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It hasn't been forgotten over here in Asia. I think to suggest that it's been forgotten is a bit myopic.
I think it's more realistic to suggest that the West never really cared all that much about what the Japanese were up to beyond how it effected them. Why would they?
If there was a British, French or American base in Nanjing I am sure we would be well-read on this subject in the West. Here in Asia, where the Japanese invasion was something tangible, they don't forget.
I have co-workers who lived through the Japanese occupation, had parents shot by the Japanese secret police, etc. Back in Canada and the rest of the western world, this is just not as prevalent as say, survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
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