policy, atrocities in China.

In a 1944 speech in Nanking, China, Prince Mikasa--the late Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother--condemned the Japanese military's "policy of aggression" toward the Chinese and cruelties such as using prisoners for bayonet practice, a Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday.

In a remarkable interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun, the prince, now 78, detailed the extent of military atrocities against the Chinese and confirmed that he had condemned the aggression in a speech delivered to some Japanese soldiers in China during World War II. Copies of his statements were later quashed and destroyed by military authorities.

A single remaining copy was recently discovered in the library of Parliament by a Kobe University professor.

The prince told the Yomiuri that he wrote and delivered his speech "out of a desperate desire to bring the war to a close" after a one-year assignment as staff officer with Japanese expeditionary forces in the eastern Chinese city of Nanking (now known as Nanjing).

In an assignment that shocked and revolted him, he said he discovered that military officers used Chinese prisoners of war for bayonet practice to instill "guts" in Japanese soldiers; they gassed and shot them en masse after tying them to posts. "It was truly a horrible scene that can only be termed a massacre," he said.

He also disclosed in his newspaper interview that military officials tried to poison members of the League of Nations' Lytton Commission, assigned to investigate Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931, by lacing fruit with cholera germs; the investigators did not develop the disease.

The prince, then 27 years old, said he denounced the military near the end of the war for acting against what he believed was the emperor's strong desire for peace.

But military authorities regarded his remarks as "dangerous" and destroyed copies. Since criticism of the military then was regarded as treason, such outspoken denunciations would have been impossible for anyone but a member of the imperial family, he said.

The Mikasa speech is the first open criticism of the military by an imperial family member and "is of tremendous historical significance as evidence of the imperial family's basic opposition to the military even in the midst of war," Yomiuri reported. The military has long sought to legitimize its wartime behavior as done in the name of the emperor.

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[Coligny]

Since takechan just disrespected the imperial family by implying they were liars I suggest we feed him to the lio... Wait, none here... Sharks... Nope... Koi pond !? That will have to do...

[Russell]

Let's give him a biblical punishment.

Feed him to the whales...

[Coligny]

Let's give him a biblical punishment.

Feed him to the whales...

I though your mom was on a d...

Awww shit...

I give up, you're certainly doing it on purpose now, it's not even fun anymoare...

[Russell]