The Rape of Nanking: Nanjing Massacre
The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937.
The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.
During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.
Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, it is claimed that a large number of innocent men were intentionally identified as enemy combatants and executed—or simply killed outright—as the massacre gathered momentum.
A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
I begin to follow you until you went off with God being the diviner of all things. Believe as you wish. But I think Ill rely on logic and secular history to give me a less biased screed. You fail to mention that the "largest group of Foundimg Fathers consisted of founders who retained Christian loyalties and practice but were influenced by Deism. They believed in little or none of the miracles and supernaturalism inherent in the Judeo-Christian tradition." Such men as ra
John Adams and George Washington to Benjamin Franklin and James Monroe on the skeptical left.
What a ridiculous response. It almost excuses the Japanese. The Chinese, still a developing country at that time, was enveloped by a far superior armed and trained military. So much so, their pilots had to go to the US in some cases to obtain training, had to move their own in-country flight training to another part of the country and US volunteer pilots flew over the Burma hump to deliver supplies. I recommend that you get Barbara Tuchman's book "Stilwell and the American Experience in China - 1911-1945." Four-star General Joseph Stilwell diaries of that era were also published after his death.
you know lord i could never watch this; John 2:19
from this video, its clear this mass massacre could have been prevented if the chinese army and their halfwit commanders had a backbone, and a plan
I watched this documentary and it was painful because of the absolute rubbish it contained.
The Nanking Massacre was committed by Chiang Kai shek during his "scorched earth" leave nothing for the enemy period.
Chiang was an out of control madman who slaughtered thousands of his own troops, destroyed roads, railways, bridges, sunk boats in order to stop them from deserting Nanking. He even leveled buildings to the ground so that his soldiers had nowhere to hide.
Chiang Kai shek was so bad, that after the communists won their civil war, they decided that their bloody history needed whitewashing, so they simply erased him from memory.
No prizes given out for guessing who got the blame for all his atrocities,.........Japan!
Rummel's Encyclopedia of Genocide, ranks Chiang as the world's fourth greatest mass murderer, slaughtering ten million Chinese from 1927-1949, yet Iris Chang and China never mentioned the fact,......why is that?....
I believe that Iris Chang had been radicalized by the cult organization Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia, who supplied her with the atrocity images for her book "The Rape of Nanking"
When Iris discovered that all the images in her book were fake, it was all too much for her, let down by the people she loved and trusted, she committed suicide in 2004
China have spent billions keeping the Nanking Massacre fantasy alive with global news agencies, overseas Asian communities, politicians, UNESCO, fake maps, fake memorials, monuments, museums, movies, documentaries, educational study tours, teachers, lectures, books, fake witnesses and survivors, petitions, charities, the list is endless.
China is still fighting a full blown propaganda war with Japan, but are now losing, they forget that history has already been written by someone, somewhere at sometime.
The only victims here are the Japanese people, it is criminal what China has done to Japan.
It was Joseph Goebbels who stated" If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it"...but I say the bigger the lie, the less likely it will be considered fake, and this one is a whopper!
Did you know that the so called "reliable" western witnesses, the missionaries, businessmen were all booted out of communist China for being either supporters, advisors, or spies to Chiang's nationalist government? Some even acted as witnesses at the IMTFE,......what a travesty of justice!
The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. Some of the comments suggested the non-existence of God because such terrible atrocities occurred, since some viewers held the view that God, if He existed, would never have allowed such an explosion of Japanese gleeful mass torture and murder to occur, and further that God, if He existed, would never have allowed the atomic bombings of women and children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who comprised the vast majority of victims in those bombings (along with workers essential to the Japanese war effort, the blind, the severely disabled who could not serve in the Japanese military, and the elderly).
It is apparent that these viewers/commentators have little if any understanding about the necessity of atomic bombings of Japan in WW II and even less about the God of Abraham. The following is posted to impart a better understanding of both WW II Japan and the Lord's involvement (or, to the uninformed, the lack thereof) in WW II.
God had nothing to do with the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just as He had nothing to do with the Japanese decisions to commit the worst savagery and mass murder in recorded history in Nanking in 1937, a savagery which exceeded even the evil of the Nazi, who at least murdered his victim relatively quickly with bullets and gas. Japanese military commanders, when they knew that Japan had lost the war, trained civilians, even children as young as 10 years of age, to attack invading Allied forces with sharpened bamboo sticks, with the full knowledge that Allied gunfire would kill those civilians by the tens of thousands, and in a protracted defense of the island, maybe even by the millions.
Allied intelligence estimated that an invasion of Japan would cost the lives of 250,000 to 500,000 American and Allied soldiers, and it would have been treasonous for Truman to sacrifice so many when it was possible to end the war with atomic bombs without the loss of a single Allied soldier. The military pride, arrogance, and complete lack of regard for human suffering and human life exhibited by the Japanese military leaders caused the massive death and destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, not President Truman and certainly not God. God gave Man the priceless gift of free will, without which the very concept of love, the survival of the family unit through the ages, and the co-existence of nations could never have existed. But some men, such as the Japanese military leaders, chose to exercise their free will to torture and murder their neighbors to enrich themselves by stealing their neighbor's resources and padding their military careers with war. The Japanese disemboweled pregnant Chinese women with bayonets, beheaded helpless civilians, including children, burned people alive, and even ripped them apart by tying them alive to vehicles which were then driven in opposite directions. This face-to-face savagery exceeded even that of the Nazi, who at least as stated had the humanity (for most victims) to kill the innocent relatively quickly with bullets and gas. And the Japanese population, before and during the war, herded into the streets of Japanese cities by the tens of thousands to cheer the murderous plans of the Japanese military and to cheer the Emperor, whom they falsely believed was a "god." All of them seemed to have forgotten at the time that "what goes around, comes around" and what came around was Fat Man and Little Boy. There was no choice to do otherwise, except to sacrifice the lives of 250K to 500K Allied soldiers, and that was by any reckoning no choice at all.
God did not chose to start WW II. Men did. Japanese, Italian, and German men. And, for those of you who seem so ill informed, the US did take action in response to the Nanking savagery by cutting off war material sales to Japan, primarily rubber and oil. It was this decision by FDR which prompted the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor in the hope of crippling the US Navy and forcing the US to negotiate a peace to include the resumption of US rubber and oil supply sales to Japan, so that Japan could continue the subjugation of other Asian peoples in the Far East.
By the way, the US Armed Forces have never, ever engaged in face-to-face savagery even remotely akin to that of the Japanese in WW II. Even the US Gov't's worst shame, the conquering and treaty violations of Native Americans, and even slavery, does not remotely approach the savagery of the Japanese at Nanking or other Japanese barbarisms in WW II. Even the Nazis, unlike the Japanese, did not use POW's for bayonet practice and target practice. Even the Nazi did not work, starve, and march the POW to exhaustion and then shoot him or bayonet him when he collapsed. Even the Nazi, as a matter of national policy, did not burn his victim alive or rip the living victim's body in half.
The WW II Japanese military commander, and to some extent the ordinary Japanese soldier who perpetrated Nanking and other atrocities, was not merely a war criminal - he was a heinous, murderous monster borne of a brutal cultural history in which the Samurai could legally behead his fellow citizen for an offense so mild as mere perceived disrespect. The United States, England, Free France, Australia, and other Allied nations gave civilization a great gift by ending that culture in WW II. It should not be forgotten that Japanese newspapers of the day regularly reported an on-going, popular contest between two Japanese officers in occupied China in which those officers sought to be the first to decapitate 100 Chinese POW's. The Japanese people at the time were quaint, polite, and industrious - but the Japanese population bought those newspapers and followed that bloody, merciless contest with interest, reading just how many Chinese POW's the competing officers beheaded as the weeks wore on. The Japanese population as a whole was not innocent. They actively supported, respected, and cheered the most inhume, cruel, murderous military establishment in recorded history, including the Nazis, who murdered many innocent more human beings than the Japanese, but who did so in largely industrialized fashion, not the gleeful face-to-face butchering perpetrated upon the innocent by the Japanese.
All of the foregoing is an historical truth which cannot be denied by any intelligent, informed mind, but that is not to say that "the Japs got what was coming to 'em," a popular Allied sentiment at the close of WW II. But it is to say this: the Japanese on the whole denied and rejected the God of Abraham, and they paid a horrific price for it. To be sure, the Germans also suffered in the war, with several major cites bombed into ruin, with 100,000 women raped by occupying Soviet forces in Berlin alone at the close of the war, with the loss of 8-10 million soldiers, the loss of thousands of civilians in Allied bombing raids, and destruction of infrastructure as well as civil government and organizations. But the defeat of Germany, whose people did not deny and reject God but many of whom attended Lutheran and Catholic church services, did not involve the level and scope of destruction and loss of life endured by the God-less Japanese (the Japanese "appointment" of Hirohito as a "god" was itself a rejection of the God of Abraham, and so the Japanese were in fact -for the most part - a "godless" people). See the correlation here? Allied nations believed in and followed the God of Abraham in those years, and they won the most destructive, bloody war in recorded history and emerged as the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth at the close of the conflict. The German people did not reject God, but followed a leader (Hitler) who not only ignored God's teachings but violated them on an industrialized scale, and they lost the war and they suffered, but not nearly as much as the Japanese people suffered. Most Japanese denied and rejected the God of Abraham, and they not only lost the war, they suffered more than the Germans in the process, and suffered as a people more than any other nation .... the Jews of Europe suffered, losing an estimated 6 million lives, but they were not a nation then, and the Jewish elders, steeped in their own rules of conduct and their own interpretation of the Old Testament, counseled the Jewish people not to resist the Nazis, despite Mein Kampf, and despite the clear evidence that the Nazis planned to first disenfranchise and then to annihilate the Jewish people. Clearly, the Jewish elders did not consult God in this terrible time, and clearly did not attend to the many instances in the Old Testament in which God used his people to kill His enemies and the enemies of his chosen people. The Jewish elders followed their own will, thinking it more beneficial to go along with the Nazis rather than resist them, until it was too late. In both the Old Testament - the Jewish bible - and the New, God is clear that He will not force a change the will of a man, be he Rabbi or Nazi. However, since becoming a nation they have defeated their Arab enemies against overwhelming odds, not once, but three times to establish and secure the State of Israel, a prediction found hundreds of years earlier in the Old Testament. The founding of the nation of Israel was part of God's plan, a plan which the Nazis paradoxically made possible. There's that correlation again ... get it?
The Japanese, like the Germans, started WW II with a string of victories and an accumulation of stolen riches of various sorts. Neither looked to God to guide them, both were confident in their power, and their power at the outset of the war was fearsome. Japanese atrocities and their bloody defeat in WW II is not by any means a stoking of hatred or even a pronouncement of punishment deserved .. it is a lesson. A simple lesson. Nations who deny and abandon God are doomed. In this vein, if you are so uninformed as to think that the military might of the US and its allies alone defeated the most powerful army ever to appear on the earth - the German Army - you have simply failed to study the war in Europe. Start your own study - it's fun, and you'll discover an array of improbable if not seemingly impossible events (including but not limited to a 3 dumb decisions by Hitler) which allowed the Allied victory, and you'll discover that the absence of any one of those events could have ended the war differently and the absence of just of few of them in combination would almost certainly brought a very different end to WW II. The number and scope of those events could not by chance have occurred - there's just too many of them to have been mere dumb luck. The people of the US prayed to God in earnest throughout the war, and even Stalin rescinded the restrictions and harassment of the church in Russia, and the Russian people returned to God in droves (after the war, God was again denied by Russian leaders by official fiat ... and the Soviet Union collapsed while the US prospered and grew in wealth and stature - that's another story, but one cannot help but observe that, well, there's that dang correlation again!!).
The lesson is, again, simple: no nation is so powerful that it can endure and prosper in the face of denial and rejection of the God of Abraham. Excluding the US after WW II, a nation which continued to recognize God, Japan and Germany were the most powerful nations ever to exist on the earth, and no nation, not imperial Rome, not Alexander the Great, or any other power even came close to the power of Germany and Japan in the 1930's. And yet, in few short years later in the 1940's, the governments of both of those nations came to a disastrous end. And the more-or-less godless Soviets, at least its godless government, few decades later, also came to an end. Lo and behold, there's that same correlation, jumping out at ya' again.
The US is unlikely to be defeated by the military might of an enemy, but the end of the US as we know it could well come to end .... just check out the dynamics and effects of hyperinflation, and then check out the tax/revenue/ spending trap of US lawmakers. Check out the Federal Reserve Bank (a private, profit making entity, by the way) and its power to set interest rates and to "manufacture" money. Check out the purchase pattern of US securities on the world market with mere "purchase orders." Then, check out the biblical description of and the nature of the destruction of the "Great Prostitute" in Revelations 17-18. And while you're at it, check out the precursor to the Great Prostitute's destruction in Revelations 13:11-18. Don't miss the symbolism ... read carefully and slowly ... find out what the "Great Prostitute" and the mark of the beast - 666 - really means (here's a hint: throughout the Jewish and Christian bible - i.e. the Old and New Testaments - "7" represents God, and "6" represents Man). Then, revisit the tax/revenue/ spending trap of US lawmakers, the role of the Federal Reserve Bank in the US and world economy, the basis of the value of US securities on the world market, and the purchase of same with mere "purchase orders." And check out US judicial rulings and executive action concerning religion in America, or perhaps more to the point, rulings and executive action related to the teachings per se in the Christian religion, and by extension, the Jewish religion. Check out the rise (sexual as well as moral and financial) of hedonism in American culture in recent decades. Even you avowed atheists cannot fail to get this. It looks like that same ole' correlation, coming at you yet again.
Is the US too powerful and wealthy to fail? So was Japan. So was Germany. So was the USSR. And so goes the Peoples Republic of China, were it not for its decision to radically modify its socialist economic system, and perhaps ... (merely coincidental and/or a facade related to relations with the US, you atheists might say) and its apparent decision to relax it's oppression of Chinese Christians.
US tax/revenue/ spending practices are breaking through the monetary bathroom door with a financial ax to announce "Wendy, I'm home!" to the terrified wife (read in - the US electorate and business community) We just don't know how this show ends yet - but we're all hoping that said financial practices end up, well, out in the cold. We hope. We're all hoping that some segment of the US economy / political power structure doesn't just feel like giving up and saying that it would sell its soul for a drink (read in - the goodies of 'gov't spending without paying the cost), which it seeks for free. Right now, it seems like we're having a curious conversation with a Delbert Grady (read in - a cultural and political hedonism figure who is anxious to give us what we want, but proffers lies and tells us we can get what we want if we'll just consent to a heinous violation of God's laws) in the privacy of the bathroom (read in, the protagonist /politicians don't wish to be overheard by the patrons / US citizens who are ultimately funding the whole enterprise). How will we respond in this conversation? Is the same ole' correlation (albeit driven by financial and moral folly instead of military folly) coming at us yet again?
To plagiarize Bill O' Reilly, what say you?
this is not the first time japanese troops have committed such crimes. during second war japanese military kidnapped aprox 300- 400 thousand women and girls from middle east. u know why? since there were incidents of military officer committing rape. they found a solution to kidnap girls in order to stop such crimes and maintain discipline inside military. what a pathetic excuse to hide their never ending lust. these women are raped day and night and often moved from one camp to another. if they got pregnant by any chance they were forced for abortion. these women are generally known as "comfort womens". u can see the twisted mindset of japanese these modern era. just watch there porn movies u will get the idea (insect, rape etc)
i love japanese anime it is such a shame that japan has such a brutal history.
After seeing this I have no qualms about Hiroshima. Yes there were just as many atrocities committed by the Nazis but it an atomic bomb had been dropped on The Third Reich..I would not feel bad that the choice had been made. What went on in Nanking was some freakish demonic acts by soldiers that in no way can even be understood. What is this force of evil within man that had no ounce of consciousness to commit these deplorable acts. That atomic bomb was clearly the only thing that twisted their heads back on straight. So the next time anyone criticizes America's decision to drop the bomb on Japan my only response will be, The Rape of Nanking.
You see how they prop the whites as their saviors,give me a break!
I just watched this and I don't usually comment on here but I had to. This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen in the modern century. This is stuff you hear about happening during ancient times or the days of the Romans if not worse. And I still can't believe that Japan still denies this. Its also sad that the basis of all this is religion, big surprise. Just another reason why I can't do ANY religion. Somebody is always using GOD to justify being better than the next person and killing people.
No explanations are available for the Japanese Hate for the Chinese.
Such pogroms/massacres are committed to spread sheer terror on the
subject enemies to prepare a way for even much bigger atrocities,
perhaps. Any clues regarding that?
this same crap happens all the time today in the usa... in the streets.. alleys.. backwoods.. ghettos... ect.... just a few at a time.. but iam sure if you rounded them all up... their numbers would surpass japans
I grew up liking japan for their technology , dreaming about going to study there , but since I saw the film flowers of war and this documentary , I would be ashamed of being Japanese . I Use to think that Chinese were bad but now I perfectly understand their "hate" towards japan !
If this documentary was meant to make people hate the Japanese, it was well done. And it certainly seemed to be created to do so. I half expected the narrator to suddenly use terms like "dirty Japs" or suggest we exterminate the entire population of the Japanese. In reality, war is barbaric, and warriors are barbaric, and the heart of man can fall into a very dark and depraved state when exposed to violence. Look at the killing squads of the Nazi party who went into countries in the East and gunned down Jews and partisans at the edge of trenches they forced their victims to dig beforehand. The exposure to violence led many to go insane, but many also became bloodthirsty and torturous. Germany was a so-called "evolved and enlightened nation" - but aggression is aggression when the motive behind war is offense and not defense. When a country says, "We will invade you and conquer you," their military is already on the path of brutality and rape.
Ask any Japanese citizen and they would express horror and regret at these atrocities, just as Americans would when hearing about torture methods used after 9/11 on men who were totally innocent. Dangerous to watch a documentary like this one and hate an entire people group as a result. The "Japanese" are individuals whose opinions, temperaments and feelings are as varied as "Americans" - we do not wish all Americans to be hated and painted with the same brush, so let's not do the same thing to others.
This is what happens when you make Man ( any Man ) your God. This is the full throttle of the extent of men's ability to commit atrocieties, and yet, the worst of them all , is to cover it up, say it never happened, twist the words and change history. I read "Rape of Nanking" years ago by Iris Chang- who was so devastated by her research and writings that she became severely depressed and shot herself in the mouth with a revolver. My heart and soul goes to those Chinese, who died at the hands of these.....pigs. SAVE FACE, the JAPANESE way.
my full sympathy to the victims of the nanking torture :(
no one should torture like that </3
My comment is not about the Massacre but about the way the documentary was created. It sounds like a piece of propaganda, and nationalism shamelessly taking advantage of a tragedy.
Things like, "in the 4000 years of history China has never invaded another country", etc. Up until recently China was a series of kingdoms with different customs and languages, similarly with what Europe or India is. Through conquest those kingdoms became what now is China. Continuous wars made the China of today. One Kingdom (Country) invading another.
Anyway, my point is the way the documentary was created is amateurish, often by the use of loaded words. Things like "to their embarrassment the Japanese could not take Shanghai, so they brought reinforcements." In another historical book it said "The Japanese advance was swift and devastating...capturing Shanghai in Nov'37 and Nanjing in Dec'37".
Also "don't do unto others as you would have them do to you" is associated to China (?!) when my Google search found it was said by Jesus (google Luke 6:31). There are many other examples.
This film is more of a nationalistic propaganda piece than a documentary to inform us of the tragedies and horror of war. See the map of China in the film? Well, it includes Tibet, Manchuria, Mongolia and Eastern Turkistan that were not part of China. As a fact Tibet was not conquered until 1959.
I stopped watching it when the commentary got in the way of what could have been a useful documentary. I've read of the Rape of Nanking and will hopefully find a documentary about it that's done in a much better way.
If the Japanese Emperor really was a God, would he need those eyeglasses?
How would rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians be an "atrocities" in a context of war? It is war. You do that in war. Chinese did those things to themselves when they are still divided into smaller tribe. People really need to have some brain.
my full sympathy to the victims of the nanking rape by the japs during 2nd world war.chinese has suffered so much that they should embrace non violence and practise altruism every way as a victim of violence and politics.but now chinese are using so much violence against tibetans inside tibet and occupied tibet in 1959 killing 1.5 million tibetans.chinese should stop cultural genocide inside tibet and respect the tibetans. dont forget what japs did to you and similarly show respect and support tibetans . but china is now so much arrogant that they will not respect tibetans and continue torturing and deny giving basic human rights so, this is what chinese has learned from 2nd world war .
my full sympathy to the victims of the nanking torture by the japs during 2nd world war.but its so strange that chinese suffered so much during 2nd world war but they are now commiting japs mistake of genocide inside tibet.chinese should show sympathy to the tibetans and stop torturing tibetan inside tibet and give basic human rights.japs tortured chinese and chinese now torturing tibetans and raping tibet so ,this is paradox of our age.
after watching this i feel sorry for myself for being so ignorant
I understand history better now but thats not what attract us right
I m afraid of religion
I kink of understand what jap did and why
but of course that doesnt mean i think they're right
if i have the power and lived at that time i would have killed them slowly and then tutore them again
i do think humain can become the most frightning monsters but they were not even monsters how can u kill an inocent civilian with a smile
even for a solder with orders he should at least kill showing no emotion it ...but smiling its not as the right thing to do or god i can tell that all they were thinking about is the pleasure of killing as many ppl they can ...
i guess hirushima and nakazaki atomic bombs were the right thing to do ...
bec if their own civialian were not killed they would just continue fighting to the end
now Im glad that hell exist so they can burn there
--its just my belifs for me its true and im happy i belive so ... so the inocent ppl that they killed can watch them burning to +8 (infiny)
now to think that in the arabic words "kadafi" was doing the same thing (not exactly the same bec its just 33% of what jap did )to his -civillians -
and bachar al asad too ...wooooooh when those vampires will stop their maddness
Well it's a good thing they weren't Christians cause we all know they've never done anything reprehensible. Maybe if they had been Christians, worse atrocities would have taken place.
Absence of god? Oh really. Did you watch the documentary? Shinto is their religion and the Emperor was descended from their god, that makes him holy, religious and in fact makes them the opposite of godless.
I suppose we should thank GOD for finally putting a stop to this horrific genocide after hundreds of thousands were already murdered. Give me a break. Screw god.
Godless leaders? You're deluding yourself. The most corrupt and evil governments were those who had God on their side, the fundamentalists and the zealots.
You don't know what you're talking about Sense4Many.
Tom, you need to read more carefully. GOD did not command these things, elders did so. The Old Testament is largely middle east history, he stories of which are largely parallelled in the Torah and other religious books. The Middle East has forever been an area rife with muderous clans and tribes.
And as for comments about GOD letting this happen, I assure you that these people were not Christians or praying to God. Your question should be directed to Buddah. I put forth that these types of atrocities are the presence of evil, and the absence of God. And equally odd is that you give no credit to God for these horrific times coming to an end.
These types of events happen because of men who have no God, who are under tools of the devil, and who are blinded with a quest for power, riches and legendary fame. These problems are the result of governments with Godless leaders. The atrocities under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other Socialist/Fascist/Marxist/Communist leaders is a living testimony against any all-powerful form of governance over mankind.
An incident lost to history, Japanese were exceptionally cruel to the Chinese.