"min10011" <min10011@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:D8iHa.145708$h42.62127@twister.nyc.rr.com: 

> That is so true.  Matsuda's selective documentation is as specious as
> the ones that the PRC produces to declare that more than 30 million
> Chinese died during the Japanese occupation.  He has conjured up a
> little fantasy that Japan had committed no wrong and indeed had noble
> intentions.  The idiotic likes of USA@aol.com buy into the fantasy
> until they hear that the attack on Pearl Harbor was a justified
> "pre-emptive" strike. 

30 million is an interesting number since it 
is the same number that the American right wing
claim Mao killed in the same period.  That means
either 60 million Chinese died of unnatural 
causes.  That's a lot of people! Either that
someone is double-counting.