Iris Chang was a historian who wrote “The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II”
She was attacked (in the way academics attack each other) for her work, even though she told the truth about what happened. People tried to question her methodology. She would later publicly confront the Japanese ambassador to the US because of Japan’s vague apology for Nanking.
She slipped into a deep depression while researching the Bataan Death March. Eventually she committed suicide, probably as a result of her meds and her depression. But remember a chinese-american writer was hounded for telling the truth about nanking, but not in a polite or even-handed way
There is some speculation that she was being targeted by a three letter agency, and was either murdered or took her own life because of that. Her mother has denied this, saying she was becoming more paranoid as her depression worsened. I think it’s not a stretch at all to believe she may have been followed by feds or even Japanese ultranationalists.
followed by feds possibly…I do think the criticism she received, plus what sounds like too many meds and actual mental health problems just became too much for her
That information actually just completely ruined my day
I’m sorry
The Japanese are very fond of claiming that this never happened by claiming without proof that the population of Nanking was somehow under 100,000 or some shit like that
People on internet who deny this are monsters on the same level as Imperial Japan…
Denial is bad yes…
But don’t forget there are people who celebrate it. Same with the holocaust.
this happened in japan yesterday. https://twitter.com/rihitophysicist/status/1602997697673596929?s=46&t=nabJY9hIfnb0n5a1UZFPbQ
