good on you!The Nanking massacre， commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking"， is an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military carried out by Japanese troops in and around Nanjing (also known in English as Nanking)， China， after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13， The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined， although the period of carnage lasted well into the next six weeks， until early February During the occupation of Nanjing， the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities， such as rape， looting， arson and the execution of prisoners of war and Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians， a large number of innocent men were wrongfully identified as enemy combatants and killed， or simply killed in any event as the massacre gathered A large number of women and children were also killed， as rape and murder became more The extent of the atrocities is hotly debated between China and Japan， with numbers ranging from some Japanese claims of several hundred[citation needed]， to the Chinese claim of a non-combatant death toll of 300， A number of Japanese researchers consider 100，000-200，000 be an approximate value[1] Other nations usually believe the death toll to be between 150，000-300，000[citation needed] This number was first promulgated in January of 1938 by Harold Timperly， a journalist in China during the Japanese invasion， based on reports from contemporary Many other sources， including Iris Chang's commercially-successful The Rape of Nanking， also promote 300，000 as the death In addition to the number of victims， a few extreme nationalists have even disputed whether or not the atrocity Whilst the Japanese government has acknowledged such an incident did occur， the extremists presented their case starting with the Japanese army's claims at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that the death toll was military in nature and that no such civilian atrocities ever However， an overwhelming amount of evidence contradicts The existence of such an atrocity has been repeatedly confirmed by statements of Westerners at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East as well as eyewitnesses then today， who had personally witnessed civilians being murdered and women raped by Japanese There is also an extensive collection of photographic records of mutilated bodies of Chinese women and Recent archaeological findings further support the existence of this massacre having taken The massacre is a major focal point of burgeoning Chinese nationalism， and in China， opinions are relatively homogenous[citation needed] In Japan， however， public opinion over the severity of the massacre remains widely divided - this is evidenced by the fact that whereas some Japanese commentators refer to it as the 'Nanking massacre' (南京大虐杀， Nankin daigyakusatsu)， others use the more ambivalent 'Nanking incident' (南京事件， Nankin jiken) The event continues to be a point of contention and controversy in Sino-Japanese Surprisingly， Nanking Massacre was largely unknown to general public in western world until the publish of a documentary book， The Rape of Nanking (book) by Iris Chang in Most Chinese scholars believe USA is part of the reason because of the political and military alliance between USA and Japan after World War II and the hostility between USA and C
In December 1937， Nanjing fell to the Japanese Imperial A The Japanese army launched a massacre for six According to the records of several welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the Massacre， around three hundred thousand people， mostly civilians and POWs， were brutally Over twenty thousand cases of rape were Many of the victims were gang raped and then The figure did not include those captives who were sent to army brothels (the so-called "comfort stations") The actual Memorial Hall is built to commemorate the The actual Hall is located in Jiangdongmen (The Gate on the Eastern Bank of the River)， one of the sites where countless human bones of the victims of the Massacre were It is just one of those "wan ren keng" (pit of ten thousand corpses) which can be found in many Japanese occupied areas in China during the The building housing the skeletons excavated in JEntrance The Hall is built in the eighties when a number of Japanese politicians and writers claimed that the Massacre had never ocurred and history textbooks were rewritten by the authority describing the Massacre as a minor It must be reminded that contrary to Germany the Japanese government has never made any formal or official apology to the Chinese people for their crimes committed during the Instead， a number of Japanese politicians and writers denied not just the Massacre but any of their wrong doings in the Second World W They claimed that they had "liberated" Asian peoples from Western The Nanjing Massacre is one of their so-called "liberations" This WWW Memorial Hall is created to expose their lies and to preserve the historical Let the victims of the Massacre be remembered but not buried in
