few facts on the Rape of Nanking +
The following are not all correct, but interesting enough to read as a fresh perspective of view.
- The Rape of Nanking was a horrible event, but you'll find few Japanese that deny it nor didn't study it. The massacre is required reading and studying starting at all the thousands of middle schools in Japan except for 10 private schools which are run by ultra-right wing Japanese neo-conservatives. They are essentially the KKK of Japan and represent less than 1% of the population.
- Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking", although best known, is also filled with factual errors as she is not a trained historian. Pro-China experts on the topic says she did more harm than good. She gets holidays, events, and other easily verifiable dates wrong again and again. Many of her sources are questionable and proven false. However it is the most popular contemporary book on the massacre in the last two decades. Chang also had a difficult time differentiating the tiny right wing fringe Japanese with the rest of normal every-day Japan. As a result her characterization of the Japanese is accepted as fact by many Chinese and became added fuel for hate against the Japanese to a point where it is commonplace in China today.
- Japan's top leaders have apologized dozens of times (at least a dozen from the various Prime Ministers and the Japanese Emperor himself) for the Nanjing massacre and comfort women, and offered huge reparations which China accepts every year (the money but not the apologies).
- Japanese descendants of Imperial Japanese soldiers involved in the Nanjing massacre have independently, but quietly, offered over a million in USD to each of the Nanjing victims with no strings attached.
- Japan has more experts on the Nanjing massacre than even the Chinese. Most of them have a much higher estimation of those victimized in the massacre than the Chinese experts. (This one was a shock to me as I'm ancestrally Chinese and was told otherwise)
- The Nanjing Massacre is a mixed sorepoint for the Chinese Communist government because it gives sympathy for the Chinese Nationalists (who were in power over China at the time).
- Chiang Kai Shek ordered a firebombing of Nanking that actually killed far more people than the Japanese but no one cares because he's Chinese and sadly it seems "Chinese on Chinese murder doesn't count". This was a terribly failed bid to thwart the Japanese and killed only a few Japanese soldiers but scores of Chinese. Chiang always blamed the Japanese for the firebombing but evidence from two decades ago squarely proves it was Chiang.
- The Russians did worse by raping far more women and children and mass murdering when sacking Berlin during WW2 but few middle-school textbooks report this around the world (presumably because it would lend sympathy for some Nazi Germans).
The true disastrous country which do real harm to China is Russia and Japan.
[...] The Rape of Nanking was a horrible event, but you’ll find few Japanese that deny it nor didn’t study it. The massacre is required reading and studying starting at all the thousands of middle schools in Japan except for 10 private schools which are run by ultra-right wing Japanese neo-conservatives. They are essentially the KKK of Japan and represent less than 1% of the population. Iris Chang’s “The Rape of Nanking”, although best known, is also filled with factual errors as she is not a trained historian. Pro-China experts on the topic says she did more harm than good. She gets holidays, events, and other easily verifiable dates wrong again and again. Many of her sources are questionable and proven false. However it is the most popular contemporary book on the massacre in the last two decades. Chang also had a difficult time differentiating the tiny right wing fringe Japanese with the rest of normal every-day Japan. As a result her characterization of the Japanese is accepted as fact by many Chinese and became added fuel for hate against the Japanese to a point where it is commonplace in China today. Japan’s top leaders have apologized dozens of times (at least a dozen from the various Prime Ministers and the Japanese Emperor himself) for the Nanjing massacre and comfort women, and offered huge reparations which China accepts every year (the money but not the apologies). Japanese descendants of Imperial Japanese soldiers involved in the Nanjing massacre have independently, but quietly, offered over a million in USD to each of the Nanjing victims with no strings attached. You find the original post here blog.est.im/archives … | est [...]
这些全是废话，一点用没有。 尊重历史对中日问题根本就是屁话。日本人那别扭的性格或许会重视哪个事实，而中国人并不愿意去了解这些难看的东西，只要晓得“报复”这个基本概念就行。至于报复到什么程度就是日本人的造化问题了。 日本因为文化和历史因素，国际话语权最终会落到中国以下。我们想说什么就是什么，丢了的东西要十倍的赚回来，丢了的脸要百倍还回去。 实话说，中国人能够接受被日本侵略过的历史吗？永远不能，但是历史不可改变，那就要把他们踩到脚下，整到心舒气顺为止。
日本人不聪明的地方就在于没有高层视野。德国人就比他们聪明许多，表演的明显更诚恳。日本人就是太过于重视细节，而没有把住问题的关键——中国人的怜悯意识很强，你装装孙子，哪怕夸张的作秀，让中国人的气顺了也就好说了。
顺便，韩国人算是比日本人更笨。日本已经有人开始认识到如何和满清化中国人打交道（兲朝人确实和他们以前认识的唐朝、宋朝、大明的人不同了），韩国人却在全力为自己制造不良记录。 这些周边国家历史上就备受兲朝的欺凌（白日五千年嘛），但不幸的是，历史必然重演。中国的家族模式文化是一时半会儿改不了的。90 后再横，再不着调，你说他们不孝，他们也是不能容忍的。