[Tintin Storm]

Every nation that took part in World War II has its own date of the war beginning. For the Poles, it began in 1939, for the French - in 1940 and for the USSR- in June 1941. Chinese do not have such a date. For them, in fact, the whole beginning of the 20th century was a continuous series of wars that ended about 60 years ago with the formation of the PRC.
Back in 1927, in the Land of the Rising Sun, Prime Minister Tanaka presented the emperor a memorandum, the main idea of which was that Japan can and should achieve domination in Asia. To do this, it will need to capture China and form the "Sphere of Prosperity of Great East Asia." In late 1936, supporters of this doctrine finally won. A natural consequence of this was the incident of July 7, 1937 near the bridge of Marco Polo, lying on the south-west of Beijing. Conducting night exercises, Japanese soldiers began to fire at the Chinese fortifications. The reciprocal fire killed one soldier, and that gave the Japanese an excuse to demand the withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek troops from the entire region. The Chinese did not answer them, and on July 20, the Japanese launched a large-scale offensive, capturing Tianjin and Beijing by the end of the month.
Shortly thereafter, the Japanese launched attacks on Shanghai and Nanjing, which were the economic and political capitals of the Republic of China. About a million people took part in the Shanghai massacre. Three months of unceasing battles have brought innumerable sacrifices. On December 13, the Japanese soldiers occupied Nanjing without encountering resistance. In the next 6 weeks, an unprecedented massacre took place in the city.
The invaders killed 20,000 men by bayonets outside the city, so that they could never again fight against Japanese. Then the Japanese soldiers began an extermination of the elderly, women and children. The murders took place with a special atrocity. The samurai tore up their eyes and hearts from living people, cut off their heads. Firearms were not used. The residents of the city were used as "scarecrows" for training with bayonets. Thousands of corpses sailed along the Yangtze, preventing vessels from sailing to the banks of the river.
More than 200,000 civilians were killed by Japanese soldiers in twenty-eight mass slaughters. Another 150 thousand people were destroyed separately. The maximum number of victims reaches 500 thousand people. The Europeans, mostly missionaries and businessmen, who stayed in Nanjing, tried to save the local population. They organized an international committee, which was headed by Jon Rabe. The committee fenced the site, which was called the "Nanjing Security Zone". Here they managed to save about 200 thousand Chinese citizens. The Japanese authorities still do not want to admit the very fact of the massacre that was taking place. They refuse to call these events "massacres", arguing that this is the propaganda of the Chinese, aimed at humiliating and insulting Japan. According to the statement of the Japanese authorities photos of massacres in the city, which are indisputable evidence, are fakes, despite the fact that most of the photos were found in the archives of Japanese soldiers, where they were kept as souvenirs.

[ThirdTerm]

The invaders killed 20,000 men by bayonets outside the city, so that they could never again fight against Japanese. More than 200,000 civilians were killed by Japanese soldiers in twenty-eight mass slaughters. Another 150 thousand people were destroyed separately.

The Nanking massacre had not escalated further from the initial mass execution of 50,000 enemy combatants and approximately 200,000 civilians were spared in the Nanking Safety Zone administered by Europeans. The population of Nanking was slightly less than 250,000 at the time, out of which 50,000-60,000 were massacred, according to John Rabe. In comparison, the Katyn massacre (Russian: Катынский расстрел, "Katyn shooting") was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals carried out by the NKVD and the total number of casualties was ‎22,000. The Japanese military carefully selected former soldiers hiding in the Nanking Safety Zone and young men were ordered to line up and they were then carefully inspected for any trace of military service, such as a mark left by a helmet. The Chinese version of wartime history completely ignores the fact that the Nanking Safety Zone even existed, in which John Rabe heroically saved 200,000 civilians who were sheltered there, which is why China's official casualty figure (300,000) includes 200,000 civilians who were actually alive, presuming that the Japanese military killed everyone in Nanking indiscriminately so that no one was kept alive. The Diaries of John Rabe further recorded that there were sporadic violence and rape against civilians in the Safety Zone, about which Rabe personally complained to Japanese military authorities.

We are sorry to trouble you again but the sufferings and needs of the 200 000 civilians for whom we are trying to care make it urgent that we try to secure action from your military authorities to stop the present disorder among Japanese soldiers wandering through the Safety Zone... The second man in our Housing Commission had to see two women in his family at 23 Hankow Road raped last night at supper time by Japanese soldiers. Our associate food commissioner, Mr. Sone, has to convey trucks with rice and leave 2,500 people in families at his Nanking Theological Seminary to look after themselves. Yesterday, in broad daylight, several women at the Seminary were raped right in the middle of a large room filled with men, women, and children! We 22 Occidentals cannot feed 200,000 Chinese civilians and protect them night and day. That is the duty of the Japanese authorities ...[13]

John Rabe gave a series of lectures in Germany after he came back to Berlin on April 15, 1938, in which he said, "We Europeans put the number [of civilian casualties] at about 50,000 to 60,000."[15] Rabe was not the only figure to record the Japanese atrocity. By December 1937, after the defeat of the Chinese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers would often go house-to-house in Nanking, shooting any civilians they encountered. Evidence of these violent acts come from diaries kept by some Japanese soldiers and by Japanese journalists who were appalled by what was transpiring.[16]

[Godstud]

The past is in the past. Japan is not the nation it was when it did those things(70+ years ago), and pretending it is, is being dishonest.

USA is the bestial militaristic power killing hundreds of thousands, now.

[Decky]

It definitely is, look at their game shows. It makes all the stuff they did to prisoners of war make perfect sense.

[Godstud]

This is the bestial face of Japan?