Doctored Photos

"We all know that words can deceive, but somehow, we have the tendency to believe that photographs speak the truth. However, this innocent sentiment has been taken advantage of time and again.

Ever since improved technology made it possible to do so, photographs have been used by propagandists to accomplish their political purposes."

...Fujioka Nobukatsu, from lecture given at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Sept. 17, 1999

The following information has been abridged from Reipu obu Nankin no Kenkyu (The Study of the Rape of Nanking) , co-published by Fujioka Nobukatsu and Higashinakano Shudo from Shodensha in Sept. 1999. (available in Japanese only)

Photo 1: "Japanese...rounded up thousands of women. Many of them were gang raped or forced into military prostitutions"

Photo 2: "Arson destroyed one-third of Nanking during the massacre. ..Japanese troops set fire to a house in the suburbs"

Photo 3: "Corpses of Nanking citizens were dragged to the banks of the Yangtze and thrown into the river"

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