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Rape of Nanking

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Rape of Nanking• December 1937-February 1938: up to 300,000 Chinese

civilians are brutally massacred• Seen by many as an act of genocide• Japanese nationalists distorted actual events and to this day

deny that civilians were targeted• The Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as

rape, looting, arson, and the execution of POW’s and civilians. Many women and children were brutally rapped and murdered as well

• The fact that Japan does not acknowledge the massacre has strained Sino-Japanese relations

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