What the Japanese soldiers did 60 years ago in the city of Nanking, China, should be taught and remembered, said Iris Chang. Chang, author of the best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, spoke last night in front of 600 people in Hitchcock Hall.”More people died in this one Chinese city than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, also more than those in Britain, France and Belgium combined in World War II,” Chang said.The Nanking massacre is just one episode among many others the Japanese army perpetrated during World War II, Chang said.”The number doesn’t tell all the stories,” Chang said. Another important aspect of the rape of Nanking is the manner of “how people were killed and tortured under the Japanese army.”She cited reports, diaries from Japanese wartime reporters, soldiers, German Nazi businessman and western missionaries to illustrate the cruelties and barbarisms in the massacre.However, Japan still doesn’t offer a sincere apology, Chang said. They even intimidated those Japanese who told the truth.Efforts should be made to remember the history, preventing it from happening again, assisting the honorable Japanese who are “risking their lives to force their government to live up with the truth,” she said. “Japan could not become a true democracy” until it is honest about its crimes in history.The audience was very receptive to the speech because of the research involved and because Chang backed up what she said with evidence.”This is not somebody running an execute for Japanese. She is telling the truth,” said John Cropp, a chef at P. C. Josephinum, a Columbus restaurant.If it was anti-Japanese, Cropp said he would not have listened to the speech.The book has been adopted as a textbook for a graduate program in psychology at Stanford University, Chang said. But she wants her book to be included in all school curriculums.