Arnaud Nanta is a research director at the CNRS, specialist in Japan and its colonial empire. His translation of the work The Massacre of Nanking, by T.

Kasahara (Hémisphères, 2024), will be released at the end of April. The population considers themselves victims of the war, despite the expansionist desire of the time, according to researcher Nanta. "The country remains under semi-supervision of the United States", he says.