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    • posted on 2004-10-17 03:02:47 update: The Nanking Atrocities and Kuni ga Moeru http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=5578 The previous article on Kuni Ga Moeru (The Country is Burning) indicates that the author used a photograph that cannot be accurately verified.

Shueisha announced this week that Hiroshi Motomiya's manga, The Country Burns, will have 21 pages edited or removed when it is published in paperback format. The Country Burns was removed for Shueisha's Young Jump anthology following a large number of complaints regarding the depiction of events during the rape of Nanking and the veracity of certain images used in the manga.

  • Comic bows to Japan's nationalists By Colin Joyce in Tokyo (Filed: 12/11/2004)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/12/wcomic12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/12/ixworld.html

A popular Japanese comic announced yesterday that it would censor one of its own stories after nationalist anger about its portrayal of Japanese brutality during the Rape of Nanking.

Young Jump, which sells two million copies a week, halted publication of its long-running story, The Country Burns, in September after being inundated by phone calls and e-mails objecting to the latest episode.

[写真説明: Japanese soldiers bayonet prisoners Japanese soldiers bayonet Chinese prisoners in Nanking]

The magazine ran an apology yesterday for illustrations showing Japanese soldiers bayoneting helpless captives, assaulting women and beheading civilians during the assault on the Chinese city in the 1930s.

The publisher also said it would delete 10 pages and amend another 11 when the story is released in book form. There is no precedent for such self-censorship in Japanese comics, which often have graphic war scenes.

The Country Burns relates the travails of a civil servant during the turbulent 1930s. It is written by the manga artist Hiroshi Motomiya, whose work contains serious social commentary.

Japanese apologists claim that the Rape of Nanking is a fabrication or that the number killed was small and not unusual for wartime.

In October, the Right-wing Sankei newspaper denounced Mr Motomiya's account of "the fictional, so-called Nanking Massacre".

In fact, women, children and civilians were killed in a rampage that lasted for months. Most historians believe between 100,000 and 300,000 were killed.

Mr Motomiya studied contemporary pictures and accounts of the massacre. However, nationalists questioned the veracity of one particular picture he echoed in an attempt to cast doubt on the evidence and imply the massacre never happened.

Similar tactics were used against Iris Chang's 1997 bestseller, The Rape Of Nanking. A Japanese edition was cancelled after threats to the publisher.[*1]

Ms Chang was yesterday reported to have committed suicide in California after battling with depression.

*1:"A Japanese edition was cancelled after threats to the publisher."については 『レイプ・オブ・南京』をめぐる二つのエピソード http://munaguruma.blogs.com/jp/2004/10/post_8.html が詳しい, 右翼の街宣ほか圧力および右翼の圧力による「自粛」は今に始まったことではないが …… , 柏書房なり翻訳者が自粛したわけではない