Waverley,
I read The History Place: The Rape of Nanking, 1937-1938, 300,000 Deaths.
There were in total millions of Japanese soldiers fighting or stationed in China, and quite naturally I do not know and no one can know, logically, what each of them was doing at each minute, at each hour, and each day and each year, so I cannot contradict or deny mutilation of people or "Pregnant women were not spared. In several instances, they were raped, then had their bellies slit opnen, and the fetuses torn out." But mutilation of people or bodies, raping and bellies slit open, etc, were recurring themes in China. The Great Cultural Revolution may have been the latest case, though nothing of the sort is taught in Chinese school and, as I heard, today little is known among young Chinese.

I (Michi) sent a comment, American Humanism, on Chinese Comfort Women, amazon usa, and said, "And it is only Chinese that can write a gigantic fantasy like this...The Chinese case was more fantastic. Chinese soldiers assaulted Chinese women in addition to having comfort women. A Chinese saying goes, 'Good iron is not used for nails. Good men do not become soldiers.' There has been no distinction in Chinese history between soldiers and thugs. In many parts of China, villagers welcomed the advancing Japanese army because it brought social order with it."

Michi
It's unclear exactly what you are trying to argue. Stalin was OK because he gave us Medicare. Hitler organised the EU which is really what Britain wants and probably will get one day.

Mr. West,
I (Yoshimichi Moriyama) posted five comment on YaleGlobal Online/Alistair Burnett/War Drums in Asia: Back to the European Futurre?, one comment on Project-Syndicate. org/Emily S. Chen/The Surrender of Japanese Peace Constitution, and four comments on EastAsiaForum/Hugh White/Need to face the facts in Asia.
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/war-drums-asia-back-european-future.
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/japan-peace-constitution-amendment-by-emily-s-chen-2016...
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/04/18/need-to-face-the-facts-in-asia/.

I (Michi) also sent a comment, It Is Not China's Fault, Nov. 16, 2015, on Michael Pillsbury/The Hundred-Year Marathon, amazon usa.

I will appreciate if you spare some time and read them.

Waverley,
I forgot to say this in my reply to you. A small photo of a little Chinese child crying. My mother saw it on a TV screen more than forty years ago and cryed out, "Maa...(in Japanese)," and she was speechless and dumb.
What had become of the child was on my mind. About twenty or thirty years later, I knew that it was a faked photo of the staged situation by Chinese Nationalists for propaganda. I felt relieved then because the child had someone to look after it(him or her).

Michi
yes and the comments by -Jean-Pierre Lehmann , War Drums in Asia: Back to the European Future?

So then
"The purpose of the Great East Asian Conference held in 1943 was mainly to enlist the attending countries on the side of Japan. Malay and Indonesia were not invited as you said, because Japan wanted to put then under its military control for the convenience of carrying out the war."
I like the idea , it's useful and good strategy . It will be convenient when Okinawa , Hokkaido and other Chinese labour supplies come under Beijing's control.

Hi Michi,

I think I'm getting the gist now:

* war is peace;

* the Nanking butchery was humanitarian;

* invasion is liberation;

* pillaging is co-prosperity;

* Chinese and Korean women like being raped;

* the Second world War probably didn't happen, it's all a Hollywood hoax.

How am I doing so far ?

Cheers,

Joe