Summary: The Rape Of Nanking

“In 1933, Japan occupied Jehol Province, not including Chahar and Hopei, and wanted the Hopei as a demilitarized zone” (Hua-ling 56). In 1935, the Japanese forced the Chinese to withdraw from their stations in Hopei and Chahar and also ended all activities in the area. In September, Foreign Minister Hirota Koki, presented The Three Principles of Hirota to the Chinese government demanding that China should stop using American and European influence to maintain friendship, China should recognize Manchukuo, and that Japan and China mst establish a common defense against communism (Hua-ling 58). After Japan withdrew from the League of Nations, they were no longer going for world peace (Morley 72). “The Nanking Massacre refers to an exceedingly horrible massacre of civilians by the Japanese army during a six-week period from December 1937 to January 1938 after its occupation of Nanking, then the capital of the Republic of China” (Taso). General Iwane Matsui, the commanding officer in Shanghai, and the cabinet argued that the capture of Nanking would convince the nationalist government to settle the incident (Morley 74). Even before the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese had tried to use their power to force China to do things against their

“Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Trams” was a diary written by a young, female Vietnamese doctor whom operated on PAVN and VC soldiers about her life during the war. While Thuy alluded to there being four diaries, only two made it into the hands of a United States service member. The two diaries which were found dated from April 1968 to June 1970, her last entry just two days prior to her death via American forces. The diaries came to be in Fred Whitehurst’s possession, an American who served in military intelligence. When Whitehurst left Vietnam, he took the diaries with him. Thirty-five years after Thuy’s death, Whitehurst, and his brother Rob decided the diaries message needed to be shared. The dairies were

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.

Throughout The Rape of Nanking, the brutal massacre of thousands of innocent Chinese citizens is brought forth through the invasion of this ancient city taken over by the Imperial Japanese army. Iris Chang illustrates the graphic details of the murder and rape of these victims through the perspectives of different sides of the attack. Chang; furthermore, ties in the mass genocide and destruction displayed throughout the book with the example of the Japanese government’s desperate attempt to cover up the incident and the reluctance of the survivors to discuss it. In addition, the horrifying events of The Rape of Nanking only further motivated an uncontrollable desire for aggression, violence, and imperialism in the Asian community evidently

During world war two, the Imperial Japanese army forced an estimated 200,000 women into sexual slavery. This is just one of the many atrocities committed by Japan during world war two. Even though many say that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inhumane, the US was completely justified because the future casualties were minimized and Japan and its allies committed atrocious war crimes.

This event displayed that each gruesome mass killing, “does not highlight, but instead blurs the distinctions between us” (Yew). Japanese troops were trained to believe the Chinese were inferior to them, therefore they must be killed. Similarly, the Nazis were trained to believe the Jews were inferior. The Nanking Massacre also showed how no

Not everyone was allowed to receive these letters though. For a while, Jews were not allowed to communicate with the outside world, but once the rules were changed, mail spread like wildfire. These letters can be seen as a safe way to vent about what is happening to them without being judged by those around them or punished for it by the guards and those running the concentration camps. In these letters, the prisoners talked mostly of the death they have witnessed, the poverty they live in, and the people they have met. Besides all of the gruesome sights they had witnessed they also talked of the past; the way life used to be. In one letter I read, the writer spoke of his family. He described the beauty of his wife in great detail and the town he used to live in. He recalled the day they met and the day his kids were born. All these things lead to one thing: hope. Thinking of and being reminded of the way things used to be always seemed to bring joy to the prisoners. In a way it is not the letters themselves that create a good feeling, but the memories they store inside of them. These memories kept a certain fire alive and burning in each of the prisoners, one that allowed them to continue to put up with the Nazi army and not rally against them, in the hopes of making it out alive.

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 Japanese soldiers had no sense of remorse or sorrow for the prisoners instead they pushed them to their breaking point. Many prisoners collapsed which proved fatal because if you fell behind you became a practice dummy for the Japanese to sharpen their bayonet skills and techniques of killing on you. On one occasion, a prisoner was falling behind in the rear so tanks that followed lined themselves up to run over the victim and squish him into the pavement to make it look as if he were from a cartoon. Since the Japanese could

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

First is how the work conveys information to the reader. The trial is descriptive in that it shows the reader more directly what the people involved thought happened during this trial. This is in place of the work being prescriptive in which it tells the reader what people thought should happen. As the entire work is the trial’s notoriety, its official record, it can be assumed that those involved had to be absolutely certain of what what happened and who is to blame. So when an inquisitor wrote a letter describing the testimonies, it was what they thought happened, giving the reader a good look into the inner thinking of these men.

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.

Japanese starved, brutalised, and even used POWs for medical experiments including live vivisections and assessments of biological weapons. There were many situations where the ethics and purpose of the Japanese’s actions were put into question. The Rape of Nanking can be argued as a pure act of racism and believed that the Chinese were inferior compared to themselves. They treated them as less than humans. The fall of Singapore (Australian-British POWs at the Burma-railway) describes furthermore the racism the Japanese showed towards other races. The Japanese treated women no better, comfort women were used as ‘things’ instead

This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of “comfort stations” setup by the Japanese military during World War II.

This chapter highlights how global trade as well as regional trade affected different economies, countries and even individuals, in different ways. The first example of this is the Fujian trade diaspora, from the Southeast coast of China. This system focused on economic gain by spreading out across the world, traveling, and accumulating wealth while traveling. If successful, the individual was often rewarded upon their return home. The Chinese tribute system on the other hand, while still somewhat focused on economic gain, was centered more so around political as well as social gain. Often times in this system, traders would find themselves at a slight net positive, or net even, due to the