(North East of Tokyo, 20 miles to Tokyo)"Everlasting Life"
(Nanjing in 1937 Again)
The big news this morning in Japan is the accidental but mysterious death of former Korean President Mr. Roh Moo-hyun:
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News reports say that a hospital in Busan in the south has confirmed Roh died at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Roh served as president from 2003 to 2008 and has been embroiled in a corruption scandal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/22/world/AP-AS-SKorea-Ex-President.html?_r=2&hp
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I hate Hitler more than the Pope does, but I cannot overlook those who claim that it is fair to associate the nature of Nazis with the characteristics of the Empire of Japan and its people during and before WWII.
They groundlessly think, as if brainwashed, that as Nazis killed six million innocent European Judaists, the Empire of Japan must have killed 300,000 innocent Chinese in Nanjing (Nanking) in 1937.
1. In August 1937, Chinese troops illegally launched massive attacks on the Imperial Army stationed in Shanghai in accordance with international agreements.
2. The Empire of Japan decided to fully respond to the challenge, though with a smaller number of soldiers while being covered by fighter planes flying from mainland Japan over the East China Sea for every sortie every day, thus defeating Chinese troops 10 times larger, driving them back to the inland, and pursuing Chinese troops who were in haste retreating to Nanjing, then the capital of China.
3. October 1937, the Imperial Army decided to advance to Nanjing, which was carried out at a pace quicker than the Chinese Government could imagine and cope with. The speed was also faster than the Tokyo Headquarters envisaged.
4. The Chinese Government elite and its military leaders were highly frightened by the strong and speedy marching of the Imperial Army toward Nanjing, being seized with great panics.
5. The leaders of the Chinese Government found it impossible to fight back to the mighty and courageous Imperial Army trying to surround and siege the great city Nanjing, as vast as New York City.
6. Chinese top politicians and generals in Nanjing decided to leave the capital and citizens and retreat to Chongqing chosen as the new capital in the upper stream of the Yangtze River. Fleeing from Nanjing, they committed some generals to defending Nanjing with still a large number of soldiers.
7. Nanjing citizens were not informed of the decision by the Chinese Government. The Chinese generals in charge of defending Nanjing neither informed citizens of the situation and nor recommended poor citizens to leave the city for safety.
8. In December 1937, when the Imperial Army started to bombard and attack the old city and the Chinese generals found it impossible to sustain their defensive fight and battles, they also decided to flee and run away. Chinese officers and soldiers, witnessing their generals and politicians deserting, realized the situation, promptly changing their clothes from military uniforms to civilian outfits and mingling into thousands of innocent citizens suddenly put into chaos and horror of war.
9. When soldiers of the Imperial Army broke massive walls surrounding the huge city Nanjing and violently entered the city, they encountered Chinese soldiers in civilian clothes, who could not get out of the city quickly, desperately firing at them. It got into a kind of guerrilla war or turned to be duels between Imperial soldiers in uniform and Chinese terrorists in civilian clothes.
10. Tens of thousands of Nanjing citizens who had been abandoned by the Chinese politicians and generals were thus thrown into the middle of the desperate exchanges of fire and bullets between civilian clothed and half deserting Chinese soldiers and too courageous Japanese soldiers who had rushed to their target over a long distance from Shanghai.
11. When the fight was over, it got apparent that Chinese leaders and generals who did not make the best to protect their citizens in Nanjing actually used their sacrifices as a means to gain time for them to run away and arrive at Chongqing, almost a thousand kilometers inside the Chinese Continent.
12. It was apparent at that time that the death of tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and citizens, both in civilian clothes, was ascribed to the cowardliness or the evil strategy of the Chinese leaders and generals. (In addition, it was also reported that thousands of Chinese prisoners of war captured after the occupation of Nanjing by the Imperial Army tried to escape across the big river in vain to get drowned.)
It is estimated that 240,000 Chinese troops were supposed to defend Nanjing from 80,000 or less Japanese troops advancing from Shanghai, 300Km east of Nanjing.
This is the commonsense and general understanding of Japanese historians without prejudice and bias on the tragedy of Nanjing in 1937.
It has nothing to do with Nazis attacks on European Judaists.
What's more, Shanghai in 1930's under the control and management of the Empire of Japan served as a haven and an evacuation route for European Judaists fleeing from Nazis to the United States.
(To be continued...)
(When a war is over, soldiers return home since the era of the Roman Empire. Yes, to the one who truly wishes his coming back in a piece, Mlles.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/latin/yumemiruomoi.html))
Joh 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Joh 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
Joh 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.