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Look Back in Anger. Filming the Nanjing Massacre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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A crop of new movies released to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre is set to again dredge up the controversy about one of the 20th Century's most notorious events. How will Japan react?

One way to learn what happened in one of history's most noxious but disputed episodes is to ask Mizushima Satoru. After what he calls “exhaustive research” on the seizure of the then Chinese capital by Japanese troops in 1937, estimated to have cost anywhere from 20,000 to 300,000 lives, Mizushima offers a very precise figure for the number of illegal deaths: zero.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 12 , December 2007 , e6
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