China angered by Nanjing massacre film
China has reacted angrily to plans by Japanese nationalists to make a documentary describing as a myth the massacre of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops in 1937. The film, entitled The Truth About Nanjing, will insist that the massacre never took place, despite evidence presented at the postwar Tokyo war crimes tribunals that Japanese troops slaughtered at least 142,000 people when they invaded Nanjing, then the capital of nationalist China. Tokyo’s rightwing governor, Shintaro Ishihara, is one of several leading politicians to have come out in support of the film, directed by Satoru Mizushima, who heads a nationalist satellite TV channel. The film will be funded by public donations and should appear before the end of this year, the 70th anniversary of what many historians have described as an orgy of rape, pillage and murder by Japanese imperial army troops. It is one of several films about the Nanjing massacre set for release this year. Nanking, a US production featuring Woody Harrelson, won critical acclaim earlier this month at the Sundance film festival for its first-person accounts of the massacre. In addition, Chinese authorities reportedly plan to make their own version based on Iris Chang’s bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking. (The Guardian,January 26, 2007)
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Hi. I’m TAMAGAWABOAT from Japan.
You are saying, “despite evidence presented at the postwar Tokyo war crimes tribunals…” I’m afraid to ask you a question, what kind of evidence to prove that Nanking Massacre happened? If you know it, let me know. I think there is not a evidence at all. It is ceratin that there are so many testimoies and Westerners testified so. However, to check the record of Tokyo Tribunal, 4 Westerners (John G. Magee, George Ashmore Fitch, Miner Searle Bates, and Robert O. Wilson) were summoned to this Tribunal and each of them testified. Do you know what they testified? All of them testified the same answer, “There were atrocities by Japanese soldiers…(Lawyer of Defence: How many times did you witness?)…I did not witness it, but I heard so.” Testimony is testimony, not evidence. Testimony always requires inspectation and crediblity. There is the heated controversy regarding whether Nanking Massacre happened actually or not among historian groups.
I’m appreciate if you could check the below bvideo…Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqFOxmr2to
Comment by TAMAGAWABOAT — May 9, 2007 @ 11:11 pm