 Chang responded to Charles Burress 's criticism in a letter written to the San Francisco Chronicle , but the letter was not published by the newspaper . In the letter , she offered criticism of her own concerning Burress 's article . Chang found a " disturbing tendency " by Burress to quote right @-@ wing Japanese critics " without demanding evidence to back up their allegations " . She argued that Ikuhiko Hata , a source cited by Burress , was not " regarded as a serious scholar " in either Japan or in the U. S. , because he was a regular contributor to " ultra right @-@ wing " Japanese publications . One such publication had published an article from a Holocaust denier that argued that no gas chambers were used in Germany to kill Jews . This caused the parent publisher to shut down the publication . On Burress 's criticism of her inaccurate photo captioning , Chang disputed the contention that the caption was wrong . She wrote that her book dealt with the " horror of the Japanese invasion of China " , and that the caption reading " The Japanese rounded up thousands of women . Most were gang @-@ raped or forced into military prostitution " contained two statements of indisputable fact . 
