"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BD980846.29630%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article cksben$bf3$2@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 10/17/04 8:39 AM:
>
>> Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> in article ckrb14$l1e$1@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 10/16/04 11:25 PM:
>>
>>>> Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I must admit to reservations about the author (a gaijin scholar working in
>>>>> a
>>>>> Japanese university) since he parrots the language of Japanese "scholars,"
>>>>> who call it an "incident" instead of a "rape".
>>>>
>>>> But that's simply the Japanese use of the word "jiken". While not
>>>> unambiguous, it does NOT imply a trivial matter. They use it to describe
>>>> (eg) the Sarin Gas attacks in Tokyou, and assuredly they do not think
>>>> lightly of the "Sarin Jiken".
>>> The author in question was not Japanese and was writing in English.
>>
>>> Therefore, the use of the word "incident" instead of "rape" is telling.
>>
>> Not if he's describing it from the standpoints of Japan and China which
>> are, after all, the 2 nations most immediately concerned.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Again, Mike, the author was writing in English. As for China and Japan,
> China considers it a rape/massacre/war crime and Japan considers it, as Kaz
> once wrote, being "gentle" with China.

Mr. Schaal, can you tell what are the terms "Rape" in English and
"Jiken"in Japanese called by in Chinese?  You seem to be more familiar
with Chinese matters than I.

Masayuki