Do Japanese citizens acknowledge that Japanese soldiers committed atrocities at Nanking ?
[ http://www.tsukurukai.com/05_rekisi_text/rekishi_English/English.pdf] While the use of the word " incident " is standard Japanese historiographical terminology for focal events , such as Tiananmen " Incident " （天安門事件） rather than massacre , it is objected to by Chinese as a deliberate playing down of the events in question .