Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:

> in article 42670B8A.4000905@yahoo.comm, John W. at worthj1970@yahoo.comm
> wrote on 4/21/05 11:10 AM:
> 
> > mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> >> In fj.life.in-japan Prophet of the Way <afu@wta.att.ne.jp> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I found this site by a group of historians that call themselves 'liberal'
> >>> (jiyuu
> >>> shugi shikan):
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> Iris Chang's Errors in 'The Rape of Nanking
> >>> looking for truths in the sea of war-time propaganda
> >>> http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/nanjing/
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The problem I have with books like Chang's is that it gives ammo to
> >> those who would refute the whole idea of a massacre. Ie, if a sufficient
> >> number of errors in a particular work can be found, then the whole
> >> focus of the book will be called into question.
> >> 
> > Yep. By focusing on the particulars people get away from the fact that
> > regardless of how many people were killed it's still an atrocity.
> > 
> > John W.
> 
> I saw one news story saying that the atrocities ONLY numbered a 150,000
> people, which meant it wasn't important. 

Haven't the publishers of the Guiness Book of Records stated that they
have no intention of having a World's Greatest Massacre category?

So there's no need to get caught up in the numbers involved--just in the
event itself. 

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