Nanking

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/16/2021
  

  Can Historians Be Traumatized by History? (Content Warning)

  by James Robins

  "If the historian—the very person supposed to process the past on behalf of everyone else—struggles with trauma, then it is little surprise that societies as a whole struggle to face the violence of how they were formed and how they prevailed."

• Japanese Textbooks, Koizumi, Sex Slaves, & the Nightmare of Nanking

  by Rhawn Joseph

  We had fun killing Chinese. We caught some innocent Chinese and either buried them alive, or pushed them into a fire, or beat them to death with clubs. When they were half dead we pushed them into ditches and burned them, torturing them to death. Everyone gets his entertainment this way. Its like killing dogs and cats. --Asahi Shimbun, Japanese soldier, describing Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking.