Yesterday, published in the Sankei Shimbun, For US missionary John McGee who shot 16 mm film movie as registered as a memory heritage, it explained that he recorded the evidence of war crimes in Japan by risk, a short video that seemed to be related was shown.
About the John McGee in the article, almost all Japanese citizens do not know.
The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia about him.
John Gillespie Magee, (1884 - 1956) is an American pastor of Anglicanism in the United States. I wrote testimony about the Nanjing case (Nanjing massacre) by the Japanese army in a Tokyo trial. The recorded image of the case (Maggie Film) is applied by the Chinese government to memory of the world, and it was registered in 2015.
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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. After learning at Yale University, he moved to a seminary in Massachusetts State. From 1912 to 1940, he worked as a missionary of the Anglicanism mission team in the United States, hosted a church in Nanjing Xiaguan District and conducted Christianity dissemination and medical activities.
During the Nanking Occupation period by the Japanese Army, he served as Nanjing International Red Cross Committee Chairperson and Nanjing Safety Zone International Committee Committee, borrowing foreign mansions to accommodate refugees. While recording and testifying about the Nanjing incident by the Japanese army, it also evaluates and records the conscientious behavior of Japanese soldiers.
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Maggie testimony at the Tokyo Trial
Eyewitness testimony
Regarding eyewitness testimonials other than listening, Brookes' defense counselor interrogated the opposition to "how much did you see the current criminal of misconduct or acts of illegal acts that were talked about now", Maggie "I think it is clearly mentioned in my testimony, but I just witnessed myself with only one incident." According to the sightings, On 17th December 1937, Maggie witnessed the death of one Chinese from the balcony of the house. When the Japanese soldiers caught the Chinese, the Chinese ran away and the Japanese soldiers shot and shot it.
Meanwhile, in the diary of Maggie Pastor, "It is written that we are not really seeing the murder scene."
Eyewitness testimony
Brooks defense counsel also asked, "Have you seen the current offense of rape, if so, how many are it?"
Maggie said, "I saw that one man was actually raping, and the other two men were lying on a bed with a girl, but the father it is said that it was already raping before he goes to that place."
Controversy over the evaluation of Maggie testimony
Mori Omigaku, who served as Captain of the Fukuchiyama Regiment (Infantry Regiment 20th Regiment) at the time of the Nanjing strategy war, and was in charge of guarding Nanking and its surroundings, said, "Although Maggie testified in detail for two days as a prosecutor's witness, but a lawyer named Brooke queries with an opposite question, all that testified over two days was a lie, after all, it turned out that there was only one theft and a woman assault respectively, and it became a laugh in the courtroom”
Mr. Masaaki Tanaka said that Maggie witnessed directly three cases of murder, rape, and theft of a suspicious person, all afterwards according to hearing, rumors, speculation.
According to Wtanabe Shoichi, the murderer witnessed by Maggie is a Japanese soldier who was guarding Nanjing city who shot when escaping when asking someone to Chinese asked, "Where is this massacre is it?” Watanabe also said, "Mr. Ishiro Matsui's defense counsel Brooks asked the pastor of Maggi, who was the source of the massacres myth, in an opposition interrogation, and only one person actually killed by a Japanese soldier actually Matsui was sentenced to death in a Tokyo Trial where originally it was an international political trial, but thanks to Brooks' defense counselor, we informed the actual state of the massacre myth I can do something to ask even today.”
Watanabe also stated that "every rumor of this genocide and the occurrence of the literature have converged to only one place. It is a hoax of one American pastor McGee, and furthermore, back to its hoax Even though I looked it up, I could not find anything that seemed to be true anywhere. In short, the Japanese have been stamped by a single irresponsible foreigner's hoax that the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Shina people was massacred. "
Fujioka Nobukatsu also makes Maggie testimony almost based on the hearing.
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