Japanese people skim over the "Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking"
Japanese edition in a bookshop in Tokyo Dec. 15, 2007. The book
written by Chinese-American writer Iris Chang was originally
published in English. It explored one of the darkest episodes of
history in 1937 when Japanese troops occupied Nanjing, the then
capital of China in Jiangsu Province. An estimated 300,000 Chinese
or more were killed while one-third of the houses in the city were
burned and more than 20,000 women raped.
(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2007)
