Japan, China still at odds over 'Rape of Nanking' – General

www.washingtonpost.com — - Japan acknowledged its wartime military caused tremendous damage to China in the "Rape of Nanking" massacre, but the two sides failed again to agree on the death toll, a joint study obtained Monday said. The massacre was one of the worst incidents during Japan's invasion of China in the first half of the 20th century,

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nstanosheck 2 years 1 week ago

It is well past time for Japan's government, Japan's citizens, and Nipponophiles everywhere to 'man up' and admit what they did, that it was wrong, and that the perpetrators were not war heroes, but villains of the worst kind, and to ask forgiveness of China. Then the healing can finally begin.

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