Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre

The Nanjing Massacre refers to the massacre of civilians by the Japanese army during a six-week period from December 1937 to January 1938, after its occupation of Nanjing, the then capital of the Republic of China. In flagrant violation of international conventions and fundamental moral codes, the Japanese  committed atrocities in the form of slaughter, rape, plunder, arson and destruction. In 1945, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal started investigating the Nanjing Massacre as a separate case. This investigation revealed that Japanese troops had committed 28 mass slaughters taking a toll of 190,000 persons, and 858 sporadic killings claiming the lives of over 150,000 Chinese; in total over 300,000 Chinese lost their lives.