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Rape of nanking

            Chinese/Japanese Hostilities Timeline.
             1894-5 First Sino-Japanese war - fledging Japanese navy defeats Chinese fleet off.
             Yalu River. Fortress of Port Arthur (Lushun) stormed. After the war, Japan .
             seizes Taiwan and S. Manchuria.
             1910 Annexation of Korea.
             1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor.
             1931 Sept.18 - "The Mukden Incident" - Bomb explodes under Japanese-owned .
             express train in Manchuria (planted by Japanese secret agents); Japanese troops .
             proceed to occupy all Manchuria.
             1932 Chinese boycott of Japanese goods leads to the "Battle of Shanghai"; Japanese .
             aircraft carriers in action for the first time. League of Nations condemns .
             Japanese aggression in Manchuria.
             1933 Japan withdraws from League of Nations.
             1934 Pu Yi - former emperor of China - becomes puppet emperor of Manchuria.
             1937 July - "The China Incident" -- a skirmish between Japan and Chinese troops at .
             the Marco Polo Bridge (Luguoqiao), near Peking, sparks off a full-scale invasion .
             of China. Nanking Massacre .
             August - Japanese bombers make the first trans-oceanic raids in history - from .
             Taiwan and Kyushu to Nanking and Shanghai.
             Nov.- Imperial General Headquarters established in Tokyo (the Emperor, the .
             Chiefs of the Army, and Naval General Staffs).
             Dec. - The Nanking Massacre (Rape of Nan king) - the Chinese capital sacked .
             by Japanese troops. The American gunboat USS Panay bombed and sunk near .
             Nanking.
             1938 Dec. - Japan proclaims a "New Order in East Asia".
             1940 May - Chungking - war capital of China - bombed day and night by Japanese.
             Sept. - Japanese troops occupy northern Indo-China. Japan signs Tripartite .
             Pact with Germany and Italy.
             1941 July - Japanese troops occupy southern French Indo-China.
             Dec.


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1. The Rape Of Nanking

The Rape of Nanking, which was written by Iris Chang, chronicles the events that occurred roughly 70 years ago. ... Pictures of smiling Japanese soldiers by mass graves and by raped women show their lack of remorse or guilt for their actions. ... This was the foreigners' viewpoint of what happing in Nanking during the Japanese take over the city. There were no law to prohibit the Japanese soldier from raping and killing innocent Chinese. The Rape of Nanking is important, so that the same incident will not happening again in the future. ...

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2. The Rape of Nanking

THE BOOK REVIEW OF: THE RAPE OF NANKING Richard HS 208.1 August 4, 2002 The Rape of Nanking, or the Nanking Massacre, officially started when imperial Japanese troops marched into Nanking on December 13, 1937. ... They also raped thousands of Chinese women. ... This is necessary background information to further discuss and analyze Iris Chang's book, The Rape of Nanking. After reading The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang, one can only hope that such atrocities against human kind will not and can not possib...

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3. Odinary Men To Japaness Soldier

"Ordinary Men" to "Japanese Soldiers" Iris Chang's "Rape of Nanking" is a book that fails to heal but rather sears all efforts for good international relations because it prioritizes passion at the cost of basic historical facts. ... The noted difference that I discovered about the two reading is that it seemed as if Browning's "Ordinary Men" was somewhat like a military journal, while Chang's "Rape of Nanking" was more on a personal level. ... The Japanese came in and killed, burned, raped, and destroyed a great part of Manchuria. ... To be comparative to Chang's "Th...

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4. Fighting to Stop Genocide

There was also the Rape of Nanking right before World War Two, within six weeks the Japanese Imperial army marched into China's capital Nanking and slaughtered three hundred thousand of the six hundred thousand people that live in Nanking and that this genocide got its name as the Rape of Nanking. ...

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5. Dehumanization in the Novel 1984

Dehumanization in the form of torture can also be shown through the Rape of Nanking, when the Japanese army invaded Manchuria and destroyed everything and everyone in their path without a thought. They brutalized the Chinese citizens of Nanking to show their superiority over them. ... They Japanese soldiers killed the defenseless citizens of Nanking for competition purposes and killed them in the most gruesome ways possible. ... This can relate to the torture in Room 101 because in Room 101, the Ministry of Love tortured their victims in very gruesome ways and so did the Japanese soldiers in...

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6. Effects of Bomb

use of it against the Japanese". (Sherrow 74) Therefore, Stalin felt using the bomb was just under the circumstances. Though this is the case, the fact that the U.S. possessed such technology was a threat to Stalin. After the bomb was used, Stalin insisted on the U.S. giving him the formula, but we ...

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7. Atomic Bomb

(Source 1) During one invasion of China, the rape of Nanking, the Japanese killed 100,000 Chinese civilians. They were burned, butchered, and raped. ... The cruelty of the Japanese at such places as Bataan and Nanking was horrible and needed to be stopped. ...

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8. Emptiness of Japanese Affluence

Gavan McCormack. The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. - Rev.ed. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2001. Pp. vii, 311.Price: Cloth $30.95. In this innovating novel, Gavan McCormack examines the dangers to Japan in three topics titled "Political Economy," "Identity," and "Memory." Much of the focus of th...

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