After controlling Shanghai, Japan was not satisfied. Dai Nippon's troops continued to expand to colonize China. Until you arrive in Nanking or Nanjing. During that period, thousands of people, both military and civilian, were killed, tortured, and raped. This event, known as the Nanking Tragedy, began on December 13, 1937, and lasted about six weeks.
Citing History, between 20.000 and 80.000 Chinese women were sexually assaulted by the Imperial Japanese Army. In a door-to-door manner, the Japanese soldiers dragged out women, even small children. They carried out this heinous act in groups. Then, having finished with the victims, the Japanese soldiers immediately killed the victims.
Old women over the age of 70 as well as little girls under the age of 8 were dragged away to be raped. More than 20.000 women (some estimate 80.000) were gang-raped by Japanese soldiers, then stabbed to death with bayonets or shot so that they would never be able to testify.
Pregnant women did not go unnoticed by the Japanese troops. In some cases, they were raped, then the stomach was split open and the fetus removed. Sometimes, after storming into a house and meeting the whole family, Japanese soldiers forced fathers to rape their daughters, sons to rape their mothers, and brothers to rape sisters. While other family members were told to watch.
“Never before have I heard or read of such brutality,” wrote a missionary in Nanking, James M. McCallum, in the diary quoted by All Interesting. “Rape! Rape! Rape! We estimate at least 1.000 cases at night and many during the day.”