The Making of "The Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute) - Hardcover

Yoshida does the field a servuce in bringing myriad insights together in one manuscript... he succeeds in opening windows on the psychologies behind all positions in the debates, and in highly readable prose. He also offers extensive background that ultimately rewards the diligent reader with a much richer understanding of the making of Nanjing. (James Orr, Pacific Affairs)

[a] superb study ... One only wishes there were more books such as this to help us navigate the shoals of Asia's complicated war legacy. (Far Eastern Economic Review)

This study examines how the views of the so-called Rape of Nanking, or the Nanking Massacre, have evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the United States from 1937 to the present.