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A 3 page paper which examines the reasons for Japan’s actions in the Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang. The paper also examines the relationship between foreigners and the Japanese as it involved this event. No additional sources cited.
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File: JR7_RAknnng.rtf
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an event that was hidden by the Japanese, and even denied for decades to follow. It has only been in very recent times, under much pressure, that Japan has begun
to admit what went on, though apparently still with much excuse or resistance. Nanking was a reality wherein Chinese were utilized as training for the Japanese in ultimately destroying people,
or a race. It was a reality that was not unlike the Holocaust of WWII concerning the Germans, yet a reality that seems also far worse in many ways. The
following paper examines why the Japanese took over Nanking and behaved in this way, and what the relationship was between Japanese and non-Chinese foreigners. Relationships: The Rape of
Nanking by Iris Chang Japan had essentially long been a nation that kept itself closed off from all other nations, closing its borders and fearing outside influence, especially European influence.
But, when that changed the Japanese learned they needed to fight on a more modern terrain and angered at having been invaded, they began to strike out in many ways.
"With astonishing rapidity the Japanese hurled themselves into the modern age-scientifically, economically, and militarily" (Chang 23). They then began to seriously clash with China over Korea and the stage was
set for hatred and anger from the Japanese, who were bitter towards any race not their own. They believed that action against China needed "to be done, and quickly, before
China grew too powerful to be conquered" (Chang 29). This incredibly nationalistic passion against all other cultures, supported by an intense hatred and distrust of foreigners, along with their
presumed superiority, led the Japanese to feel they had every right to "rape" Nanking and take whatever they desired. They were, in many ways, like the Germans in relationship to
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