Michael Cash wrote:

> >But then why are there differing versions, and differing counts?
>
> I wasn't aware there are.

According to

http://tinyurl.com/4nzm7

The running score on December 7 according to the Asahi was Mukai 89, and Noda
78.

On December 14, the score according to the infamous Nichi Nichi story we know
was 106 to 105.

> But if there are, they had to come from somewhere. And it is most
> interesting that the only sources we ever see cited are the 日日/毎日
> (which we may as well count as a single source) and the Japan
> Advertiser, which almost certainly lifted the story wholesale from a
> Japanese paper (most likely the 日日).

Why does this matter bother you so?

> Where are all the accounts of physical evidence and eyewitness
> testimony that would establish this more firmly? It wasn't around
> immediately after the war, and the guys were acquitted.

Many Japanese got away after the war because they were either acquitted, or the
allies and Asians did not bother to go after them or detain them, such as the
few aged men who go on lecture tours to tell people what they had done in the
war. That is the strange thing to me.

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