Over a period of about six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, a huge number (around 300,000) of Chinese, mostly civilians including women and children, were massacred by the Japanese army in Nanking (now called Nanjing). Countless women and girls were also raped.<\/p>\n
These gruesome events were recorded by eye witnesses from around the world, including Americans, Germans, British, Japanese, Chinese, as well as many other nationalities, and were documented in diaries, home movies, and oral interviews. Here are a few such examples:<\/p>\n
Yet the Japanese government still denies such atrocities 80 years after their occurrence. For the sake of justice, history not repeating itself, and world peace, this situation must change.<\/p>\n
Therefore, there is a new Nanking Massacre Petition<\/a> being posted in the GoPetition website.\u00a0 This petition contains two requests:<\/p>\n The reason for Request #1 is that the Japanese government must not continue to deny the existence of the Nanking Massacre, and the Japanese government and the rest of the world must learn from this part of history, so that such atrocity will not be repeated in the future in any place in the world.\u00a0 Only with proper recognition of this part of history can genuine friendship be established between the Japanese people and the Chinese people, and true peace be established between Japan and China.<\/p>\n The reason for Request #2 is if one studies the history of U.S. policy toward China and Japan in the last 70 years since the late 1940s, one will see that the U.S. has adopted a series of policy decisions that not only have not applied any pressure on Japan to acknowledge and apologize for Japan’s WWII atrocities, but have actually tried to groom Japan to be the U.S.’s front-line pawn to surround, isolate, and weaken China.<\/p>\n U.S. adopted this policy starting in the late 1940s when she sensed that the Chinese Communists would most likely win the Chinese civil war. We list here only a few examples of such policy decisions in the late 1940s and early 1950s:<\/p>\n In the last couple of years there has been so much complaints by American political leaders and the American press over China’s actions in the South China Sea as violating the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). \u00a0However, studying the facts about this issue will lead to the conclusion that what China has done is completely consistent with UNCLOS, and yes, there has been an abuse of power, but the country doing the abuse is the U.S., not China. [4]<\/p>\n Finally, the U.S. has accused China of military aggression and creating instabilities in the world, but it is the U.S. that has military bases all around China, and has military alliances with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. The U.S.\u2019s huge 7th Fleet is patrolling the waters all around China with 60-70 ships and submarines, 200 to 300 air crafts, and about 40,000 sailors and marines.<\/p>\n For a more detailed discussion of the U.S.’s complicity with Japan against China, see “How to Understand Japan\u2019s Intransigent Policy Toward Her WWII Atrocities?<\/a>”<\/p>\n Therefore, we believe that to seek justice for the atrocity victims of WWII suffered at the hands of the Japanese military, Japan must step forward to acknowledge and apologize for the massive and inhumane atrocities she committed, and the U.S. must pressure Japan to own up to her responsibility and should not try to groom Japan as its front line pawn against China, because that does not lead to world peace.<\/p>\n The U.S. can vigorously compete against China economically, but should also collaborate with China and other countries to help solve many of the world\u2019s pressing problems, such as fighting against terrorism, environmental protection, world hunger, and world peace.\u00a0 We must understand that this complicity with Japan against China is in the long run not in the best interests of the U.S. and the American people.<\/p>\n It is heartening to learn that the Ontario legislature in Canada is considering of passing Bill 79<\/a>—an Act to proclaim every December 13<\/span><\/span> “The Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day.”\u00a0 It is equally heartening to learn that the noted Japanese-Canadian writer-poet Joy Kogawa has just published an article in the Toronto Star<\/em><\/a> supporting Bill 79.<\/em><\/p>\n Please sign the new Nanking Massacre Petition<\/a> before December 1, 2017. We will then forward the signed petition to the Japanese government, the U.S. government, the Chinese government, and the United Nations.<\/p>\n The petition also contains a Chinese translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [1] See, e.g.:\u00a0 Factories Of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up<\/em><\/a>, by Sheldon H. Harris, Routledge, 1994. ISBN-10:1568656556.\u00a0 A Plague Upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan\u2019s Biological Warfare Program<\/em><\/a>, by Daniel Barenblatt, HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-093387-6.\u00a0 Article by American medical historian Dr. Martin Furmanski in the book Blood-Weeping Accusations:\u00a0 Records of Anthrax Victims<\/em><\/a>,<\/strong> by Li Xiaofang, 2005.<\/p>\n [2] Herbert P. Nix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan<\/u><\/em><\/a>, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd; 2001.<\/p>\n [3] David Bergamini, Japan\u2019s Imperial Conspiracy<\/a>, William Morrow, 1971.<\/p>\n\n
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