Massacres Committed by Japan - Nanking Massacre, Nanking Massacre Denial, Sook Ching Massacre, Historiography of the Nanking Massacre (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Nanking Massacre, Nanking Massacre denial, Sook Ching massacre, Historiography of the Nanking Massacre, Iris Chang, John Rabe, Iwane Matsui, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, John Magee, Bernhard Arp Sindberg, Port Arthur massacre, Minnie Vautrin, Katsuichi Honda, Hisao Tani, Heisuke Yanagawa, Isamu Ch, Parit Sulong Massacre, Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, George Ashmore Fitch, Yasuji Kaneko, F.Tillman Durdin, Manila massacre, Kesago Nakajima, Shiro Azuma, Robert O. Wilson, Banka Island massacre, Tomio Hora, International Red Cross Committee of Nanking, Lewis S.C. Smythe, Kalagong massacre, Changjiao massacre, Rohingya massacre, Homfreyganj massacre. Excerpt: The Nanking Massacre, in which Imperial Japanese forces murdered hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians during the Second Sino-Japanese War, is a highly controversial episode in Sino-Japanese relations. Most historians accept the findings of the Tokyo tribunal with respect to the scope and nature of the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the Battle of Nanking. In Japan, however, there has been a heated debate over the extent and nature of the massacre. Because denial of the massacre is seen as part of an overall unwillingness on Japan's part to admit and apologize for its aggression, debate over the massacre, or a perceived insensitivity regarding the killings, complicates relations between Japan and China. Estimates of the death toll vary widely. Many scholars have accepted the figure of 300,000 dead as an approximate total, and this figure has become emblematic of the tragedy in China. Estimates of the dead vary, however, notably among revisionist scholars and activists in Japan, who have contended at times that the actual death toll is far lower, or even that the event was...