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Article: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.
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- National Review
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- November 10, 1997
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, by Iris Chang (Basic, 278 pp., $25)
Mr. Jenkins is a research assistant at NR.
IN August 1995 the Washington Post ran the following headline: "Fifty Years after the Bomb, Japan Agonizes over Its Role in the War." Agonizes? Really? A survey conducted in Japan that very month found that nearly half of those polled felt that Japan had done enough to compensate for its actions. As the historian Noburu Kojima has put it, "How long must we apologize for the mistakes we have made?" That doesn't sound like a nation agonizing over its past. Japanese films and novels about World War II routinely depict Japan ...