Triumph for justice

Justice has prevailed.

Eighty-year old Xia Shuqin was finally awarded damages this week for the libel she suffered when her identity as a witness to the Nanjing Massacre was questioned.

It is nine years since she first lodged a lawsuit at a Nanjing local court against Higashinakano Osamu and Magsumura Goshio, as well as publisher Tendensha, for a book that questioned whether Xia witnessed the mass killing by Japanese aggressors in Nanjing in 1937.