Comments on: A Fighter For Truth Dies http://jayreding.com/archives/2004/11/12/a-fighter-for-truth-dies/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The American Mind http://jayreding.com/archives/2004/11/12/a-fighter-for-truth-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-11175 The American Mind Sat, 13 Nov 2004 03:19:10 +0000 http://63.247.137.2/~jayredin/?p=3772#comment-11175 <strong>Iris Chang Dead</strong> The author of the critically acclaimed book The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang, was found dead along a road near... Iris Chang Dead
The author of the critically acclaimed book The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang, was found dead along a road near…

]]> By: Nicholas MacDonald http://jayreding.com/archives/2004/11/12/a-fighter-for-truth-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-11129 Nicholas MacDonald Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:08:51 +0000 http://63.247.137.2/~jayredin/?p=3772#comment-11129 We live with the Holocaust, but the memory of the awful atrocities committed against the Chinese by Imperial Japan often goes forgotten. I recently made the point in a class that Junichiro Koizumi's visitation to a Japanese WWII memorial and overtures to the Komeito party are, in Chinese eyes, not unlike how it would look to us (or, even moreso the French and British) if Gerhard Schroeder visited a memorial to fallen SS troops and held high-level meetings with neo-Nazis. Though I'm supportive of Japanese rearmament (we're going to need their help in dealing with Chinese and North Korean millitarism in coming years), we all too often forget what they did in the second World War. The loss of life inflicted by the Japanese is estimated to be higher than that inflicted by Germany- but, since the Chinese became our cold war enemy shortly after, the atrocities were forgotten in America's popular consciousness, not unlike the horrible hardships faced by the Red Army, who lost over 10 million men in the savage fighting on the eastern front. Chang's voice was an important one. May we never forget. We live with the Holocaust, but the memory of the awful atrocities committed against the Chinese by Imperial Japan often goes forgotten. I recently made the point in a class that Junichiro Koizumi’s visitation to a Japanese WWII memorial and overtures to the Komeito party are, in Chinese eyes, not unlike how it would look to us (or, even moreso the French and British) if Gerhard Schroeder visited a memorial to fallen SS troops and held high-level meetings with neo-Nazis. Though I’m supportive of Japanese rearmament (we’re going to need their help in dealing with Chinese and North Korean millitarism in coming years), we all too often forget what they did in the second World War. The loss of life inflicted by the Japanese is estimated to be higher than that inflicted by Germany- but, since the Chinese became our cold war enemy shortly after, the atrocities were forgotten in America’s popular consciousness, not unlike the horrible hardships faced by the Red Army, who lost over 10 million men in the savage fighting on the eastern front.

Chang’s voice was an important one. May we never forget.

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