from the Japanese pirates that looted and killed many Chinese in the Ming
Dynasty, to the Japanese massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians
in LuuShun in Qing Dynasty, to the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre, we
see the same thing. When Japan launched its full scale invasion into China
on July 7, 1937 after fabricating the "China Incident - Marco Polo Bridge
Incident", Japan claimed that it would take only 3 months for them to conquer
the whole of China. Yet, they had to spend 3 months just to capture Shanghai
city, suffering great casualties at the same time. Due to this, the Japanese
appeared to want their horrors to remain as long as possible, to impress
on the Chinese the terrible results of resisting Japan. Countless civilians
whose only crime was being Chinese were murdered and tortured.
Little about the Japanese war crimes in China is known to the world. Japan constantly denies these crimes and is trying to distort history by claiming that Japan liberated Asian nations. They claim that Pearl Harbour was never a sneak attack and that the Nanjing Massacre was a lie that the US as excuses for dropping the A-Bombs on them. Japanese shrine the principal criminals in Nanjing Massacre as 'martyr's, who were sentenced to death after Japan surrendered. On the other hand, almost all the murderers in Nanjing Massacre have not been brought to justice. Many of the murderers are influential members in the Japanese society and government today.
After half a century, Japanese have no remorse on what they did. A few murderers in the war wanted to confess and tell the truth. However, they are often threatened with death by other Japanese. The Japanese government refuses to even apologize for its war crimes. Covering up and denying their crimes, Japanese now try to depict themselves as victims of the war and charge US as a war criminal for its use of A-Bombs. Some of them even claim that China was responsible for the undeclared Japanese aggression.
Few are aware of the Nanjing atrocities, so numerous efforts are now being made to teach the world what happened in China during the massacre. May the souls of the 300,000 victims of the massacre have a chance to rest in peace.
