In addition to killing, he writes, the nanking massacre also involved rape, arson, theft and other violent crimes. The japanese troops who attacked nan king raped tens of thousands of chinese women, many of whom were then murdered. It's worth pointing out that if you take standard nums for both world wars and compare them, look at the difference in the ratio of civilian to military casualties.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...