90 errors in Iris Chang's
"THE RAPE OF NANKING"
Page 21 | Error 1 Basic Books hardback edition, 1997 |
For 250 years Japanese military technology failed to advance beyond the bow and sword. | |
Correct Answer | As soon as rifles were introduced to Tanegashima, Japan produced guns on their own. | ||
after protests by Japanese scholars, Penguin Books paperback edition, 1998 |
For 250 years Japanese military technology largely failed to advance beyond the bow, sword, and musket. | ||
Error 2 Basic Books hardback edition, 1997 |
by dispatching Commander Matthew Perry to the island. | ||
Correct Answer | by dispatching Commodore Matthew Perry to the island | ||
after protests by Japanese scholars, Penguin Books paperback edition, 1998 |
by dispatching Commodore Matthew Perry to the island | ||
Error 3 Basic Books hardback edition, 1997 |
in July 1853, he sent two ships belching black smoke into Tokyo Bay | ||
Correct Answer | Perry and four warships. | ||
after protests by Japanese scholars, Penguin Books paperback edition, 1998 |
In 1853, he sent a flotilla of ships belching black smoke into Tokyo Bay | ||
Error 4 Basic Books hardback edition, 1997 |
Perry strode through the capital of the Shogun | ||
Correct Answer | Perry marched into Kurihama,Yokosuka.capital was Edo, present-day Tokyo | ||
Penguin Books paperback edition,1998 | unchanged | ||
Error 5 | With this single visit,Perry not only forced the Tokugawa to sign treaties with the United States | ||
Correct Answer | In his second visit the following year Perry not only forced the Tokugawa to sign treaties with the United States ... | ||
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Error 6 | They elevated the sun cult of Shinto to a state religion | |
Correct Answer | Shinto is not state religion. | ||
Error 7 | the new imperial government adopted the samurai ethic of bushido as the moral code for all citizens. | ||
Correct Answer | What Iris Chang implies is obscure | ||
Page 27 | Error 8 | If expansion westword to the Pacific Ocean was the manifest destiny of the nineteenth-century United States, then China was twentieth-century Japan's manifest destiny. | |
Correct Answer | No such fact. | ||
Error 9 Basic Books hardback edition, 1997 |
Okawa shumei, a number of the army general staff, | ||
Correct Answer | No such fact. | ||
Penguin Books paperback edition,1998 | Okawa Shumei, a national activist | ||
Page 28 | Error 10 | During the 1920s the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek successfully fought the warlords of northern China to unify the country | |
Correct Answer | China in those days was split. | ||
Page 29 | Error 11 | To prepare for the inevitable war with China, ...... | |
Correct Answer | Japan did not prepare for any war with China. | ||
Page 32 | Error 12 | His reading material was carefully censored, ..... | |
Correct Answer | No censorship was ever enforsed. | ||
page 33 | Error 13 | Japanese troops advanced upon the Chinese fort of Wanping near the bridge and demanded that its gates be opend so that they could search for the soldier. | |
Correct Answer | The missing japanese soldier a secene class private Shimura returned to this unit around 23:00 on July 7, | ||
Error 14 | That August, while attempting to land thirty-five thousand fresh troops on the docks of Shanghai, ..... | ||
Correct Answer | On August 23, | ||
Error 15 | several hundred men, including a cousin of the Empress Nagako. | ||
Correct Answer | A sun of Prince Tushino-miyu, a first Austin of the Empress. | ||