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Nov 9, 2009 · In late 1937, over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people—including both soldiers and civilians—in the Chinese city of Nanjing...
- Nanking Massacre. December 1937 – January 1938. After losing the battle of Shanghai in 1937 the Chinese Revolutionary Army, led by Chiang Kai-Shek, was aware of the impossibility of holding the city of Nanking, despite the heavy casualties which had been inflicted on the Japanese.
- Unit 731. Manchukuo 1935-1945. Unit 731 was part of the Japanese Army in the puppet state of Manchukuo, used to conduct human experimentation, biological, and chemical warfare experiments.
- Comfort Women. 1932-1945. Beginning in Shanghai in territory conceded by the Chinese to the Japanese, comfort stations were established for the benefit of Japanese troops.
- Retaliation for the Doolittle Raid. 1942. In 1942, in a mission which was largely undertaken as a boost to American morale following Pearl Harbor, Army bombers took off from a Navy carrier to strike the Japanese mainland.
During its imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents have been referred to as "the Asian Holocaust ", [3] [4] as "Japan's Holocaust", [5] and also as the "Rape of Asia". [6]
The Nanjing Massacre [2] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [note 2]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army.
May 8, 2024 · Nanjing Massacre, mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, in December 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II.
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- The Nanjing Massacre, also called Rape of Nanjing (December 1937–January 1938), was the mass killing and the ravaging of Chinese citizens and capit...
- Estimates of the number of Chinese killed in the Nanjing Massacre range from 100,000 to more than 300,000.
- The destruction of Nanjing was ordered by Matsui Iwane, commanding general of the Japanese Central China Front Army. Japanese soldiers carried out...
- Shortly after the end of World War II, Matsui Iwane and Tani Hisao, a lieutenant general who had personally participated in acts of murder and rape...
Oct 30, 2014 · The atrocity that took place in Nanjing, in six weeks between December and January of 1937 to '38, was one of the greatest war crimes during World War II. And I'd say, in some sense, we can understand in quite a simple way what happened.
Mar 14, 2016 · The Nanjing Atrocities. Explore this collection of lesson plans and student materials that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia. Published: March 14, 2016. Last Updated: September 1, 2022. Share to Google Classroom. Print this Page. At a Glance. Collection. Language. English — US. Subject. History.
