Rape of Nanjing

Irene wrote on same topic in her e-mail. I include the following I commented in a blog for China.

http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/03/17/chinese-nationalism-an-chinese-immigrants-perspective/#comments

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Tony:

I recommend every Chinese watch some movies about Nanjing. I hope some Japanese to watch them too, esp. the young generation - the old one will never change and they just bring their crime to the graves with them. The one I watched is about our respected Mr. Rabe, who had saved a lot of Chinese.

It turned humans into animals (Japanese), and humans into Saints (Mr. Rabe). I am still angry with those interviews with Japanese soldiers. They’re war criminals. One talked about nothing fun to rape a 12 (or 13) year old girl. One 12 (or 13) year old girl wanted to be raped to save herself and her grand pa.

The denial of Japan on this incident makes all human beings angry. Thanks to Iris Chang for writing the book on Nanjing and everyone making the documentary Nanjing (available from Netflix). How these soldiers feel if their 12 year old grand children were raped?

The toughest victims were the children of those victims whose parents were killed, raped and tortured. Do you blame these folks for not buying Japanese products for life? Why these war criminals still are bragging instead of running for their lives like the German war criminals is beyond me. Are Chinese too forgiving? I would forget and let by-gone be by-gone but cannot if the criminals do not admit their crimes.

The Japanese suffering from the 2 atomic bombs are TOTALLY JUSTIFIED. Most died in dignity. Without the two bombs, US would invade Japan and many innocent folks would die. Violence against violence is usually not my cup of tes, but it makes perfect sense here.

The citizens in Nanjing were raped, tortured and murdered. Babies were tossed to the sky and died. 250K died (350K official) in Nanjing alone. The Japanese should remove the war criminals from the “Shrine of war heroes” where the prime ministers regularly pay respect - (to war criminals???).

The Letters from Iwo Jima portrays the Japanese soldiers as kind human beings. Most are animals and you're portraying the minority. Is this the biggest movie from Hollywood to describe the human natures of Japanese soldiers? If so, Hollywood and the west do not understand the east. They are just ignorant as usual.

If there were a God, I do not think Japan is not as prosperous as today. Or, the God is not fair.

I’m not a violent guy and this movie just drives me to my limit with unbearable sorrow. We should not spread hatred. However, as one American (forget his name) said: if we do not learn from history, we would likely repeat history.

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The following poem is written by Bai Ding. See separate post on his 『五三濟南慘案.

【七律】遙望金陵

海未晏平河未清，百年世事一吞聲。
朝隨酷日瞻天國，夜擁寒衾夢鬼城。
紫鏡焉能輕魍魎，青鋒豈願放蛟鯨。
孤身枉作刀橫想，聊對金陵寄我情。

按﹕金陵即是南京。

當年孫中山先生革年命剛剛成功，割據的軍閥還未消滅，國軍已疲於奔命，日本狼子野心，百多年來早已不斷對我國進行騷擾，最後在1937年七月七日正式入侵，向我們下毒手。當年若不是日本侵華，國軍傷亡百多萬，元氣大傷，共產黨也不會乘機得手，再害苦我們多幾十年。


五月三日快到了，讓我告訴大家一個叫做『五三濟南慘案』 (see separate post) 的故事吧， 那時日寇還未正式侵華，但其兇暴之行，已經令人髮指。