Nanjing massacre funny papers protested

[Taro Toporific]

Cartoon strip on Nanjing massacre draws flak
TOKYO (AFP) Oct 09, 2004t
... The publisher of the Weekly Young Jump comics magazine had received strong protests for printing the 'inappropriate' strip by 57-year-old cartoonist Hiroshi Motomiya last month, the conservative Sankei Shimbun daily said... ...The Sankei did not say who made the protest, but Kyodo News agency reported that those responsible included a group of 37 members of local assemblies including those from Saitama City, north of Tokyo.
<--Hiroshi Motomiya--"Dilbert with an attitude"

[kurohinge1]

Cartoon strip on Nanjing massacre draws flak
TOKYO (AFP) Oct 09, 2004t ...

... However, some Japanese right-wingers have claimed the massacre never took place and say photographs and other evidence documenting it are fakes ...

Appropriately, the add just to the right of this when I viewed the webpage was ("Find A Therapist") - no doubt, for those living in denial.

And then they shy away from this ...

... Advertisers don't want to air plots portraying true-to-life corruption, he complains, like those that reveal pervasive, unsavory business practices.

"On TV, the sponsors don't want to bring attention to all of the bid-rigging we have here, so they say, 'Let's just forget about that episode, ' " says Motomiya ...

But this was my favourite bit:

... The Sankei said there was still a dispute over the number of victims in the Nanjing Massacre ...

Yes, The Rules of Naughtiness state that the comdemnation of a nation for mass murder depends on the exact number of victims. If it was the 300,000 souls suggested by the Chinese then it would be hard to argue that it should not be termed a "massacre", but if you're one body short of the threshold, the act is merely termed "naughty".

I mean the allies only documented 140,000 civilians killed. Surely that sort of number could easliy be accounted for by ... mistakes, ... mishaps. You know, you forgot the rifle was loaded, or you were showing you friend Yamaguchi how to slice nori rolls with your officer's samurai sword and you accidentally killed 140,000 civilians.

[devicenull]

sigh... it was 300,000. japan's own records which are preserved and on display in nanjing at the memorial demonstrate this. seriously, everytime i hear a jap deny this or downplay it, i wish for nuke #3 to hit soon.

[Bongo]

[Blah Pete]

... The Sankei said there was still a dispute over the number of victims in the Nanjing Massacre ...

I don't think the correct bodycount will ever be known. The city was in turmoil, lots of refugees, fleeing Chinese soldiers, etc. I think most counts are based on the pre-war population.
Whether it was 20,000 or 300,000 it still happened and Japan has to admit what they have done.

Wonder how China will vote if Japans bid for a UN seat comes up?

[Mulboyne]

Gregory Clark's views in his Japan Times column have been getting more and more trenchant of late, especially with regard to China.

New mindset is the only salve

Anyone who knows China knows the depth of genuine Chinese dislike and even hatred for Japan. Japanese conservatives and rightwingers have lately begun to blame this on what they see as exaggerated emphasis on Japan's 1937-45 wartime atrocities in communist China's school textbooks. (They do not tell us how this alleged anti-Japan bias in the schools meshes with Beijing's strong efforts to curb anti-Japan comments on the Internet and in the Chinese media. Nor do they explain why anti-Japan feeling is just as strong in noncommunist Hong Kong, which has different textbooks.)

Educated Chinese do not need textbooks to remember the record of Japan's wartime behavior. It is Japan's unwillingness to remember that is the problem.

[devicenull]

... The Sankei said there was still a dispute over the number of victims in the Nanjing Massacre ...

I don't think the correct bodycount will ever be known. The city was in turmoil, lots of refugees, fleeing Chinese soldiers, etc. I think most counts are based on the pre-war population.
Whether it was 20,000 or 300,000 it still happened and Japan has to admit what they have done.

Wonder how China will vote if Japans bid for a UN seat comes up?

um... it was well documented by the japanese. the records are there long with rather accurate body counts. these numbers are coming from JAPANESE records, not chinese ones. you can see them if you feel like taking a little trip

[dimwit]

From Japan Today

Publisher pulls Nanjing Massacre manga after politicians protest


Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 15:26 JST
TOKYO — Major publisher Shueisha Inc said Wednesday it will suspend publication of a comic in a popular weekly manga magazine after Japanese local politicians claimed it "distorts history...

A group of 37 members of local assemblies protested to the publisher on Oct 5, saying the massacre was presented as if it were the truth in the form of manga and that it was deliberately distorting history by using a photo whose authenticity cannot be confirmed.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=&id=315342

I wonder who exactly are these 37 members, what are there backgrounds
and from whom are they getting there political funds? It seems interesting that NO ONE ever reports that!