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Honda Katsuichi. The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. Edited by Frank Gibney. Translated by Karen Sandness. (A Pacific Basin Institute Book; An East Gate Book.) Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. 1999. Pp. xxvii, 367. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.

Honda Katsuichi is an experienced reporter for Japan's Asahi shinbun. Thirty years ago, he was especially well known for his frontline coverage, from both sides, of the Vietnam War. In the preface to this book, he writes that he was appalled at the horrors of warfare visited upon the common people of Vietnam, and this raised questions in his mind about how Japan's Imperial Army had behaved toward the common people of China during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. As a consequence, in 1971, thirty-four years after the events, Honda traveled to China to retrace the route taken by the Imperial Army through cities and villages from the time the fighting broke out in Shanghai in the summer of 1937 until the defenseless Nationalist capital at Nanking (now rendered as Nanjing) was sacked in the second week of December 1937. The title is therefore somewhat misleading: about half of the book is devoted to events that occurred before Nanjing. 1

The results of Honda's painstaking investigations were printed in serial form by the Asahi papers in 1971 and then gathered together in book form as Chgoku no tabi [Journey to China], which was published in 1972. This book is mainly a translation of the Japanese-language volume. Somewhat confusingly, however, there are appended chapters that are translations of another book by Honda and that reflect journeys to China and interviews conducted in the 1980s. . . .

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