ABSTRACT
The controversies that continue to swirl around the Nanjing Massacre, the military comfort women, Unit 731, and other Japanese military atrocities rooted in colonialism and the Asia-Pacific War are critical not only to understanding the dynamics of war, peace, and terror in the long twentieth century. They are also vital for understanding war memory and denial, with implications for peace and regional accommodation across the Asia-Pacific region and the US-Japan relationship.1
