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On Dec. 25, 1937, Masatake Okumiya, an Imperial navy pilot, by chance became a reluctant witness to atrocities committed during the Rape of Nanking.
Okumiya, 89, who later served as a staff officer for air operations during the Pacific War, believes it is vital that "we accept that the Japanese army carried out the massacre in Nanjing."
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