INTL 190 - Haiti in a Transnational Context

Second Sino-Japanese War

According to Britannica, the 918 Incident broke out in 1931. Japan occupied the three northeastern provinces and invaded China's interior. The war of resistance against the Japanese Invasion broke out in 1937. According to China's Bloody Century by R.J. Rummel, 3,800,000-10,600,000+ military casualties occurred in this war. 266,800-1,000,000 prisoners of war died. When Nanjing, the capital of the Kuomintang, fell in mid-December 1937, Japanese troops carried out the Nanjing Massacre on the city. 300,000 Chinese civilians and surrendered troops were killed (Britannica). Also, according to Britannica, tens of thousands of women, known as "comfort women," were raped on the orders of Japanese commander Iwatane Matsui.


The picture is coming from South China Morning Post. In the photo, a girl reads files on victims killed during the Nanking massacre at the Memorial Hall in Nanjing.
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