Analyzing the “Photographic Evidence” of the Nanking Massacre

Nanking Campaign 1937](p.173) as a “coolie general,” was arrested at his hideout in thesafety zone, and was used as a laborer for a while after his capture. Later, he became amilitary commander of the government of Wang Zhaoming, which was established onMarch 30, 1940.Liu Qixiong, commander of theChinese 261st Brigade, of the 87thDivision, who became a POW at thebattle of Nanking.” Asahi-banshina-jihen gahō, no. 14, 1 January1938, p. 23.Visit to a POW camp in Nanking. POWs playing music with hand-made instruments.”Mainichi-ban shina jihen gahō, no. 59, 20 May 1939, p. 20.There are some source materials that mention how these prisoners were treated atPOW camps. Someone took a photograph that showed Chinese POWs playing musicalinstruments in a mini concert within a camp. Hayashi Fumiko, a Japanese femalenovelist who visited such a POW camp, drew a scene of an ex-pilot POW reading a bookin her Kitagishi Butai [Kitagishi Unit] (p.113). One of the photos printed on Mainichi32