The Nanjing Massacre

 09.07.2022

Our son & I got a rare moment alone recently. He's smart, very compassionate, and well read. He often shares events with me before I have an opportunity to know of them on the news. Case in point: The Nanjing Massacre.

How can I be 64 and not have ever heard of this? I've studied horrors against humanity for some time, yet never heard of this incident. Why? Our son filled me in, then sent me some information. Shocked is putting it mildly.

He prefaced my reading by saying that it's not spoken about in Japan. I can kinda get it. How would someone from Japan want to be associated with the massacre. Also, there's the quiet human toll caused by horrific experimentation.

1937-1945: Biological and chemical experiments on humans. "Logs", as they were referred to. Disease injections, amputations, and worse were performed on infants, children, and pregnant mothers. Mostly Chinese people. PEOPLE. 

Our United States granted immunity to Japanese prisoners involved in the manufacturing and testing for purposes of our own knowledge. Sign of the times, I reckon. 

Now, to The Nanjing Massacre. Japanese soldiers massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers & citizens. In the school textbooks in Japan, very little is said about the massacre. Mass rape, looting, and arson were rampant. These were some of the worst of the atrocities in World War II. These are just some tidbits. I encourage you to do a little deep diving.

War. Some of these details sure sound a lot like what is reported in Ukraine, executed by Russian forces.

Yes, war is hell. For some more than others. How about we take a different path. 

Thank you for stopping in.