Nanjing Massacre Exhibition to Make US Tour

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Nanjing Massacre Exhibition to Make US Tour

An exhibition featuring evidence of the Nanjing Massacre, committed by Japanese troops in China during the Second World War, will be held in mid-December in San Francisco in the United States.

An exhibition featuring evidence of the Nanjing Massacre, committed by Japanese troops in China during the Second World War, will be held in mid-December in San Francisco in the United States.

The massacre, which occurred in 1937 following the Japanese capture of the city, involved the slaughter of 300,000 Chinese by Japanese troops.

The exhibition is to remind people outside China of the atrocities committed by Japanese troops against Chinese, and to respond to efforts by Japanese right-wing groups to distort the truths of history in certain textbooks, according to the exhibition organizer.

The exhibition will display 600 pictures and about 30 precious relics and documents.

A grand prayer mass for peace will be held at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco on December 13, the 64th anniversary of the massacre.

Nanjing Massacre (Dec. 1937- Feb. 1938)

In December 1937, Nanjing fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. The Japanese army launched a massacre for six weeks. According to the records of several welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the Massacre, around three hundred thousand people, mostly civilians and POWs, were brutally slaughtered.

Over twenty thousand cases of rape were reported. Many of the victims were gang raped and then killed. The figure did not include those captives who were sent to army brothels (the so-called "comfort stations").

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