-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- History Is Bunk Tokyo Publisher Ditches Publication of Rape of Nanjing No arguments, please TOKYO, Feb. 19, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) A Tokyo publisher has shelved plans to launch the Japanese version of an international bestseller on Japan's wartime atrocities in Nanjing, a company official said Friday. Campaign Kashiwa Shobo Publishing Co. was to release the Japanese translation of "The Rape of Nanjing" by Chinese-American author Iris Chang in late February but "decided to put off the plan," the official said. She declined to give any reason. News reports said the publisher postponed the release indefinitely because talks with the author on how to issue the Japanese version amid a backlash from right-wingers had become bogged down. The book, which sold 500,000 copies in the United States, has inflamed revisionists here who say they can find no evidence of a massacre of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops in December 1937 in Nanjing. China says 300,000 civilians were massacred when Japanese troops embarked on an orgy of destruction, pillage, rape and murder after taking Nanjing. Allied trials of Japanese war criminals documented 140,000 victims. Some Japanese publications questioned the validity of more than 10 pictures used in the book last year and the publisher received threatening telephone calls and letters, the Asahi Shimbun said. The publisher early this month received a letter from a man who claimed to be a rightist saying: "I will take some action if you publish the book." Chang agreed to correct some 10 mistakes in the book, including wrong names, but turned down Kashiwa Shobo's proposal for the Japanese version to include notes and comments, the newspaper said. The firm also sought simultaneously to issue a separate book compiled from Japanese studies on the incident and monthly magazine articles critical of Chang's work. It also wanted to translate the critique into English. Inside China, Feb. 20, 1999 Pre-Impeachment Rape Clinton Faces New Sex Allegations Rape is only sex A NEW wave of sexual scandal threatens to overwhelm the White House this week following allegations that President Clinton raped an Arkansas businesswoman, together with the most revealing account yet of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Miss Lewinsky was believed to be giving her first television interview on her affair with Mr Clinton to the reporter Barbara Walters yesterday. It is to be broadcast shortly to coincide with the publication of Miss Lewinsky's biography, written with the British writer Andrew Morton. Miss Walters is understood to be negotiating with Juanita Broaddrick, 55, who is behind the most serious sexual allegation levelled at Mr Clinton in the past year. She claims that Mr Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978 when he was the attorney general for Arkansas. She described the alleged rape in the Washington Post as "a horrible, horrible experience". Mrs Broaddrick claims that the force of Mr Clinton's assault left her with badly bruised and swollen lips. She said: "The last thing he said to me was, 'You better get some ice for that'. And he put on his sunglasses and walked out the door." The White House has denied the rape allegations. The President's lawyer David Kendall described them as "absolutely false". Mrs Broaddrick said that her decision to break her silence after 20 years was because of a recent newspaper claim that Mr Clinton had bought her husband's silence. The London Telegraph, Feb. 21, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
