in discussing the so-called "rape of nanjing", i.e. najing massacre, a reader from japan presented his views as why so many chinese civilians were murdered by japanese soldiers:
Sino-Japan War was about going after gurilla civilian fighters, fighting terrorism, from Japanese point of view. Try google "Tongzhou Incident."
When people throw away their military outfits and start fighting the occupation forces in civilian clothes, and when insurgents start using kids and women as weapon to attack the occupation forces, battles inevitably get nasty. That is what's happened.
There is nothing new about what the Japanese did in China. They were using kids as their weapon. Chinese history book describe those kids as heors today.
japanese are indeed very "smart".
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