Uh, so one story with a few lies wipes out a whole incident (as the Japanese like to refer to something). Let me tell you a story. I was debating a related issue concerning the Yasukuni Shrine matter on another forum, and the moderator (a self proclaimed right winger) shunted it off to a section that only senior members can read (of course, in his eyes its not censorship since 'some' people can read it).
So, of course, being the debative cuss that I am, I opened a thread discussing Japanese textbooks, and we end up talking about the Nanjing incident, which had been previously glossed over in the same aforementiond forum, in another thread some 3 years ago. The moderator trots out some support, even claiming about the modernizing affect, and then gets upset that I can't read Japanese articles that he posts links to. Mind you, this is in an English language forum about Japan. Then to make matters worse, he attempts to defend what and who the 731 unit tortured by informing me he spoke to one of the 'doctors' who worked in the unit, who told him that only prisoners were 'operated on'. And all this from a moderator who is a doctor today.
So let's follow his arguement, I should believe his facts because they are in Japanese for an English language forum, he talked to one of the torturers (who we should definately trust) and he doesn't want to talk about this anymore (wonder why with logic like this?).
Why does this illogical approach sound familar now?