Nanking

figure of nationalism, for China to use against Japan. Never the less, the Nanjing Massacre was a devastating event that claimed the lives of thousands and become a symbol of nationalism. Rana Mitter in China’s war with Japan, chapter 7 “Massacre at Nanking”, discusses the Japanese war crimes in Nanjing. According to Matter, the Japanese went on a spree of murder, rape and robbery for six weeks. Mitter uses various resources such as journals of foreigners, few chinses accounts, and interviews…

The battle of Nanjing was depicted in many ways but altered throughout the years because of the argument “Is it appropriate for the ninth-grade textbook?” The battle of Nanjing was depicted as: a battle, a massacre, rape and an invasion. Through research, the answer that has arose is that it should be depicted as a massacre, it’s school appropriate and follows the facts. “Over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both…

mass killing of a group and has many individual steps to be classified. In China, during the Sino-Japanese war created conflict in the capital city of Nanking. All eight stages of genocide refer to the Rape of Nanking. Finally, the act of genocide on innocent people is horrific and deserves intervention on the global scale. The Rape of Nanking was directed towards the Chinese Empire by the Japanese Imperial Army indirectly caused by the unfolding of the…

In 1937 horrific atrocities were committed against the citizens of Nanking, a Chinese city. Japanese soldiers murdered countless civilians, and rape many women. An American doctor in the city at the time described it as “modern Dante’s Inferno, written in huge letters with blood and rape” (Madison 16). A short time later Jewish men, women and children were being rounded up and murdered by the thousands. The Holocaust was an event of inconceivable evil, people deemed subhuman were worked to…

China still talk about the Rape of Nanking to this day; also there have been disputes between the two countries which shows that they are not on good terms. It all started when Japan came into China on December 13, 1937, and rounded up thousands of men. These innocent men were shot by machine guns, used for bayonet practice, or dunked in gasoline and burned alive for no reason except to see them suffer (Chang 4). Although Japan may deny it, the Rape of Nanking did happen,…

are many others before and after that have also had a profound detrimental effect on humanity. The Nanking Massacre, also known as “The Rape of Nanking,” occurred in late 1937 and the beginning of 1938. Japanese soldiers attacked the people of Nanking in China, slaughtering around 50,000 to 300,000 people and sexually assaulting 20,000 to 80,000 women. They…

Nanking Massacre In a matter of 6 weeks, two hundred to three hundred thousand people in Nanjing, China were killed. This would later be known as the Nanking Massacre. Before Japan’s Central China Army entered Nanking on December 13, 1937, leader of China, Kai-Shek removed all official Chinese troops from the capital. He left the untrained auxiliary troops to defend the city at all costs, but sadly a significant amount of soldiers fled before the Japanese entered the city. When the Japanese…

declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the men, including General Hideki Tojo, who served as Japanese premier during the war, and other principals, such as Iwane Matsui, who organized the Rape of Nanking, and Heitaro Kimura, who brutalized Allied prisoners of war. Sixteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment, and two were sentenced to lesser terms in prison. On December 23, 1948, Tojo and the six others were executed in Tokyo. In…

1945. It touches on the treatments Korea, Thailand, and Philippines had endured, however it focuses the most on Nanking, China. Chang writes every blunt detail about the horror the Chinese people had to endure, because the Japanese government today denies that this had ever happened and never apologized to the victims of these events. The book setting starts in December of 1937 when Nanking, the capital of China, fell to Japan. It then focuses on the events that happened within eight years. The…

Nowadays China is the country with the highest safety factor in the world, but China has been scarred by aggression in the modern history. The book “The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II” records the history which hundreds of evil deeds committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, China.This book has been translated into more than fifteen languages and shocked the world at that time when it published. History will not forget the pain it used to have, because it is the eternal…