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The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall or ''Memorial for Compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Forces of Aggression'' () is a hall to memorialize those that were killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in and around the then capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell on December 13, 1937. It is located in the southwestern corner of Nanjing known as Jiangdongmen, near a site where thousands of bodies were buried, called a "pit of ten thousand corpses" (). ==Nanjing Massacre== (詳細はRepublic of China. It is widely accepted that during the first six to eight weeks of their occupation, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, including rape, arson, looting, mass executions, and torture. There is, however, denial over the scale of the massacre, especially in Japan where many ultranationalists even go so far as to claim that the massacre never occurred. China estimates that approximately 300,000 civilians and unarmed Chinese soldiers were brutally slaughtered. This estimate was made from burial records and eyewitness accounts by the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal and included in the verdict for Hisao Tani. Corpses littered the streets and were seen afloat in rivers for weeks, and many structures in the city were burned down. Countless shops, stores, and residences were looted and sacked.〔John E. Woods, ''The Good Man of Nanking, the Diaries of John Rabe'', 1998 P. 275-278〕 Japanese soldiers were also reported to have conducted killing competitions and bayonet practice using live Chinese prisoners. Approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred within the city during the first month of the occupation, according to the "Judgement of the International Military Tribunal".〔(Nanjing Massacre Memorial Site 200 )〕 Even children, the elderly, and nuns are reported to have suffered at the hands of the Imperial Japanese army.〔John E. Woods, ''The Good Man of Nanking, the Diaries of John Rabe'', 1998 P. 275-278, 281〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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