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World War two and war crimes, the two go hand in hand, from the Laha Airfield Massacre to the Death Railway from the Japanese to the forced labor and death camps of the Nazis. The latter is all we ever we here about. This is not everything that happened that was a war crime, you have the United States of America imprisoning Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Then we have the Japanese, they committed more war crimes but to less people that is maybe why we don’t hear about them. I the “Gesture Life” we see that rape was common in Japanese war camps. So we can see that both sides committed war crimes but only one side was made public, the Japanese also committed war crimes that where so much worse than the US. So when we all know about …show more content…

The large scale cover up continued to be portrayed by some Japanese officials. The most amazing thing is that there are some that still to this day think that this was just a made up such as on February 24, 2012, Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara said that he believes that the Nanjing massacre never happened at all. He reportedly claims it would have been impossible to kill so many people in such a short period of time, he believes the actual death toll was around 10,000 people if this event did happen, on June 19, 2007, a group of around 100 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers again denounced the Nanjing Massacre as a fabrication, arguing that there was no evidence to prove the allegations of mass killings by Japanese soldiers. They accused Beijing of using the alleged incident as a "political advertisement". The main debate concerning the massacre took place mainly in the 1970s but still continues today but less people care anymore. During this time, the Chinese statements about the event were attacked by the Japanese because they were said to be based too heavily on personal testimonies and sketchy evidence. Accusations were cast regarding the legitimacy and accuracy of burial records and photographs presented in the Tokyo War Crime Court, which were said to be creations by the Chinese government to help bolster the evidence against the Japanese in the war crime court. If Japanese scholars had countered the massacre accusations with overwhelming evidence at an early stage, the current situation regarding this problem might be somewhat different. However, since they didn't, the "Nanjing Massacre" has been accepted as fact to the point that it might as well have been etched in stone. But what ever happened soon after the end of the war, General Matsui Iwane and his lieutenant Tani Hisao, were tried and convicted for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far

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