ABSTRACT
Items published in the Japan Advertiser, a Tokyo English-language newspaper, on December 7 and 14, 1937: These events were reportedly part of the atrocity now known as the Rape of Nanjing at the beginning of the eight-year-long Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese reached Chiang's capital, Nanjing, and unleashed one of twentieth century's most terrifying war crimes. From the Tokyo War Crimes trials come accounts of one atrocity after another. Though part of the reason for choosing Chongqing as the wartime capital was that it was frequently fog-enshrouded in fall and winter and thus provided some degree of protection from bombers, many raids were successful. In contrast, at the Sino-Japanese War's beginning, Great Britain and the United States did very little to assist China out of fear of angering Japan, though the United States, at least, was sympathetic to China's plight. It is no exaggeration to argue that the "rise of the peasant associations fundamentally changed rural power relations.".
