Already as you know, so called “Nanjing Massacre” was created by Chinese Nationalist Party, KMT for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
According to the testimonies in The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), the Chinese government (KMT) could not prove the murder of 340,000. Therefore, the Chinese government was absorbed in collecting proofs even during the IMTFE.
In other words, the Chinese government had already fixed the number of casualties into more than 300,000 before they began to collect the evidence.
This forged story was reborn in the ‘ 80s and fostered in ’90s by CCP.
At the very least from the ’50s to ‘70s, Chinese didn’t know of any massacre in China allegedly caused by Japanese.
In the 1950s, soon after the war, Chinese communists built the Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall in Nanjing.
The place is for the two hundred thousand victims of communists executed by Chiang Kai-shek.
In the ’60s and ‘70s, they had memorialized only their revolutionary martyrs massacred by KMT in this city.
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall had not built more than 30 years later than Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall.
http://en.nju.gov.cn/detail.aspx?fid=344&cid=349&id=30119.html
An ex-CCP elite testified in the Japanese magazine “SAPIO”(August 24, 2005) as follows.
Before 1984, both in China and Japan, there was no article, report and textbook stipulated about any massacre in China, however, from this year the Asahi-Shimbun in Japan had started reporting about “Nanjing Massacre” based on the stories by a reporter named Katsuichi Honda who was invited to China by CCP. This ex-CCP had read or heard nothing about “Nanjing Massacre” until then.
80’s was the period of various factions within CCP especially between reformer’s group like Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦) and conservative power like Li Peng(李鵬), Jiang Zemin(江沢民).
This conflict grew up to anti-Hu Yaobang movement. He was well known as a pro-Japan (pro-Democracy) statesman.
“Nanjing Massacre” was the propaganda used by CCP as anti-Hu Yaobang = anti-Japan (= anti-Democracy) movement.
In fact, “Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall” was not built until in 1985.
In addition, no country including China has blamed Japanese prime-minister’s visit to pay homage to the war dead at Yasukuni Shrine until this same year.
Many foreign VIPs visit to pay their respect to the war dead at Yasukuni after the war.
However, August 7, 1985, the Asahi-Shimbun in Japan had started the negative campaign titled “Yasukuni Problem and Stand Point of View from Asian Countries”
and synchronizing with the story, People’s Daily in China reported August 11, 1985, that there was the critical group against the prime-minister’s visit at Yasukuni in Japan.
Finally August 14, 1985, China declared the objection to PM Nakasone’s visit at Yasukuni.
Ex-PM Nakasone confessed later that he could not help but consider the political position of Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦) in CCP and suspend the visit.
“Nanjing Massacre” was the propaganda used by CCP as anti-Hu Yaobang = anti-Democracy movement.
“Nanjing Massacre” is still now the effective propaganda which has been frequently using by CCP as anti-Japan movement = anti-Democracy movement.
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