‘Good Nazi’ hailed as China’s Schindler
Share20 minutes clip of the movie, from china918.net: Film on German hero in China seen stirring debate Reuters - The director of a new film about an unsung German engineer who helped save 200,000 Chinese in Nanjing from Japanese troops said he hoped it would spark debate and help Japan come to terms with its past. Tukur plays the title role in Gallenberger's "John Rabe" Florian Gallenberger, whose film “John Rabe” is based... [Read More...]
Japanese general denies Japanese wartime aggression
ShareCBC – Japan’s air force chief will be dismissed for writing an essay that claims the country was not an aggressor in the Second World War. Gen. Toshio Tamogami wrote an essay entitled “Was Japan an Aggressor Nation?” in which he argues that Japan was not an aggressor in the Second World War. The essay was entered in a contest and posted on Friday to the website of contest organizer, Japanese hotel and apartment developer... [Read More...]
Tang dynasty and Japan
ShareThe next batch of photos that I’d like to share here were taken from the Huaqing Palace (華清池). It was once the gigantic bathtub of the Imperial Concubine Yang Guifei (楊貴妃) of Tang Dynasty. Like many women characters in history who were famous of being pretty, Yang was ususally blamed as the root of the An Shi Incident (安史之亂), during which the two Tang captials – Changan and Luoyang – were invaded and taken... [Read More...]
Nanjing victim wins libel case
ShareJapan Times – The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court defamation ruling, ordering a historian and a publishing company to pay a combined 4 million to a female Nanjing Massacre survivor for calling her an impostor in a book about the atrocity. Dismissing appeals from both the plaintiff and the defendants, the court ruled that Shudo Higashinakano’s book, “The Nanking Massacre: Fact versus Fiction — A Historian’s... [Read More...]
China recalls war massacre with sirens, warnings
ShareReuters – China marked 70 years since Japan’s Nanjing massacre on Thursday, invoking memories of the atrocity to remind Tokyo that the wartime past remains a bitter backdrop to an improving relationship. Sirens wailed, calling citizens to silence, a bell tolled, and tens of thousands of people, including frail survivors, gathered for the reopening of a newly expanded massacre memorial in the former national capital in eastern China. The... [Read More...]
Japanese teacher sets up hotline for ex-Japan troops
ShareBBC News – Shortly after capturing Nanjing in December 1937, the Japanese army gathered together 1,300 Chinese soldiers and civilians at the city’s Taiping Gate. They then killed them. They blew them up with landmines then doused them with petrol before setting them alight, finally using bayonets to finish off anyone still left alive. This was just one small incident in what has become known as the Nanjing massacre, a six-week orgy... [Read More...]
China commemorates Nanjing Massacre with quiet nod
Share(caption: A memorial reopened in Nanjing Thursday, on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of the city. Chinese officials have played down tensions with Japan over war history; AP)CS Monitor – Seventy years after Japanese troops killed tens of thousands – probably hundreds of thousands – of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war in a six-week orgy of violence here, Thursday’s commemoration of their deaths illustrated... [Read More...]
In Japan, denial over Nanjing still holds sway after 70 years
ShareCS Monitor – On a crisp autumn evening, as some 1,500 people fill the hall near the Yasukuni war-memorial shrine to hear former Imperial Army soldiers tell “the truth of the Nanjing Incident” in World War II, Hideaki Kase wastes no time going on the offensive. “When [the Allied Powers] opened the so-called Tokyo war-crimes tribunal [after World War II], they needed evidence that Japan committed greater atrocities [than... [Read More...]
Chinese remember Nanking Massacre
ShareAP – Sirens sounded and students stood at attention Thursday to mark the 70th anniversary of Japan’s notorious wartime massacre of civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The commemoration, which comes as China’s government pushes to improve relations with Tokyo and avoid inflaming nationalist passions at home, brought the city to a standstill, state television showed. The city reopened a vastly expanded memorial to the victims... [Read More...]
Two new songs inspired by ‘Nanking’
ShareThe movie Nanking is already leading to some spill-offs in the US popular culture. Blogcritics said two songs have been written in response to Nanking: A testament to the movie’s potential effectiveness can be seen by noticing who it has already inspired. A testament to the movie’s potential effectiveness can be seen by noticing who it has already inspired. I don’t know if somebody approached him, or if he was just inspired... [Read More...]
