[177] Indeed, there is only one sentence that refers to this event: "they [the Japanese troops] occupied that city in December. Such crime continued from three to six weeks depending on the types of crime. According to Xinhua News Agency, it is the most complete record to date. [121], Kki Hirota, Prime Minister of Japan at an earlier stage of the war, and a diplomat during the atrocities at Nanjing, was convicted of participating in "the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy" (count 1), waging "a war of aggression and a war in violation of international laws, treaties, agreements and assurances against the Republic of China" (count 27) and count 55. Hata discounts estimates of the death toll which range into the hundreds of thousands on the basis that, according to Smythe, Nanking's civilian population was only between 200,000 and 250,000. On the other hand, they fail to include corpses that were destroyed rather than buried and thus underestimate the death toll. The four horsemen of denial. Pi means "hip," kankan means "look." I watched with my own eyes as they looted the caf of our German baker Herr Kiessling. The war, still undeclared, had no clear-cut goal or purpose. [26][27] However, emotional arguments and political interference in the debate have tended to hinder the construction of an academic consensus on the number of people killed in the atrocity. "[91] However, Masahiro Yamamoto printed a rebuttal of Gluck's statement in his book Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity, arguing that "To determine the extent and nature of [Japan's] responsibility, the 'numerological arguments about the death count and distinctions of comparative atrocities,' which [Gluck] termed as irrelevant to the moral question, are essential. Wilson, Dr. Robert O. Only since the 1990s, through the revisionist Patriotic Education Campaign, the massacre has become a national memory as an episode of the "Century of Humiliation" prior to the communist founding of a "New China". [20], Today many mainstream historians concur that this estimate is exaggerated. This definition was supported by Hora and other early scholars. Prince Asaka was granted immunity because of his status as a member of the imperial family. Hui volunteers and imams buried over a hundred of their dead following Muslim ritual. The number of Chinese killed in the massacre has been . From Jurong to Tangshan (two cities in Jiangshu Province, China), Mukai had killed 89 people while Noda had killed 78. [43], By contrast Yoshiaki Itakura adopted an even stricter standard than Hata, advocating that only Chinese soldiers captured in uniform and then killed be included as massacre victims. Japan Advertiser, 7 December 1937 (an American-owned and edited English-language daily paper in Tokyo), harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKingston2008 (. Since the late-1960s when the first academic works on the Nanking Massacre were produced, estimating the approximate death toll of the massacre has been a major topic of scholarly debate. Another piece of evidence that was submitted to the tribunal was Harold Timperley's telegram regarding the Nanjing Massacre which had been intercepted and decoded by the Americans on January 17, 1938. 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[14][15] In Japan, the veracity of the newspaper article about the contest was the subject of ferocious debate for several decades starting in 1967. I managed to get an ambulance so we can take her to Kulou Hospital Last night up to 1,000 women and girls are said to have been raped, about 100 girls at Ginling Collegealone. She gave a final scream as her intestines spilled out. [49] Though many still support the IMTFE's geographic scope for the massacre, in 1984 the journalist Katsuichi Honda became the first individual to voice disapproval of this definition. Myth: The Nanjing Massacre has always been important to China. [139] The publication of these articles triggered a vehement response from Japanese right-wingers regarding the Japanese treatment of the war crimes. In a documentary film about the Nanjing Massacre, In the Name of the Emperor, a former Japanese soldier named Shiro Azuma spoke candidly about the process of rape and murder in Nanjing.[50]. [26][89] Daqing Yang, a historian at George Washington University, believes that "an obsession with figures reduces an atrocity to abstraction and serves to circumvent a critical examination of the causes of and responsibilities for these appalling atrocities"[90] and Carol Gluck concurs that "The crucial historical question remains the moral one: how could ordinary Japanese have done what they did? The final type of source mentioned by David Askew is data sampling, and though only one such survey of this variety was conducted, Lewis S.C. Smythe's "War Damage in the Nanking Area", it is an essential document for estimating civilian casualties of the atrocity. All of them were hanged on 23 December 1948. The last refugee camps were closed in May 1938. Numerological arguments about the death count and distinctions of comparative atrocities do not address this point. It was worse. A 42-part ROC documentary produced in 1995, entitled "An Inch of Blood For An Inch of Land . In our South Hill House Japanese broke the panel of the storeroom and took out some old fruit juice and a few other things. On New Year's Day, over a toast he confided to a Japanese diplomat: "My men have done something very wrong and extremely regrettable. In 2005, John Rabe's former residence in Nanjing was renovated and now accommodates the ". [3] After capturing Shanghai the Japanese Army decided on December 1 to continue its military campaign to the capital city of the Nationalist government of China, Nanking, which is roughly 300 kilometers west of Shanghai. The slaughter of civilians is appalling. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army marched from Shanghai to the Chinese capital city of Nanking, and though a large number of Chinese POWs and civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese following their entrance into Nanking on . Quite the same Wikipedia. Both officers supposedly surpassed their goal during the heat of battle, making it impossible to determine which officer had actually won the contest. [17], In 2005, a Tokyo district judge dismissed a suit by the families of the lieutenants, stating that "the lieutenants admitted the fact that they raced to kill 100 people" and that the story cannot be proven to be clearly false. [12] Consequently, Askew estimates that the true number of corpses buried in and around Nanking was 17,500,[21] whereas military historian Masahiro Yamamoto puts the number at 43,000. The Chinese scholars of the committee maintained that at least 300,000 were killed. and Japanese historian Fujiwara Akira put the final toll closer to 200,000. . place the death toll on a much wider scale from 40,000 to 300,000. The baby was killed with a bayonet. Dublin Core. Because dead bodies don't talk. The total death toll of the Nanjing Massacre is a highly contentious subject in Chinese and Japanese historiography. U.S. news correspondents F. Tillman Durdin and Archibald Steele reported seeing corpses of massacred Chinese soldiers forming mounds six feet high at the Nanjing Yijiang gate in the north. the court found that at least 200,000 had perished during the Rape of Nanking. Numbers smaller or larger than the empirically verifiable, scholarly valid victimization range have been put forward by Japanese revisionists and the China Communist Party. After decades of struggle, the Nanking Massacre had become a recognized piece of Japanese history. Nanking Massacre death toll. [68], Japanese troops gathered 1,300 Chinese soldiers and civilians at Taiping Gate and murdered them. [70], By the year 2000 very little research had been done by Western scholars concerning the death toll of the Nanking Massacre, and instead most Western sources simply repeated the early death toll estimates, including those proposed in the 1930s and 1940s by the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, which put the toll at 100,000 or more, and by Miner Searle Bates, who said roughly 40,000. Ono Kenji, "Massacre Near Mufushan," in The Nanking Atrocity, 193738: Complicating the Picture, ed. [159][160], The Massacre is sometimes compared to other disasters in China, which include the Great Chinese famine (195961)[161][162][163] and the Cultural Revolution. Since the area outside the safety zone had been almost completely evacuated, the mopping-up effort was concentrated in the safety zone. [144], A faction of Japanese politicians who are unapologetic to the deaths in Nanjing have triggered a recurring point of tension in Sino-Japanese relations. When I appear they give the excuse that they saw two Chinese soldiers climb over the wall. "[53], Apart from geographical scope, some historians including Kasahara deny that the massacre ended in early February and instead put the end date at March 28, though such a long time range is disputed by other historians. A People's Liberation Army honour guard bearing large funeral wreaths marched slowly past a memorial showing the figure 3,00,000, China's official death toll in the events of December 1937, as . [42] He argued that Chinese soldiers who had thrown away their uniforms were legally executed because the laws of war at the time did not apply to them, though this line of reasoning is hotly disputed by other historians. The contesta race between the two officers to see who could kill 100 people first using only a swordwas covered much like a sporting event with regular updates on the score over a series of days. [86], Ono Kenji, a chemical worker in Japan, curated a collection of wartime diaries from Japanese veterans who fought in the Battle of Nanking in 1937. Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008), 382384. [5] Instead they threw away their uniforms and weapons and hid among the city's civilian population. To preserve the army for future battles, most of it was withdrawn. Hata argued that Chinese troops killed on the battlefield were part of the Battle of Nanking rather than Nanking Massacre, and that only civilians and disarmed POWs should be counted as massacre victims. [12][26][60] The figure was originally based on the verdict of the Nanking War Crimes Tribunal which added the burial records of 155,300 bodies with 72,291 destroyed corpses to arrive at a total of 279,586, though there was an apparent adding mistake in this calculation. The following day, on December 10, Rabe got his answer from the Generalissimo. 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The second one is right - the Rape of Nanking wasn't as bad as people say. Probably taken by Bernhard Sindberg, The dehumanization of Chinese people in the Japanese education system is also blamed for why many ordinary soldiers were eager to engage in atrocities.[82]. From February 7, 1938, killings were no longer in mass fashion as the senior Japanese officers came to restore discipline of their troops, according to the testimony of, Quote: "The Japanese Army, one million strong, has already conquered. I could go on for pages telling of cases of rape and brutality almost beyond belief. [7] At the same time soldiers of the Japanese Army also committed random acts of murder against civilians, and engaged in rape, arson, and looting. In 1986 Ikuhiko Hata became the first historian to call this definition into question. The Japanese Army had pushed quickly through China after capturing Shanghai in November 1937. The grandfather grasped the body of his wife and was killed. In response, Shichihei Yamamoto[140] and Akira Suzuki[141] wrote two controversial yet influential articles[clarification needed] which sparked the Japanese Negationist movement. Currently, the most reliable and widely agreed upon figures place the total death toll of the massacre between the broad range of 40,000 to 200,000 massacre victims in the entire Nanking Special Administrative District. The number 300,000 is displayed prominently at memorials and is the higher end of commonly accepted estimates. [21][31][34] According to Smythe's survey, as many as 12,000 civilians were killed within the city of Nanking plus another 26,870 in the rural counties outside Nanking. [21], However, when Shokun! Beginning, I believe, on the 19th or 20th of December, burning was carried on regularly for six weeks. [66], The Hui people, a minority Chinese group, the majority of them Muslim, suffered as well during the massacre. Fuller data and our own observations have not brought out facts to discredit their information. In July 1937 war broke out in northern China between China and Japan, and by August the fighting had spread to the city of Shanghai. [52][53] There are also accounts of Japanese troops coercing families to commit incestuous acts. It referred to the Nanjing massacre as an "incident", and glossed over the issue of comfort women. In an attempt to secure permission for this cease-fire from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Rabe, who was living in Nanjing and had been acting as the Chairman of the Nanking International Safety Zone Committee, boarded the USSPanay(PR-5) on December 9. That day, the prime minister and the Japanese Emperor Akihito pronounced statements of mourning at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan. However, Askew notes that Japanese units often exaggerated their body counts. There was no belt. Currently, the most reliable and widely agreed upon figures place the massacre victims within Nanjing City Walls to be around 40,000, mostly massacred in the first five days from December 13, 1937; while the total victims massacred as of the end of March 1938 in both Nanjing and its surrounding six rural counties far exceed 100,000 but fall short of 200,000. [134] Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's biography of Mao claims Mao never made any comment either contemporaneously or later in his life about the massacre, but did frequently remark with enduring bitterness about a political struggle between himself and Wang Ming which also occurred in December 1937. The contest continued because neither had killed 100 people. However, most 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 murders and at least 20,000 cases of rape. Many remember the atrocities that occurred to the Jews in the Holocaust, but few remember what is called, "The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II," where 300,000 people were murdered, and 20,000 women were raped (Rivera 2). The soldiers then bayoneted another sister of between 78, who was also in the room. [94] Wakabayashi concludes that estimates of over 200,000 are not credible. [citation needed], The entry for the same day in Matsui's diary read, "I could only feel sadness and responsibility today, which has been overwhelmingly piercing my heart. Chinese soldiers were summarily executed in violation of the laws of war. All the new books mentioned the massacre and five of them printed the death count as estimated by the Chinese government (300,000 deaths), the remaining two books estimated the death toll at 200,000. The massacre camp generally supports the Tokyo War Crimes Trials figure of "upwards of 100,000" deaths; skeptics claim 15,000 to 50,000, while others venture only up to 10,000. What happened within the city limits was even more humiliating for humanity. [50] In their view Honda, who had previously put forward the idea that more than 100,000 people were murdered in the city of Nanking alone, was failing to prove his argument and therefore sought to extend the boundaries of the massacre until a larger figure for the death toll could be achieved. [35], In addition, the total civilian population of Nanking in December 1937 and the size of the Chinese garrison defending the city are used as a basis for calculating the death toll, though the matter is complicated due to greatly varying estimates for both of these numbers. On the one hand, burial statistics combine massacre victims with Chinese combat casualties and thus exaggerate the death toll. After the establishment of the weixin zhengfu (the collaborating government) in 1938, order was gradually restored in Nanjing and atrocities by Japanese troops lessened considerably. We "pikankan." [89] His claims have been corroborated with the diaries of other Japanese combatants and medics who fought in China. The massacre has remained a wedge issue between modern China and Japan. There was considerable destruction to areas outside the city walls. Recent Historical Writings on the Rape of Nanjing", This page was last edited on 31 December 2022, at 03:33. [105], John Rabe, Chairman of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, estimated that between 50,000 and 60,000 (civilians) were killed. (1939), Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone (reprinted in, Kajimoto, Masato "Mistranslations in Honda Katsuichi's the Nanjing Massacre". [1][77] Some individual estimates by scholars and eyewitnesses are included in the following table. [12][23][24], The first historian to make an academic estimate of the death toll of the Nanking Massacre was Tomio Hora in his 1967 book Kindai Senshi no Nazo ("Riddles of Modern War History"), who argued in favor of 200,000. [27], On December 5, Asaka left Tokyo by plane and arrived at the front three days later. [12] Furthermore, this estimate includes an accusation that the Japanese Army murdered 57,418 Chinese POWs at Mufushan, though the latest research indicates that between 4,000 and 20,000 were massacred,[61][62] and it also includes the 112,266 corpses allegedly buried by the Chongshantang, though today many historians agree that the Chongshantang's records were at least exaggerated if not entirely fabricated. If husbands or brothers intervene, they're shot. [12][63][64] Bob Wakabayashi concludes from this that estimates over 200,000 are not credible. The situation was different in Japan. [108][109], According to documents in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, at least 300,000 Chinese were killed. That same afternoon, two small Japanese Navy fleets arrived on both sides of the Yangtze River. The Tokyo War Crime Tribunal defined the period of the massacre to the ensuing six weeks. [34], With the relocation of the capital of China and the reports of Japanese brutality, most of the civilian population fled Nanjing out of fear. He agrees with Hata that Chinese soldiers actively engaged in combat were not massacre victims, but he also includes in his definition of the massacre any Chinese soldiers who were killed on the battlefield but not actively resisting, noting that many confrontations between the Chinese and Japanese Armies were more like one-sided slaughters than battles. [citation needed], The government of Japan believes it can not be denied that the killing of a large number of noncombatants, looting and other acts by the Japanese army occurred. "[30] However, both Kasahara and Yamamoto have noted that burial records can be problematic in ways that can exaggerate or underestimate the true death toll of the massacre. The younger girl was bayoneted also but was spared the horrible treatment that had been meted out to her sister and mother. The man is now at the University Hospital and is not expected to live. Eighteen others received lesser sentences. [citation needed], This nationalist view does not, however, represent a widely shared understanding of what happened at Nanjing, as illustrated by Japanese textbooks' rather different treatment of the atrocity. [1] Hence, depending on the timeframe and the geographic scope, an empirically verifiable, scholarly valid victimization range is from over 40,000 to under 200,000.[1]. It would seem according to stories told us by foreign witnesses that the soldiers were let loose like a barbarian horde to desecrate the city. [75], Rabe wrote that, from time to time, the Japanese would enter the Safety Zone at will, carry off a few hundred men and women, and either summarily execute them or rape and then kill them. ", "Case 10 On the night of December 15th, a number of Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanjing buildings at Tao Yuen and raped 30 women on the spot, some by six men. They bayoneted one little boy of eight who [had] five bayonet wounds including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of omentum was outside the abdomen. Five returned. Now, in the winter, the season gives time to reflect. John Rabe's Safety Zone was mostly a success, and is credited with saving at least 200,000 lives. In a press release to foreign reporters, Tang Shengzhi announced the city would not surrender and would fight to the death. [56] By this definition the "Nanking Massacre" can symbolically be said to have lasted from 1931 to 1945, extended over the whole of China, and included ten million victims. Following the outbreak of the Second SinoJapanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army marched from Shanghai to the Chinese capital city of Nanking, and though a large number of Chinese P We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night and many by day. Few numbers have caused such scholarly debate as the death toll estimates of the Nanking Massacre. Wealthy families were the first to flee, leaving Nanjing in automobiles, followed by the evacuation of the middle class and then the poor, while only the destitute lowest class such as the ethnic Tanka boat people remained behind. The novel itself was based on interviews that Ishikawa conducted with troops in Nanjing in January 1938. [9] The number of Chinese soldiers in plain clothes that were executed is estimated to be around 4,000. During the Japanese reign of terror in Nanjingwhich, by the way, continues to this day to a considerable degreethe Reverend John Magee, a member of the American Episcopal Church Mission who has been here for almost a quarter of a century, took motion pictures that eloquently bear witness to the atrocities committed by the Japanese. One will have to wait and see whether the highest officers in the Japanese army succeed, as they have indicated, in stopping the activities of their troops, which continue even today. [124], In 1947, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, the two officers responsible for the contest to kill 100 people, were both arrested and extradited to China. [51] This definition, though considerably larger than the IMTFE's, keeps the massacre contained to "Nanking" without including cities on the outskirts of Shanghai like Suzhou and Wuxi which Honda does include. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army marched from Shanghai to the Chinese capital city of Nanking, and though a large number of Chinese POWs and civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese following their entrance into Nanking on . [114][115] Isamu Ch, the aide to Prince Asaka, and whom some historians believe issued the "kill all captives" memo, had committed seppuku (ritual suicide) during the Battle of Okinawa.[116]. Iris Chang, author of the Rape of Nanjing (book), wrote one of the most comprehensive accounts of Japanese war atrocities in China. THE NANKING MASSACRE - Page 4: Defining the victims. On trial with them was Gunkichi Tanaka, a captain from the 6th Division who personally killed over 300 Chinese POWs and civilians with his sword during the massacre. [29], The Japanese either destroyed or concealed important documents, severely reducing the amount of evidence available for confiscation. He and his staff realized that they could not risk the annihilation of their elite troops in a symbolic but hopeless defense of the capital. On December 13, about 30 soldiers came to a Chinese house at No. [29] By contrast, Kasahara generally supports the higher burial estimates presented at the IMTFE, though he concedes that not all of the Chongshantang's figures can be accepted "at face value. THE RAPE OF NANKING OR NANJING MASSACRE 5 The judges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (also known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trials) were prepared to accept that at least 200,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered by the Japanese in the six weeks after Nanking fell.The judges were also prepared to accept that the death toll would be much higher if . [58], The official stance of the People's Republic of China is that 300,000 or more Chinese were massacred in Nanking. He said that during this time, the Chinese government's statements about the event were attacked by the Japanese because they were said to rely too heavily on personal testimonies and anecdotal evidence. Various Japanese officials and historians have disputed the death toll since the war, angering China. On 13 December, the 6th and the 116th Divisions of the Japanese Army were the first to enter the city, facing little military resistance. I shouldn't say all right. Many innocent men were misidentified and killed.[1]. [21], After the end of the war between China and Japan in 1945, these estimates were in turn supplanted by the findings of two war crime trials, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East and the Nanking War Crimes Tribunal. What followed was nothing short of chaos. [68], In 2006, Kaz Ross, a historian with the University of Tasmania, anonymously interviewed a number of university researchers in the city of Nanking to learn their private views on the death toll of the Nanking Massacre. The soldiers of . Only after firmly establishing 'historical particularities' can one clearly define Japans responsibility. In China today most estimates of the Nanking Massacre range from 200,000 to 400,000, with no notable historian going below 100,000. The Shanghai Aurora College on Thursday said the teacher, surnamed Song, made "wrong comments" during class. [16], In 2000, historian Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi concurred with certain Japanese scholars who had argued that the contest was a concocted story, with the collusion of the soldiers themselves for the purpose of raising the national fighting spirit. Asaka denied the existence of any massacre and claimed never to have received complaints about the conduct of his troops.[119]. But we always stabbed and killed them. They were about to rape the girls when the grandmother tried to protect them. Following the end of World War II, some circles of civil society in Japan reflected on the extent of the massacre and the participation of ordinary soldiers. Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1-year-old baby. The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. Official war journals and diaries were also published by Kaikosha, an organization of retired Japanese military veterans. A vocational college teacher was fired after a video of her questioning the true death toll of the Nanjing Massacre surfaced online, triggering a wave of backlash on social media platforms over the statement. 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