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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NANJING MASACRE AND HOW JAPAN HAS ACTED AFTER THE EVENT
Seth Linder
HST_103_56
October 31, 2017
The Nanjing Massacre or often called the Rape of Nanking was a horrifying time for the Chinese people. The citizens of Nanjing were brutally raped and killed including soldiers, women, children and even elders. The Nanjing Massacre was all done during World War II from the infamous Japanese soldiers. The Chinese government gave up on protecting its city and borders letting the Japanese come in and do as they please to the people of Nanjing. The Chinese government and military gave Nanjing a death wish as they did not allow the people to flee with them. Now, in today's’ era, China remembers …show more content…
Nanjing is a city on the west part of China only a couple of hundred miles out from the border of Shanghai. During WWII Japan was part of the Axis which included Germany and Italy. Japan wanted to increase their empire by spreading their teachings and gaining more and more land throughout their campaign. On that trail to acquire more land was China, one of Japan's neighboring Countries. Japan struggled to defeat the Chinese Front in Shanghai, demoralizing the army and Japanese citizens. In the Book, The Rape of Nanking Chang says, "In the 1930s, Japanese military leaders had boasted-and seriously believed-that Japan could conquer all of mainland China within three months. But when a battle in a single Chinese city alone fragged from summer to fall, and then from fall to winter, it shattered Japanese fantasies of an easy victory." Finally, once Japan had broken through and won on the first front, they had marked their next attack on Nanjing. The government of China knew they would be incapable of holding Nanjing, so they left only a small number of soldiers behind to protect the city from the incoming Japanese. Once Japan had breached through into the city, there was nothing left for the people of Nanking to do other than greeting the Japanese soldiers, only hoping to find refuge and remorse, because their government and army left them there to die. However, this was not the case. The first thing the Japanese did …show more content…
"1: THE PATH TO NANKING." In The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, 19-34. New York: Basic Books, 1997. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cdocument%7C2558030.
Fogel, Joshua A. The Nanjing Massacre in history and historiography, 136. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Yamamoto, Masahiro. "Conclusion." In Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity, 282-90.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cdocument%7C2783874.
"Japan’s Apologies for World War II." The New York Times. August 13, 2015. Accessed
October 31, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/13/world/asia/japan-ww2-shinzo-abe.html.
"Will Japan's war apologies ever satisfy China?" East Asia Forum. November 05, 2015.
Accessed October 31, 2017.
Seth Linder
HST_103_56
October 31, 2017
The Nanjing Massacre or often called the Rape of Nanking was a horrifying time for the Chinese people. The citizens of Nanjing were brutally raped and killed including soldiers, women, children and even elders. The Nanjing Massacre was all done during World War II from the infamous Japanese soldiers. The Chinese government gave up on protecting its city and borders letting the Japanese come in and do as they please to the people of Nanjing. The Chinese government and military gave Nanjing a death wish as they did not allow the people to flee with them. Now, in today's’ era, China remembers …show more content…
Nanjing is a city on the west part of China only a couple of hundred miles out from the border of Shanghai. During WWII Japan was part of the Axis which included Germany and Italy. Japan wanted to increase their empire by spreading their teachings and gaining more and more land throughout their campaign. On that trail to acquire more land was China, one of Japan's neighboring Countries. Japan struggled to defeat the Chinese Front in Shanghai, demoralizing the army and Japanese citizens. In the Book, The Rape of Nanking Chang says, "In the 1930s, Japanese military leaders had boasted-and seriously believed-that Japan could conquer all of mainland China within three months. But when a battle in a single Chinese city alone fragged from summer to fall, and then from fall to winter, it shattered Japanese fantasies of an easy victory." Finally, once Japan had broken through and won on the first front, they had marked their next attack on Nanjing. The government of China knew they would be incapable of holding Nanjing, so they left only a small number of soldiers behind to protect the city from the incoming Japanese. Once Japan had breached through into the city, there was nothing left for the people of Nanking to do other than greeting the Japanese soldiers, only hoping to find refuge and remorse, because their government and army left them there to die. However, this was not the case. The first thing the Japanese did …show more content…
"1: THE PATH TO NANKING." In The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, 19-34. New York: Basic Books, 1997. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cdocument%7C2558030.
Fogel, Joshua A. The Nanjing Massacre in history and historiography, 136. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Yamamoto, Masahiro. "Conclusion." In Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity, 282-90.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cdocument%7C2783874.
"Japan’s Apologies for World War II." The New York Times. August 13, 2015. Accessed
October 31, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/13/world/asia/japan-ww2-shinzo-abe.html.
"Will Japan's war apologies ever satisfy China?" East Asia Forum. November 05, 2015.
Accessed October 31, 2017.