The Rape of Nanking (Nanjing Massacre) Blog

Korean "comfort women" liberated by Chinese troops from the Japanese army, September 1944. /VCG In December 1937, Minnie Vautrin stood at the gates of Ginling College in Nanking, physically blocking Japanese soldiers from dragging Chinese women out of the refugee camp. She would repeat this act dozens of times each day for weeks. Her diary entries from that period make for harrowing reading: soldiers arriving in trucks to select women like livestock, girls as young as 11 bein

Atomic bomb blast of Nagasaki and Japanese soldiers using prisoners of war for bayonet practice. Every August, the world remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the only two cities ever attacked with nuclear weapons. The images are seared into collective memory: mushroom clouds, shadow burns on concrete, victims with keloid scars, the haunting ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome. Japan has built its post-war identity around these events, positioning itself as the ultimate victim of World

Japanese soldiers burying live Chinese prisoner near Nanking, China. I n December 1937, the ancient capital of Nanking fell to Japanese forces in one of World War II's most horrific atrocities. Over six weeks, Japanese soldiers murdered an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war, raped tens of thousands of women, and destroyed much of the city. These are not contested claims from distant observers—they are documented facts recorded in real-time by