What really occurred in Nanjing?
The Chinese government has trumpeted 300,000 civilians were massacred in Nanjing, and recently increased the number of victims to 400,000 without any basis what so ever.
On every occasion where somebody of Japanese origin tries to explain that "the battle of Nanking" happened but the "Nanking Massacre" didn't, the person is accused of being "a history denier", "a revisionist", or " extreme right". Because of this, the Japanese people have been silent regarding this issue. It's been much easier to accept their version of this story and apologize and in fact, many Japanese prime ministers have also apologized without challenging the commonly accepted historical view.
The problem that the Japanese government finds itself in is that the Chinese and Korean governments never cease accusing Japan for what happened over 70 years ago and demand more and more apologies and monetary payments. The latest repetitive demand was only voiced last year when they said, "Japan never apologized" when interviewed by international media outlets. When the Japanese people presented the undeniable fact that Japanese Prime Ministers have apologized on numerous occasions in the past and made reparations and given substantial amounts of foreign aid, they changed their rhetoric to "Japan hasn't apologized sincerely enough."
So the recent development in the relationships between South Korea and Japan, and China and Japan have escalated because the Japanese people are exhausted from being constantly and tirelessly harassed by the Chinese and Korean Government backed international Anti-Japan propaganda organizations. The Japanese have been pushed to the point where they are now forced to confront some of these ever growing outrageous historical claims which has propelled these issues into the international community where the untruths claimed by the Koreans and Chinese are only now being gradually exposed.
When you hear the "Nanking Massacre" you automatically think of those horrible images of people brutally murdered or being buried alive. Those photographic images, however, have been studied and most of them were found to be fabricated for propaganda purposes or taken from other incidents that occurred in China and some of those atrocities were actually committed by the Chinese themselves, not by the Japanese at all.
We encourage you to please watch this video with an open mind.
What really occurred in Nanjing?
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The Video that the Japanese Department of Foreign Affairs released has become a hot topic in East Asia.
According to Japanese traditions, being
humble and modest is regarded as a virtue, and praising themselves or talking
about their own achievements is something they are not familiar with and even
feel uncomfortable about. Recently, however, the Japanese people and government
have come to the realization the hard way that this virtue is not fully
understood by some in the international community which now demands the
Japanese government produce and disseminate factual informative videos.
The video titled “Nation Building in the Post War Era: Japan as a Reliable Partner”
has upset some Koreans who deny the extensive support Japan gave in their
economic development during the post war period.
For example, if you read the Wikipedia
article "Miracleon the Han River" which reflects Korean understanding of the
subject, there is no mention at all of the contribution made by Japan to South
Korea's post war economic achievements.
On the contrary, the Japanese government
spent over $ 600 billion on building infrastructure on the Korean Peninsula
during the annexation era (more than they invested in Japan at the time ) and
since 1965 they have also provided substantial financial and technical aid
support. Some of the contributions are
as follows:
*In 1965, the "Treaty on Basic
Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea" was signed and Japan
provided $300 million in grants, $200 million in loan aid up to the end of 1975
(approx.1.6 times of South Korea's national budget, equivalent to $3.6 trillion
in today's value). However, the total
sum of financial support provided between 1965 and 2001, amounted to a staggering 3.8 times what was
originally agreed to in the agreement above.
*In 1997 when South Korea was caught up in
the Asian Currency Crisis, Japan provided $10 billion of financial support
through an international support framework and in additional gave a further
$8.35 billion.
*$20 billion in 2006 as an emergency relief
fund when the Korean Won became overvalued.
*¥30 billion loan for the construction
of the World Cup Football Stadium in 2002.
(Approx. $ 107 billion of these loans have
until this day, still not been repaid to Japan.)
Please watch the video here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fo6Zz_w0WE
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Japan And Korea In Post-War Era; Economic
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