Instead, they are the ones that have been invaded, and brutally occupied (notably by Japan, with its military aggression in the decade leading up to World War II that led to violent events such as the
Nanking Massacre).
CHINA struck a restrained tone on the 80th anniversary of the
Nanking Massacre, saying the country would "look forward" and deepen its friendship with its neighbour Japan despite historical misgivings.
Xi was in China's eastern city of Nanjing to preside over a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1937
Nanking Massacre by Japanese troops.
The sword was used by the Japanese imperial troops during the 1937
Nanking Massacre and engraved with the words: "107 people killed in the Nanking battle."
In his latest book, entitled "The Real History of Japan: Japan Pride", Motoya says the "so-called
Nanking Massacre story" is "fabricated" and blames looting and killings in the city on members of the Chinese army.
Other organizations are voicing similar opinions, with the far right Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact repeating its claim that the "so-called '
Nanking Massacre' was nothing more than wartime propaganda."
"The
Nanking Massacre. The Sook Ching Massacre," he writes.
In December last year Xi Jinping said that 300,000 Chinese died in the
Nanking Massacre, a 1937 event.
Historians may quibble about the exact number of Chinese killed and raped in the
Nanking Massacre in December 1937, but, as Rana Mitter has asserted, "this dispute should not obscure the fact that a very large number of people died as the outofcontrol Imperial Army exacted revenge on a population that had stood in the way of its advance."
The essays are presented in sections on the Native American genocide in the United States, the
Nanking Massacre of 1937, the Nazi-orchestrated Holocaust, Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, ethnic cleansing (primarily with reference to the Balkans, but one essay on Palestinian filmic representations of the Nakba is included), Rwanda, Sudan, and Congo.
Famous events touched upon are the Lindbergh kidnapping, the coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth, the
Nanking massacre, the appeasement talks between Hitler and Chamberlain, and more.