Witnessing Evil: My Struggle in Japan

Author: Wallace (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: One of the top five best-selling authors in the 20th century, the posthumous work of the late American writer Owen Wallace, "Witness to Evil – Japan's 'My Struggle'" was launched by Jinan Publishing House yesterday. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory of China's War of Resistance against Fascism, the book was published in Chinese for the first time. In 1940, at the age of 24, Wallace, as a correspondent for the U.S. magazine Free Press in the Far East, conducted field investigations and visits in places such as Shanghai and Nanjing in occupied Japan and China. He objectively and truthfully recorded the hand materials and observations he obtained and completed the manuscript of this factual reporting book in 1941. The day after the manuscript was completed, the Pearl Harbor Incident occurred. He organized the manuscript in 1942, but due to the U.S. being engaged in the war, the manuscript was shelved and remained unpublished for over 60 years. "Witness to Evil – Japan's 'My Struggle'" is the book's first public appearance, and the translation work was completed by Mr. Wang Jinling, a writer and translator who holds the exclusive translation rights and copyright for Wallace's works. In this book, Wallace devoted nearly half of its content to recording the secret memorial submitted by Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi to the Emperor in 1927, known as the Tanaka Memorial. Wallace referred to it as Japan's version of the fascist "My Struggle." The Memorial detailed Japan's plans to conquer all of China and even the world. The Memorial was later leaked and translated into Chinese and English and distributed. The Japanese government mobilized all its efforts to deny it. To prove Japan's deception, Wallace included the entire content of the Memorial in this book and investigated and verified key examples where Japan's claims about the Memorial differed from the facts. The results showed that Japan not only faithfully and completely fulfilled the plans in the Memorial but also went far beyond its scope.