<Interview with Brian Mark Rigg, author of “Japan’s Holocaust. He offered a scathing rebuttal to Yoshiko Sakurai, who criticized the book’s content.
On March 19, 2024, a very controversial book was published in the United States. The title of the book is also provocative: “Japan’s Holocaust: A History of Mass Murder and Rape by the Japanese Empire during World War II. Video] “What Japan was doing was not like the Nazis, just genocide”… Watch the full interview with the author of “Japan’s Holocaust” The book was criticized even before its publication. On December 29, 2023, after the book’s publication was announced, well-known Japanese journalist Yoshiko Sakurai posted the following on X “A book is due to be published in March that tells the outrageous lie that Japan murdered 30 million people until World War II. Japan’s Holocaust’, the Nazi genocide of the Jews was 6 million, 30 million is 5 times more. This is so much bullshit. The Japanese government and all Japanese should thoroughly refute it.” The book was written by American Brian Mark Rigg. He received his B.A. in history from the prestigious Yale University in the U.S. and his M.A. in 1997 and Ph. He is a former military officer who has served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. A past researcher who has written on Nazi Germany, his previous book, Flamethrower: Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient U.S. Marine Woody Williams’ Controversial Honor Award, the Japanese Holocaust, and the War in the Pacific, published in 2020, summarizes the Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima. ■ “He is a bigot who denies the sacrifices of the Japanese Empire.” The author had an early interest in this book. When this book is published in Japan, will it cause a firestorm, or is it a history book that will provoke a new debate in Japan? To find out, we interviewed the book’s publisher, Mr. Rigg. The full interview will be shown in the video, but I would like to introduce some parts of it. The author asked Mr. Rigg if he thought that the Japanese conservative class would not remain silent. When he learned about Sakurai’s “bullshit” post, Rigg responded, “Let me be clear. Let me be clear: This Sakurai person is an idiot. If she attended the University of Hawaii, I suggest she go to the National Archives in Washington D.C. and see the evidence, since she speaks English.” He also called Sakurai “a bigot who denies the victims of the Empire of Japan. Furthermore, Mr. Rigg has offered to have a conversation with Sakurai. In addition, the author has written a book in Japan, “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II,” written by Chinese-American journalist and activist Iris Chang, which has been criticized for overstating the folly of the Japanese military. With this in mind, he asked whether China, South Korea, and other countries that want to magnify the damage done by the Japanese military would be pleased to read this book. Rigg then said that “The Rape of Nanking” is poorly done as an academic book, and mentioned the relationship with China and Korea. Further details of the interview are given in “Spy Channel – Toshihiro Yamada. There is no doubt that this book will be controversial. At this point, the Japanese edition of the book has not yet been published. However, it is certain to pique the interest of many people to find out what the results of the interviews are written there.
