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

Based on four visits by the journalist author to China from 1971 to 1989. He details the horrors of the Japanese Army's seizure and capture of Nanjing in December 1937. The harrowing testimony of the Chinese victims and the Japanese perpetrators are juxtaposed with PR army announcements.

List of contents

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 City 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”; Afterword to the Original Edition; Afterword to the Original Paperback Edition; Commentary

About the author

Katsuichi Honda, Frank Gibney, Karen Sandness

Summary

Based on four visits by the journalist author to China from 1971 to 1989. He details the horrors of the Japanese Army's seizure and capture of Nanjing in December 1937. The harrowing testimony of the Chinese victims and the Japanese perpetrators are juxtaposed with PR army announcements.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Gibney, Gibney Frank, Katsuichi Honda, Honda Katsuichi, Karen Sandness, Sandness Karen
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1998
• EAN: 9780765603340
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0334-0
• No. of pages: 332
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; China, Biography: general, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: philosophy and social sciences, War and defence operations, War & defence operations