Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<BD953A45.293BB%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp>...
> 
> Unfortunately, the denial of the Rape of Nanking and the denial of the war
> crimes committed by leaders of the Imperial Army appears to be increasing,
> as revisionist textbooks are now being approved by local schools and
> right-wing politicians are becoming more powerful and more vocal.

I thought most of these politicians simply debated the numbers of
those slaughtered and didn't all out deny the event took place (which
is just idiocy).

Part of what bothers me isn't that they think it never happened; there
are certainly politicians in the US that believe in the mission of the
KKK. The thing is, for the most part the US politicians don't speak up
that much, aren't given the major press time and if they are they
aren't taken seriously, and they don't have the clout that the nuts in
Japan seem to have. And I'm not sure why this is. Do Japanese as a
whole believe that lunacy?

John W.