In December 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army attacked during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In a span of about six weeks, the Japanese force engages in systematic killing, looting and raping of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war. However, it is impossible to attribute the genocide to any single cause. It is acknowledged in this paper that a common dilemma faced while studying genocide is to justify its occurrence. Scholars have, for decades, made attempts to justify what causes and motivates perpetrators of genocides to engage in the atrocities . Other scholars have equally rejected as unacceptable justifications of genocide that attribute its cause to single event or trigger . This is the same for the Nanking Genocide, as it cannot be attributed
