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The furors created by Japanese double-talk obscure a simple fact: increasingly, ordinary Japanese want to know what happened, even if their government doesn't want them to. The Kinokuniya Bookstore in central Tokyo stocks dozens of books on Japan's war guilt; a few years ago it sold only...
The youngest of four children, Thomson spent his childhood years in Nanking, China, where his father was a college chemistry teacher. His mother and two older sisters had a great impression on his life and his attitudes toward women, Fiore said.
Another recent, impressive project of his is entitled “Big Sword.” A government funded project, he created four colossal clay sculptures memorializing the sacking of Nanking by the Japanese in World War II. Rectangular obelisk-like structures that are bronze castings of his original ceramic...
The fury and frenzy of the Pacific war--the Japanese always fought to the death, avoiding shameful surrender--are not much remarked. Japanese war crimes--the 250,000 dead at Nanking, the 100,000 civilian deaths when they torched Manila--are largely elided in our popular histories. So is the...
True awfulness sets in when collateral damage is no longer collateral but becomes the intended point. Innocents are terrorized as a matter of policy. Stalin's Ukrainian famine, the rape of Nanking, the London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order...