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Read Replies (1) | Respond to Is there a reason you single out American soldiers?Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [2] ) was the mass-scale random murder, wartime rape , looting and arson committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against the residents of Nanjing , the capital of the Republic of China , immediately after the Battle of Nanjing in the Second Sino-Japanese War . [3] [4] [5] In violation of the laws of war, Japanese soldiers killed surrendered Chinese soldiers. [6] Beginning on December 13, 1937, these Japanese war crimes lasted for six weeks, while the first three weeks were more intense. [note 1] This is the most recent mass-scale war crimes in Nanjing since the 1864 Battle of Nanjing . [7] [3] Factors include the Japanese government's decision to systematically destroy 70 percent of Japan's wartime records and conceal the remaining records; the mass disposal of Chinese corpses by Japanese soldiers; the revisionist tendencies of both Chinese and Japanese individuals and groups, who are driven by nationalistic and political motivations; and the subjectivity involved in the collection and interpretation of evidence. [3] [8] [9] [10] However, the most sophisticated and credible scholars in Japan, which include a large number of authoritative academics, support the validity of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and its findings, which estimate at least 200,000 casualties and at least 20,000 cases of rape. [8] [11] en.wikipedia.org
