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The 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...
Yet that is perhaps asking too much, One of this terrible tale's heroines is an American woman named Minnie Vautrin, headmistress of a missionary college for young women, a ferocious defender of the "Safety Zone," compassionate defender of its young women. She survived, went home and, a year to...
Historical fact-finding missions involving both Chinese and Japanese specialists may eventually lead to reconciliation. Independent Chinese and Japanese study commissions were set up to mark the massacre's 70th anniversary. Meanwhile, a Harvard-sponsored joint study on the Sino-Japanese War has contributed Chinese, Japanese and English scholarship that...
Ten 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...
Your special issue confirmed what I have suspected for some time: TIME, once the best politically neutral current-affairs magazine, has morphed into a mouthpiece for assorted left-wing and green causes and commentators. I long for the TIME of the past, which reported on events around the world in...