[James C. Hsiung] Without remorse, Japan is out to distort history
Jan 16, 2014
Shinzo Abe continues to disown the country’s dark past by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine and doctoring textbooks. In the ongoing Sino-Japanese conflict, we have again heard people asking Japan to atone for its war crimes. Many years ago, one such plea came from John Rabe, a German who witnessed the 1937 Rape of Nanking (Nanjing) but later declined to testify at the Allied Tokyo Trials, saying that “judgement must be spoken only by (the Japanese).” Rabe’s plea is touching, almost noble. But the Jap