If the Nanjing Incident is of interest to you, read on!

I like to know history.
In particular, I am researching the war between Japan and China in 1937.
It's the so-called Nanjing Incident.
To tell the history, I need to have a certain amount of knowledge of the matter.
I also have to check the probability of the descriptions in the literature I read.
It's easy for me to read a book and assume that it's [correct].
But the book's content may be wrong.
That's why I need to examine the references in that book as well.

I know the American people are not interested in the history of Japan, but I hope they will read a bit about it.
What I'm going to say has to do with the war between Japan and the Allied powers, including the United States.
I am going to do some research and give my opinion on it.
If you are interested in reading it, please do so.

In the beginning, I don't speak English, so I use automatic translation software.
For that reason, the text may not make sense. Let me apologize first.
I'm a proponent of a stronger U.S.and Japan alliance, and I support Quad.
With that in mind, I hope you can understand the intent of my comments.

My comments are mostly [history] about [Nanjing Incident].
I don't have any sense of discrimination against Chinese people.
I'm just writing about [facts] that I've gleaned from historical documents and books.
I would like to talk about the situation in Japan.
People in America may think that the Japanese know little about the Nanking Incident.
Certainly, it is a sensitive issue, so not many ordinary Japanese people talk about it openly.
There are many Japanese who believe that this is an issue that has no relevance to their daily lives, and that it will harm the mood of the CCP, destroying trade relations between Japan and China.
And there are many people in Japan who have their origins in the Korean peninsula, and many of them are sympathetic to the historical perspective, which is close to the CCP's perception.
They are aware of the damage they have suffered from Japan.
They are living a comfortable life in Japan as compensation for the damage.
They are people with a contradictory mindset who still hate Japan and the Japanese people while claiming it as their right.
In this situation, Japanese people do not talk about sensitive issues in a public place because they might get violated by them.
However, in the past, there was a lot of research going on in publishing and academia, and a large number of research books and scholarly articles have been published.
Nowadays there is not that much research being done, but a lot of Japanese are reading them.
Because of the large number of research books, the number of Japanese who have read them all may be small on the whole.
After the war, there were two major media and publishing campaigns.
One was a few years before the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China in 1971.
The other was the rapid increase in the number of users by the general public due to the commercialization of the Internet and the disturbances caused by the Chinese in Japan during the Nagano Olympics, sparked by such books as Mr. Kobayashi Yoshinori's "War Theory", which became a hot topic again and led to the publication of research books.
Each time I think many people are reading some kind of research book at that time.
Also, with the spread of the Internet to the general public, websites, blogs, and bulletin boards (like 4chan) where people who read those books and research books posted their opinions and impressions have increased.
As a result, discussions about the Nanjing Incident have become more active among the general public.
Nowadays, with the development of social networking services and Youtube, the number of people who know "information" about the Nanjing Incident has increased.
Of course, I'm just an ordinary person. I did not conduct a survey of the Japanese people at large, so these are just my impressions.
Even now, my SNS friend's blog is viewed by about 200 people a day, so I assume that those who visit it are getting some information. My blog is also viewed by about 30 people a day.

Although Japanese people do not discuss the topic openly or openly in their daily lives, there are many people in Japan who have some [information] about the Nanking Incident.
The "Nanjing Incident" is divided into three types in the Japanese perception.
The first is the use of the term [Gyakusatu (massacre)] to describe the [criminal act] of killing [a large number of people] over 100,000 to 200,000 who were recognized by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (commonly known as the Tokyo Tribunal).
And the position that the CCP's claims are also [affirmed] at the same time.
Secondly, there are those who say that although there was a [criminal act], numerically, the 300,000 figure claimed by the Tokyo Trials and the CCP cannot be true. Those who agree with the text of the History Q&A Number 6 on the website of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Third, the [law] that the [Tokyo Tribunal] declared [war crimes] is not in accordance with [international law] and also violates the basic principle of law [Nulla poena sine lege].
There is no distinction between [false propaganda] and facts, as was done in WW1.
Using information that is impossible to substantiate as fact is not considered to be factual.
The Nanjing incident is a false propaganda theory.
I am the third position.
It's just my imagination, but if you look at social networking sites, etc., you will see that many Japanese people take the second position.
It's the most placid, opportunistic, unfounded possibility.
It's almost like imagining [My stomach sometimes hurts just by imagining it hurts].
Then there is the first, and finally the third, which I consider to be small in number.
Recently, the anomalies of the first claim have become apparent, such as the staggering logical inconsistencies and assertions made with unlikely sources.
I think there is a gradual increase in the number of people who have been number two changing their opinions to number three.
Also, people who have read published books and historical documents are often the first and third people.
The second people are often people who have only read introductory books.
However, it is also true that there are many people who are "uninformed" about the first and second opinions and conform to others.
Some such people on social media only say [the conclusion] first or second or third.
Mentioning the third is fine on a website or blog, but on social networking sites, Youtube, etc., the third person is subject to reporting by the first's supporters, and their comments and videos are deleted or their account is suspended.
Some people are mentioned again and again while being suspended again and again.
But some people get fed up and stop.
At present, almost every third reference is a revisionist, anti-intellectual, or racist, and the account is suspended.

A few additions.
Many of those who take the first argument are the following people
University professors, educational organizations, media, publishing, legal circles, religious circles (Christian, Buddhist), and political organizations (communist, socialist, liberal, and rarely conservative).
Although it is a special case, in the past there were members of the royal family and the imperial family who supported communism.
The reason for this situation has a lot to do with the American occupation policy in Japan and the expansion of communism in Japan before and after the war.
As part of the U.S. occupation of Japan, scholars, educators, religious figures, and political groups that were identified as fascist were expelled from office and the groups were dissolved.
Important books were also destroyed.
It is a violation of [Violations of the laws or cstoms of war (Article 3 d) of the ICC state] after 1998, which the Americans would not like to admit.
That's why education and changing history to a sovereign state is not allowed.
There have been a few university professors who have claimed the third, but they have been expelled from major universities and academia, and even journalists have been fired by media companies and are often doing it on their own.
Claims on big media TV channels are almost rare.
The situation in American and Japanese television is different, with a few companies having a near monopoly on broadcasting rights.
Researchers in general are in a much worse situation, having published about 3,000 research books on Western records and Chinese victims in the past, they were immediately sued by a woman claiming to be a Chinese victim for defamation and injunction against publication and are now only available in old books.
To return to the story, we had a history of giving preference to those who were jailed or expelled from public office as communists or socialists or spies before the war, and we had a history of giving preference to those who had been jailed or expelled from public office as communists or socialists or spies before the war, and we had repealed all military laws.
And they repealed all military laws.
(Mr. Ezaki Michio has studied historical documents and books and published a book. He is one of the pioneers in this field.)
I, or anyone who has read the history books on [the Venona Documents], knows that this is an operation by the Soviet Comintern spies in GHQ.
It's all well and good, but the Science Council of Japan, a government-recognized body, has been organized to make sure that Japan will never again have a military or its military-related laws.
The watchdogs have been watching the Japanese government to make sure that it does not act. This is the current situation in Japan.
Japan is a country governed by the rule of law before and after the war, so without [the law], you can't have a [budget] and you can't implement it.
People in the U.S. and Europe criticized Japan for only paying for recent international security issues such as the Gulf War, the war on terrorism, etc.
In fact, it is the past U.S. occupation policy of GHQ that has forced the Japanese nation into a situation [where] it is stuck in a limbo.
Moreover, this [Science Council of Japan] has opposed and demanded the repeal of the Japanese law [Subversive Activities Prevention Act], which provides regulatory measures and penalties for organizations that engage in violent subversive activities.
And there is also the problem of the People's Republic of China, which always has nuclear missiles pointed at the Japanese side.
They are a great power with the veto power of a permanent member of the United Nations.
Even now, we have not abandoned our [policy] of fighting Japan's [militarism (fascism)] called [anti-Japanese].
And it is not Japan or the international community that recognizes [militarism (fascism)], but the Chinese Communist Party.
The same is true for Russia. When Russia revised its constitution in 2020, it added language about inheriting the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union is a [war criminal] country that should have been tried if the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were legal for [collusion] with China (Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Communist Party's Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong), US Democratic Party's President Roosevelt and his aides (Soviet spies), etc. so that Japan and the US could go to war.
Moreover, it is also an aggressor country that signed a treaty [Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact] with Nazi Germany in 1939 and invaded Poland with impunity. Russia is also a permanent member of the Council.
In addition to domestic legal issues, Japan is also being shackled externally.
And I think that even in the U.S., people in the Democratic Party are more sympathetic to [China], the communist country, so I think that there are people in the U.S. who want to weaken the Japanese nation even more.
I think the American people are very patriotic. I think that's a common perception among Republicans, Democrats and libertarians. But in the first place, communism tries to lead the nation to destruction. Their goal is destruction and chaos.
In Japan, some people became "Japan haters" because of the post-war policies and education with [communist] elements that were spread in the post-war education system, and they were educated with manipulated information that made them dislike Japan even though they were Japanese. I was one of them.
It's just like "The British disease".
I think the recent wave of globalization of the international community and Japan's economic stagnation has made it even more so.
The second group of people are more focused on their present life and pursue [happiness] in their immediate surroundings, and have little sense of crisis or patriotism, and they feel that such talk is irrelevant and troublesome to their lives. I think it's not all of them, but it's a large percentage.
I am not very patriotic, but I am researching for the purpose of objectively analyzing the historical documents of the time.

The tool I use to measure objective judgments about the Nanking incident is shown below.
1. International Law / International Law of War, 1899 Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1929 Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Geneva Convention), 1998 [The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court]or[ICC Statute]
2. wartime propaganda (e.g., "The Rape of Belgium" in World War I)
3. A study of the credibility of eyewitness testimony (Dr.Elizabeth Loftus / A study of the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory)
4. [Soviet Union and Communism and the Communist Revolution] and other [Japan, America, China, Britain] relations (history books on the Venona documents). 5.
5. records of Westerners in Japan (statements, diaries, letters, newspapers, magazines, books, etc.), Japanese and American newspapers, diplomatic documents, detailed military histories (military journals), diaries, newspapers, magazines, etc. of Japanese (soldiers, diplomats, politicians, and missionaries). Previous research books and scholarly articles on them.
These are the five points.
However, I'm a layperson, so I can't use the same methods as done in history.
Many people become prejudiced due to ignorance and the misunderstandings that come with it.
Many people also speak out of that prejudice on social media.
However, I believe that many people need to have knowledge in order to understand each other.
People should understand the difference between [possibility] and [probability].
Possibility is a choice between two things.
Probability is a percentage.
Possibility is either true or false.
A low probability is not true if it is low, and a high probability is closer to the truth.
It is good for people to have their own opinions.
But you need to check the evidence that your opinion is probable.
It is clear that mere imagination is not a probable basis.
Emotions and science are different.
So, let's look at the Nanjing Incident from a scientific perspective.
Many people become prejudiced due to ignorance and the misunderstandings that come with it.
Many people also speak out of that prejudice on social media.
However, I believe that many people need to have knowledge in order to understand each other.
People should understand the difference between [possibility] and [probability].
Possibility is a choice between two things.
Probability is a percentage.
Likelihood is either true or false.
A low probability is not true if it is low, and a high probability is closer to the truth.
It is good for people to have their own opinions.
But people need to check the percentage of probability that their opinion is probable.
It is clear that mere imagination is not a probable basis.
Emotions and science are different.
So, let's look at the Nanjing Incident from a scientific perspective.

To be continued