“Japanese revisionism, the WWII invasion of China, propaganda, historical memory, biological warfare, victims and wounds,” is the terse but to-the-point synopsis offered by James T. Hong and Yin-Ju Chen for their brilliant new essay-documentary. With a trove of archival materials, film clips, and interviews, Hong and Chen methodically cut through the contested and explosive history of Japanese atrocities in China (and the United States' complicity) to offer a fascinating-and provocative-exposé of how a disputed history has been written and revised. Their far-ranging historical analysis encompasses Japan's widespread use of biological weapons and human experimentation in China (and that information's suppression after World War II); the 1964 and 2008 Olympics; the war in Iraq; and a Chinese village where survivors of a Japanese attack, now in their eighties, all possess the same horrifying affliction: rotting legs. In a history so disputed, what cannot be disputed, they argue, are the living human remains.