The Rape of Nanking

The Rape of Nanking Most American schoolchildren have been taught of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and have read at least part of The Diary of Anne Frank. Many are taught about the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But ask them about the horrors of Nanking and they do not even recognize the city's name. Many adults, even educated adults, are not familiar with this massacre. …

…to deny the claims made by witnesses and remove the crimes from public consciousness. One of the ways they have done this is through textbook censorship. The author states accepting responsibility for these crimes is "crucial for Japan if it expects to deserve respect from the international community--and to achieve closure on a dark chapter that stained its history". Reference Chang, Iris (1997), The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, BasicBooks, 225 pages.