The Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 complicating the picture edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index.

Introduction -- The messiness of historical reality / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi -- The Nanking atrocity: an interpretive overview / Fujiwara Akira -- Section One: War crimes and doubts -- Massacres outside Nanking City / Kasahara Tokushi -- Massacres near Mufushan / Ono Kenji -- Part of the numbers issue: demography and civilian victims / David Askew -- The Nanking 100-man killing contest debate, 1971-75 / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi -- Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of Nanking: the Tokyo judgment and the guilt of history / Timothy Brook -- Section Two: Aggressors and collaborators -- Letters from a reserve officer conscripted to Nanking / Amano Saburô -- Chinese collaboration in Nanking / Timothy Brook -- Westerners in occupied Nanking: December 1937 to February 1938 / David Askew -- Wartime accounts of the Nanking atrocity / Takashi Yoshida -- Section Three: Another denied Holocaust? -- The Nanking atrocity and Chinese historical memory / Joshua A. Fogel -- A tale of two atrocities: critical appraisal of American historiography / Masahiro Yamamoto -- Higashinakano Osamichi: the last word in denial / Kasahara Tokushi -- Nanking: denial and atonement in contemporary Japan / Kimura Takuji -- Postscript -- Leftover problems / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.