Eyewitnesses to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing (An East Gate Book) [Hardcover]

Kai-Yuan Chang (Editor), Zhang Kaiyuan (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 463 pages
• Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc; First Edition edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765606844
• ISBN-13: 978-0765606846
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,274,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book ALL Japanese should read and re-read, November 3, 2005

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Yi-Lin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyewitnesses to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing (An East Gate Book) (Hardcover)

You can tell the quality of this book's account just by looking through the first few pages of the book, its specific and detailed style should establish the credentials within minutes. By clicking on the book icon, you can even read the first few pages (including TOC), of the book in PDF format.

However, agreeing with the reader below, the denial of Japanese even to this day that the massacre even existed is baffling. Should I have follow the line of thinking Mr. or Mrs. Hiromi's line of thinking, then yes, the nukes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were botched experiments of Japan military weapon program formed with the Nazi's before its fall. Oh yeah, by the way, that was the testimony of seven Japan's highest ranking officers' last words before they were hung by the Aggressors' kangaroo court. As Mr./Mrs. Hiromi seem to think there is more than the obvious, he also wrote disagreements in "The Good Man of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe" review. Mr./Mrs. Hiromi got me thinking, did WWII actually took place, I don't think America military actually defeated Japan and occupied it after 1945.

Goodness gracious, I didn't believe such people like Hiromi existed in present history! How many true accounts do you need before acknowledging Japan committed some of the most heinous war crime against humanity in the annals of modern history? Mr. Laurence Rees stated in "Horror in the East" that Germany has by far done a far better job making actual restitution to the crimes it committed in WWII, than Japan who continues to deny its existence. So it is an eye opener to confirm the reason behind this phenomenon. The reason being people in Japan such as Hiromi himself.

I have great Japanese friends and even shared tables with them over dinner; though I must admit that this part of their history always confounded and disturbed me. Also, I am not sure if the book in this review and many books on this subject appearing on Ebay (including Iris Chang's "the Rape of Nankin") really offers an explanation why the atrocity happened in China; save for one book I came across in my study of this subject - Lauence Ree's "Horror in the East." The foreward by Professor Akira Iriye (himself born and raised in Japan) of Harvard is well worth the price of the book. In it, very historic documentation of the initiation of Japanese imperialism dating back to the failure of the Meiji constitution became the leading cause of what contributed to the formation of the attitude of racial superiority, not unlike those of the Nazi's. Racial superiiority formed the backbone of the determination of the Japanese imperialist army to stamp out the so called "sub-humans" in China and other South East Asia countries. Rees even examined the vast difference in the treatment of POW in WWI and WWII by the Japanese, and how their genocidal attitude differs from that of the Nazi's.

But back to Hiromi...this Hiromi is one sick puppy who needs some serious help like reality check. Has he read Honda Katsuichi's The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame? In the mean time, Hiromi, your brazen-face tempts me to hurt you badly...you are one sick puppy hoss! For one thing, you are rating the book five stars just because you think you can prove it that it all falsfied facts. Fair dude is trying to tell everyone that Hiromi is one sick puppy and that Japan is disgracing itself by indulging in propagandist such as those like Hiromi. To all my Japanese friends, please at least read the first few pages of the book, as it will tell you in no uncertain terms that YES, IT EXISTED AND IT WAS MURDER, RAPE, AND GENOCIDE OF EPIC PROPORTION!!! And if you do doubt, go walk around in Nanjing, and ask how the REAL the locals feel about the Nanjin Massacre because it ain't pretty! One last thing, if Hiromi denied that the Japanese imperialist army ever massacred innocent civilians that included woman and children in Never Never Land than lend him your audience, but folks, this is Nanjing we are talking about. It is a city that still exists to this present day, it ain't anything unverfiable archaeologically.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pride really leads to destruction, June 9, 2008

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Chris Tan "Chris Tan" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyewitnesses to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing (An East Gate Book) (Hardcover)

I have this too to say to Hiromi; Please come to japanese occupied countries in Asia starting from Nanjing, for your information there are people that survived the massacre, they succeed to live to tell the story despite the brutal occupation. Best experience is from first hand. After you had done China, come to the rest of South-East Asia. Singapore, Malaysia and so on... ask someone who is in their 60s or 70s about the japanese occupation and how they live through it. I do not think you will find anything positive about the war or the occupation from them.

The truth is best heard from the people still alive. But I urge you to leave to discover the world and learn the truth while these people are still alive.From where I am, in Singapore, most of the killings are done in the East of the country in a beach call Changi, it is also where the airport is. Please visit when you have the time.

There is also a documentry, "John Rabe: The Unlikely Hero Of Nanking" that has some japanese soldiers that recounts the history of what they actually did. They were still smiling.

The japanese, in my opinion, had never been considered a part of Asia after the World War II.

5 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a collection of jokes, June 8, 2005

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fair dude - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyewitnesses to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing (An East Gate Book) (Hardcover)

this is by far the most valueless collection of junk jokes. nanjing massacre was done by Chinese? Cool. And of course we know Japne Imperila Army NUKE two cities in Japan. They are a great nation like to experiment the most advanced weapons on their own. Japanese guys, please keep doing this and we will appreciate you NUKE yourself.