Iris Chang found dead

[Mulboyne]

This is a long, sympathetic look at the life of Iris Chang

SFGate: Historian Iris Chang won many battles. The war she lost raged within

[Mulboyne]

People's Daily: A resident presents a flower to the photo of Azuma Shiro, in Nanjing, Jan. 4
Reuters: China hails Japan veteran who spoke of Nanjing horror
Chinese officials have expressed condolences over the death of a Japanese veteran, calling him "the conscience" of his country for speaking out about Japan's wartime atrocities in China. Azuma Shiro served in the invading Japanese army during its notorious massacre of residents of Nanjing, then China's capital, in 1937. Fifty years later he published a diary of those events to show his remorse and rebut Japanese doubts about the scale of the atrocities...Shiro died in Kyoto on Tuesday at the age of 94.

[Skankster]

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: China unveils plans for Japanese war atrocity film

China unveiled plans on Monday to make a war movie, produced and financed by Americans, chronicling the 1937 massacre of civilians in Nanjing by invading Japanese soldiers...The planned film about the massacres of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops will be based on Iris Chang's best-selling account, "The Rape of Nanking," Xinhua news agency said. "We hope we can make the film a classic on a massacre in the Second World War, just like 'Schindler's List' about the miserable experience of Jewish people during the war," Gerald Green, the American producer of the movie, was quoted as saying. Green's producer credits include Oliver Stone's 1986 film "Salvador" and the Emmy-winning 1978 television miniseries "Holocaust"...more...

[Greji]

Reuters: China unveils plans for Japanese war atrocity film

That really ought to be popular around Nagatacho and over in Blinky's office!

[Samurai_Jerk]

You think that movie will ever get shown in Japan?

[Iraira]

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Chinese court ordered two Japanese authors to pay $200,000 damages to a Nanjing massacre survivor for accusing her of faking her account of the 1937 attack. Their publisher rejected the judgment as an assault on free speech.

Xia Shuqin, who lived through the Japanese attack on the then national capital in which China says 300,000 died, had sued historians Shudo Higashinakano and Toshio Matsumura and their Japanese publisher, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The Japanese authors had claimed in a 1998 book that historical records of the massacre in the eastern Chinese city, then known as Nanking, were untrue and accounts by witnesses including Xia were fake, Xinhua said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/china.japan.reut/index.html

[Behan]

I don't know how anyone could claim that 300,000 people didn't die. I read the book and their were accounts of the massacre from a bunch of different people. Even Japanese people have admitted to it.

[Jack]

Now only if China were to allow a movie about Mao's attrocities...

China found some economic prosperity and suddenly they think they are some fucking hot shots. They still have a backward country and doing all they can to flame anti-Japanese sentiments so the populace ignores the problems at home.

Japan should double its military spending and start re-arming. I think she will need it against China some day.

[Taro Toporific]

Upcoming movie on the life of Iris Chang:

http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/February2007/27/c4842.html