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Nanjing Massacre
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Nanjing Massacre

 or Rape of Nanjing

(December 1937–January 1938) Mass killing and rape of Chinese people in Nanjing by Japanese soldiers after the Japanese had captured the city on Dec. 13, 1937. The Japanese commander ordered the destruction of Nanjing, which had been the Nationalist Chinese capital. Estimates of the number killed range from 100,000 to more than 300,000, and tens of thousands of rapes were committed. Japanese wartime brutality in China contributed to cool relations between the two countries into the 21st century. See also war crime; World War II.



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More discord is expected next month with the release of several films marking the 70th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre when, many historians claim, Japanese troops slaughtered as many as 300,000 Chinese civilians.
Canada) and his colleagues introduce new research findings on the Nanking Atrocity of 1937-38--alternatively known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking--collectively finding that "the Atrocity was a shameful violation of law and morality" by the Japanese, but also finding themselves in "grudging and qualified agreement that certain intractable facts betray key points in the official Chinese narrative and in Western accounts that follow it.
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