Second Sino-Japanese War

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 book is sectioned off in three parts; the perspectives of the Japanese government and soldiers, the victims- Chinese people, and Westerners who…

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 six weeks comparably less to the several years’ Jewish individuals had to endure, it often goes unnoticed and overshadowed by its infamous…

Between 1945 and 1948 war crimes trials were taking place in Japan and began hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. On November 12, the war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the…

China has a vast infrastructure plan to compensate for the enormity in actual size of land that makes up the country. China has a telecommunications infrastructure that continues to expand, especially in the last few decades. China’s telecommunications industry is nationalized like many of its other industries. The three major operators are China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, all providers of mobile and land phone lines. (Central Intelligence Agency). Like previously mentioned, these…

The impact of the Sino-Japanese war on the Chinese State’s economy was completely negative,because, the war, severely harmed China’s modernization efforts. At the same time, the Chinese government encouraged both foreign and domestic investment into the economy, invested in heavy industries, promoted internal unity, intervened in the private sector to prevent its collapse and pursued policies that lead to the rapid development of cities and towns throughout the country. Not to mention…

Following the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, the world turned its eyes towards this rising new global power in Asia. By defeating the Russians and the waiving of the white flag at Liaoyang, the Japanese have quickly proven themselves as an overall competitor to the West in terms of political and military power. By the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in September 5, 1905, it recognized Japanese supremacy in Korea, oversaw the transition of Russian holdings in Manchuria (Liaodong…

devastating events that took place in China during the second Shino-Japanese war. The massacre was a series of war crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers upon taking over the city, Nanjing. The Japanese soldiers raped, murdered, and looted the Chinese citizens that were left abandoned by the Chinese military forces. The figure of the atrocities ranges from 150,000 to 200,000 that is claimed by China and 25,000 to 50,000 people that is claimed by the Japanese. Therefore, this massacre became a…

The most devastating use of biological warfare agents happened during World War II, when the Japanese Imperial Army unleashed plague, cholera, typhoid, and other diseases against Chinese civilians, killing an estimated 300,000 (“The Biological Weapons Threat”). In the movie, V for Vendetta, England is set during in a dystopian future where a totalitarian government has been established. The film stars Hugo Weaving, who plays a freedom fighter named V, and Natalie Portman, who plays Evey, a young…

History states that Japan and China have been at war for decades. Throughout the years, the acts of violence have been gradually increasing. In 1937, the Japanese began a war that left more than 300,000 Chinese men, women, and children dead. The atrocities committed were just the beginning to a year of genocide. The Rape of Nanking will go down in history as one of the most brutal acts of bloodshed throughout all of China. During the nineteenth century, a war was fought between the Qing Dynasty…

During World War II, Japan committed countless crimes against the civilians of the nations they occupied, from the Nanjing Massacre to the issue of comfort women were few of the most major crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Nanjing Massacre involved the mass murder of 300,000 people and the rape of around 20,000 women. During this duration of time, the comfort women were also introduced, which involved the forced prostitution of Asian women from the Philippines, Korea and China…