Nanking Massacre

to the International Safety Zones Community’s effort, this left a legacy in the Chinese history in standing up to the Japanese. Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan wanted access to more resources as well as land and so they conquered Manchuria. Manchuria was counted as a puppet state due to it’s weak emperor who follows the Japanese’s every command." In less than half a century Japan has taken over Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. More recently Japanese aggression has been…

initiatives, especially in the 21st Century, a current example being the conflict in Syria. However, there have been numerous drawbacks in society varying throughout the world with the Nanking Massacre being an event that took an entire country into utter misery and helplessness. 1937 was a year that Nanking, China will always keep logged into memory and history due to the horrendous acts of the Japanese army and their cruel attempt to occupy the Republic of China. Because this genocide lasted…

Nanking Massacre When presented with the opportunity, people may find themselves committing horrible crimes if they believe they won't experience any repercussions. The Nanking Massacre proves this theory through the in-the-moment decisions of the Japanese army during their invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The incident has redefined what constitutes as a war crime as an act of war that infringes on the individual rights of non-participants, as well as guided the universal methods of war…

Many remember the atrocities that occurred to the Jews in the Holocaust, but few remember what is called, “The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II,” where 300,000 people were murdered, and 20,000 women were raped (Rivera 2). Even with such a huge death toll, some even deny the existence of this massacre. Immediately after the massacre occurred, the Japanese did not tell their citizens of what happened in Nanking due to shame. The government of Japan controlled most of the media so unbiased,…

The Nanking Massacre. The invasion of China by the Japanese before and during the World War II lasted from 1930 to 1945. During this period, the Japanese military motivated by an unconscionable wish for expansion, aggression and imperialism commited major crimes. The atrocities and brutalities committed by Japanese military ended with destruction on Japanese soil-the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945. The victims’ of Japanese militarists’ aggression included peace-loving and…

European, American nor Chinese government authorities have sought after the matter to any extraordinary degree.The deniers of the Nanking Massacre regularly start by exhibiting Japan as having "no expectation of beginning the war against China, the Sino-Japanese War.” They even say that the Japanese government offered a peace proposition in August of 1937. Their story is that the war was extended to Shanghai, as "the Japanese Army kept on torment from the adversary suppression. Eventually, a…

The Rape of Nanking The Rape of Nanking was a horrific and brutal massacre. It shows the world’s failure to acknowledge the cruel acts of people who take advantage of their ranks in government, meaning this went on for six weeks, thousands of people were killed, and no other countries even noticed or helped all of those people. is a human rights violation because pretty much all of the human rights were violated especially 3-5. “Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security…

invaded China, captured Nanking, and performed a number of cruel atrocities on the people in and around the city. This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized. Meanwhile, approximately a quarter of a million defenseless Chinese men were...murdered en masse, used for bayonet practice, or burned and buried…

and the future Generations from our toughest enemy” (Hoss 316). Another large part of building an acceptance towards unrelentingly attacking a foe is to make them be seen as an enemy or a lesser being. Taking the humanity out of an enemy makes them easier to kill. Hoss firmly believed that what he was doing was going to make Germany better. He did not view the Jewish people as people equally to his fellow Nazi followers. The idea of seeing your enemy as less than human can also be seen in the…

In The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang tells the story of one of the largest, and most secretive, instances of mass murder on earth. Following the Japanese capture of the capital of the Republic of China on December 13, 1937, the Japanese launched a campaign of violence unlike any other. Chinese civilians were slaughtered by the thousands in some of the most violent ways possible, eventually killing up to 350,000 people in just a little over six weeks. Chinese men were used for bayonet practice,…