WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre and Chinese Americans in WWII
WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
(1937-1938)
INTRODUCTION
In December 1937, Nanjing fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. The
Japanese army launched a massacre for six weeks. According to the records of
several welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the Massacre,
around three hundred thousand people, mostly civilians and POWs, were brutally
slaughtered.
Over twenty thousand cases of rape were reported. Many of the victims were
gang raped and then killed. The figure did not include those captives who were
sent to army brothels (the so-called "comfort stations").
The actual Memorial Hall is built to commemorate the victims.
The actual Hall is located in Jiangdongmen (The Gate on the Eastern Bank of
the River), one of the sites where countless human bones of the victims of the
Massacre were excavated. It is just one of those "wan ren keng" (pit
of ten thousand corpses) which can be found in many Japanese occupied areas in
China during the war.
The building housing the skeletons excavated in Jiangdongmen.
Entrance
The Hall is built in the eighties when a number of Japanese politicians and
writers claimed that the Massacre had never ocurred and history textbooks were
rewritten by the authority describing the Massacre as a minor incident.
It must be reminded that contrary to Germany
the Japanese government has never made any formal
or official apology to the Chinese people for their crimes committed during
the war.
Instead, a number of Japanese politicians and writers denied not just the
Massacre but any of their wrong doings in the Second World War. They claimed
that they had "liberated" Asian peoples from Western colonialism. The
Nanjing Massacre is one of their so-called "liberations".
This WWW Memorial Hall is created to expose their lies and to preserve the
historical truth.
Let the victims of the Massacre be remembered but not buried in lies.
Reading Room
Exhibitions
of the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre (Excerpts in GB Chinese)
- Duan Yueping
- About the activities of the actual Memorial Hall in Nanjing.
- Monuments
of the Nanjing Massacre Sites (Nov 1992; GB Chinese)
- Duan Yueping
- The
Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and John Rabe (Members of the International
Safety Zone Committee)
- Chinese
witnesses' testimony of the Massacre (Japanese, file removed)
- Confessions
from former Japanese soldiers who participated in the Massacre (English
& Japanese)
- Extracts
from Nanjing Massacre Reports by Western Witnesses
- Terrible
Stories of the Massacre Overheard by a Japanese Girl
- Extracts
from Scorched Earth (1941)
- Edgar Snow
- Japanese
translation by Yoshiyuki Masaki
- The
Nanjing Murder Race (Extracts from What War Means)
- Harold Timperley
- Number of
Victims: Over 354,780 (Japanese)
- Is
Smythe's Figure Reliable?
- Japanese
Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing
- Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen
- Tr. Robert Gray
- Japanese
translation & adaptation by Jiang Dali
- Nanjing
Massacre Record (1960/1979)
- Department of Histroy, Nanjing University
- Tr. Yue Dongxiao
- Basic
Facts on the Nanjing Massacre (1990)
- The New Jersey Hong Kong Network
- Text and PS versions
for FTP
- A Further Study of the Nanjing Massacre (Xinhua wenzhai, 1995
No.2)
- Wu Tianwei
- GB & Big-5
Chinese
- The
Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Excerpts,
1997)
- Iris Chang
- Iris
Chang Revealing the Nanjing Massacre (Ami Chen Mills, MetroActive)
- The
Japanese Holocaust (National Review, 10/11/97) by Russell
Jenkis
- CND's
Interview with Iris Chang
- "The
Good Nazi" (Transcripts of ABS's program about John Rabe)
- Two
Book Reviews
- Professor Hata
Ikuhita's attack on Iris Chang's book
- Huaxia wenzhai "Nanjing Massacre" supplement (15 Aug,
1995)
- GB & Big-5
Chinese
- Nanjing
Massacre: The Other Holocaust (excerpts from Los Angeles Readers,
1 Jul, 1994)
- Kewin Ulrich
- Desmond M. Tutu's
Preface to The Rape of Nanjing: An Undeniable History in Photographs
(English with Japanese translation)
- Tr. Yoshiyuki Masaki
- Professor Yu
Yingshi's Preface to The Rape of Nanjing: An Undeniable History in
Photographs (Japanese)
- Tr. Yoshiyuki Masaki
- Japanese
Politicians Must Make up for Missed Lesson
- Gu Ping, Beijing Review, Vol.39 No.34 (19-25 August, 1996)
- Return of Imperialism
in Japan (A Letter to the editors of the Shima Media Network) (1995)
- Ignatius Y. Ding, Alliance for Preserving the Truth of the
Sino-Japanese War
- Downloaded
copy
- A
Declaration to the Japanese Government & the Japanese People (1995)
- Ignatius Y. Ding
- At the Opening of the
Museum of Nanjing Massacre in Tokyo (17 Jul, 1995)
- Guo Peiyu
- Downloaded
copy
- The exhibition has been banned by Hosei University
- and refused by the city of Hiroshima. The exhibition is now on-line.
- Japanese
Military Commanders Cannot Evade Responsibility for the Rape of Nanjing
(1978)
- Saburoo Ienaga
- The
Canary that Forgot its History - Why the Japanese Do Not Teach About the War
- Japanese
version
- Ishii Shinpei
- Imaging
the Past, Remembering the Future (Social Science Japan, No. 3,
April 1995)
- Fujiwara Kiichi, University of Tokyo
- Downloaded
copy
- To Japanese people who are
looking at the Hiroshima A-Bomb Museum pages (with discussion)
- Mitsuru Ohba, Producer of the Museum pages
- Downloaded
copy (the message only)
- Voice Against the Denial of the Massacre in Japan:
- Japanese
politicians and political parties (Japanese)
- Japanese
people (Japanese with English translation)
- Confessions
of War Crimes and Responsibilities by Japanese Soldiers & Officers
- The Myth of the
Nanjing Massacre (In Japanese. A WWW Page by Tanaka Massaki's
supporters)
- The
Great East Asia War is a Self-Defence (Japanese)
- Down
With The Tokyo War Crimes Trial! (Japanese)
- "Never
heard of it": Ex-president of the Diet denies the Massacre (GB
Chinese, 1996)
- Nagasaki
A-Bomb Museum Removed Nanjing Massacre Material Due to Pressure (Big-5
Chinese, 1996)
- The
Rape of Nanjing Did Not Happen (1995)
- The Youth Liberal Party, Japan
- Japan
Removed Nanjing Massacre Material From Original Plan for Museum on World War
II
- Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, May 20, 1995
- "The
Nanjing Massacre is a lie" (1991)
- Watanabe Shoichi, Professor of Sophie University
- Watanabe
Shoichi denying the Massacre on video
- "The
Nanjing Massacre is a lie" (1990)
- Ishihara Shintaro, ex-cabinet member
- "The
Nanjing Massacre Never Occurred" (1990)
- The Deputy Japanese Consul in Houston, US
- Japanese
prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's homage to war criminals (1996)
- Japanese
diet members' homage to war criminals
- Including Matsui Iwane, held responsible for the Nanjing Massacre
- Comfort women were not adducted
by Japanese army (Shinji Kakichi)
- "Comfort
women" are prostitutes for money, Seiroku Kajiyama, Chief Cabinet
Secretary (27/1/97)
- "Comfort
women 'did it for money'", Seisuke Okuno, ex-education minister
(6/6/96)
- "Japan
Didn't Colonize Korea", Michio Watanabe, ex-vice premier &
foreign minister (7/6/95)
- On-line
Evidence of Japanese History Distortion
- The
Japan That Can Say No (English translation)
- Akio Morita & Ishihara Shintaro
- China Should Not Have Resisted: A Japanese Woman's View of the Nanjing
Massacre
- Shenzhou xueren 46 (1/12/1995)
- GB
& Big-5
Chinese
- A
War to End Empires
(A feature article supporting the opinion that Japan helped liberating Asia,
Aisaweek Aug 4, 1995)
Comments and contributions are welcome.
Please send them to Hall Maintainer.
Created: 20th December, 1994
Last updated: 27 May, 1999
VIGOROUSLY UPDATED UNTIL JAPAN FORMALLY APOLOGIZES
