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This book is typical of the denial of the evil that was the Japanese regime prior to its destruction by the US in WWII. The sad fact is that Japanese school children have never been taught the true nature of the brutality of the Japanese military, and we now have several new generations who live in ignorance of the truth about Japanese militarism in the first half of the Twentieth Century. The authors of this book are no different than other propagandists who deny the numerous other holocausts in the last century of the Armenians, the Ukrainians, the Jews, and the horrible atrocities the Japanese inflicted on the Chinese, the Koreans, and anyone that the Japanese army fought such as the Americans, the British, and other native populations in SE Asia. Having spent more time in Japan than I care to admit, this book is actually a reflection of the knowledge of the majority of the Japanese population about their crimes against humanity during the 30's and 40's, with the exception of those scum of the war who actually committed millions of atrocities and know better, but are too cowardly to come forward and expose books like this to be the lie that they are. At least they are consistent in their shameful approach to life. This is a society in denial of its crimes against humanity, using humans as guinea pigs for the "experiments" as well as their brutality against civilians. Even the German Siemens representative, John Rabe in his diaries, who has been called the Oskar Schindler of China, wrote a first hand account of these atrocities, but the authors of this book ignore the truth. And of course the Japanese critics of his book, "The Good Man of Nanking" are the same ones who favorably review this piece of trash. The authors of this book should be ashamed, but they are able to write this nonsense because there was no Nuremberg equivalent after the war ended because McArthur kept the military industrial infrastructure intact out of the fear of communist pressures. It would have been like keeping a murderer like Saddam in power to keep the Shiia out of power. Luckily this fable is very short and can be read in less than a couple hours so only one anti-vomit pill is needed to get through it. The positive reviewers of this book are the same kind of gullible apologists who have no understanding of putting propaganda like this in proper perspective. The spawn of Neville Chamberlain. Just how many pictures do you need of atrocities to understand that this book is pure fiction.? You won't see those pictures in this book, but anyone who has any sense of history can view them. This book is the OJ defense on a grand scale. This book makes "Mein Kampf" look like an honest discussion of the issues facing Europe after WWI. This is a book written by citizens of a country which should hold its head in shame for centuries to attempt to atone for the sins of their fathers. The sad fact is they are ignorant of them. I read this book and wrote this review on the anniversary of another cowardly attack, on Pearl Harbor, and held off submitting it to see if I had cooled off after reading this book. Sorry, but I only got madder.