This year marks the 91st anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, also known as the September 18 Incident. It can be said that September 18 was the real starting point of the Sino-Japanese War. From this perspective, the September 18 Incident in China is very similar to the Pearl Harbor Attack in the Pacific War. The North Camp of the Northeastern Army was bombed and damaged, and the battleships in the Hawaiian harbor sank to the bottom of the bay. Yet for a long time, the Western world's record of the crimes committed by Japan's militarists was much less than that of Hitler's atrocities, which were widely known. Why has this history of resistance, which is closely related to the world anti-Fascist War, not been given the status and evaluation it deserves on a wider scale?

Guest: Professor Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, East Asia analyst, Temple University

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00:00 Intro
00:29 Story of Evan Kail’s video
02:09 How do people in the West perceive Japan's invasion of China?
03:08 How did the invasion start?
05:03 What do people understand
about September 18 Incident outside Asia?
06:21 China is not the only victim
06:57 Brutality of Unit 731
07:38 Few Japanese know the history
08:55 Do Japanese textbooks properly reflect Japan's wartime acts?
10:40 Japan disorders history worldwide
11:20 Why Japan reluctantly faces its history?
12:42 Meaning for Japanese leaders to visit shrine
13:46 Treaty of San Francisco
14:47 The suicide of Iris Chang
16:44 Why are many outside Asia unaware of the history?
18:05 September 18 Incident