SDHF Newsletter No.431 The Lunacy of Anti-Japan’s Holocaustr No.5 Chapter 4

The Lunacy of Anti-Japanese Racism
Unmasking “Japan’s Holocaust”
By Moteki Hiromichi
No.5: Chapter 4: The Fiction of Nanjing Massacre

August 8, 2025

“Taking place from July 1937 to March 1938, the Japanese forces unleashed a wave of unspeakable violence, spanning from Shanghai to Nanjing. The scale of the crimes committed is unfathomable, with a minimum of 300,000 Chinese civilians brutally slaughtered and over 80,000 women subjected to rape. … The campaign in this region lasted for five to six months, during which an average of 50,000 innocent lives were claimed each month. This reign of terror culminated with sacking of Nanjing.” (Japan’s Holocaust, p.67)

This passage shows that Rigg does not even have a rudimentary understanding of how the Sino-Japanese war started. On July 7, 1937, 5,600 Japanese troops, garrisoned in China for protecting Japanese residents as allowed by the Beijing Protocol, were attacked by Chinese troops near the Marco Polo Bridge. This was the start of the Sino-Japanese War. On August 13, 30,000 Chinese regular troops infiltrated the Shanghai neutral zone and launched an all-out attack on 4,500 Japanese naval landing troops who were responsible for protecting 30,000 Japanese residents. The number of naval landing troops was not enough to protect Japanese residents, so a decision was made to send two divisions (40,000 troops) from the home land. The Kuomintang deployed a large number of troops, 700,000, to Shanghai, which was further defended by thousands of Kuomintang pillboxes. So, numerically inferior Japanese troops were forced to engage a numerically superior Chinese force and there were a total of 40,000 casualties, the largest since the Battle of Port Arthur. But on October 27, Japanese troops finally captured the strategic town of Dahangzhen. Then, the Japanese 10th Army landed at Hangzhou Bay, cutting off enemy’s retreat. The Chinese army took flight en masse toward Nanjing.

In the battle of Shanghai and the pursuit of the Chinese army to Nanjing, had Japanese troops focused on brutally slaughtering numerous Chinese civilians and raped 80,000 women as claimed, the numerically inferior Japanese troops would have been utterly defeated by numerically superior Chinese troops. As I explained in “No.4. Chapter 3”, a disciplined army, even if numerically inferior, will win despite great odds.

In Nanjing, the “International Committee for Nanjing Safety Zone” was established by 15 foreigners, mainly American missionaries, who remained in Nanjing before the arrival of the Japanese. Two-hundred thousand civilians were ordered to gather in the safety zone by Kuomintang army Commander Tang Shengzhi. The Committee’s records were compiled into a “Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone” and published under the supervision of an organization affiliated with Kuomintang. The population in the safety zone was reported as 200,000 during December and 250,000 on January 14, 1938 and thereafter. This clearly shows that there were no “massacres” at all. As to “rapes”, 175 cases were reported. By contrast, there were 1,326 cases of rape recorded by police during a 12 day period, between August 30 to September 10, 1945, within Kanagawa Prefecture alone committed by US occupation troops. If the number of soldiers is taken into consideration, then US soldiers committed 50 times more rapes compared to Japanese soldiers stationed in Nanjing. In other words, the data on rapes in the “Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone” show that the Japanese soldiers were highly disciplined.

URL: https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/2336/
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MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact