In the early winter of 1937, Japanese troops, having conquered Shanghai, moved on to envelop Nanking, then the capital of China. After a furious aerial bombardment, they entered the city virtually ...

NANJING, China, Dec. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The national memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre victims was held at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders ...

In the past few years several books have been written about the “Rape of Nanking” and other atrocities committed by the Japanese military across Asia during World War II, as well as on the Japanese ...

BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) - Far from opening old wounds, "Nanking", a film documenting accounts of war-time atrocities by Japanese troops in China, should help the frosty Asian neighbours overcome ...

With Japanese last week still forbidding foreign correspondents to go to captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.), the Chicago Daily News received last week one of the best eyewitness accounts thus ...

A retrospective on the lasting effects of the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanjing, China during the winter of 1937-1938. The retelling is from the point of view of the Wang family.