International hot comment: Before the mountain of ironclad evidence, the farce of Japan's right-wing denying history should be put to rest!

Chinanews.com, December 12 (Zhang Aolin) 13 years ago today, the Japanese invaders captured Nanjing, turning this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties into a hell on earth. The catastrophe, which lasted for more than 86 days, saw 40,30 compatriots die tragically under the butcher's knife of the invaders, resulting in the Nanjing Massacre, which shocked China and the rest of the world. However, there are still some right-wing politicians in Japan who openly deny this ironclad historical crime.

December 12 is the 13th National Memorial Day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, 5 days ago, the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre Victims of the Japanese Invasion of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Memorial Hall") held a press conference on the 2023 new cultural relics and historical materials, and many important cultural relics and historical materials such as the "Military Diary" of Kimura Nakasa, the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army Reporting Department, and the Central China Front Army Special Service Department Kimura Nakasa's "Military Diary" were stored in the memorial hall.

At the donation of historical materials on the same day, Lu Zhaoning, a Chinese-American, displayed 14 newspapers including the New York Times, which reported on the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of China in Shanghai and Nanjing, as well as China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Among them, two American newspapers also reported on the atrocities of the Japanese army's "<> beheadings", which added ironclad evidence to the crimes of the Japanese army.

However, in the face of mountains of ironclad evidence, there are still some Japanese right-wing politicians who are obsessed with it and turn black and white upside down.

On October 2023, 10, the 8th Asian Games in Hangzhou closed, and the mayors of the host cities of the next Asian Games should attend the closing ceremony and receive the Olympic Council of Asia flag. And the mayor of Nagoya, the host of the 19 Asian Games, is the same Takayuki Kawamura, who has repeatedly made statements denying the Nanjing Massacre.

He made another big remark before the game, saying: "I don't think the Nanjing incident happened. Since this view cannot be changed, I will not attend the (closing ceremony) in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. Perhaps because of his "lack of heart", he did not attend the closing ceremony in the end.

Not only that, August 8 this year is the 15th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender, and on the morning of that day, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida offered a sacrificial fee called "jade skewers" to the Yasukuni Shrine. In addition, a number of Japanese politicians, including Sanae Takaichi, minister in charge of economic security, and Koichi Ogiuda, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's political polling committee, also paid homage at the Yasukuni Shrine. On October 78, at the so-called "autumn festival" held at the Yasukuni Shrine, Kishida once again offered sacrifices in the name of the prime minister.

Among the 14 Class-A war criminals enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine are the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, former Japanese Army General Matsui Ishone.

As the commander of the Central China Front of the Japanese invasion of China, Matsui Ishine deliberately connived at the atrocities committed by the troops, and bore unshirkable responsibility for the inhumane Nanjing Massacre. On November 1948, 11, he was sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and on December 12, he was executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.

However, in the face of the right-wing's vain attempt to deny history, there is no shortage of peace-loving people of insight in Japan.

On the eve of the 86th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese citizens' organization "Continuing the Memory of Nanjing" gathered in Osaka to tell this sad past with empirical evidence and call on the Japanese people not to forget the Nanjing Massacre. Previously, many Japanese dignitaries, including former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Toshiki Umibe, also apologized to the Chinese people for the Nanjing Massacre.

Eighty-six years have passed, and if some right-wing politicians in Japan stubbornly go all the way to the dark in their minds about that painful period of history, Japan will surely fall into the abyss. Denying history is not only misleading to the Japanese people, but also an obstacle to global peace.

History brooks no falsification, and in particular, the Japanese side has the responsibility to face up to the past for such a serious crime as the Nanjing Massacre to ensure that such a tragedy will never be repeated. Only by facing history squarely can we heal the wounds of history and lay a solid foundation for the future of Sino-Japanese friendship.