Japan Times
READERS IN COUNCIL
March 1, 2000
In his Feb.7 article, "The Nanjing number game," Gregory Clark gets all worked up and writes, "If I were a Chinese I would be very angry. Probably even angrier than Iris Chang."
It is quite puzzling that Clark should be so preoccupied with Japanese rightwing loonies who don't quite have a grasp on history and who suffer from amnesia. He should be aware that a large number of educated Japanese who are not of the lunatic fringe know better and are aware of the burdens of history.
If Clark is in such a crusading mood for justice, perhaps he should also point his guns at the mainstream elements of British and American society, which to this day have never apologized for past unparalleled acts of savage butchery done to the natives of Australia, Africa, and America, as well as for the enslavement of whole countries and peoples around the world.
Perhaps, since these events happened so long ago, it is possible that Clark has forgotten about such past barbaric acts of Anglo-Saxon imperialism done in the name of gold, God, and the glory of Western civilization.
KO UNOKI
Fujisawa, Kanagawa
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