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11/11 Author of Rape of Nanking committed suicide:
http://tinyurl.com/5cs2b
\_ From the article: "Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel
women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers
were forced to rape their daughters and sons their mothers as other
family members watched."
\_ Where does that info come from I wonder?
\_ The article said she interviewed survivors in China.
\_ Considering the well-documented atrocities committed
by the biological warefare Unit 731, these things
are all very plausible.
\_ So here's what I don't undestand. How did Japan go
from this level of barbarism to being some of the most
peaceful people in the world in one generation?
\_ America.
\_ Perception of external threats from western
imperialist nations leading to desire to have
its own colonial empire leading to invasion
of korea, manchuria. Ideology of superiority
of Japanese and society turning militaristic
leading to despise and dehumanization of
other asian people. Whether Japan is peaceful
or not is still to be seen. It can only be
judged when the nation is under duress. US
did have a positive influence on Japan since
WWII.
\_ Is Japan denying what Unit 731 did too?
\_ I just searched for Unit 731 on google, and boy, I got
pretty angry. I guess what the US did to the Iraqi
prisoners seems like Child's play in comparison.
Now tell me, is Japan denying Unit 731?
\_ the right wingers certainly are denying it,
or the very least, not wanting to teach it
in school or discouraging people to write
about it.
\_ It's pretty horrid. Look for the William Kristol
interview with a veteran of that unit.
The guy's statements are stomach-turning. -John
\_ There were also interviews of Japanese soldiers
who witnessed or participated in the Rape of
Nanking. Some felt a lot of guilt, while others
tried to explain it.
\_ And how have they ruled out some pissed off Japanese right wing
nut killed her?
\_ why do you hate right wing Japanese people?
\_ It's that whole SoCal supermarket--samurai sword thing.
Read up on Yukio Mishima, you may be amused. -John
\_ The US govt is not interested in embarrassing its Japanese ally
with whatever war crimes it committed in China. I don't think it
has ever been interested.
\_ Are you chinese? Do you understand the effects opium trade
had on china?
\_ Well, "authorities" said it was suicide. What "authorities"?
Local cops, I assume. How difficult is it for leet Japanese
ninja types to fake a suicide that will fool the local
constabulary?
\_ An alternative theory is that the research on the Bataan
Death March which the http://sfgate.com article said she was doing in
Kentucky days before she was foudn dead traumatized her enough to
commit suicide. Like maybe she opened up old wounds of some
80-year-old WWII vet and felt guilty about it...
\_ What's he gonna do, beat her to death with a walker?
\_ you're a craven asshole.
\_ Not really, I thought pp was making nonsense hypotheses.
Wasn't meant like that.
\_ I agree, but then it's well known the motd is full
of psycopath.
\_ And FOB idiots. |
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| tinyurl.com/5cs2b -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20041111/en_nm/arts_literature_chang_dc Entertainment - Reute rs By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The author of "the Rape of Nanking," an acclaim ed history of Japanese brutality against China in the 1930s, has committ ed suicide, officials said on Thursday. Reuters Photo Iris Chang, 36, published "The Rape of Nanking," a graphic account of the 1937 Japanese Army invasion of China. After it appeared in 1997, the bo ok helped prompt Japan to reexamine this dark history. Police found her body in a car on a road south of San Francisco and said she died from a single bullet to the head. Her husband reported her miss ing on Monday and police identified the body on Tuesday morning, said Te rrance Helm of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department. Her agent, Susan Rabiner, said Chang had suffered from "classical clinica l depression" and had been hospitalized earlier this year. She said Chan g left a note to her family asking that she be remembered as she was bef ore her illness. The release of her best-selling book came on the 60th anniversary of the Japanese capture of the Chinese capital of Nanking. She wrote graphicall y of the result in a book her agent said sold about half a million copie s "An estimated 20,000-80,000 Chinese women were raped," Chang wrote. "Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters a nd sons their mothers as other family members watched." "Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs and the roa sting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practi ced." Japan has been slow to acknowledge the scale of the atrocities, and her a ccount sparked anger from conservative Japanese. In 1998 Japan's ambassa dor to the United States created a diplomatic stir by calling Chang's bo ok misleading. Her book was never published in Japan although it was translated into a n umber of foreign languages. "I think the right-wing assaults on the Japa nese publishing houses have sent a chill across the entire industry," sh e told Reuters in 2001. Chang spent two years working on the book when she was in her late 20s, i nterviewing aged survivors in China. The effort gave her an unusually hi gh profile for a young historian, and her Web site lists more than two d ozen public appearances for the period between March and May this year. "A lot of people, when Iris would tour and talk about the Rape of Nanking , would come to her with their stories of unhappiness, atrocities, viole nce, on any side," said Wendy Wolf, one of her editors at Viking Penguin . "It sort of opened minds to talking and sharing their own experiences. " Her agent Rabiner said she was working most recently on a book about US forces who fought on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines in World W ar II. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Chinese immigrant parents, Chang grew u p in Illinois and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1989. She worked for the Associated Press wire service and the Chicago Tribune be fore becoming an historian full time. Her most recent book was "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History." Unlimited Downloadable Music, Only $22 Search and enjoy the latest downloadable music at 24/7 Downloads. Get unlimited access to downloadable movies, software, games, MP3s and more as well with your ... Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon . |
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