Status Updates From Lo stupro di Nanchino

- Author gives a few reasons as to how the Japanese could have been okay with this massacre
- “Three all policy”: orders to Loot, Kill, and burn all
- also employed chemical warfare by dropping fleas, putting diseases in waters, leaving laced food, and syringes
- transfer of oppression: Japanese soldiers were oppressed by their superiors so it was easy for them to do worse to the Chinese

I’m only in the introduction and… what the fuck is happening? How could this have been allowed to happen? Wtf like im speechless

- the Nanking massacre has been one of great controversy in Japan. This is due to large amounts of censorship (both govt and private) and the failure of the govt to aknowledge the entirety of it. People who have spoke up are met with resistance and even threats to their life

- the Cold War began when Soviet Union sieges Poland and park of Germany
- 1949 China communist forces of Mao Tse-tung forced Chiang Kai-shek to retreat to Taiwan
- 1950 the Korean War broke out
- Not wanting to disrupt Japan’s stable government during this time the US left the pre war bureaucracy
- this left a lot of Nanking victims feeling like justice was not served when china invited Japan to make alliance