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Originally Posted by peter12
The vast majority of victims died within a 3 day span.
The point I was making was, we have a million Hiroshima memorials and blind weeping etc...
When is the Japanese government going to fess up and recognize Nanking?
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I agree that the Japanese should acknowledge Nanking and we should learn from it, but it was a different time and they did have a different culture. Don't forget how brutal the Japanese were towards POWs and how they were more than willing to do things we thought unimaginable during battle. Their whole system of war and what was acceptable was culturally accepted at the time, so there is nothing to apologize from that standpoint. Don't place our existing cultural constraints on things that happened historically, or on other cultures. That's our problem when dealing with the middle east IMO. We expect them to conform to our cultural standard rather than us accepting theirs.