SDHF Newsletter No.430 The Lunacy of Anti-Japan’s Holocaustr No.4 Chapter 3

The Lunacy of Anti-Japanese Racism
Unmasking “Japan’s Holocaust”
By Moteki Hiromichi
No.4: Chapter 3: The absurd lie of a genocide of 30 million people

August 5, 2025

Rigg writes that “in the 18 years between 1927 and 1945, a horrific massacre of at least 30 million people was carried out in an attempt to wipe out an ‘inferior race,’” with the following breakdown:

China: 20 million (minimum, conservative) Indonesia: 4 million
Vietnam: 2 million Bengal Famine: 15 million
Philippines: 1 million Korea: 500,000
Burma-Siam Railway: 345,000 Malaysia/Singapore: 200,000
India: 180,000 Okinawa: 150,000
Saipan: 16,751 Tinian: 4,000 Guam: 2,000
Total: 29,897,751 (p.191)

Since Rigg is quite serious about his ridiculous numbers, I will show how they are baseless nonsense, in other words, fraudulent and fabricated. The “20 million” will be dealt in a later chapter. Here, I’ll illustrate how ridiculous his claim is of “4 million” Indonesian civilian deaths.

On March 1, 1942, 55,000 Japanese troops landed on Java. A total 81,000 Allied troops, including 65, 000 Dutch and 16,000 British, Australian and American soldiers, intercepted them, but the Japanese troops made rapid advances, nonetheless, occupying the capital of Batavia (present-day Jakarta) on Mach 5 and Bandon Fortress on March 7, forcing the entire Allied army to surrender on March 8. It was a remarkable feat: numerically smaller Japanese troops forced numerically superior Allies to surrender in just over a week. This could not have been possible if the Japanese army did what Rigg claims, such as destroying towns and indiscriminately massacring residents. If Japanese troops had done these things, these would have caused chaos and taken months to force the Allies to surrender. In fact, Japan’s miraculous victory was achieved only because of direct and indirect support of the Indonesian people for the disciplined Japanese army.

The Japanese military fostered the Indonesian militia, PETA, and trained them in combat arms. In 2011, the Indonesian Ministry of Defense presented a bronze statue of General Sudirman to the Japanese Ministry of Defense. General Sudirman, an Indonesian national hero, was a member of PETA and became the first supreme commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. The statue of General Sudirman currently gaze over grounds of the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

Are we to believe that a country, in which “4 million” of its people were “massacred,” would send a bronze statue of its most esteemed supreme commander to a country that supposedly committed such a horrible crime? This one example clearly exposes one of Rigg’s outrageous lies–there are many more filing his book.

URL: https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/2333/
PDF: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/antij4e.pdf

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact