The Japanese public usually deny the fact that genocide was committed by its soldier in Nanjing. To a large extent, this is mainly due to the fact that the news and information that was provided to them during the massacre was false, censored or even staged as written in the letters of the victims in the massacre. The citizens blindly believed their ruler at that time and seeing that they respected their emperor and country exceedingly, they did not want to accept the occurrence of such horrible acts even if they might have gotten some hint of it. This hence leads to considering their denial to taken as a defence mechanism as their refusal to acknowledge an the unacceptable truth of the massacre or even admitting it into consciousness can be regarded as a way to ruin the image of their country and their wrongdoings.