List of Abbreviations Introduction What Causes War Atrocities: A Historical Analysis The Battle of Shanghai and the Prelude to Nanking Nanking: Analysis of Military Actions and Number of Victims Nanking: Analysis of Individually Committed Crimes and Nature of Atrocities Aftermath and Reaction until 1945 War Crimes Trials Sounds of Controversy Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
MASAHIRO YAMAMOTO is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. His specialty is military and naval history as well as Japanese History. He also teaches Japanese language.
"The historical landscape is undergoing a curious change. A new
genre has sprouted, [taking] the form of short books on dramatic
events they focus on an incident, relate it as a story, and then
follow its repercussions through the social order....They pose
dizzying questions: How can we know what actually happened? Where
is the truth to be found among competing interpretations? Many of
the incidents concern the blackest aspects of the twentieth
century. The massacre of defenseless civilians during their
occupation of Nanking illustrates this tendency....Nanking: The
Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto shows how the debate
about [these] events has continued to reverberate through Japanese
society. Yamamoto attempted to arrive at an accurate assessment of
the scale of the massacre....That estimate discredited
revisionists, who claimed that virtually no atrocities had
occurred, but it fell far short of the more standard view."-The New
York Review of Books
?[T]his is an excellent study...Yamamoto has affected scholarly
assessments of the Sino-Japanese War.?-The Journal of Asian
Studies
?[T]his work is a significant contribution. Yamamoto argues that
without "clarification of the truth," there is "no way to determine
in what way the Japanese...should be held responsible." His
careful, dispassionate analysis of evidence, added to his refusal
to embrace either the deniers or the outraged, may make us
uncomfortable, but it does move us toward clarity.?-The
Historian
?The historical landscape is undergoing a curious change. A new
genre has sprouted, [taking] the form of short books on dramatic
events they focus on an incident, relate it as a story, and then
follow its repercussions through the social order....They pose
dizzying questions: How can we know what actually happened? Where
is the truth to be found among competing interpretations? Many of
the incidents concern the blackest aspects of the twentieth
century. The massacre of defenseless civilians during their
occupation of Nanking illustrates this tendency....Nanking: The
Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto shows how the debate
about [these] events has continued to reverberate through Japanese
society. Yamamoto attempted to arrive at an accurate assessment of
the scale of the massacre....That estimate discredited
revisionists, who claimed that virtually no atrocities had
occurred, but it fell far short of the more standard view.?-The New
York Review of Books
"ÝT¨his is an excellent study...Yamamoto has affected scholarly
assessments of the Sino-Japanese War."-The Journal of Asian
Studies
"ÝT¨his work is a significant contribution. Yamamoto argues that
without "clarification of the truth," there is "no way to determine
in what way the Japanese...should be held responsible." His
careful, dispassionate analysis of evidence, added to his refusal
to embrace either the deniers or the outraged, may make us
uncomfortable, but it does move us toward clarity."-The
Historian
"[T]his is an excellent study...Yamamoto has affected scholarly
assessments of the Sino-Japanese War."-The Journal of Asian
Studies
"[T]his work is a significant contribution. Yamamoto argues that
without "clarification of the truth," there is "no way to determine
in what way the Japanese...should be held responsible." His
careful, dispassionate analysis of evidence, added to his refusal
to embrace either the deniers or the outraged, may make us
uncomfortable, but it does move us toward clarity."-The Historian
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