Adolf Hitler said, “If you tell a big lie enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.…”
That’s what Japan has been doing since 1945—telling a big lie about the atrocities committed by Japanese troops in Nanking, China during World War II.
It is estimated that about 17 million Chinese civilians died due to Japan’s invasion of China along with 2 million Chinese troops.
Several hundred thousand civilians were murdered in Nanking.
Eamonn Fingleton is an Irish journalist and author who refused to allow this lie about Nanking to become truth.
Fingleton is a former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times. His books deal with global economics and globalism. He has written on East Asian and global issues for The Atlantic Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Harvard Business Review.
Fingleton writes that Iris Chang’s book, The Rape of Nanking, broke a half-century of silence on Japanese war crimes in China.
He says of American scholars, The self-censorship was all such a sharp contrast with the dedication with which American scholars had pored over the horrors of Auschwitz and Treblinka (and indeed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
Why had Nanking been forgotten by most of the world?
The answer, Fingleton says, is that the highest government officials in Tokyo wanted it forgotten and they got their way until Iris Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking.
In an attempt to revive the decades old lies, the rightist Japanese-language magazine Sapio in the summer of 1998, said that Chang’s book was not “serious history”.
The magazine portrayed Chang’s book as having been spawned by a Sino-American conspiracy against Japan.
To learn more about The Rape of Nanking and Iris Chang see The Rape of Nanking with Iris Chang
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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