Sindberg paraded the Danish flag to keep Japanese troops out of his safe haven He was a guard at a cement works, but in China he is revered as "the Shining Buddha" and "the Greatest Dane". Bernhard Arp Sindberg rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937. He is only now getting national hero status in Denmark.
This article is based on a talk that Satoko Oka Norimatsu gave at the seminar “The ‘History Wars’ and the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada,” held at the Institute of Asian Research, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), hosted jointly by the Centre of Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, on November 21, 201
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Nanjing Massacre: Denmark honours hero who rescued Chinese
Canada's “History Wars”: The “Comfort Women” and the Nanjing Massacre - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus