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Similar to Yoshida Seiji in the problem of comfort women, multiplying by the tide after the war、or under the maneuvering of China etc.
A former soldier who was involved in forging the Nanjing massacre,
I knew for the first time that it existed after all.
Azuma Shiro (April 27, 1912 - January 3, 2006) is a Japanese soldier (convener), writer, social activist.
Kyoto No. 16 division, Fukuchiyama No. 20 regiment senior soldier participated in the Nanjing strategy game, accusing the Nanking Massacre (Nanjing Incident) in his book 'My Nanjing Platoon.'
He also continued apology in China, the United States and others.About the description of the diary became a former superior officer and defamation trial, the Supreme Court judged that the description of the Azuma diary had no objective evidence, and indemnity was ordered [1] [2].
Omission
Every time he visited China, Azuma received a passionate welcome in every place as a hero [19]
Omission
Azuma testimony stated in the textbook
Japan: Hitotsubashi Publishing 'World History B'
In 1993, Kasahara Tokushi cited in the textbook 'World History B' (Hitotsubashi Publishing), from Azuma Shiro's note, it killed Buraku peasants because of the sleep of the soldier.
'Facing the camp ...I slept with killing farmers. ... Because they may be attacking, kill them.' · · · 'One Japanese soldier writes in the diary'
- Kasahara Tokushi, Hitotsubashi Publishing 'World History B' (1993 certification)
Uesugi Chitoshi and Sankei Shimbun Azuma diary was a false story (fiction) and it was suspicious material, so it was inappropriate to use in textbooks [30]. Itakura Yoshiaki protested the quotation from a book pending in the Azuma trial with a problem, and the publisher replaced the Nakashima Kesago division commander diary [6].
As a teaching material in California public high school
In the United States in 2015, Azuma testimony was used as a teaching material in a class of world history of public high school in California state [16]. The teaching material is "The Century / America's Time" of the cable television station history channel which was televised all over the United States since 1999, and in that program Azuma is in Chinese woman at the time of war, they Azuma said "raped group rape with five people, after rape, they burned with a fire," [16].
Defamation trial
A senior officer of the former Infantry 20th Legion 3rd Squadron No. 1 Captain who was testified that he had killed Chinese people in the mail bag in Azuma's book was Defamation on April 15, 1993,
He sued the Tokyo district court against Azuma Shiro, Shimozato Masaki, Aoki Bookstore [31] [6].
The trial is also called the Azuma trial [24] [32].
The meeting which corrects the figment of the Nankin massacre
Plaintiffs also consulted with Yoshiaki Itakura, placing the plaintiff 's agent Katsuhiko Takaike's lawyer office "The meeting which corrects the figment of the Nankin massacre" [6]. Itakura, as a breakthrough in this case, stated that he wanted to prove the falsehood of the atrocities of the infantry 20th Fleet and restore honor and further clarify the fiction of the so-called "Nanjing Massacre" [33] [6].
Judgment content
Tokyo District Court Decision
In April 1996, the Tokyo District Court 1 trial decision accredited the diary's account as fictitious and ordered Azuma and others three to pay 500,000 yen [34] [6]. Defendant appealed.
1 In the judgment decision, the Nanjing case was followed by the Eemon Economist book judgment that it is "a fact that is largely undeniable" that "a Chinese who was a non-combatant numerous prisoners and warriors was murdered by Japanese soldiers" Regarding the mail bag case, it should be said that it is unnatural, there is no objective evidence, it is judged that "it is dangerous to the performer and not feasible," which is insufficient to admit it as a fact [6].
The plaintiff testified in the court that 'I have never killed a person in China, I have never raped, I have never seen a loot or a dead body' [6].
Azuma defense team formed 'Association supporting Shiro Azuma's Nanjing trial' to prove that it is not defamatory, in order to demonstrate that mailbox cases are not unnatural, grenade recreation experiments in Nanjing and underwater they carried experiments to measure the depth of sinking people in bags , but these experimental results and field surveys were also denied by judgment [6] [35].
High Court (appeal trial) ruling
The first instance of the appeal trial started on September 26, 1996, and on December 22, 1998, the Tokyo District Court's 7th Civil Affairs Division (Chief Justice Okuyama Koetsu, Judge / Masami Sugiyama, Yoichi Sato) dismissed the appeal A judgment was given [36] [37].
In the part related to Nanjing war, the actual thing of "diary" was not submitted
In the appeal trial, the actual thing of "diary" that Azuma wrote before the war was submitted to the court but in the part related to Nanjing war, the actual thing of "diary" was not submitted. Azuma insisted that that part of the "diary" was written in "pocket notebook" at that time and that it was copied two or three years later, but that "flash notebook" was not submitted to the courtroom [39]. In addition, Azuma claimed that it was not returned when lent to an exhibition, but that claim was denied by the managers of the exhibition [40].
Azuma argued that the diary was from 1940 to March 1944 [41]., In the ruling, it was doubt whether the Azuma diary was written before the war, and it was possible that it was added after after The war, judging that "Azuma's statements can not be adopted entirely" [42]., the High Court judged that "a pocket notebook or the like, which is original material for March before 1938 (Showa era 13), does not exist "[43]," The appellant Azuma reproduces and prints concrete facts The reason why he could not do it was was we are to guess that Azuma had not witnessed the act, in other words, that the act was not being executed "[6 There is no evidence to support the main part and it can not be accepted as truth "[16].
Omission
In cases where the media or critic who reveal the delinquency of the former Japanese army
After the high court ruling
Katsuhiko Takaike, lawyer of plaintiffs, decided that Azuma's book itself is not credible by this ruling (omission) for some time, in cases where the media or critic who reveal the delinquency of the former Japanese army, only unilateral coverage to accusers, not verifying the authenticity of it,
Although the whistleblower asserts as an article, this case is also an example of this,
Azuma diary was advertised extensively, in many newspapers and TVs there was little interview for the plaintiffs during litigation, as a fair request for interviews from both parties.
Beijing Central Television, Jiangsu Television, Nanjing TV, Hong Kong TV coverage from the Chinese side covered the press of the High Court ruling on December 22, 1998 [45]. The media of China was frightened by the fact that the judge appeared in 13 In addition, at the time of the plaintiffs' side press conference, from the Chinese reporters against the act "Nanjing massacre fabrication trial victory "from the Chinese reporters" Since this curtain makes a deep scratch on the hearts of many Chinese people, please remove it "it was an insult against him," but it was not removed [10].
