08-07-2017, 05:54 PM
(08-07-2017, 09:56 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I have to say, one of my biggest issues with Japan today is their refusal to acknowledge what they did. I love a lot of things about Japan, e.g., the food, the stationery and pens, the porn. Their inability to recognize what happened in their past makes it difficult for them to truly move on as a culture.
Don't know if you're aware, but the woman who worked to expose the Japanese atrocities basically gave her life to see it brought to light. Iris Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking. She received much acclaim for the book and was a successful writer. She was however, relentlessly harassed by Japanese nationalists and according to some, even American interests who didn't want the real story to be let out of the bag.
It caused her to become paranoid to an extreme degree. Eventually she went insane and had to be heavily medicated. In the end her family could not stop her from taking her own life. What she did in her work took real courage, IMO.
