FMT - China marks 80th anniversary of Nanjing massacre (extracts):
No one has been more atrocious than the Japanese save the Nazis who have fully atoned for their crimes of unspeakable evil.
No massacre on earth has match the Japanese wanton primitive brutality in Nanjing.
Two Jap officers in Nanjing waged a bet to see who would decapitate the most number of Chinese heads, any Chinese in Nanjing, in one day. And they went about frivolous but criminally evil bet.
Chinese women were raped and then bayoneted in their private parts. Bushido warriors?
Children were tossed up in the air to be caught by the bayonets of Jap soldiers. Bushido warriors?
T'was not just a war for the Japs, t'was not just a mad massacre per se, t'was a fest of killing, one for fun by monsters.
Much as most Chinese have forgiven the average Jap, we still remember what were done by those Bushido warriors in their perversion of how an honourable warrior should behave, and what their duties were to their Emperor.
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brave Jap warrior with his honourable code of Bushido decapitated naked woman and her baby in Nanjing (Nanking) if you wonder why Chinese hate Jap, that's why |
NANJING: China on Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops, an enduring source of bad blood as present-day rivalry between the two countries keeps a spotlight on historical animosities.
Top leaders will preside over memorial services in the eastern city, Beijing says, but it is yet to confirm whether President Xi Jinping will lend weight to the occasion by attending.
Top leaders will preside over memorial services in the eastern city, Beijing says, but it is yet to confirm whether President Xi Jinping will lend weight to the occasion by attending.
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Nanjing massacre of lil' kids in accordance with Jap Bushido code of honour |
According to China some 300,000 civilians and soldiers were killed in a frenzy of murder, torture, rape, arson and looting in the six weeks after the invading Japanese military entered Nanjing, then the capital city, on December 13, 1937.
It remains one of the most fraught anniversaries for the two powerful neighbours due to stubborn disputes over the toll and periodic denials by Japanese arch-conservatives that the episode took place.
It remains one of the most fraught anniversaries for the two powerful neighbours due to stubborn disputes over the toll and periodic denials by Japanese arch-conservatives that the episode took place.
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war trophies befitting Bushido warriors |
Many in China say this symbolises Japan’s unwillingness to completely atone for its wartime aggression.
Officially, Japan concedes that “the killing of a large number of noncombatants, looting and other acts occurred” but says it is “difficult” to determine precise figures.
Officially, Japan concedes that “the killing of a large number of noncombatants, looting and other acts occurred” but says it is “difficult” to determine precise figures.
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bayonet practice befitting Bushido warriors |
The issue receded during the Cold War but has re-emerged as China strikes an increasingly muscular stance under Xi, while critics say Japanese revisionists have grown bolder with conservative leader Shinzo Abe. [...]
Japan invaded China in the 1930s and they fought a full-scale war between 1937 and 1945, until Japan’s defeat in World War II.
Japan invaded China in the 1930s and they fought a full-scale war between 1937 and 1945, until Japan’s defeat in World War II.
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Banzai, the Emperor would be proud of me, a Bushido warrior |
China suffered immense loss of life, reserving special anger over a sense that Japan, unlike Germany, has never properly atoned.
No massacre on earth has match the Japanese wanton primitive brutality in Nanjing.
Two Jap officers in Nanjing waged a bet to see who would decapitate the most number of Chinese heads, any Chinese in Nanjing, in one day. And they went about frivolous but criminally evil bet.
Chinese women were raped and then bayoneted in their private parts. Bushido warriors?
Children were tossed up in the air to be caught by the bayonets of Jap soldiers. Bushido warriors?
T'was not just a war for the Japs, t'was not just a mad massacre per se, t'was a fest of killing, one for fun by monsters.
Much as most Chinese have forgiven the average Jap, we still remember what were done by those Bushido warriors in their perversion of how an honourable warrior should behave, and what their duties were to their Emperor.
But why was there such brutality? Many suggested it's in the Japanese character, their DNA, to be cruel. Once on TV I saw-heard PM Lee Kuan Yew saying that Japan with too much military power could NOT be unpredictable. Did that mean a powerful Japan will do what she did in China and Korea and SE Asia what she did prior to and during WWII?
But strangely, the Japanese, who denigrated the Chinese shockingly as sub-humans (as the Nazis had termed the Jews, and the Israelis had termed the Palestinians), had no compunction about adopting the Chinese language as its own. It is suggested that half the Japanese vocabulary are of Chinese origin. Even the name Japan or Nihon consists of 2 Chinese characters.
A curious trivia in the shared language has been the Japanese adopting or inheriting the Chinese’s superstition in the utterance of the word ‘4’, pronounced as sì in both languages (in the 4th tone in Chinese), a taboo-word on auspicious occasion.
According to the Chinese dictionary, there are 15 different words pronounced as si of which 9 are in the 1st tone, 1 in the 3rd tone and five in the 4th tone.
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riben = origin of/from the Sun = Japan |
A curious trivia in the shared language has been the Japanese adopting or inheriting the Chinese’s superstition in the utterance of the word ‘4’, pronounced as sì in both languages (in the 4th tone in Chinese), a taboo-word on auspicious occasion.
According to the Chinese dictionary, there are 15 different words pronounced as si of which 9 are in the 1st tone, 1 in the 3rd tone and five in the 4th tone.
Because the one in the 3rd tone, which means ‘die’ or ‘death’, is almost similar in pronunciation to the word ‘4’ (4th tone), its utterance is studiously avoided during auspicious occasions like weddings, birthdays, New Lunar Year period (15 days), etc.
But the Japanese easily and cleverly avoid the taboo by resorting to an indigenous Japanese word for ‘4’, namely yon. But nonetheless the avoidance indicates the Japanese inheriting Chinese belief (culture).
Thus Japanese culture borrowed heavily from and adopted Chinese culture.
Another interesting item is that the Japanese monarchy continues until today the tradition of having a Chinese name for a newborn baby. Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako named their daughter with a Chinese name, Aiko. Most Chinese would recognise the words Ai and ko (image below).
This practice stems from medieval times when the refined Chinese language was largely (and only) spoken by Japanese royalty, nobility and the cultured, as was Latin in Europe.
Josh Hong, an occasional columnist in Malaysiakini once gave his theory on why the Chinese harbour a latent and seldom discussed animosity towards the Japanese – he believed the Chinese detested and still detest the Japanese because they couldn't accept being beaten by a barbarian race of dwarfs.
But the Japanese easily and cleverly avoid the taboo by resorting to an indigenous Japanese word for ‘4’, namely yon. But nonetheless the avoidance indicates the Japanese inheriting Chinese belief (culture).
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4 = si (pronounced shi) in Chinese and Japanese, also yon in Japanese |
Thus Japanese culture borrowed heavily from and adopted Chinese culture.
Another interesting item is that the Japanese monarchy continues until today the tradition of having a Chinese name for a newborn baby. Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako named their daughter with a Chinese name, Aiko. Most Chinese would recognise the words Ai and ko (image below).
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child of love |
This practice stems from medieval times when the refined Chinese language was largely (and only) spoken by Japanese royalty, nobility and the cultured, as was Latin in Europe.
Josh Hong, an occasional columnist in Malaysiakini once gave his theory on why the Chinese harbour a latent and seldom discussed animosity towards the Japanese – he believed the Chinese detested and still detest the Japanese because they couldn't accept being beaten by a barbarian race of dwarfs.
Well, I didn’t agree with his way out theory because the Chinese being brutalised, raped, tortured and massacred by the Japanese during the last war were terrible and hateful enough without their worrying about Chinese-Japanese comparative anatomical measurement.
My theory in contrast to Josh Hong's on why the Japanese were unusually feral with the Chinese, calling them sub-humans and showing no bounds to their bloody barbaric brutal savagery, horrendously demonstrated in the most primitive genocidal fashion in Nanjing, was (still is) that the Japanese in WWII, conscious of their 'superiority' as children of the Sun goddess Amaterasu, could not accept being culturally beholden to the 'weak man' of East Asia (at that time China).
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decapitating a Nanjing woman with newly born baby such unspeakable brutality was typical of many Japanese soldiers during WWII |
My theory in contrast to Josh Hong's on why the Japanese were unusually feral with the Chinese, calling them sub-humans and showing no bounds to their bloody barbaric brutal savagery, horrendously demonstrated in the most primitive genocidal fashion in Nanjing, was (still is) that the Japanese in WWII, conscious of their 'superiority' as children of the Sun goddess Amaterasu, could not accept being culturally beholden to the 'weak man' of East Asia (at that time China).
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Amaterasu |
Thus they strove to erase completely from their consciousness and physical presence this reminder of their embarrassing cultural womb.
Banzai.