Rape of Nanjing was a time when Japanese soldiers would maliciously kill, torture, and steal from the Chinese. The event began around the late 1930s. Before the Rape of Nanjing, Japan attempted to invade Manchuria. Manchuria is rich in coal and iron, which were resources Japan lacked. And so Manchuria was invaded by the Japanese on September 1931. For the same reason, Japan invaded China, at July 1937. The Chinese Nationalist Government moved the capital of China, to Nanjing, in 1928. Many refugees went towards, into the capital to be far away as possible from the approaching Japanese Soldiers. On December 13th, Japanese soldiers entered the city through the Zhongshan and the Pacific gate. The entrance of the Japanese Army ignited the Nanjing …show more content…
Imperialism is when one nation invades another nation, to bring nationalism, in other words, pride to their country. Nationalism and imperialism are the main causes of World War II and the causes of the Nanjing Massacre. During World War II, the Axis Powers attempted to gain power by breaking the rules, just as Japan was doing, before the war. The two broke the rule of war, through the use of manipulation and torture. Rape of Nanjing is one of the many events which proves, Japan is morally disoriented. Japan not only tried to invade China but also Korea, doing similar tyrannical actions. Japan had an intolerance towards race and religion, such as Christianity and Buddhism. Around religious worshiping places, nuns would be raped by Japanese soldiers. Raping violated the law of being a nun, in both Catholic and Buddhist faith. According to historical experts, Japanese soldiers raped around 20,000 women, in Nanjing. At Jem-Am-Li, on early April 1919, Japanese police started to march into this village, which consisted Christian believers. In this village, Japanese polices rounded Korean Christian and had them trapped inside their church, which was later on set on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot. The Japanese soldiers were morally disoriented, racial, and tyrannical during the Rape of Nanjing and their rule over other territories like …show more content…
Like the case with the nuclear weapons in the Middle East, their weapons should be confiscated. During the Rape of Nanjing, Japanese soldiers would murder civilians with poisonous gas and machine guns. Poison gas and machine guns were both of the many technologies from World War I. Technologies such as these must be appropriately used. Instead of using weapons for the purpose of war, the Japanese soldiers were using poison gas and machine guns to kill a whole city, a whole race, a possible major genocide, for land and power. Therefore, they abused their rights to own weaponry, breaking the rules of when to appropriately use weapons, mostly at the time of war. The Nanjing Massacre is illegal and a violation of the international law. Japan should have the same consequence as the Germans, with their genocide of the Jewish race, the Holocaust. According to Raul Castro, who was employed in Germany, since 2001, stated that Germany does include the Holocaust in their curriculum. Instead of censoring the events which happened in Nanjing, the Japanese should be held responsible for the events which happened in Nanjing and consider it in their history. The premise of history is to not repeat the causes of war but to refrain from war and learn what to do, in order to change the world for the better. Even after World War II, Japan still denies the Rape of Nanjing,
Do you believe in equality? Regardless of gender, age, education, religion, etc. all people should be treated the same. However, not everyone is. This literature review shows that. My literature review is on the Gender Matters set of essays. The first essay is The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Women by Christina Larsen. This essay is about the unmarried, educated women in China and why they are still unmarried. The second essay is The Invisible Migrant Man: Questioning Gender Privileges by Chloe Lewis. This piece is about the struggles and issues that married male migrants face and have faced. The last is Body-Building In Afghanistan by Oliver Broudy. It is about the men who are unemployed in Afghanistan who spend their time working out. My literature review is written in the following order: Larsen’s essay, Broudy’s
In 1937, Japan started a war against China, in search of more resources to expand its empire. In 1941, during World War II, Japan attacked America which is when the Allies (Australia, Britain etc.) then declared war on Japan. Before long the Japanese started extending their territory closer and closer to Australia and started taking surrendering troops into concentration camps where they were starved, diseased and beaten. When they were captured, one survivor reports that they were told
Imperialism is the practice by which powerful nations or peoples seek to extend and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. By the 1800’s, the Western powers had advantages in this process. They led the world in technological advances, giving them a dominance when conquering other countries. The European Imperialists made attempts to conquer China and Japan. In this process, they succeeded by influencing Japan greatly. However, they were not as successful with China.
It led United States’ official involvement in World War II. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of a deteriorating relationship with the U. S. The “New World Order”, expansion and resources, and economic sanctions were factors that conducted to another disaster on the Second World War. One reason Japan assaulted U.S.A. Navy was because the "New World Order.” “The ideals of Japan... are represented by the principle that the benevolent rule of the Emperor may be extended so as to embrace the whole world.
“ the Japanese bury alive, castrate and burn human’s fresh”, history could not be past and should be remembered and taking serious by all of us, racial discrimination and mass killing depending on the races should never happen again in our civilized world.
Japan's actions from 1852 to 1945 were stimulated by an extensive aspiration to elude the providence of 19th-century China and also to overtake as a great power. When Japanese soldiers stormed into Manchuria in 1931, Japan commenced the first in the succession of
The Jews had laws manipulated to remove and strip them of their rights. These laws were the Nuremberg laws. Next, their homes were taken from them as they were moved to concentration camps and the ghettos. The their homes were taken from them as they were moved to concentration camps and the ghettos. The death camps were in charge of exterminating any survivors that made it to their camp. In the Rape of Nanking, once the Chinese soldiers failed to defend the city of Nanjing, so the Japanese soldiers proceeded to go door to door killing, raping, and torturing the civilians of Nanjing. Their rights were thrown straight out of the window as they were taken captive. The difference is clearly seen as the Jewish rights were slowly stripped and the civilians of Nanjing lost them in a matter of seconds. If someone was caught, it is survival of the fittest, against weapons, blades, and any other ive the same blame as Germany did also. Both genocides happened at the same time. The importance of researching these genocides is one so people do not make the same mistake as before. If that would happen humans are not progressing as a whole. Insane is what that it. Second, it is important to know the capabilities and what nations like and do not like. People and nations need to know what other nations are
...the Japanese military in World War II and the spontaneous atrocities that occur in most other. There is much of the blame on the Japanese society and its interpretation of bushido that had virtually no concept of individual human rights, which found its epitome in the Japanese military, to whom the concept had no semantic value whatsoever.
Stetson Conn (1990) wrote “For several decades the Japanese population had been the target of hostility and restrictive action.” It was easy for the government to take advantage of the Japanese-Americans because they were already the target of aggression. Since the Japanese population was already in such a low position in society, taking advantage of their circumstances was easy for the government. The Japanese found themselves having to defend their presence in a country that was supposed to be accepting; this also happened to the Chinese before the Japanese. (Terry, 2012)
Imperialism is when a mother nation takes over another nation and become its colony for political, social, and economical reasons. Imperialism is a progressive force for both the oppressors (mother country) and the oppressed (colony), majorly occurring during the late 19th and early 20th century. It had more negative effects than positive effects due to its domination to other nations.
The Japanese didn’t just conduct these cruel experiments on captured prisoners or injured enemy soldiers; instead, they ran the potentially deadly tests on anyone they could find. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has no comparison to what Japan did to its citizens and enemies. Japan was very cruel to its citizens and to it enemies, people clearly forgot how awful and repulsive Japan
At this time, Japan was in the Far East, and Asia was in turmoil. Imperial Japan invaded China and various other territories in 1937, which made them a real strong ally for Nazi Germany.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Imperialism was one of the four contributing factors to the cause of World War One, along with secret alliances, militarism, and nationalism. It is the most important cause of WW1, because it created a build-up of tension in Europe and outside of Europe, and through imperialism, the three other causes were able to affect the beginnings of the war. Imperialism is defined as the governing of one people by another country, which was a recurring dilemma prior to WW1 due to the industrialist movement. Although not all events that fall into the imperialistic category were about controlling another country, they contributed to the war, and imperialistic events were the foundation of the cause of WW1.
The Rape of Nanking, also known as the Nanking Massacre was a six week period when mass numbers of Chinese men and woman were killed by the Japanese. Embarrassed by the lack of effort in the war with China in Shanghai, the Japanese looked for revenge and finally were able to win the battle. The Japanese moved toward the city of Nanjing also known as Nanking and invaded it for approximately six months. Even though the people of Nanjing outnumbered the 50,000 Japanese, they were not as masterful in warfare as their opponents. Chinese soldiers were forced to surrender to the Japanese and the massacre began in which around 300,000 people died and 20,000 women were raped. The Japanese leaders had different methods of killing that were instructed to the soldiers. However, the prisoners of this “City of Blood” soon found their liberation and their justice was served.
The Manchurian incident was a turning point in Japanese history in which it abandoned its somewhat general policy of cooperation and peace and instead chose to pursue their personal interests in Asia (S,191). The Japanese interest in China was evident even before its invasion in 1931. In both the Sino Japanese war from 1894 to 1905 as well as the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 Japan secured specific locations in Manchuria and other areas in China (U,351). Overall, the consensus for the extensive needs of the empire ultimately drove its policy making until the end of World War 2. To take control of what they believed to be the most mineral rich section of China in which they controlled expansive holdings in such as the South Manchurian Railroad, officers part of the Kwantung Army that were stationed there hatched a plan that would become to be known as the Manchurian Crisis. On September 18th 1931, Japanese soldiers located at the South Manchurian Railroad set off an explosive that they blamed on China (launching both nations into hostile relations for years to come.?? (P,115)) The Japanese invaded Japanese Invaded Chinese controlled Manchuria in 1931 because they wanted to accommodate the rising of the Japanese population, obtain more natural resources, and to stimulate their nearly collapsed economy.