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...This isn't to say that Japanese views on the massacre are monolithic. The right-wingers "aren't really reflective of public opinion," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of Japanese history at Temple University's Tokyo campus. "Public opinion does accept responsibility for the war and does feel Japan should do more to atone." Furthermore, "there's a huge community in Japan that's trying to stop the government from rewriting history," says director Nancy Tong, whose 1992 Nanjing documentary In the Name of the Emperor helped inspire Chang's book. Indeed, Japanese activists helped track down the former soldiers...
...everybody's attention." Creative competition is another factor. The completion of Nanking "pushes the other people to get their projects made," says Leonsis. And, of course, the issues involved in the story of Nanjing continue to resonate: as China's rise reshapes Asian geopolitics, tensions between it and Japan have greater global relevance. These days, "anything important to China and Japan axiomatically becomes important to the West," says Guttentag...
...there are few subjects more important to the two countries than their painful history. The 2005 Japanese textbook controversy ignited long-smoldering resentment in China; that spring, tens of thousands of Chinese took to the streets as mobs burned Japanese flags, overturned Japanese-made cars and threw rocks at Japan's consulate in Shanghai. Part of that animosity can be attributed to historical myopia on the Chinese side: mainland textbooks omit anything that casts the Communist Party in a bad light, glossing over, for example, the horror of the Cultural Revolution. Japan's wartime atrocity thus stands out starkly...
...Japan hasn't convinced China to forgive, either. Tokyo's repeated apologies for its militaristic past have never been remorseful enough for many Chinese. And Japan's former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi further fanned the flames by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead-among them several class-A war criminals executed after the Tokyo trials, including the general in charge at Nanjing...
...Mizushima, for one, won't be building any bridges between Japan and China. He says he has already raised half of the $2.5 million he needs for his film, which he vows will prove "the massacre did not happen." Few outside observers expect him to succeed. As Guttentag puts it: "There's an extraordinary amount of evidence that shows that it did. There's forensic evidence, there's photographic evidence, there's film evidence, there's eyewitness testimony. I mean, what else do you need...