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Revisionist politics

Blind man's bluff

DAN-CHYI CHUA

A 79-year-old woman triumphs over a revisionist historian's assault.

"We remember the suffering of the individual women who were subjected to sexual violence by the Japanese military, lament the victims of wartime sexual violence throughout the world, pray for a peaceful world without war." These words are inscribed in 12 languages on a cenotaph unveiled on Japan's Okinawa island.


Apology for a rape

LEE HAN SHIH

The Nanjing Massacre is a sore point in Sino-Japanese relations and something has to be done about it soon.

nanjing massacre

A Sino-Japanese time bomb is ticking. If nothing is done to defuse it, it will explode in December 2007, when China commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Rape of Nanjing.


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