Nanjing Rape

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

there are some who do not , will often describe it as having took place between December of 1937 to March of 1938 . However, to not include the victims of those killed by the Shanghai Expeditionary Force and the 10th Army that marched from their respective landing spots to Nanjing, raping, pillaging and murdering everything in their path would be a gross miscarriage of justice to the family members of those victims, and the victims themselves. Hiraoka Masaaki, a Japanese writer, agrees as he wrote a similar view in his book What Did the Japanese do in China?:
The Nanjing Massacre does not stand alone as an act of barbarism occurring within the city limits of Nanjing. We have to speak in terms of the cycle of offense against and defense of the major cities and the capital occurring in the approximately four months between the Shanghai Incident of August 13 and the occupation of Nanjing on December 13 .
The massacres and atrocities that took place in Nanjing that gave its ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

23rd, 1937 was the day the Shanghai Expeditionary Force landed at Chuanshanzhen and Wusong, two towns along the Yangtze River. At these two locations, begins the Nanjing Massacre or to some the Nanjing Incident. Immediately with the initial landing at Wusong, fighting was intense and costly to many thousands of Japanese lives . Yet despite the Chinese success, the Japanese forces were too strong and were forced to retreat towards Nanjing along the Yangtze River. This occurred after several weeks of fighting within the Wusong-Shanghai area . After the strenuous fighting, the city of Suzhou, an important strategic town the Shanghai Expeditionary Force would take on their path to ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: