From: pchang@pdxgp2 (Paul Chang)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:41:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.040806.3255@ducvax.auburn.edu> kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim) writes:
>
> In article <dyang.714723340@cunews> dyang@diana.carleton.ca (Dong Yang) writes:
>>In <SMITTIE.92Aug20160552@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
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>>>>Yet you should understand that some hatred is caused not really by teaching,
>>>>but by the dishonesty of the Japanese government.
>>
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>>Yes, we were taugt by photo evidence. I saw a picture that two
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>>Japanese soldiers held cut-off bloody Chinese heads, and laughed;
>>a picture that a baby was poked by a Japanese soldier; a picture 
>>
>>I guess you have never seen those kind pictures in Japan. But I have
>>seen a record film that showed how Japan was bombed by A-bomb in
>>China.
>
>Good question and reasonble posting.
>As I asked before, if you can, would upload the scanned photos into
>any ftp sits? I want to discuss this topic sharing the vivid document and
>facts. Both side may have different opinions on the same document.
>For examples, I have seen a photo similiar to what you mentioned, but
>Japanese reseracher told the photo was of the chinese thief group.
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>They told that the knife the soldire held in his hand was not of the sword
>the Japanese Imperial army had. I have no idea which is riht. 

One thing you can be sure is that one side is lying. It doesn't require any PhD. level
research to find out who's telling the truth.

>At the beginning I saw it, I felt anger but after I herad another explanation,
>I coud be calm and wnated to discuss. Because I belive that 
>Japanese is reasonable and the other peoples are also. Nobody will
>proclaim the false as truth. This is my basic belief on human being.
>

Japanese politicians are too ashamed to admit the war crimes by their predecessors. They
only rewrote their history textbook that Japan "entered and exited" China. A few years
later they will probably say "China started the war then Japan fought back by entering
and exiting China".

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>
>4) There was no jointed academical research to prove the claim about the 
>numbers of victims in Nanjing  or Chinese and the other government
>has never claimed Japanese government to correct the what they believ the false
> in the Japanese TEXT book showing the undenialble description with vivid
> evidence.  Nishimura-san mentioned that he has seen several
>books which gave different numers of victims in Nanjing.
>

No matter how disgusting the photos are, some people can always claim that the photos
are faked. Why don't you try to get some documentaries produced by the Japanese Army.
I have seen documentary films shot by the Japanese during the Nanjing massacre. They were
captured by the Allied Forces after Japan surrendered. I don't think a joint research
is needed to prove the authenticity of such bloody evidence. Or you still can argue that
those films were made by some Chinese Nationalists by using a camcorder.
From: ajeans@hplred.HP.COM (Albert Jeans)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:10:21 GMT
Subject: Learning Japanese in Japan
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA