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The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) was the mass rape and murder, between December 1937 and March 1938, of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. It took place immediately after the Battle of Nanjing and retreat of the…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Nanjing Massacre | Attack type | Mass murder, wartime rape, looting, torture, arson | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Date | From December 13, 1937, for six weeks[a] (traditional historiography), atrocities in the Nanjing Area began December 4, 1937 and ended March 28, 1938 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Deaths | 100,000–200,000 civilians and POWs (newer estimates); more according to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East; other estimates range from 40,000 to over 340,000,… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Location | .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Motive | Anti-Chinese racism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Motive | Japanese ultranationalism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Motive | Cultural violence within the Japanese military | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Motive | A breakdown in Japanese military discipline | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Perpetrators | Prince Yasuhiko Asaka | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Perpetrators | Gen. Iwane Matsui | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Perpetrators | Lt. Col. Isamu Chō | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Perpetrators | Shanghai Expeditionary Army | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Perpetrators | Japanese Tenth Army | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Target | Chinese people | 1.00 | infobox |
| Nanjing Massacre | Victims | 20,000–80,000 women and children raped, 30,000+ POWs illegally executed, 20,000 falsely accused male civilians executed as soldiers, 12,000 to 60,000 civilians murdered inside t… | 1.00 | infobox |
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