At his memorial service, there was a “No Nuclear Ships” banner above the open coffin, which contained the lifejacket he would put before getting into his car to drive to the water in the expectation of yet another mishap.One of Hanly’s most notable at-sea encounters was when he took his small trailer-sailer out into Auckland harbour among the flotilla of vessels to protest against the arrival of the nuclear submarine Pintado It prompted the 1970s picture Pintado Protest. James Patrick Hanly, artist and teacher: born Palmerston North, New Zealand 2 August 1932; married 1958 Gillian Taverner (one son, two daughters); died Auckland, New Zealand 20 September 2004.
Pat Hanly was an artist and teacher who helped revitalise New Zealand art in the second half of the 20th century. His work ranged from the domestic and personal to that concerned with social and political issues.Hanly managed to put over any public message without the offputting glum drabness so often associated with agitprop artwork. His images – exuberant, colourful, feisty and humorous – reflected the personality of their maker – the serious, outspoken yet self-deprecating jester of modern New Zealand art, whose recreations in the New Zealand Who’s Who are listed as “kite-flying, sailing, Greenpeace”.He gained a national reputation as a waterborne protester, yet remained the strictly non-textbook yachtsman who could not swim.

Pat Hanly was an artist and teacher who helped revitalise New Zealand art in the second half of the 20th century. She had been working on a fourth book, about the terrible experiences of men in the US tank battalions who were captured in the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines and their subsequent imprisonment by the Japanese.About five months ago, Iris Chang suffered a mental breakdown during a research trip and continued to battle depression Last week she was found dead from gunshot wounds Police reports said she had committed suicide.Jasper Becker. It was important to me that the world knew what happened in Nanking back in 1937.”Her third book, The Chinese in America (2003), looked at the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States. It recorded his horrified reaction to the mass rapes, torture and executions he witnessed. The diary confirmed that the worst allegations by Chinese victims, routinely given huge prominence in the Chinese media, are true.”This is a book I really had to write,” Chang said in an interview “I wrote it out of a sense of rage I didn’t really care if I made a cent from it. Acting on a hunch, Chang tracked down Rabe’s granddaughter in Germany and his diary came to light for the first time.

“I was walking around in a state of shock,” Chang said later, at the horror of what they described.Among her discoveries was the role of John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who had stayed behind in Nanking, in helping to organise an extraordinary effort to bluff the Japanese into recognising the international sanctuary. Japanese school textbooks barely mention it.The continuing annual pilgrimage made by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to honour the perpetrators of the massacre infuriates China, and the refusal of Japan’s current prime minister Junichiro Koizumi to stop going to the shrine has brought about a new freeze in Japanese and Chinese relations.Iris Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1968, the daughter of a physics professor and a microbiologist. Although for the scholarly community it contained few new facts, it managed to bring home the utter barbarity of the Japanese and the humiliation of the Chinese in an episode that has largely been forgotten in the rest of the world.Although it was well-documented at the time by the few dozen foreigners living in Nanking who managed to save hundreds of thousands of lives by giving shelter in the international zone, and at the war crimes trials after Japan’s defeat, it subsequently received little attention. Japan has tried to ignore or downplay events in Nanking and has never satisfactorily apologised for its behaviour. Iris Chang, historian: born Princeton, New Jersey 28 March 1968; married Brett Douglas (one son); died Los Gatos, California 9 November 2004.
In 1997 the young historian Iris Chang grabbed America’s attention with her often gruesome book The Rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II, which explained the still latent hatred of the Chinese against the Japanese.