"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BD9C1FE1.29A8A%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article 2tm99gF1vl9m2U1@uni-berlin.de, m.yoshida at masa@yahoo.co.jp
> wrote on 10/20/04 1:53 PM:
>
>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:BD9C18DA.29A81%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>> in article 2tm6vbF211ck1U1@uni-berlin.de, m.yoshida at masa@yahoo.co.jp
>>> wrote on 10/20/04 1:13 PM:
>>>
>>>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>>> news:BD9BC081.29A25%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, so you estimate the number of Chinese victims at 40,000-50,000, so
>>>>> why
>>>>> do you say: "One of the reasons why Japanese scholars of modern history use
>>>>> the term "Nanking Incident" would be that the debate is included a question
>>>>> whether or not the "Rape" really took place."
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think the rape occurred? Do you doubt that the Japanese military
>>>>> committed atrocities? Do you think the 40,000-50,000 deaths were justified?
>>>>>
>>>>> There seems to be a conflict between your most recent statement and that of
>>>>> the time before. I am not trying to trick you, instead I am trying to get
>>>>> you to clarify your remarks.
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way, I doubt the high numbers of the Chinese estimates and the real
>>>>> low numbers of the Japanese apologists. I don't doubt that rape and murder
>>>>> was used as a military tactic to scare other Chinese cities into surrender.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/China/Nanjing/nanjing4.html
>>>
>>>
>>> You never answered my questions:
>>>
>>> Do you think the rape occurred?
>>>
>>> Do you doubt that the Japanese military committed atrocities?
>>>
>>> Do you think the 40,000-50,000 deaths were justified?
>>
>> I said three times here in this thread that my position is closed to
>> Prof. Hata's one.
>>
>> Masayuki
>
> Prof. Hata's article never comes out and answers the questions I asked you.
> Now let us do this simple.
>
> Prof. Hata wrote that he expressed doubts about some of the sources, but he
> neither denied nor affirmed that the rapes occurred. Do you think the rape
> occurred?
>
> Prof. Hata never commented on whether he thought the Japanese military
> committed atrocities. Instead, he wrote merely on the number of deaths. Do
> you doubt that the Japanese military committed atrocities?
>
>
> Prof. Hata never commented on whether he thought the deaths were justified.
> Do you think the 40,000-50,000 deaths were justified?

He commented what you want to know in the following book:
http://tinyurl.com/5xxhs
First, read the original text in Japanese!

Masayuki