Summary: The Rape Of Nanking

A. Plan of the Investigation A controversial question that serves as the basis for my paper is why weren’t more people held accountable for the war crimes in the Rape of Nanking? My paper aims to address the actions made by japan and other countries which allowed for the war crimes to go unnoticed. Information for the paper is provided from scholarly journals which allow for diverse perspectives that provide unique outlooks. After thorough investigation I have been able to come to the understanding that many of the atrocities occurring with the Rape of Nanking went unnoticed because of Japan’s extreme desire to keep its crimes secret from the rest of the world, however, the publishing of Iris Chang’s novel The Rape of Nanking: The forgotten

With the origin of the book coming from author Iris Chang, an American Journalist it presents the view that the Japanese government has not done enough to address the violence that they caused. The account is written in three different perspectives: that of the Japanese military, the Chinese victims, and the Westerners who tried to help Chinese civilians this allows for a broader understanding of what actually happened during the event. By providing information on the actions taken from American and European governments in particular, the value of the book is shown by the way that Chang allows readers the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of what actually happened in response to the rape of Nanking. Chang examines the circumstances that she believed, have kept knowledge of the massacre out of public consciousness decades after the war. The book depicted in detail the killing, torture, and rape that occurred during the Nanking Massacre. Chang listed and described the kinds of torture that were visited upon the residents, including live burials, mutilation, "death by fire", "death by ice", and "death by dogs" which gives historians an idea of what actually happened during the terrible events. Although Chang’s book is highly regarded, there are still many people who criticize her choices of sources of information. It is argued that a limitation of her work is the “intellectual flexibility and overdependence on the work of a few Chinese scholars” which leads Chang into severe errors that affect the value of the book. In addition, A lot of documentation during the time of the incident was destroyed which means that some her facts are only