STORY: Documentary preview in Japan’s Kobe commemorates Nanjing Massacre
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 10, 2024
DATELINE: Dec. 13, 2024
LENGTH: 0:01:38
LOCATION: KOBE, Japan
CATEGORY: SOCIETYSHOTLIST:
1. numerous of the documentary’s preview screening
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIN BOYAO, Protagonist of the documentary
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): NAOKO KATSUBE, Local educator
4. numerous of the documentary’s preview screeningSTORYLINE:”The Nanjing Massacre is an eternal scar for the Chinese people. We hope our Japanese friends and people around the world can really know about the tragedy,” Lin Boyao, the protagonist of a documentary not too long ago previewed in Japan’s Kobe stated on the screening.
The documentary, which focuses on Lin, an abroad Chinese in Japan, chronicled his life and efforts to assemble proof of the Nanjing Massacre and his pursuit of compensation for Chinese compelled laborers throughout World War II.
Organized by the Kobe-Nanjing Heart-to-Heart Association, the preview screening came about on Tuesday on the Kobe Student Youth Center.
Although the documentary continues to be a piece in progress, the organizers expedited the screening forward of China’s nationwide memorial day on Dec. 13, offering a chance for viewers to have interaction with Lin’s story and mirror on the historic tragedies.
SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIN BOYAO, Protagonist of the documentary
“The Nanjing Massacre is an eternal scar for the Chinese people. We should not forget that history. We hope our Japanese friends and people around the world can really know about the tragedy. The Nanjing Massacre is a lesson for humanity. Such a catastrophe must never happen again.”Established in 1997, the affiliation has devoted itself to preserving historic reminiscence, organizing over 20 journeys to Nanjing for commemorative occasions and internet hosting survivors of the bloodbath for testimony periods in Japan.The screening additionally highlighted issues over historic revisionism in Japan, with some attendees expressing apprehension concerning the diminishing protection of wartime atrocities in Japanese instructional supplies.An area educator, Naoko Katsube, recalled that 15 to 16 years in the past, her college curriculum included excerpts from Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38, a useful historic report based mostly on an eyewitness account of the bloodbath.
However, these supplies are now not taught, reflecting the Japanese schooling system’s avoidance of historic truths, a pattern that deeply troubles her. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): NAOKO KATSUBE, Local educator
“About 15 to 16 years ago, the school curriculum included excerpts from Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38. But these materials are no longer taught. I think that in Japan, the perception of history is becoming quite critical to convey.”
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kobe, Japan.
(XHTV)