This orthodox victimhood narrative has become entwined with the Chinese national identity and is very sensitive to the revisionist sentiments from the far-right in Japan, which makes the memory of the massacre a recurring point of tension in Sino-Japanese relations after 1982. The total death toll of the Nanking Massacre is a highly contentious subject in Chinese and Japanese historiography. In what is known as the Nanking Massacre, Japanese soldiers systematically raped thousands of Chinese women and girls of all ages. After being stripped and raped by one or more men, she was bayoneted in the chest and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina. Hempel's hotel was broken into as well, as almost every shop on Chung Shang and Taiping Road. ![]() The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. Soldiers pillaged from the poor and the wealthy alike. In 2006 former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi made a pilgrimage to the shrine despite warnings from China and South Korea. The whole Japanese army seems to be free to go and come as it pleases, and to do whatever it pleases. Trade between the two nations is worth over $200billion annually. , On December 12, under heavy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, General Tang Sheng-chi ordered his men to retreat. Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, "Leftover Problems," in The Nanking Atrocity, 193738: Complicating the Picture, ed. On the other hand, they fail to include corpses that were destroyed rather than buried and thus underestimate the death toll. Many fled the city on December 7, and the International Committee took over as the de facto government of Nanjing. Practically every building in the city was entered many, many times by these roving gangs of soldiers throughout the first six or seven weeks of the occupation". Keep watching this site for the relaunching of ‘Nap Tyme.’ In the meantime, remember that we can fix anything down here at Gig Harbor Marina & Boatyard – even when a ferry hits you.Therefore, according to journalists Asami Kazuo and Suzuki Jiro, writing in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun of December 13, they decided to begin another contest to kill 150 people. Swanson, who lives aboard his North Coast yacht in Gig Harbor, was below deck at the time his boat was crossing the ferry lane. “Had it been any other type of boat…it would’ve just crumbled,” Nap Tyme skipper Clarke Swanson told news outlets after the accident. With a loud whack heard on videos that popped up immediately on YouTube, the yacht collided with the behemoth ferry on its run between Point Defiance and the southern tip of Vashon Island. The impact with the ferry also buckled the veneer on the starboard wall of the stateroom.įortunately, no one was injured when Nap Tyme had its rude awakening out in Puget Sound in early December. In the stateroom, the yacht rigger/carpenter is building new cabinets and repairing cracks in the hull (photo at top). (Photo above.) “Now I’m refitting the laminate.” “I fixed the damaged area in the back and reinstalled the cabinet,” he said. In the head, he fixed all the cracks in the wall and tightened up the cabinet. ![]() In the shower (above) he ground out the damaged material, relaminated the cracks - after “a lot of prep,” he added - re-gel coated the surfaces and applied PVA mold release. He first had to sand down through the cabin skin to get to the fractured fiberglass. (See previous blog on Ferry Collision Damage.) After a Rude Awakening with a Washington State Ferry, Nap Tyme is Getting Rested & Repaired at Gig Harbor Marina & BoatyardĬonner is finishing up repairs to the yacht’s shower and forward stateroom. ![]() While neither vessel sustained serious damage and the ferry was delayed just 30 minutes, the impact was enough to cause the yacht’s owner to bring his boat to Gig Harbor Marina & Boatyard for repairs. Shipwright and skilled wood-worker John Iverson is building a new teak cap rail to replace the 12-foot section near the port-side bow that splintered upon impact with the state ferry Chetzemoka. Nap Tyme, which had the misfortune of sleep-walking into the path of a Washington State ferry in December, is coming along with repairs to her cracked fiberglass hull, deck and splintered cap rail.Ĭarl Conner, yacht rigger and expert fiberglass laminator at Gig Harbor Marina & Boatyard, is finishing up his work grinding and relaminating fractures in the North Coast 48’s forward stateroom and shower.
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