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of the world, and they died bearing all of old Japan's good and bad parts. Contrary to the scholarly consensus, he also claimed that the Nanjing Massacre was a politically motivated frame-up by China and the numerous Western eyewitnesses whose accounts form the basis of the historical understanding
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who has claimed the massacre was a hoax. Higashinakano was ordered by a Japanese court to pay compensation to a Chinese woman after he accused her of lying about being a victim of violence by the Japanese in Nanjing.
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and a number of serving national-level Japanese politicians came out in support of the film.
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This part shows the last day of the seven people who were condemned to death in 1948 by the
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and was intended to expose what the filmmakers saw as propaganda aspects of the
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of the Nanjing Massacre. These accounts were, according to the filmmakers,
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The first section was "Seven condemned criminals" (The theme is
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Mizushima said that the project was meant to counter the film
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The second section was for verification. (Documentary)
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Index

the series
Nanjing Massacre
Battle of Nanking (1937)
Nanjing Safety Zone
International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone
Japanese war crimes
Hundred man killing contest
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal
Historiography of the Nanjing Massacre
Death toll of the Nanjing Massacre
Nanjing Massacre denial
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
Japanese history textbook controversies
The Battle of China
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre
City of Life and Death
Don't Cry, Nanking
The Flowers of War
John Rabe
Nanking
The Truth about Nanjing
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking
The Good Man of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking
Tokyo
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