In December of 1937, the Japanese Army invaded Nanjing, then the capitol of China. Welfare organizations that helped to bury the dead later agree that over 300,000 were killed. (There is some dispute today, but most scholars agree on a figure of between 200,000 and 300,000, including those in the surrounding rural areas between Shanghai and Nanjing.) Women were raped, and many were sent to "Comfort Stations" for the Japanese Army men. The Japanese government has continued to deny that the event took place, and has never issued any kind of apology. The perpetrators have never been brought to Justice.
During the next eight years, over 35 million Chinese lost their lives against the Japanese. Japan continues to distort the facts, including revising history in textbooks and documents. Resentment continues today in China.
The Memorial Hall in Nanjing was built on one of the massacre sites to commemorate the event, and to display bones and artifacts found on the site, as well as housing photographs personal accounts, and many items from that event.
The Internet is a rich source of information on the Nanjing Massacre. A search reveals many advocacy sites, as well as sites detailing the events, with pictures and documents, such as:
www.cnd.org/njmassacre (a Canadian site)
Nanjing Massacre Record
Historywiz: The Nanjing Massacre
(Current as of July, 2004)
