WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
(1937-1938)
INTRODUCTION
In December 1937, Nanjing fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. The Japanese army launched a massacre for six weeks. According to the records of several welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the Massacre, around three hundred thousand people, mostly civilians and POWs, were brutally slaughtered.
Over twenty thousand cases of rape were reported. Many of the victims were gang raped and then killed. The figure did not include those captives who were sent to army brothels (the so-called "comfort stations").
The actual Memorial Hall is built to commemorate the victims.
The actual Hall is located in Jiangdongmen (The Gate on the Eastern Bank of the River), one of the sites where countless human bones of the victims of the Massacre were excavated. It is just one of those "wan ren keng" (pit of ten thousand corpses) which can be found in many Japanese occupied areas in China during the war.
The building housing the skeletons excavated in Jiangdongmen.
Entrance
The Hall is built in the eighties when a number of Japanese politicians and writers claimed that the Massacre had never ocurred and history textbooks were rewritten by the authority describing the Massacre as a minor incident.
It must be reminded that contrary to Germany the Japanese government has never made any formal or official apology to the Chinese people for their crimes committed during the war.
Instead, a number of Japanese politicians and writers denied not just the Massacre but any of their wrong doings in the Second World War. They claimed that they had "liberated" Asian peoples from Western colonialism. The Nanjing Massacre is one of their so-called "liberations".
This WWW Memorial Hall is created to expose their lies and to preserve the historical truth.
Let the victims of the Massacre be remembered but not buried in lies.
Reading Room
- Exhibitions of the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre (Excerpts in GB Chinese)
- Duan Yueping
- About the activities of the actual Memorial Hall in Nanjing.
- Monuments of the Nanjing Massacre Sites (Nov 1992; GB Chinese)
- Duan Yueping
- The Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and John Rabe (Members of the International Safety Zone Committee)
- Chinese witnesses' testimony of the Massacre (Japanese, file removed)
- Confessions from former Japanese soldiers who participated in the Massacre (English & Japanese)
- Extracts from Nanjing Massacre Reports by Western Witnesses
- Terrible Stories of the Massacre Overheard by a Japanese Girl
- Extracts from Scorched Earth (1941)
- Edgar Snow
- Japanese translation by Yoshiyuki Masaki
- The Nanjing Murder Race (Extracts from What War Means)
- Harold Timperley
- Number of Victims: Over 354,780 (Japanese)
- Is Smythe's Figure Reliable?
- Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing
- Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen
- Tr. Robert Gray
- Japanese translation & adaptation by Jiang Dali
- Nanjing Massacre Record (1960/1979)
- Department of Histroy, Nanjing University
- Tr. Yue Dongxiao
- Basic Facts on the Nanjing Massacre (1990)
- The New Jersey Hong Kong Network
- Text and PS versions for FTP
- A Further Study of the Nanjing Massacre (Xinhua wenzhai, 1995 No.2)
- Wu Tianwei
- GB & Big-5 Chinese
- The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Excerpts, 1997)
- Iris Chang
- Iris Chang Revealing the Nanjing Massacre (Ami Chen Mills, MetroActive)
- The Japanese Holocaust (National Review, 10/11/97) by Russell Jenkis
- CND's Interview with Iris Chang
- "The Good Nazi" (Transcripts of ABS's program about John Rabe)
- Two Book Reviews
- Professor Hata Ikuhita's attack on Iris Chang's book
- Huaxia wenzhai "Nanjing Massacre" supplement (15 Aug, 1995)
- GB & Big-5 Chinese
- Nanjing Massacre: The Other Holocaust (excerpts from Los Angeles Readers, 1 Jul, 1994)
- Kewin Ulrich
- Desmond M. Tutu's Preface to The Rape of Nanjing: An Undeniable History in Photographs (English with Japanese translation)
- Tr. Yoshiyuki Masaki
- Professor Yu Yingshi's Preface to The Rape of Nanjing: An Undeniable History in Photographs (Japanese)
- Tr. Yoshiyuki Masaki
- Japanese Politicians Must Make up for Missed Lesson
- Gu Ping, Beijing Review, Vol.39 No.34 (19-25 August, 1996)
- Return of Imperialism in Japan (A Letter to the editors of the Shima Media Network) (1995)
- Ignatius Y. Ding, Alliance for Preserving the Truth of the Sino-Japanese War
- Downloaded copy
- A Declaration to the Japanese Government & the Japanese People (1995)
- Ignatius Y. Ding
- At the Opening of the Museum of Nanjing Massacre in Tokyo (17 Jul, 1995)
- Guo Peiyu
- Downloaded copy
- The exhibition has been banned by Hosei University
- and refused by the city of Hiroshima. The exhibition is now on-line.
- Japanese Military Commanders Cannot Evade Responsibility for the Rape of Nanjing (1978)
- Saburoo Ienaga
- The Canary that Forgot its History - Why the Japanese Do Not Teach About the War
- Japanese version
- Ishii Shinpei
- Imaging the Past, Remembering the Future (Social Science Japan, No. 3, April 1995)
- Fujiwara Kiichi, University of Tokyo
- Downloaded copy
- To Japanese people who are looking at the Hiroshima A-Bomb Museum pages (with discussion)
- Mitsuru Ohba, Producer of the Museum pages
- Downloaded copy (the message only)
- Voice Against the Denial of the Massacre in Japan:
- Japanese politicians and political parties (Japanese)
- Japanese people (Japanese with English translation)
- Confessions of War Crimes and Responsibilities by Japanese Soldiers & Officers
- The Myth of the Nanjing Massacre (In Japanese. A WWW Page by Tanaka Massaki's supporters)
- The Great East Asia War is a Self-Defence (Japanese)
- Down With The Tokyo War Crimes Trial! (Japanese)
- "Never heard of it": Ex-president of the Diet denies the Massacre (GB Chinese, 1996)
- Nagasaki A-Bomb Museum Removed Nanjing Massacre Material Due to Pressure (Big-5 Chinese, 1996)
- The Rape of Nanjing Did Not Happen (1995)
- The Youth Liberal Party, Japan
- Japan Removed Nanjing Massacre Material From Original Plan for Museum on World War II
- Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, May 20, 1995
- "The Nanjing Massacre is a lie" (1991)
- Watanabe Shoichi, Professor of Sophie University
- Watanabe Shoichi denying the Massacre on video
- "The Nanjing Massacre is a lie" (1990)
- Ishihara Shintaro, ex-cabinet member
- "The Nanjing Massacre Never Occurred" (1990)
- The Deputy Japanese Consul in Houston, US
- Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's homage to war criminals (1996)
- Japanese diet members' homage to war criminals
- Including Matsui Iwane, held responsible for the Nanjing Massacre
- Comfort women were not adducted by Japanese army (Shinji Kakichi)
- "Comfort women" are prostitutes for money, Seiroku Kajiyama, Chief Cabinet Secretary (27/1/97)
- "Comfort women 'did it for money'", Seisuke Okuno, ex-education minister (6/6/96)
- "Japan Didn't Colonize Korea", Michio Watanabe, ex-vice premier & foreign minister (7/6/95)
- On-line Evidence of Japanese History Distortion
- The Japan That Can Say No (English translation)
- Akio Morita & Ishihara Shintaro
- China Should Not Have Resisted: A Japanese Woman's View of the Nanjing Massacre
- Shenzhou xueren 46 (1/12/1995)
- GB & Big-5 Chinese
- A War to End Empires
(A feature article supporting the opinion that Japan helped liberating Asia,
Aisaweek Aug 4, 1995)
Comments and contributions are welcome.
Please send them to Hall Maintainer.
Created: 20th December, 1994
Last updated: 27 May, 1999
VIGOROUSLY UPDATED UNTIL JAPAN FORMALLY APOLOGIZES
