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December 13. Nanjing Massacre Remembrance Day, China's National Day of Public Sacrifice, can also be said to be China's "National Shame Day"!
This is the day that every Chinese should remember! On December 13, 81 years ago, Japanese troops attacked Nanjing, the capital of China. Over the next 40 days, the Japanese massacred more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners who laid down their arms. There are even killing competitions such as "100 people beheading". Humanity is lost, morality is lost!
Regarding the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre, I do not want to dwell on them here. I believe that every responsible Chinese has a deep understanding of this tragedy through various channels. He is like a lock, locked in the hearts of Chinese, and has become a lingering "heart knot" for generations of our great nation.
Time has passed 81 years, whether it is the "perpetrators" or "victims" of that year, most of them have disappeared in the long river of history. Perhaps foreigners from other countries as a third party wonder: Why do Chinese have to chase after a thing?
Because the criminal still did not confess his guilt!
In fact, the answer is as simple as that, "Nanjing Massacre" is synonymous with the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China. It is a symbol and epitome of the harm done by the Japanese army to the Chinese people in that era. Although we drove the Japanese invaders out of China 73 years ago. But some of them, even the leaders, were not convinced. Even for China, I still have a grudge against me!
-The ugly face of the right-wing forces-
The Nanjing Massacre is the epitome of Japan's war of aggression against China, so if you want to deny that war, you must first deny the Nanjing Massacre! This is exactly what the Japanese right-wing has been trying to achieve for decades!
In 1971, on the eve of the normalization of sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, Japan's Asahi Shimbun serialized a long report by journalist Katsuichi Honda, "Journey to China." In the form of reportage, the report details the reporter's investigation and interviews in China. The main target was the various atrocities committed by the Japanese army during the invasion of China. And the Nanjing Massacre is the most important and terrifying part of it! This is also the first time that the term "Nanjing Massacre" has officially entered the Japanese public's field of vision.
The "hundred people beheading" thing we have been until the future is also exposed through this report
The dormant Japanese right wing was hooked: in the face of such ironclad evidence, the critic Nanahira Yamamoto and the writer Akira Suzuki disregarded the facts and called "a hundred people beheading" a fictional talk. The latter immediately wrote a book, "The Fiction of the Nanjing Massacre," to "whitewash" the atrocities that took place in Nanjing. In the book, he steals the concept of "war" and "massacre", believing that the Nanjing incident is a fictitious illusion made up out of thin air.
Akira Suzuki and his writings until his death in 2003 most of his works are related to the invasion of China and the Japanese army
Since then, he and his writings have become the cornerstone of the discourse of the right-wing forces, and many of the arguments that later became their advocacy of the Nanjing Massacre as fiction came from here. Later they were uniformly referred to as "fictionalists" or "negatives."
As a result, a great debate between the "affirmers" and the "negatives" in Japan, from the media to the academic circles, has continued to this day.
In fact, the "speeches" of the negatives are quite active! Especially in the past 10 years, several representatives of the negation faction have published books to repeatedly deny the Nanjing Massacre.
Masaaki Tanaka's Introduction to the Nanjing Incident
Qin Yuyan's Nanjing Incident: The Structure of the Massacre
Hayasaka Takashi, The Truth of the Matsui Ishine Kazu Nanjing Incident
Motoo Kawano's Testimony of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre: A Fiction Revealed by Technicians
Aro's "Solving the Mystery of the Nanjing Incident: Testimony of the Tokyo Trial"
Katsuoka's "Abe Talk and the Asahi Shimbun: How Was the Comfort Women Issue and the Nanjing Incident Fabricated?" 》
Koichi Guzhuang's "Who Fabricated the Nanjing Massacre?" 》
To this day, the japanese deniers still have the upper hand!
However, in fact, the most "hardcore" deniers are often few true historians:
Koichi Kozō and Sumio Yamaji are journalists;
Ichiro Matsuo is known as a commentator on Sino-Japanese issues;
Masaaki Tanaka is Matsui Ishigen's secretary;
Ikuhiko Hata, Professor, Faculty of Law, Nihon University;
Takashi Hayasaka is a writer of documentary literature;
Kenichi Aro is a social critic;
Takanan Yamada is the contributing editor of the Mainichi Shimbun.
To add: Matsui Ishigen was one of the commanders of the Japanese army at the time of the Nanjing Massacre
So-called, "the ignorant are fearless." Their distortion of history may also be precisely because of "half-understanding". To be able to harden one's mouth in the face of many ironclad historical evidence is bound to "plot against the law":
Journalists, critics, and newspaper editors blindly pandered to society and readers, constantly making statements denying the Nanjing Massacre; others may have been behind the pen to achieve ulterior political goals.
-Japanese Scholar Alone-
Where there is a light, there is a shadow. On the contrary, in the darkest place, even a point of light can appear so dazzling!
There are still many professional historians in Japan who have devoted their lives to researching and excavating evidence of the Nanjing Massacre. He also wrote books and biographies for the victims. They are regarded as sworn enemies by the Japanese right and are generally referred to as "affirmatives" . He advocated that Japan should acknowledge the Nanjing Massacre and sincerely apologize and apologize to China and the victims of the massacre. They are also called "Japanese traitors" by right-wing forces that do not accumulate virtue under their mouths.
If anyone is the leader of the Japanese affirmation faction, it must be Kasahara 19th Division.
This person is a scholar of modern Chinese history. He devoted his life to studying China's modern history and stood at the forefront of the controversy with the negationists! He has also served as a visiting professor at Nanjing Normal University and Nankai University, where he has worked with Chinese scholars to discuss and study the history of the Nanjing Massacre.
Almost all of his writings are related to the Nanjing Massacre
Lay out the facts and be reasonable; this is the consistent style of the affirmers. Whenever the deniers preach new false statements. Affirmers will respond to these remarks, conduct field interviews, and then write detailed evidence to "punch in the face."
However, "rumors open their mouths, and rumors run and break their legs." For the average Japanese, the denialists spread more widely, their speech was sharp, and the concept of stealing was often closely related to people's lives. This has left affirmative scholars caught up in the "island of public opinion." However, they are still holding on to the truth and constantly striving for research and discovery.
However, negative public opinion has not affected true historians. In the academic circles of historical research, scholars, regardless of their political stance, generally recognize the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre.
Most of the Nanjing Massacre in Japanese textbooks followed historical truth
Kasahara Xixji once said, "In the field of history and even in the academic community as a whole, the controversy over the Nanjing incident is over. During a visit to China in November 2016, he said that few in Japanese historiography denied the Nanjing Massacre. Those who denied the Nanjing Massacre were not historians, but politicians and novelists like Ishihara. Textbooks with right-wing overtones are expected to be published in just over five hundred copies, and the adoption rate is only 0.004%, which is a fairly small number.
In addition, when it comes to affirming factions, there is a character that must be mentioned, that is, the famous Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami!
In February 2017, Haruki Murakami's new book, The Assassination of the Knight Commander, was published, the second of which mentioned the Nanjing Massacre, saying that after the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, they carried out a large-scale massacre, killing all the captives, and mentioning that a large number of civilians were killed.
In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun and many other mainstream Japanese media, he said that attempts to forget or alter history are wrong, and as a novelist, he hopes to use the "storytelling" method to confront.
"Assassination of the Knight Commander" can be said to be a powerful response to the Japanese right-wingers' denial of the Nanjing Massacre, and once again prompted militarists to reflect on the harm of war to the lives and families of ordinary people.
The Chinese edition of this book has been published another day and must be bought to read!
We cannot say that all Japanese who take a positive stance are "good people" or even "saints." It cannot be ruled out that some people insist on affirming the Nanjing Massacre, and they also have their own practical purposes.
But we should affirm their adherence to the truth and respect for the facts. I would like to pay the highest tribute to those scholars who have devoted their lives to the study of the Nanjing Massacre!
Truth knows no borders!
Millions of Chinese will walk with you!
-Only a strong country is the right way-
There was an interesting news the year before: on December 7, 2016, Abe visited Hawaii, USA. On the occasion of Pearl Harbor's 75th anniversary, he went to Pearl Harbor with Obama to lay a wreath.
This was the first time a Japanese leader had visited Pearl Harbor to pay homage to the victims and became a historic visit.
I don't know what Abe was thinking at this time
300000
A cold number
We can't associate it with three hundred thousand lives now. Even if the historical data and evidence show how cruel the Nanjing Massacre was, the shock and pain we can feel is less than one in ten thousandth of the people who witnessed it!
The Day of Public Sacrifice is not only to let us remember the historical facts of the past, but also to educate future generations, a simple truth that has been exchanged for 300,000 lives:
If you fall behind, you will be beaten!
Only when the country is rich and strong can it get the respect it deserves!