Nanjing Massacre Documentation Collection: Japanese Military Personnel's Diaries and Letters

Author: Wang Weixing
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This volume is the 9th in the "Nanjing Massacre Documentation Project." The "Nanjing Massacre Documentation Project" is divided into several thematic sections, compiling historical materials from various sources. It includes historical archives of the Chinese army's fierce battles to defend the capital Nanjing against the invading Japanese forces; a large number of diaries, letters, recollections, and testimonies of Japanese soldiers and officers who participated in the invasion of China; a substantial collection of written historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre by Western individuals; testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors; as well as materials from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Military Court of the National Defense of the Republic of China for the Prosecution of War Criminals, and so on. This volume specifically collects diaries and letters of former Japanese soldiers and officers related to the Nanjing Massacre, written during their time on the Chinese battlefield. They document the true circumstances of the Nanjing Massacre from different perspectives.