The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, wirttien by Iris Chang recounts the advancement of Japanese soldiers from Shanghai to Nanking during the war. The author inlcudes at the beginning of the bok that he main motive for writing about uch a gruesome event was the lack of coverage of it. Hardly anyone learns about the mass genocide of the Chineses in the far east. The beggining of the book is filled with statistics to give ample proof of the extent of the massacre of the Chinese. The Japanese soldiers followed a code of conduct while raiding the city that encouraged them to ravage literally everything in their path. Chang very clearly outlines the path the Japanese took to get to Nanking. She uses several personal accounts of Chineses citizens who lived through the ordeal to accurately describe the amount of destruction the Japanese caused. Chang uses a technique called the Rashomon perspective to narrate the events of fall f Nanking and the Chinese massacre. The first point of view she takes is the viewpoint of the Japanese military. The second is perspective is that of the Chinese victims …show more content…
The culture practiced filial piety and Shintoism which hihglights their respect for the world around them and the people in it. However, the Japanese have a different set of ethics during times of war. The Japanese are trained at birth to be ready to die for their emporer, as if their own life doesn;t matter. This idea is emphasized even more when civlians join the military. They are taught that surrendering to the enemy is worse than dying in combat. The Japanese armed forces trauned its men to be killing machines which required most of the trainees to destroy their pre-established morals and adopt a ruthless desire for complete domination and killing without feeling a shred of remorse . This is extremely prevalent when the military units sweeps through the