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The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) 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 7, 2023 · In the six weeks during which the Japanese perpetrated the Nanking Massacre starting on December 13, 1937, an estimated 20,000 to 80,000 Chinese women were brutally raped and sexually assaulted by the invading soldiers, according to the book The Rape Of Nanking. They sometimes went door-to-door, dragging out women and children and gang-raping them.
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 ...
Jun 18, 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. Casualty estimates for the massacre range from 100,000 to more than 300,000.
Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army marched from Shanghai to the Chinese capital city of Nanjing (Nanking), and though a large number of Chinese POWs and civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese following their entrance into Nanjing on December 13, 1937, the precise number remains unknown. Since ...
Feb 9, 2010 · In what became known as the “Rape of Nanking,” the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 ...
Dec 13, 2021 · Students wearing face masks hold flowers mourn for the victims of the Nakjing Massacre at a mass burial site during the annual commemoration of the 1937 Nanking Massacre in Nanjing in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021.
Apr 11, 2005 · Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanjing and embarked on a campaign of murder, rape and looting. Thousands of bodies were buried in ditches. Based on estimates made by historians and...
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing 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.
Also known as the “Rape of Nanjing,” Nanjing Massacre refers to the mass killings of disarmed Chinese soldiers and civilians, as well as other atrocities such as rape and looting, committed by the Japanese troops after they occupied Nanjing in the winter of 1937–1938.
