Analyzing the “Photographic Evidence” of the Nanking Massacre

with a headline “Two Second lieutenants in Competition.” The article quoted Jiang Genfuof Nanking as saying that this story was also well known in Japan because of mediacoverage. Honda thus introduced this episode as a story recounted by a Chinese national.This fact means that the content of the Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper article series wasfamiliar also to the population in China. Although Honda did not include in his journalarticle Photo A, which was printed on the Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper article, he did use itin his Chūgoku no tabi and Chūgoku no nihon-gun, which were published in March andJuly of the following year, respectively.Photo BThe will written by Noda Tsuyoshi. Sankei Newspaper, 18 June 2001.A major problem in Honda’s use of the Tokyo Nichinichi Newspaper article serieswas the lack of his text critique. Authors Suzuki Akira and Yamamoto Shichiheidiscussed the fictional elements in the articles academically in their respective publicationslike Nankin daigyakusatsu no maboroshi [Illusion of the Rape of Nanking] and Watashi nonaka no nihon-gun [Japanese army within myself]. Another source worth quoting here isa will letter written by Noda Tsuyoshi, one of these second lieutenants. His sister NodaMasa discovered this letter in the spring of 2001 at the bottom of a box belonging to her,205