Dec 1937-Jan 1938 The Imperial Japanese Army’s attack on Nanking, today known as Nanjing, is widely regarded as the worst atrocity of the second world war’s Asian theatre. After capturing Shanghai, the Japanese military advanced up the Yangtze river to Nanking, the seat of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. In the slaughter of civilians and soldiers that followed, Chinese sources estimate claim that more than 300,000 people died. Japanese soldiers also perpetrated widespread rape.
1937年12月-1938年1月
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