It is December 13, 1937 and the Japanese military enters Nanjingthen the Chinese capital: the massacre of 300 thousand people began in the first weeks of occupation with the rape of over 20 thousand women, children and elderly people, mothers and non-mothers. 87 years have passed since the Asian holocaust which is talked about too little.
Thus began the second Sino-Japanese war and in a few weeks a massacre took place: 300 thousand deaths between December 1937 and January 1938, with rapes, looting and fires. All with the “excuse” of finding and punishing Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians. Even if the deaths are never right, in reality the excuse soon turns out to be a poorly constructed pretext, given that a huge number of children and civilians completely unrelated to the war are barbarically murdered.
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Those weeks were not only a tragedy for humanity: although historians identify the outbreak of the Second World War in the invasion of Poland by the Nazis (1939), in those terrible 1930s there were several hotbeds of tension. The Second Sino-Japanese War, in particular, is now identified as the engine that marks the real beginning of the conflict on a global level.
Perhaps due to a history that is even too Eurocentric, it is less well known that Japanese imperialism had nothing to envy of Hitler’s Third Reich, both in terms of nationalist delusions and atrocities committed in their name. Furthermore, having emerged victorious from the Great War, Japan had been fueling its expansionist plans perhaps even for longer.
The Chinese, like the Jews on this side of the ocean, were considered the inferior Asian race and the Japanese government of the time was intent on taking all of China in three months, in the style of Hitler’s blitzkrieg. And, just as the European holocaust caused an atrocious number of victims (around 6 million), the Asian one was no different, on the contrary: an estimated 14 to 20 million deaths.
The suicide attack on Pearl Harbor at dawn on December 7, 1941, conducted by a fleet of aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States Pacific Fleet, is also Japanese. And the word is Japanese kamikaze returned to the fore in more recent times with international terrorism.
And unfortunately it is Japanese, but this time immediately, the greatest disaster that has ever been conceived and created by man, the atomic bomb. But this is not another story: it is unfortunately that of all of us.
