The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. Widespread rape and looting also ...

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It describes the events leading up to the Nanking Massacre and the atrocities that were committed. The book presents the view that the Japanese government has not done enough to ...

Website designed and maintained by: Copyright 1997 The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs tells the story in words and more than 400 photographs of the Japanese invasion of China and the sacking of its capital city ...

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and ...

The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 Having already seized and annexed China's Manchurian region (1931) and Jehol province (1933), the Japanese were waiting for a pretext to invade and occupy the whole of China. That pretext came in July ...

2006/11/18 · http://RapeofNanking.info Rape of Nanking - Nanjing Massacre. Japanse Atrocities in Asia. Part I of 2. This documentary, by Rhawn Joseph is based on 20 years... ... It happened. No point denying it. And the people that are denying it just for the ...

Films about the Rape of Nanking The present-day controversy over the Rape of Nanking is reflected in the videos offered on You Tube. Many of the videos go into the history of the Rape of Nanking, while a number of videos take the position that the ...

The Official site of Iris Chang the Movie - Rape of Nanking, is a feature-length documentary film about a young woman’s journey to bring one of the darkest chapters of history to light. In July 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army, which already ...

Facing the Darkness: Sunnyvale writer Iris Chang confronts a black chapter in Sino-Japanese history with 'The Rape of Nanking.' Photo by Christopher Gardner Sunnyvale-based author Iris Chang gives voice to a new era of Chinese activism--much of ...

Book Clubs - About Penguin Group USA, Inc. ... INTRODUCTION Once encircled by an ancient, immense stone wall built during the Ming dynasty, Nanking was a city of imperial palaces and lavish tombs.