Shanghai And Nanking: A Short Story

In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Nanking, China. They killed 300,00 out of the 600,000 people in China’s capital city. The six-week rampage by the Japanese is now known as the Rape of Nanking and the single worst atrocity during WWII era in either the European or Pacific theaters of the war.

For most of history, the Japanese army was not known for brutality in times of war. But the Rape of Nanking was very different than anything then the world had seen before (BBC News). To start off, there are many origins of genocide and ways to describe it, as well as different stages that compose genocide itself. In this genocide, China was invaded and the people residing there were discriminated and harmed by the Japanese army. However, genocide isn’t just one process. There are eight complex stages to every genocide that takes place on Earth, including the Rape of Nanking. Finally, the Chinese were devastated by the end of this genocide, which shows just the horror that they were put through by the Japanese. The Rape of Nanking, which

The most gruesome tales have come to light by the people who survived the merciless actions of the Japanese soldiers. For instance, Tang Shunsan who witnessed and survived the mass murder of Nanking when he left the safety of his hideout behind due to his simple curiosity. Tang and his fellow shoemaker apprentices hid in their house where they converted the doorway so it looked like “...from the outside, a smooth, unbroken wall”(nanking 2). The Japanese soldiers never would have known he was there had he not ventured out into the open to satiate his curiosities of what a Japanese man looked like. Once discovered, he was taken to a large grave for the Chinese people they had killed, and, “...to Tang’s horror, a competition began among the soldiers-a competition to determine who could kill the fastest”(nanking 3 pg. 85). With luck on his side, Tang survived the competition when “ the soldier decapitated the man directly in front of Tang”(nanking 4) and instead of moving out of the way, “Tang also toppled backwards and dropped, together with the body, into the pit”(nanking

The war crimes Japanese soldiers inflicted upon the people of Nanking are one of the most heinous examples of this idea of extermination, resulting in the loss of an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 lives. Thousands of women were raped, forced to take pictures with their assailants in pornographic poses, shamed and seen as being dirty, viewed as being subhuman. Soldiers were warned to eliminate the women they had raped, disposing of the evidence of what they had done. “‘Perhaps when we were raping her, we looked at her as a woman,’ Azuma [a soldier] wrote, “‘but when we killed her, we just thought of her as something like a pig’” (50). Rape was often rooted in superstition, the belief that the violation of virgins would provide strength and

The belief, subtly reinforced by racist stereotypes, that the behaviour of Japanese forces, from attacks on Chinese cities in 1937 through Pearl Harbour to the Bataan death march...nullified any humanitarian consideration for the Japanese people (Kyoko + Mark Selden, 1989, book)

World War II was a devastating war, whether you were directly in the war zone, or away from the battlefield, you were impacted greatly. Flyboys is a book written by James Bradley, in this book Bradley tells stories of World War II using first-hand accounts. In chapter five, Bradley discusses “The Rape of China” which was a battle that took place in 1937 during the beginning of World War II. In this battle, the Japanese fight the Chinese and destroy China. Both Japan and China had very different moral beliefs on fighting in the war. China believed that the soldiers needed to “be courteous,” and to also be “neither selfish nor unjust” to civilians (Bradley 54). Meanwhile, the Japanese had totally opposite policies known as the “Three Alls” meaning

The massacre occurred over six weeks, the Japanese soldiers committed horrible crimes including looting, rape, murder and another large number of civilians and prisoners of war. The massacre is such a brutal, about 300 thousand people died, it had become a shame for China, which causing Chinese people have a bad impression on the Japanese. And another example is also happened in the World War II, in August 1945, the America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, more than eight million Japan citizens are killed and about thirty-five thousand people are injured. The Unites States used the atom bomb to end the war because they wanted to protect their citizens, they trying the lower the rate of deaths. Wars are always connected to death, but not everyone understands the way of saving .

The Japanese Imperial Army, which occupied Nanjing in 1937, committed numerous heinous crimes. Including acts such as rape, arson, looting, and murder. They did however try to persuade that the executions of the Chinese were only combatant, this period holds an event called the Nanjing Massacre for a reason. They targeted innocent Chinese citizens, young children, and women. During this horrific event, around … people lost their lives. Many Japanese today still do not acknowledge this fact however. (BBC – Nanjing Massacre)

The book Fly Boys written by James Bradley gives us many different stories and viewpoints during WWII. During this time Japan was in the dark compared to china or the U.S. They didn't like outside influences and thought the gaizin were ruining their religious beliefs, but the Japanese reacted to this in a bad way. The Japanese army was at war with china and would not only captured chinese soldiers but would also take the women from china. They would rape the women and spread disease from soldier to soldier. The reason for the spread of disease is that “ 1 women for every 35 soldiers,”(Bradley 61) and they viewed the women as military supplies. They kept the women for months on end and would only give them one day off to be checked by doctors.

“Ethnic and cultural distinctions [resulted] in the formation of ‘in-group’ and ‘out-group’ thinking” during the Asian War time, creating increased tension and indifference between China and Japan in a time of war (Burgess). The Japanese Soldiers became the overpowering force in the war between the two societies, and when they were able to overtake Nanking, they thought the elimination of this ethnic group would protect their in-group. The “[p]erpetrators of genocide [felt] completely justified in their actions, and [drew] on local cultural or political values to curry favor” (Burgess). With tensions already at a high, the “Japanese Military condoned the murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese Civilians” (Nanjing). The Japanese cultural values taught soldiers the notion that the only people in their Universe of Obligation were themselves and their government body, and that questioning either would lead to physical

1. The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, lasted six weeks. It started on December 13th, 1937, the day the Japanese invaded and captured Nanking, which is now the city of Nanjing. During this period, the Imperial Japanese Army killed civilians and injured Chinese soldier. There are no official death tolls but there is an estimate of 200 000 to 400 000 deaths. There were 20 000 to 80 000 women raped. Once one of China’s most modern and prosperous cities, the industrial city of Nanking took decades to recover from the devastation it experienced.

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Their militaristic attitude came from their sense of duty. Their duty to the Emperor and the on they wear that made it necessary to fight for their country and the rightful order of society. This duty is what made their transition from militaristic to peaceful so seamless and shocking to the United States. Benedict stated, “As many prisoners said, the Japanese ‘will fight unhesitatingly, even with nothing more than bamboo poles, if the Emperor so decrees. They would stop just as quickly if he so decreed’; ‘Japan would throw down arms tomorrow if the Emperor should issue such an order’” (Benedict, 1946:33). While the U.S. will fight for their country, it does not go as deeply to their very being and the way they are raised the way the Japanese do. From the beginning their people are raised in their hierarchal society, knowing their place and understanding the importance of the on that they must wear for their family, the emperor, friends, and everyone in their

In this book, Iris Chang brings to light the atrocities that occurred during the Nanking massacre by focusing on the initial Japanese attacks on the city, the work of the international community to protect the Chinese, and the subsequent cover up of the massacre. Chang’s primary argument is that the events surrounding the Rape of Nanking have been downplayed by western and Japanese scholars, and need to be discussed. A key element of the book is to counter a revisionist approach to the events of Nanking which, in her estimation, pervade Japanese schools and have subsequently misled westerners into believing that the Japanese military was not as vicious as they were. Her work does indeed provide a gut-wrenching account of the event while sifting

Knowing this Japanese poured into Nanking.” (Chang) When the troops arrived to Nanking, they occupied businesses, banks, warehouses and much more all while shooting innocent people during the process.