1st Edition

The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame

400 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

This book is based on four visits to China between 1971 and 1989 by Honda Katsuichi, an investigative journalist for Asahi Shimbun. His aim is to show in pitiless detail the horrors of the Japanese Army's seizure and capture of Nanjing in December 1937. Unvarnished accounts of the testimony - Chinese victims and Japanese perpetrators - to the rape and slaughter are juxtaposed with public relations... Read more
1: One Million Japanese Troops Land North of Hangzhou Bay; 2: More of Our Troops Land at Shanghai; 3: The City of Suzhou Has Finally Fallen; 4: The Imperial Army Occupies Wuxi; 5: The Rising Sun Flag Over the Walls of Changzhou; 6: Seizing Jurong, We Charge Onward; 7: Zhenjiang Occupied; 8: The Contest to Cut Down a Hundred Goes Over the Top; 9: The Imperial Forces Make an All Out Charge on Nanjing; 10: A War of Annihilation Unfolds; 11: Nanjing, Where Peace Has Been Restored

Biography

Katsuichi Honda, Frank Gibney, Karen Sandness