The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims (English and Japanese Edition) [Hardcover]

Takemoto Tadao (Author), Ohara Yasuo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 10, 2000

What was the 'Nanking Massacre', then? For reexamining the fact of the 'Nanking Massacre', we have started the following legal approach. Namely, we have tried to treat the so-called 'Nanking Massacre' as a murder case. Also, we have tried to precisely examine whether the crime had been proved or not and objectively verify the fact, using a method based on the Criminal Procedure Act, in view that the Prosecution has responsibility to adduce evidences to show the committed crimes. In other words, our objective is not to prove that there was no 'Nanking Massacre', but to specify the fact that the testimonies, which claim that there was the 'Nanking Massacre', are not substantiated at all. As a result of the examination, the motive of the Japanese Army, the sum of these corpses and the cause of death have not been proved. Of course, there have not been some regrettable facts of criminal acts of murders and rapes which have been committed by the Japanese Army. However, these sporadic criminal acts committed during the fierce battles, are far from the so-called 'systematic and deliberate large scale massacre' of 300,000. This book is bilingual in English and Japanese.

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The so-called 'Nanking Massacre' is a very delicate issue. Many books about the topic have already been published. This book "The Alleged'Nanking Massacre'" is different from others from the viewpoint of its approach. This book treats the so-called 'Nanking Massacre' as a murder case and examine whether the crimes, which was said to have been committed by the Japanese Army during the six weeks starting from December13, 1937, had been proved or not. The readers must feel like reading a detective story. Moreover, this book don't try to prove that there was no 'Massacre', but to specify the facts, by using the Japanese official documents as a basis, that the testimonies, which claim that there was the 'Nanking Massacre', are not substantiated at all. The inspection is conducted facts based on the Japanese official documents are included. This must be a new style for the history books. It is also an important point that young people and the people has little knowledge about this issue can understand this complicated issue easily. Therefore, we recommend this book especially for young people and the people want to study about this issue.

About the Author

TAKEMOTO Tadao, born in 1932, now is a professor emeritus of Tsukuba University. He graduated from Tokyo Educational University (present Tsukuba University), then studied in University of Sorbonne, Paris. He was awarded a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from French government in recognition of his study of Andr'e Malraux in 1980.

OHARA Yasuo, born in 1942, graduated from Kyoto University with major in law and received his master's of law degree. Now he is a professor of Kokugakuin University and serves in the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics Kokugakuin University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 155 pages
• Publisher: Meisei-sha, Inc. (November 10, 2000)
• Language: English, Japanese
• ISBN-10: 4944219059
• ISBN-13: 978-4944219056
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,223,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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216 of 260 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 150 pages of lies, December 7, 2004

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J. Adams "History buff" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims (English and Japanese Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is typical of the denial of the evil that was the Japanese regime prior to its destruction by the US in WWII. The sad fact is that Japanese school children have never been taught the true nature of the brutality of the Japanese military, and we now have several new generations who live in ignorance of the truth about Japanese militarism in the first half of the Twentieth Century.

The authors of this book are no different than other propagandists who deny the numerous other holocausts in the last century of the Armenians, the Ukrainians, the Jews, and the horrible atrocities the Japanese inflicted on the Chinese, the Koreans, and anyone that the Japanese army fought such as the Americans, the British, and other native populations in SE Asia.

Having spent more time in Japan than I care to admit, this book is actually a reflection of the knowledge of the majority of the Japanese population about their crimes against humanity during the 30's and 40's, with the exception of those scum of the war who actually committed millions of atrocities and know better, but are too cowardly to come forward and expose books like this to be the lie that they are. At least they are consistent in their shameful approach to life. This is a society in denial of its crimes against humanity, using humans as guinea pigs for the "experiments" as well as their brutality against civilians. Even the German Siemens representative, John Rabe in his diaries, who has been called the Oskar Schindler of China, wrote a first hand account of these atrocities, but the authors of this book ignore the truth. And of course the Japanese critics of his book, "The Good Man of Nanking" are the same ones who favorably review this piece of trash.

The authors of this book should be ashamed, but they are able to write this nonsense because there was no Nuremberg equivalent after the war ended because McArthur kept the military industrial infrastructure intact out of the fear of communist pressures. It would have been like keeping a murderer like Saddam in power to keep the Shiia out of power.

Luckily this fable is very short and can be read in less than a couple hours so only one anti-vomit pill is needed to get through it. The positive reviewers of this book are the same kind of gullible apologists who have no understanding of putting propaganda like this in proper perspective. The spawn of Neville Chamberlain. Just how many pictures do you need of atrocities to understand that this book is pure fiction.? You won't see those pictures in this book, but anyone who has any sense of history can view them. This book is the OJ defense on a grand scale.

This book makes "Mein Kampf" look like an honest discussion of the issues facing Europe after WWI. This is a book written by citizens of a country which should hold its head in shame for centuries to attempt to atone for the sins of their fathers. The sad fact is they are ignorant of them. I read this book and wrote this review on the anniversary of another cowardly attack, on Pearl Harbor, and held off submitting it to see if I had cooled off after reading this book. Sorry, but I only got madder.

45 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Revisionism on a grand scale, March 11, 2007

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David Liu (Diamond Bar, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims (English and Japanese Edition) (Hardcover)

As an American of chinese descent and a member of Generation X I was far removed from the horrors of WW2 and the conflicts that shaped the greatest generation. However, I was fortunate in that there were 2 of my family members, an Uncle and a Father that both survived the Sino-Pacific theater of the war who were able to relate their experiences to me. My Uncle was the equivalent of a Chinese Navy Corpsman at the time and my Father was a 15 year old combat irregular who fought against the encroaching Japanese forces and the Communists. He was later conscripted into the mainland Chinese KMT army and fought in the Chinese revolution against the Communists before being forced to retreat to Taiwan after the KMT lost the mainland. He then immigrated to America in the 1960's as an allied war veteran. My father who is now an old retired pensioner still has war wounds that he sustained as a young man in WW2. For years he was vague about how he suffered his injuries, whenever he was asked about it he would only reply that he received it from a tank accident. It wasn't until he was well into his 60's that he became more frank about his terrible experiences in WW2. He would tell me what he saw in the remains of those small Chinese towns after the Japanese Army was eventually pushed out which included slain civilians of all ages shot in fields, raped women, and evidence of torture. All of it was too horrible to comprehend even as a full grown adult and the memories of the past haunted him so much he didn't want to talk about it for over 50 years. I did not learn more about the scale of the massacres until I started doing research on the subject. Until his dying day my uncle refused to talk about the war but we are sure his experiences serving in the Navy against the Japanese was probably something he wanted to forget. Until his dying day he also refused to buy anything linked to the Japanese.

I don't know what to say about this book except that if someone wants to learn the truth there are hundreds of wartime accounts that span over several countries and dozens of ethnicities. If you ask Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Singaporean, Malaysian, English/Dutch civilians, and Burmese people who lived through Japanese occupation and military aggression they will have a similar story. This isn't even taking into account the more popular Allied POW accounts of forced death marches, massacres, and starvation at the hands of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese war atrocities during this era were as prolific as Nazi Germany. It's a shame that the attempt at revisionism has not recieved the amount of condemnation aimed at Neo-Nazi sympathizers and their ilk. This book is a frank and grim reminder that there is real evil that lurks in the present day and it is in the form of historical revisionism. To move forward Japan and its citizens needs to come to terms with its own history and stop whitewashing their history as a nation. As the old saying goes those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

60 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What well-fabricated lies!, January 16, 2005

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Chaconnesque "chaconnesque" (Singapore, Singapore Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims (English and Japanese Edition) (Hardcover)

As a son of survivors in Singapore/Malaysia who personnally knew of people who were murdered by the Japanese, and who live amongst children and grandchildren of survivors, we all know better. The Nanking massacre was by no means unique amongst the atrocities commited by the Japanese during the war. All the Singaporeans and Malaysians of Chinese descent from the older generation will narrate to you all the horrifying tales of people being herded off to remote locations, forced to dig trenches, and then machine-gunned before being buried secretly. An estimated 40000 Chinese died in Singapore alone due to these massacres. Were these fabricated by the Chinese government also? In case one doesn't know, Singapore (an ex-British colony) is a sovereign state thousands of miles from China. The Japanese conducted the massacres to weed out the resistance groups who have been supporting China during the war against Japanese aggression.