Just to bring this thread back up to the top.
I don't think you are arguing with any of us. You are just putting forth one point of view like any of us.
That is the whole point of keep talking about it until everyone in the world know what happened. And then the Japanese government/people will have no choice but to acknowledge it and put it in their curriculum. I don't believe that it will never happen, I believe if we all keep at it (without fanning hatred or guilt), it will happen one day.

 

It seems most every group of people have sufferred tremendous loss and tragedy in their own history. When youget into one, you mount the slippery slope to every casualty known to man (or Western history texts). But, I understand the anger over the Nanking incident. It is fairly recent, and no formal apologies have been made.

Controversial, IMO, I think the Japanese (politicians, nationalists) have an inferiority complex regarding their primitive and muddy history. That's why they found a need to plunder the "middle kingdom" and enslave many from other countries who were previously much more developed in terms of a social state and political organization. Just a year ago or so, there was a world renowned Japanese anthropologist who was caught planting artifacts, to bolster his argument that Japanese history goes back several thousand years.

It is that kind of fear and insecurity that ends in war, that is, IMO.

Rodney King said it, "Can't we all just get along?"

 

http://web.missouri.edu/~jschool/nanking/