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Nanjing Massacre
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Nanjing Massacre
A six-week period after Japan’s capture of Nanjing—former capital of the Republic of China—in 1937, during which hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army


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More discord is expected next month with the release of several films marking the 70th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre when, many historians claim, Japanese troops slaughtered as many as 300,000 Chinese civilians.
Canada) and his colleagues introduce new research findings on the Nanking Atrocity of 1937-38--alternatively known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking--collectively finding that "the Atrocity was a shameful violation of law and morality" by the Japanese, but also finding themselves in "grudging and qualified agreement that certain intractable facts betray key points in the official Chinese narrative and in Western accounts that follow it.
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