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“Kill all, loot all, burn all.” This was the Japanese policy towards China dealing with the massacre (Sheng-Ping). To begin, the term genocide has eight unique stages, various interpretations, and a specific root. In Japan, opposing perspectives on who was to control Nanking created tension between the Japanese and Chinese. The horrendous actions inflicted on the Chinese resulted because of eight specific stages. Sadly, genocide will not end unless nations across the world work together to put an end to this horrifying concept. The genocide of Japan, directed by the malice of the Japanese military regime, was based on the idea that any enemy soldier who surrendered was considered criminal, and therefore, many people perished because

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

The bombing of a U.S. Naval base in Hawaii left many people questioning it. The U.S. had been practicing isolationism. The U.S. created the Immigration Quota Act of 1924. This may have been the start of the U.S. upsetting Japan. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the morning of December 7, 1941.

Despite having the horrific Nanking Massacre occur 70 years ago, its history is barely buried like many of the dead were at the time. The Nanking Massacre (also known as the Rape of Nanking) occurred as a part of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, which would then become part of World War II. This war involved the Republic of China defending against the invading Japanese forces. Unfortunately, China was weakened due to a civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists, so it was easily invaded. The Nanking Massacre shows the negative elements of Human Nature and should be taught in schools because it portrays the brutality of the Japanese in Asia.

They took Manchuria and turned it into one of their own states by the name of Manchukuo. After the invasion of Manchuria, in 1937, the Japanese continued their expansion. They took over more of China killing some 300,000 people. By the end of World War II, China would suffer over fourteen million losses. The League of Nations, an early form of the United Nations, highly rebuked these hostile actions.

In the late 1890s, tensions between China and Japan were growing. China’s power was growing into the early 1900s as it converted to Nationalism. Japan felt the need to expand and conquer because they had been forced into the modern age by the United States, and they believed it was their destiny to exert government over other nations (Chang 23-24). The Japanese felt the need to do something before China became “too powerful to be conquered” (Chang 28-29). This put Japan on the path to war with China (Chang 25).

In this scene Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe was over. The next scene then turned into an announcer announcing two atom bomb that the Americans had dropped on Japan. From that point on Japan was suing for peace. Which later turned into the emperor surrendering his power. Then lead Pu Yi as emperor of Manchukuo. An outrage in Japan struck families were bring lynched out in the streets. “The city was in chaos” (pg.161). It got bad that at night gunshots and frequent screams for help was all they could hear. After Jinzhou many Japanese deaths were occurring. Some poisoned themselves, other were committing suicide, and some were lynched. Some Japanese family left their babies on doorsteps in the hope that someone would save them.

“Japanese forces had been fighting in China sing July 1937 and by 1940 had taken over much of Southeast Asia. Japan’s next targets

Japan was a little country of the east coast of china. This tiny country had been and isolationist country for a long time, and was in fear that the much larger country of Russia, A well known expansionist country, would over take them and eradicate their small and dying culture. Japan, not wanting to loose what little it had, wanted to make a trade with the communist country. The use of Fort Arthur for the ownership of Korea’s in the Asian territories. Russia denied but set up a buffer zone in north Korea to discuss the issues with Japan. On the 39th parallel. Japan took this as a threat, and bombed their own fort of the coast of china.

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.

This has been described as the Asian Holocaust. The Japanese are responsible for killing about 14,000,000 people. That number of people do not include the "lucky ones" who survived and are suffering today. Prisoners of war experienced through massacre, human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor. Massacre or also known as Nanking Massacre, was a mass killing and rape. Human experimentation was using conducting deadly and extremely dangerous experiments on humans to use the results on the rest of China. Extreme famine lasted the entire war. Forced labor or slavery, was having the imprisoned Chinese do hard work, and if not done or well, they would be threatened with deadly consequences. A white girl, Mary Previte, living in China who was schooled there, her school was taken over and imprisoned. Japan's military decided to turn the school into a military headquarters. She explained how gross the living was there by saying "If there were too many rats, the teachers would set the children the task of catching them. It was the same for flies and bedbugs. There were small prizes for the winners" (Mary). Imprisonment was horrible and it brought down a race and leads to tension that will be carried through many

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

Heated debates took place in Japan over what really happened during their occupation in Nanking, bringing about a revival of Chinese and Taiwanese research. The Japanese caused a protest by the Chinese people when they changed the phrase “Invaded” China with “advanced into China.” One clearly gives off a more positive notation to what the Japanese were doing infiltrating Chinese borders in the first place. They were merely “advancing” through China. Debatable documents were released on both sides, releasing “evidence” of what each country believed really took place. In 1982 a photo magazine released into schools and libraries in China and Japan. This magazine in Chinese read” An Iron Mountain of Testimony of Heinous Crimes in the Japanese Army’s Invasion of China,” and in Japanese it read “Unshakeable Proof of the Japanese Army’s Invasion of China.” The result was consecutive releases of more and more magazines like this portraying the horrific acts of the Nanking Atrocity. This publication was available to both Chinese and Japanese citizens, and would cause even more protest on both sides. The KMT created a History Compilation Committee to organize and compile a large amount of documentation that would to prove what events took place during the Japanese occupation of Nanking. In August 1985, a monument called the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanking Massacre was created in Nanking. The largest inscription on the sight says very clearly the number “300,000” and next to it says “victims” in three different languages. Nanking has become a symbol, and the Chinese government's ironclad stance on “300,000” dead has continually been a problem between China and

country, and Japan had taken over parts of China. The United States of America was stuck in the