What Really Happened in Nanking
By Tanaka Masaaki,
Abstract
Abstract: What Really Happened in NankingThis book discusses the events that took place in Nanking in 1937 from 15
perspectives. The author’s discussions are based on primary sources
(Japanese, Chinese and Western historical documents and eyewitness
accounts), which include population statistics, burial records, International
Committee records, an official military report prepared by Chinese Gen. He
Yingqin. Mr. Tanaka concludes that there was no massacre in Nanking. He
also exposes the fakery behind the photographs used in Iris Chang's The
Rape of Nanking, which are in sharp contrast with a contemporaneous
photographic news series published in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.