Japans rechter Mainstream-Medien historischer Revisionismus: „Das Nanjing-Massaker ist eine Lüge.“
https://www.sankei.com/article/20250810-HQPXRZHC25L2DAFDJ4CKAXKPSI/
Japans rechter Mainstream-Medien historischer Revisionismus: „Das Nanjing-Massaker ist eine Lüge.“
https://www.sankei.com/article/20250810-HQPXRZHC25L2DAFDJ4CKAXKPSI/
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Oh boy…
On August 10, *Sankei Shimbun* published an article, reacting to the release in China of the film *Dead to Rights*, which features photographs related to the Nanjing Massacre. The article claimed that the “Nanjing Massacre” depicted in the film was a lie and that the photographs’ origins were unclear*, „symbolizing China’s tendency to prioritize propaganda over facts“. Ironically, on the very same day, the newspaper’s top-ranked international news story was “Historical Revisionism in the United States: Slavery.”
* However, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_to_Rights_(film)#Historical_Background](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_to_Rights_(film)#Historical_Background) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magee_(missionary)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magee_(missionary)) .
Lol, they have their own MAGA. The latest MAGA obsession is that “slavery was actually a good thing” 🤦♂️
Japan needs nukes. China likely won’t be satisfied with Taiwan at the rate their military is improving.
Claim it’s a mainstream media looks like an even more bullshit title to me. 産経新聞 was „mainstream“ 40 years ago. Now it’s just a nearly bankrupt media that is barely living on financial aiding from its parent company
Considering how little Japanese atrocities during WWII are mentioned in history classes or the general discourse of Japanese society, I’m surprised they cared enough to form a conspiracy theory about it.
Im in the middle of llistening to Dan Carlin’s ‚Supernova in the East‘ that covers the nanjing massacre. Interesting stuff.
I don’t know what they want to achieve in denying WW2 atrocities, because it just gives more leverage to Korean and Chinese governments to demand more compensation, it’s almost like a vicious cycle.
The Nanjing massacre is one of the worst atrocities ever committed in modern war and was not an isolated case in the Japanese imperial army. It’s astounding that this revisionism and lack of knowledge still occurs in Japan – it’s up to this current generation to investigate the truth and not let lies perpetrate
That’s a mistranslation. The title says that some of China’s claims are exaggerated or false, so It’s wrong to rewrite the title of the article and say that it was all a lie.
Just because WE can’t see the whole article because it’s paid content, don’t change the title to manipulate people’s impressions. Is this propaganda?
In China, exaggerated anti-Japanese films have become a problem, and propaganda such as blowing up tanks with arrows and destroying the Japanese army with magic has become so excessive that even the Chinese people are ridiculing it.
Yeah just a reminder that Unit 731 was something that actually existed as well and resulted in the horrendous murders of many Chinese, Russian, and other nationals.
Oh and the people who ran Unit 731 never got held accountable because the US thought their research was valuable.
Are they going for the classic right wingnut Shrodinger’s revisionism? You know, „You can’t say we did it because it makes us look bad. But it’s also a good this we did it because we hate them.“
……the Japanese have NEVER internally faced the truth about the destruction their country did in WW2. Not the Rapes of Nanking, not Unit 731, not the March of Baatan. They moved on and just never have taught it in their schools…..
Recently visited the museum in Nanjing. Denying what happened is so immoral…
And you can see right-wing populists‘ reaction to the article on the formerly twitter, which outright deny the Nanjing Massacre, from here: [https://x.com/Sankei_news/status/1954352237247070471](https://x.com/Sankei_news/status/1954352237247070471) .
China will make sure these idiots learn their lesson for promoting this filth.
For many in the West, Japan’s war crimes are often reduced to World War II, with the Nanjing Massacre serving as the most infamous example. But for Koreans and Chinese, these atrocities are not seen as isolated events — they are part of a long continuum of violence and aggression stretching from the Imjin War of the 16th century through the 20th century. This deeper historical memory is why wounds remain raw, and why debates over war crimes, history textbooks, and official apologies continue to stir such deep emotion across East Asia. Even today, while Japan’s right-wing nationalists may deny the Nanjing Massacre, they often go further — rejecting responsibility for the full range of wartime atrocities, including the exploitation of comfort women, the horrors of biological warfare, and countless other crimes that scarred generations.
I know a bunch of people who grew up in Japan and it’s so concerning how little they know about the fucked up stuff Japan did in world war 2
Of course it is a lie to them. They weren’t even born to experience it in person.
Rape* of Nanjing. They earned that title.
This isn’t „right-wing japanese media“, it’s the mainstream opinion over there
Japan needs to be denazified.
And MAGA is pushing to censor and remove historical evidence of slavery and other wrongs committed in the U.S.
Right-wing extremism is the same in every country.
1. Nowhere close to mainstream media. Sankei is a decadent rag.
2. The vast majority ofJapanese people recognize the massacre and other war crimes, but roll their eyes at how China keeps increasing the numbers and using it for propaganda purposes.
3. There’s a sense of betrayal as well. When China was opening up, Japan was quick to restore relations, acknowledged the damage it done and China agreed to seek no reparations. In return, Japan provided billions in financial, infrastructure and technical aid to China up to the 2000s. A significant part of the infrastructure and manufacturing expertise that enabled China to grow was funded by Japan. They were close countries with very cordial relations until about 15 years ago… The CCP basically pushed the anti Japanese propaganda up as a way to channel people’s discontent (they used to paint the Kuomintang as the main villain before) . Literally 1 in 4 movies or dramas produced in China these days are about glorious Chinese communist heroes fighting against Japanese monsters, it becomes tiresome and also resulted in murders and attacks against Japanese expats…
China’s official media, *Global Times* cited Russian UN Representative’s speeches to deny the Bucha massacre by the Russians in Ukraine:
[Evidence proving that the Bucha incident was staged](https://world.huanqiu.com/article/47TjQHZt9tY) – [Global Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times)
Though [UN report details summary executions of civilians by Russian troops in northern Ukraine](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/12/un-report-details-summary-executions-civilians-russian-troops-northern)