A Day in Nanjing

[juergen wittstock]

During my X-mas vacation, I went to China and spend a day in Nanjing. I had been to places that bear a heavy burden of history before, like Hiroshima in Japan and Yad Washem in Israel, this one was equally terrible, and should never be forgotten.

Of course, it is not possible to take pictures of the bones that are still left in the place that was one of the slaughtering grounds of the Japanese invading forces and is now a cemetery, so I just took some pictures of the buildings and artworks.

I heard very little Japanese there. I wonder why. I would hope for my Japanese friends to go there and see, and maybe, just say to the people: "I am Japanese, and I wanted to see this." One sentence like this from as many people as possible could change a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanking

[Brook]

This is very surprising. I've heard of this in high school history classes, but never actually seen these kinds of things.