Summary: The Rape Of Nanking

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The Rape of Nanking was a historical event in which the genocide of the Chinese people occurred during the siege of the city in 1937. The events before the actual siege define the role of the Japanese army in allowing the corrupt and immoral leadership of Prince Asaka and General Matsui to oversee the military operations. Under this leadership, the Japanese troops did not follow policies of international ware agreements, which led to the rape of women and the genocidal practices of genocidal extermination of children, women, and men through the actions of General Yanagawa Heisuke and Lieut. General Nakajima Kesago. This type of genocidal ideology is found in Nakajima’s role “as a sadist who packed for his journey to Nanking special oil for burning bodies” (Chang …show more content…
In essence, the historical views of the Rape of Nanking define the lack of enforcement of international law and the immoral and depraved Japanese leadership that allowed the rape and murder of innocent civilians during this Japanese military …show more content…
During the 1980s, the Japanese nation had a powerful economy through its alliance with the United States, which crated a revisionist sense of history about the event, especially in the publication of the "Fabrication of Nanjing Massacre" by Masaaki Tanaka. In the book, Tanaka claimed that there was no indiscriminate killing at all in Nanking, and the so-called Nanking massacre was a fabrication and that the Tokyo Trial had “overlooked atrocities by Chinese soldiers” (Fogel 87). This type of historical revisionist claim is one reason why China demanded a trial on a fact-finding basis to resolve these false claims. Certainly, the Chinese felt that it was necessary to counter these revisionist historical accusations made by the Japanese in the
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