Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!easynews.net!easynet-isham!easynet.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Politicians block comic over 'fake' Nanjing Massacre tale Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:29:09 +0900 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4173FD64.885E9EB4@yahoo.co.jp> References: <73fde4f0.0410141040.6f70a6c4@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0410141415.1c2658f6@posting.google.com> <2tbirjF1tlj10U1@uni-berlin.de> <2tf2ecF1v20j3U1@uni-berlin.de> <2tfb4mF1uhk7mU1@uni-berlin.de> <41727888.E5AB9CBC@yahoo.co.jp> <2tfd93F1u9dlhU1@uni-berlin.de> <417283EF.78BF8224@yahoo.co.jp> <2tfhb5F1vl46qU1@uni-berlin.de> <41729DA5.F43F2003@yahoo.co.jp> <2tfnfgF1vjq43U1@uni-berlin.de> <4172B950.E992CD1E@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de VnimZzfS/JHQtfkQtdKmng/OKuf0wAKXeYVhmswn/2nN1FkxHw X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:19608 Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > Eric Takabayashi wrote: > > Should crimes after war have a different burden of proof? Do Okinawans and > > Japanese have to step forward to testify in a court of law to have their > > individual accusations investigated and judged before condemning US service > > personnel the way Japanese are condemned as a people or criticized for their > > history? > > Well, after WWII, the chinese set up a court and had a trial about the > events in Nanking, to judge and make sure about what had happened. Did they hear from the families of each of the victims, to arrive at their 300,000 number? Were they cross examined? Was it investigated and tried case by case, as it has been suggested wartime or postwar rapes in Japan should be? Why should Japanese accusers of any wrongdoing of Americans face a different burden of proof? I have no problem whatsoever if the world follows the Chinese count of 300,000 deaths or [unknown number] of systematic rapes. > So why would we not do at least the same before condemning the american > invasion of Okinawa ? I'm not condemning the US invasion of Okinawa. I wouldn't have condemned an invasion of the mainland, either, as an alternative to firebombing or dropping the A-bombs. But what I have seen of US footage shown in Japanese documentary or what I have heard in Okinawa leave me disturbed by methods used. -- "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that I can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"