Japanese and English Language Bibliography of Nanking Studies

compiled by T. M. Kelly

Reader beware: the books in the list compiled here do not have a unified political agenda. The inclusion of any book should not be construed as an endorsement of any sort whatsoever on the part of the compiler. There is only one criterion for inclusion here: a copy of the book must be in my personal library.

last updated December 18, 2000

Books in Japanese (in alphabetical order by author)

Fuji Nobuo. "Nankin daigyakusatsu" wa kôshite tsukurareta. (How the "Nanking Massacre" Was Contrived). Tendensha, April 29, 1995.

Fujiwara Akira, editor. Nankin jiken wo dô miru ka (How Should We View the Nanking Incident?). Aoki Shoten, July 25, 1998.

Hata Ikuhiko. Nankin jiken (The Nanking Incident). Chûo Kôronsha, February 25, 1986.

Higashinakano Osamichi. "Nankin gyakusatsu" no tettei kenshô (Thorough Verification of the "Nanking Massacre"). Tendensha, August 15, 1998.

Higashinakano Shûdô and Fujioka Nobukatsu. "Za repu obu Nankin" no kenkyû (The Rape of Nanking [by Iris Chang] Examined). Shôtensha, September 10, 1999.

Honda Katsuichi. Chûgoku no tabi (Travels in China). Asahi Shimbunsha, December 20, 1981.

Honda Katsuichi. Nankin e no michi (The Road to Nanking). Asahi Shimbunsha, December 4, 1989.

Hora Tomio, Fujiwara Akira, Honda Katsuichi, editors. Nankin daigakusatsu no kenkyû (Studies on the Great Nanking Massacre). Banseisha, May 1, 1992.

Hora Tomio. Nankin jiken (The Nanking Incident). Shinjinbutsu Ôraisha, April 25, 1972.

Kasahara Tokushi. Nankin jiken (The Nanking Incident). Iwanami Shoten, November 20, 1997.

Kasahara Tokushi. Nankin jiken: sankô sakusen: mirai ni ikasu sensô kioku (The Three-pronged Strategy of the Nanking Incident: Making the Memories of War Serve the Future). Ôtsuki Shoten, August 24, 1999.

Matsumura Toshio. "Nankin gyakusatsu" e no daigimon (Major Questions for the "Nanking Massacre"). Tendensha, December 13, 1998.

Nankin Jiken Chôsa Kenkyûkai, editor. Nankin daigyakusatsu hiteiron 13 no uso ("Thirteen Lies" by the Deniers of the Nanking Massacre). Kashiwa Shobô, November 25, 1999.

Okumiya Masatake. Watashi no mita Nankin jiken: Nihonjin to shite ika ni kangaeru beki ka (My View of the Nanking Incident: How Should We as Japanese Consider It?). PHP Kenkyûjo, September 4, 1997.

Ôi Mitsuru. Shikumareta "Nankin daigyakusatsu": Kôryaku sakusen no zenbô to masukomi hôdô no kowasa (The "Great Nanking Massacre" Fabrication: The Entire Attack Operation and the Frightening Nature of Media Reporting). Tendensha, December 12, 1995.

Sone Kazuo. Nankin gyakusatsu to sensô (The Nanking Massacre and War). Tairyûsha, 1988.

Suzuki Akira. Shin "Nankin daigyakusatsu" no maboroshi. (The New "Nanking Massacre" Illusion). Asuka Shinsha, June 3, 1999.

Takemoto Tadao, Ôhara Yasuo, et.al.. Saiban "Nankin daigyakusatsu" — Sekai ni uttaeru Nihon no enzai. (The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's Rebuttal to China's Forged Claims). Meiseisha, 2000.

Books in English (in alphabetical order by author)

Bergamini, David. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy. [see, Chapter 1 The Rape of Nanking]

Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII. Basic Books, 1997.

Fogel, Joshua A., editor. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography. University of California Press, 2000.

Honda Katsuichi. The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. Edited by Frank Gibney. Translated by Karen Sandness. M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Hu Hua-ling. American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Rabe, John. Translated by John E. Woods The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe [Der gute Deutsche von Nanking]. Vintage Books, 2000 (Adolf A. Knopf, Inc., 1998).

Takemoto Tadao, Ôhara Yasuo, et.al.. The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's Rebuttal to China's Forged Claims. (Saiban "Nankin daigyakusatsu" — Sekai ni uttaeru Nihon no enzai). Translated by J.M. Fukuda. Meiseisha, 2000.

Xu Zhigeng. Lest We Forget: Nanjing Massacre, 1937. Chinese Literature Press,

Yin, James and Shi Young. The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs, 2nd Edition. Innovative Publishing Group, Inc., 1997.

Yamamoto Masahiro. Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity. Praeger Publishers, 2000.

Related Books in English (in alphabetical order by author)

Dower, John W.. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. W.W. Norton&Company, 1999. National Book Award Winner (Non-fiction 1999)

Harris, Sheldon H.. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up [see, Chapter 8 Nanking's BW Death Factory]. Routledge, 1994.

Hicks George. The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutual Regime of Enforce Prostitution in the Second World War. W.W. Norton&Company, 1997 (hardback 1995).

Tanaka Yuki. Hidden Horrors : Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Transitions: Asia and Asian America). Westview Press, 1998.