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...years have passed - 70 of them - other horrors have piled up and the Japanese, who have never fully come to grips with their war crimes, have taken to referring to Nanking as an "incident." It remained for the Chinese-American writer Iris Chang to remind us, a decade ago, in a book full of passages too ugly to read, of just how monstrous this crime against humanity was. She also reminded us that a handful of Americans and Europeans - doctors, teachers, missionary ministers - did their best to save what lives they could. It is this story that writer-directors Bill...
...which connects the grey matter deeper inside. The team found that the brains they imaged were more disordered. They posited that this was the cause of reduced fluent reading skills.The study was led by Harvard Medical School professor Christopher A. Walsh, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center neurologist Bernard S. Chang, and Tami Katzir...
...promises to narrow the gaps between Nanjing accounts. "A joint project can socialize each side to accept that the other side is working in good faith," says Fogel. "It can also reflect on how one's own side may be basing conclusions on something other than hard data." Iris Chang may have begun the truth-finding process when, in an effort to explore her own Chinese identity, she wrote The Rape of Nanking. I'm hoping I can learn something valuable about my own heritage as that difficult and painful process continues...
...years ago, while I was studying Japanese history in college, I discovered just how complicated those feelings could become. That was the year Iris Chang published her seminal book, The Rape of Nanking, about Japan's brutal occupation of the Republic of China's capital in 1937. After reading about the wartime genocide during which hundreds of thousands of Chinese died in a matter of weeks - events commonly referred to as the Nanjing Massacre - I felt a crushing sense of shame...
...Until now, rival presidential candidates Lee Hoi Chang, an independent conservative, and Chung Dong Young, who is running for the liberal United New Democratic Party (UNDP), were holding out hope that a damaging prosecutor's report would sink Lee's presidential ambitions. But with two weeks to go before the Dec. 19 election, Lee, 66, now appears to be the only candidate capable of securing a majority. The former Hyundai Engineering and Construction CEO has an approval rating of about 40% in public opinion polls, compared with 18% for Lee Hoi Chang and 15% for Chung. President Roh Moo Hyun...