Japan’s Atrocities
* Your March 1 editorial, “Japan’s Historical Amnesia,” rekindled my memory of an incident in 1937 when the Japanese 6th Division Army occupied Nanking and slaughtered 300,000 Chinese by the order of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, Emperor Hirohito’s uncle. From 1937 to 1945, the Japanese Army killed around 19 million Chinese. Prince Yasuhiko was never prosecuted as a war criminal because of the immunity granted to the royal family by the United States.
Germany is still compensating the victims of the Holocaust. However, not a cent was paid to the victims of Nanking. To make sure these injustices never happen again is the challenge of our times.
VICTOR CHUN
West Los Angeles
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