500,000-700,000 Japanese soldiers died invading China, as did another 300,000 Chinese collaborators. Another 200,000 Japanese civilians died of various causes, mostly in Manchuria during and after the 1945 Soviet Invasion.
>“The hundred or more soldiers herded the thirty-eight people to that area and surrounded them. There were two young women in the group, one seventeen and unmarried, and the other pregnant. Both were taken off to separate houses and raped by one “Devil” after another, an ordeal that left them too weak to stand.
Having raped the two women, the soldiers turned to arson and mass murder. The soldiers rammed a broom into the vagina of the younger woman and then stabbed her with a bayonet. They cut open the belly of the pregnant woman and gouged out the fetus. Three men, unable to bear the sight of the flames consuming their homes, desperately broke through the ring of soldiers and headed off in the direction of the houses. They encountered some other soldiers who were determined not to let them through and forced them into one of the furiously burning houses. Seconds after the soldiers had locked the door from the outside, the roof collapsed in flames on top of the men.
A two-year-old boy was bawling loudly in reaction to the noise and confusion. A soldier grabbed him from his mother’s arms and threw him into the flames. They then bayoneted the hysterically sobbing mother and threw her into the creek. The remaining thirty-one people were made to kneel facing the creek. The soldiers stabbed them from behind with their bayonets, twisting the blades to disembowel them, and threw them into the water.”
* Honda Katsuichi, The Nanjing Massacre, p. 63-65
This was the fate of 38 villagers from Nanqiantou, near Wuxi, just three weeks before the fall of Nanjing. They died in the opening chapter of an eight-year war whose wounds have not fully healed to this day. 38 of 15,000,000.
Great compilation, unbelievable scale of operation and tragedy
IJA were some friendly guys, huh
Asian conflicts are so dark. Any war is brutal, but if you asked me to pop out of history into any army, in any conflict…
… an infantryman in a war between two major East Asian powers would be my last choice. I dare say those conflicts are the most horrible environments humans have ever managed to create.
I lived in Korea for two years, and the culture/historical education I got gave me a clear image of how intense and absolute conflict becomes over there.
Nope nope nope.
Unimaginably horrific. The depths of depravity we humans are capable of is incredibly sombering.
I’m sorry, but I saw that second picture with the caption “Chinese warlord troops take position beneath the Great Wall” and I saw those tiny stones on the hill and I thought they are either giants like Gulliver or to quote Zoolander “what is this? a great wall for ANTS?” I just lost it laughing.
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[The final toll of the Second Sino-Japanese War was a nightmarish apocalypse, surpassed only in death toll and brutality by Hitler’s genocidal crusade in Eastern Europe.](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-in-the-china-war-nsfl-v0-6tdeh3ih7g4e1.jpg?width=1389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dcd4ff729ee2ea32999a52cf9daaa71baaea81b)
Numbers tell the tale:
[2,000,000-3,000,000 Chinese soldiers died defending their homes and families. ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjRSeVhWwAIn9Rx?format=jpg&name=small)
500,000-700,000 Japanese soldiers died invading China, as did another 300,000 Chinese collaborators. Another 200,000 Japanese civilians died of various causes, mostly in Manchuria during and after the 1945 Soviet Invasion.
[Those that suffered the most, by far, were the *laobaixing,* Chinese civilians](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-in-the-china-war-nsfl-v0-g0oo3b8x7g4e1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6abc42364ca380642271a7baf6e4ac8477a28f7d).
[At a conservative estimate, some 12,000,000 Chinese civilians died in the eight year war.](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-in-the-china-war-nsfl-v0-jsej769x7g4e1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8e5aa5e29aa9f3962fd98a5c89c59f6cd3f3833e)
[Between a quarter and a third](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-photographed-in-the-second-sino-japanese-war-nsfl-v0-lqo7k95x8wnd1.png?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3efedbcdf1ee7779f335323047d0864d11c17c16), [were children](https://preview.redd.it/the-second-sino-japanese-war-v0-yujhb3sujs4f1.png?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=43cf2b8e20d687882346abffc33c0782470ee9b4).
>“The hundred or more soldiers herded the thirty-eight people to that area and surrounded them. There were two young women in the group, one seventeen and unmarried, and the other pregnant. Both were taken off to separate houses and raped by one “Devil” after another, an ordeal that left them too weak to stand.
Having raped the two women, the soldiers turned to arson and mass murder. The soldiers rammed a broom into the vagina of the younger woman and then stabbed her with a bayonet. They cut open the belly of the pregnant woman and gouged out the fetus. Three men, unable to bear the sight of the flames consuming their homes, desperately broke through the ring of soldiers and headed off in the direction of the houses. They encountered some other soldiers who were determined not to let them through and forced them into one of the furiously burning houses. Seconds after the soldiers had locked the door from the outside, the roof collapsed in flames on top of the men.
A two-year-old boy was bawling loudly in reaction to the noise and confusion. A soldier grabbed him from his mother’s arms and threw him into the flames. They then bayoneted the hysterically sobbing mother and threw her into the creek. The remaining thirty-one people were made to kneel facing the creek. The soldiers stabbed them from behind with their bayonets, twisting the blades to disembowel them, and threw them into the water.”
* Honda Katsuichi, The Nanjing Massacre, p. 63-65
This was the fate of 38 villagers from Nanqiantou, near Wuxi, just three weeks before the fall of Nanjing. They died in the opening chapter of an eight-year war whose wounds have not fully healed to this day. 38 of 15,000,000.
Great compilation, unbelievable scale of operation and tragedy
IJA were some friendly guys, huh
Asian conflicts are so dark. Any war is brutal, but if you asked me to pop out of history into any army, in any conflict…
… an infantryman in a war between two major East Asian powers would be my last choice. I dare say those conflicts are the most horrible environments humans have ever managed to create.
I lived in Korea for two years, and the culture/historical education I got gave me a clear image of how intense and absolute conflict becomes over there.
Nope nope nope.
Unimaginably horrific. The depths of depravity we humans are capable of is incredibly sombering.
I’m sorry, but I saw that second picture with the caption “Chinese warlord troops take position beneath the Great Wall” and I saw those tiny stones on the hill and I thought they are either giants like Gulliver or to quote Zoolander “what is this? a great wall for ANTS?” I just lost it laughing.
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