THE NANKING MASSACRE

THE NANKING MASSACRE VIDEO A brief documentary about the Nanking Massacre by Loren Nielsen and Ben Pollock.

GENOCIDE’S MOST WANTED

Prince Asaka

EARLY LIFE  Born Oct. 2, 1877 in Kyoto son-in-law of Emperor Meiji and uncle by marriage of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) Father was a Buddhist priest Enthralled with Art Deco period and had a mansion built in art deco style career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army commander of Japanese forces in the final assault on Nanking

WHAT? 300,000 people were killed 20,000 women raped

CLASSIFICATION None: All Chinese

SYMBOLIZATION None

DISCRIMINATION All Chinese were targeted---but aged men, women, and children were of primary interest.

DEHUMANIZATION not worthy of human life “Various games and exercise were set up by the Japanese army ‘to numb its men to the human instinct against killing people who are not attacking’ writes Iris Chang in The Rape of Nanking” (The Nanking Massacre: Another Crime of Obedience?).

ORGANIZATION organized by political groups and sub-groups August. 5, 1937: Emperor Hirohito removed the constraints of International Law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners

POLARIZATION us vs. them

PREPARATION December 1937: "Kill all captives” –Prince Asaka Yasuhiko

PERSECUTION Gendercide

"Surviving Japanese veterans claim that the army had officially outlawed the rape of enemy women," writes Iris Chang in The Rape of Nanking. But "the military policy forbidding rape only encouraged soldiers to kill their victims afterwards." She cites one soldier's recollection that "It would be all right if we only raped them. I shouldn't say all right. But we always stabbed and killed them. Because dead bodies don't talk... Perhaps when we were raping her, we looked at her as a woman, but when we killed her, we just thought of her as something like a pig” (Gendercide Watch: The Nanjing Massacre).

"Chinese men were often sodomized or forced to perform a variety of repulsive sexual acts in front of laughing Japanese soldiers," writes Chang. "At least one Chinese man was murdered because he refused to commit necrophilia with the corpse of a woman in the snow. The Japanese also delighted in trying to coerce men who had taken lifetime vows of celibacy to engage in sexual intercourse.... The Japanese drew sadistic pleasure in forcing Chinese men to commit incest -- fathers to rape their own daughters, brothers their sisters, sons their mothers... those who refused were killed on the spot" (Gendercide Watch: The Nanjing Massacre).

EXTERMINATION  Mass executions of war prisoners  Refugee Zone 400 seized, marched off, tied in groups of 50, executed  The Bund: Japanese Army invited Navy to watch execution of people on the embankment. 200 men killed in 10 minutes

DENIAL 2013

WHAT HAPPENED TO PRINCE ASAKA POST-WAR?  1945: General Douglas MacArthur granted immunity to all members of the Imperial family.  October 14, 1947: Asaka Yasuhiko and his children lost their imperial status and privileges  became ordinary citizens (part of the American Occupation's abolishment of the collateral branches of the Japanese Imperial family)

LIFE: POST WAR  Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum  Converted to Roman Catholicism on December 18, 1951 (first member of the Imperial Family to do so)  architect of the Plateau Golf Course at the Dai-Hakone Country Club  Died April 13, 1981 in Atami, Shizuoka Japan  93 years old  Grave Site: UNKNOWN

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