Those who cannot remember the past … are sure to inflame those who do. See all the bad feeling that has erupted over a few words in a Japanese textbook. Because they’re the wrong words. And ...

In the early winter of 1937, Japanese troops, having conqueredShanghai, moved on to envelop Nanking, then the capital of China. ... have taken to referring to Nanking as an “incident.” ...

The Japanese invasion began on 10 December 1937 and the city fell three days later, signalling the start of the Rape of Nanking. Eyewitnesses, both Chinese and Western, say Chinese captives were ...

The 1937 Nanjing massacre is changed to the "Nanjing incident" and the casualties played down, with the implication that China invented the episode - a common contention among Japanese ...

A couple of years ago, the Japanese consul general at New Orleans dropped by to straighten me out about the Rape of Nanking-a six-weeks-long orgy of rape, murder, torture and general barbarity ...