The Nanking massacre was an act of genocide and mass rape brought on to the people of Nanking, China by Japanese troops during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The atrocities began on December 13, 1937 and continued, day in and day out, for six weeks. According to an article by Michael Chapman regarding the incident, “the Japanese hastily tortured, raped, mutilated and murdered an estimated 300,000 Chinese men, women and children” (10).
The attack on Nanking was ordered after the Japanese suffered heavy casualties after invading the city of Shanghai. Japan finally captured Shanghai in November, with the help of their navy. The General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo had originally decided not to expand the war, but on December 1st they ordered the
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He and his staff realized that they could not risk the annihilation of their elite troops in a symbolic but hopeless defense of the capital. Nearly all official chinese troops were removed from the city for fear that they would be killed and China would be rendered useless for future battles. Chiang's strategy was to follow the suggestion of his German advisers to draw the Japanese army deep into China and use China's vast territory as a defensive strength. Chiang planned to fight a protracted war of attrition to wear down the Japanese in the hinterland of …show more content…
He boarded the USS Panay on December 9. From this gunboat, Rabe sent two telegrams. The first was through an American ambassador in Hankow to Chiang, asking that Chinese forces undertake no military operations within Nanking. The second telegram was sent through Shanghai to Japanese military leaders, advocating for a three-day cease-fire so the Chinese could withdraw from the city. The following day, on December 10, Rabe got his answer from the Chiang. The American ambassador in Hankow replied that although he supported Rabe's proposal for a cease-fire, Chiang did
...target to escape and even held a competition of the person who kills 100 people first will win the game. The Japanese keeps denying their actions and refuse to give an official apology to all the offenders. Their officials go to shrine to pay homage on their so-called heroes, ignoring how these “heroes” have deeply injured the Chinese. During the Holocaust, alive human beings were taken to the chamber of gas and organs were taken to do the experiment. How the Nazi treated the Jewish was similar to how the Japanese treated the Chinese.
Thus, the Japanese began to resort to ghastly measures to prevent a humiliating defeat. Japanese aggression originated in the fall of 1931 when the explosion of a section of the South Manchurian Railway in northern China occurred, causing Japan’s Kwangtung Army, who was guarding the railroad, to exchange fire with the Chinese Army and then proceed to occupy all of Manchuria. Soon after, the Kwangtung Army set up a puppet government and renamed the region Manchukuo. The Chinese Army claimed that the Japanese purposely blew up part of the railroad to initiate a confrontation and therefore a reason to occupy Manchuria.2 Later, in 1937, Japan decided to go ahead with plans to further invade China, and conquered most of the northern and eastern regions within a year. This was later termed the "China Incident" because Japan had never formally declared war on China.... ...
...ce of ordinary people, fear of retribution from the Japanese underground they still believed to be in existence… (Yamamoto p. 190).” Even after the war, the Chinese were so traumatized by the vile actions that they were still afraid that the Japanese army would return to treat as livestock once more.
The Rape of Nanking started on December 13, 1937. This was the day the Japanese invaded Nanking (now Nanjing), which was then the capital of Nationalist China (Cook). The Japanese Army faced little resistance as the Chinese Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, evacuated his troops before the invaders advanced. After seven weeks of Japanese atrocities, the killings ended in early 1938 (The Rape of Nanking). Japanese soldiers finally left Nanking in early February when they needed to continue the attack on China.
With this in mind, Korean Armistice talks started on July 10 of 1951 with Charles Joy primarily representing South Korea and the United States of America, while Nam II represented North Korea and the communist forces. These talks of Korean Armistice which occurred regularly in the city of Kaesong made a vast amount of progress to a point where Joy and Nam forged an agenda. Unfortunately, these talks were delayed on August 23, 1951, since North Korea claimed that Kaesong was bombed and proceeded to demand that the United Nations Command perform an investigation. In spite of these events, the investigation did not play a major role in the talks of Armistice due to China’s active resistance of an investigation conducted by the United Nations Command. As a result, the United States of America and South Korea believed North Korea fabricated the claim thus postponing Armistice talks as a result of rising tensions. Eventually, Armistice talks emerged again in October 1951 at the village of Panmunjom. Even though Armistice talks were progressing at this time there was further conflict associated with the content of the Korean Armistice Agreement. As a result, the Korean Armistice Agreement almost failed, due to the issue of how each country would release their prisoners of war. President Rhee of South Korea almost prolonged the war by ordering
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
They had overrun Manchuria and established it as a state, renaming it Manchukuo. Subsequently, they tried to expand their budding empire by conquering China. However, they encountered the Chinese resistance, governed by Chiang Kai-shek. The Japanese attempted to reduce China into submission which ended up causing crisis and being extremely unsuccessful. They struggled to adopt economic strangulation methods, seizing major coastal ports in 1939 forcing the Chinese capital to move from Nanjing to Hankow, furthermore in 1940 the French permitted the entry of Japan in Indochina. However, a treaty was made with Thailand on account of Japan was threatening China’s last supply line, Burma Road. Consequently, the US, Netherlands and Great Britain imposed economic restrictions cutting off 90% of their materials required for war production, obligating Japan to choose between abandoning their efforts or seizing areas rich with raw materials. For Japan, abandonment was unthinkable making the decision
The Sad Truth In March 1968, the worst incident of cruelty against Vietnamese citizens throughout the entire Vietnam War took place. A squadron of Americans soldiers ended the lives of nearly all who lived in a small southern vietnamese community called My Lai. No one knows the exact death toll caused by the American soldiers, but it is presumed to be around 500 people. Everyone killed was unarmed, and 0 shots were fired by any Vietnamese during the slaughter.
The Funhouse Massacre Sometimes you just need to shut your brain off and watch a dumb movie. The Funhouse Massacre is a dumb movie. It's got sketchy acting and some bad parts, but you know what? It's a helluva lot of fun to watch. For every bad thing that comes up on the screen, there is two or three fun as hell stuff flying right at you.
When 1937 arrived, Japanese soldiers raided China’s capital of Nanking and began to mass murder citizens. A sole leader of the Japanese Imperial Army was non-existent. There were many of people in power such as generals who allowed these behaviors to occur. Baron Koki Hirota, Foreign minister at the time, proceeded to do nothing while being well aware of the Japanese’s persecution of the Chinese. These unsympathetic murders of those who were thought to be Chinese soldiers as well as woman, children and elderly. This massacre lasted between the 1937 and 1938. Within this time 300,000 Chinese citizens were viciously killed. This genocide is called Rape of Nanking because of raping the woman before killing them. Most likely this group was selected because the second world war happened in Asia. This was significant because a country was able to kill half the population of another. I believe the reason of this Genocide was for Japan to take advantage of China while expand Japan. Most likely the Japanese wished to exterminate China’s entire population.
Japan's attacking China in 1937 is a crime against humanity. On July 7, 1937, Japan attacked Beijing using a missing soldier as an excuse, without no official declaration to war against China. On December 13, 1937, Japan started a series of massacre in Nanking, which resulted in a casualty of 300,000. During the three-month-long massacre, Japanese army kill for pure fun, and their crime include brutal rape of innocent women, beheading civilians as competition, and murder newborn babies. Unit 731 of Japanese army used Chinese people as human test subjects to develop chemical weapon to win the war. They performed amputation and poison gas test on innocent Chinese civilians. When the war reached stalemate, and Japanese troops suffered from hunger, they kill war prisoners and eat the bodies. Japanese officers forced Chinese women to be "comfort lady" for the troops. While the name sounded great, reality was that these "comfort ladies" ended up raped by Japanese soldiers over and over again until death. (Yoshimi 146) These were all crime against h...
The Japanese leaders had different methods of killing that were instructed to the soldiers. However, the prisoners of this “City of Blood” soon found their liberation and their justice was served. The Japanese saw China as the place to spread their imperial and expansionist objectives. A rough estimate of 300,000 Chinese men and women died in the six weeks after December 13, 1937 (Jones). Around 20,000 women from ages 8 to 70 were raped by Japanese soldiers (Scarred).
Many were people fleeing from the Japanese Government that was destroying areas by the second. On November 11, 1937 after securing control of Shanghai the Japanese army advanced towards Nanking from many different directions. In early December Japanese troops were already on the outskirts of Nanking. December 9th the Japanese troops launched a massive attack upon the city.
...t (Brown, p.17). On October 7 the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for unification of Korea and authorized MacArthur to send his forces into North Korea. The North Korean capital of Pyongyang fell on October 19, and the allied UN troops flooded north effectively unopposed. They pushed the North Korean forces to the Yalu River, which formed the North Korean border with the region of China.
The Kwangju Massacre, also widely known as the Kwangju Democratic Uprising to those who support the movement played a significant role in the course of democratization of South Korea. This research paper focuses on why the Kwangju Uprising occurred and the role of the United States. Many South Koreans felt that the United States supported President Chun’s military government and outlook the injustice that was taking place in Kwangju. The Kwagju Massacre ended with the army seizing the Province hall once again on May 27th 1980. Even with the defeat, the Kwangju Uprising gave aspiration to the citizen that they are able to bring change in the government policies.