The crime of rape that the Japanese committed were extremely
savage, just like their brutal murders. The Japanese officers never
restrained these brutal acts, they even encourage them, to satisfy
their soldiers animal desire. As a consequence, Japanese invaders
raped wherever they went. In ShangHai, SuZhu, WuXi, HangZhou...
Japanese invaders did the same. The fate of the women in NanJing
were particularly miserable.
After the fall of NanJing, Japanese invaders searched everywhere in
NanJing in groups, whenever they found women, they gang raped them.
"The Japanese brutal acts witnessed by foreigners" by Tian BoLie
recorded the reports of the atrocities in NanJing, most of them
were rape. Just take a few, and one can see the crimes of the
Japanese army:
"December 14th, noon, Japanese soldiers broke into a house in
JianYin street, they kidnaped four girls, raped them for two
hours.
December 14th, night, Japanese soldiers broke into the homes of
Chinese residents, humiliated women, or took them away...
In the night of December 15th, a large group of Japanese soldiers
broke into the dorm of Jingling University, raped over thirty
women, several women were gang raped by more than six
Japanese.
In the night of December 15th, many Japanese soldiers broke into
the resident homes in ShanTiao street, humiliated many women.
December 16th, Japanese soldiers kidnaped seven girls from Infantry
University, aged from sixteen to twenty-one. Five of them were
later released. According to the report of 18th, they were raped
over six times a day.
In the dusk of December 18th, about four hundred and fifty women
fled to our office, requesting protection. Many of them were raped
by Japanese...
(See. "The Japanese brutal acts witnessed by foreigners",
p189--199, quoting the report from NanJing International Committee.
)
Here, we only listed a few cases in the first couple of days after
the fall of NanJing. In fact, "Rape...continued in large scale
during six weeks after the fall of NanJing" (See. "Judgment of
International Military Tribunal for the Far East " p458 ). These
crimes were not only the acts of the Japanese soldiers, but also
the acts of the Japanese low and high ranking officers... The
principal criminal of the NanJing massacre himself, raped Din Lan
and other two women near ZhongHua gate, raped Liu YuQing and other
three women at SaiHongQiao, raped over ten women at other
places.
(See. "Suit against the principal criminal of NanJing massacre",
HePing Daily, December 31th, 1946).
Japanese invaders not only raped to satisfy their animal desire...
These animals often gang rape women and then kill them and mutilate
their bodies. Many women were gang raped by several, tens of
Japanese, the results were usually the death of the victims. The
bodies of this kind of victims were everywhere. ...
....
During the Massacre, among the rape victims, there were wives of
professors, nuns, workers, teachers, students, etc,etc. Even more
shocking is the following report:
"At the end of February, a refugee family of fourteen people were
all murdered by Japanese. The youngest daughter was only fourteen,
she died on two square tables, upper body dressed, lower body
totally stripped of clothing, blood was all over the tables, her
lower body was bayoneted twice. An elder daughter died in the bed,
in the same way as the younger one. The mother died at the table,
with a one year old baby in her arms. The baby was also cut by
knife, intestines flew out of the body, too horrible to look at.
Members of the International Committee went to investigate, and
took photos, and sent the photos to members of US citizenship and
the Jap embassy..."
" Young girls were usually not mature,..., the Japanese then tear
open their lower body and gang rape them."
(Ref. "The Atrocities of Japanese Invaders", Du ChengXiang, Time
Publisher, p55, 1939 edition )
...
Even pregnant women were not spared. "At 7:30 PM of December 19th,
two Japanese soldiers gang raped a seventeen year old woman who has
been pregnant for 9 months, led to the abortion of the fetus, the
woman became insane. (Ref. "Judgment of the International Military
Tribunal for the Far East" p 451) Outside HongWu gate, Japanese
soldiers raped a pregnant woman in a farmer home, and then cut open
the abdomen of the woman and took out the fetus. In another case,
Japanese soldiers wanted to rape a pregnant woman, her mother-in-
law struggled to stop them, the Japanese were brutal than anything,
they kicked the old lady, and cut the pregnant woman with knife, a
fetus of several month flew out of the body, in a moment two lives
ended like this.
(Ref. XinHua Daily, Feb 24th, 1951)
Many women were killed after being raped. One Japanese officer
advised his subordinates, "To avoid too many troubles,...kill them
after that" (Ref. "A Photographic history of the atrocities of the
Japanese army" ) Many female victims could never tell their
stories. But there was one woman escaped from such death. She
originally lived at No 6, JianYin Street. She and several women
were taken away by the Japanese, they washed clothes during the
day, and were gang raped during the night. The elder ones were
raped ten to twenty times a night, the younger and prettier ones,
even more. On January 1st, two Japanese took her to an abandoned
school, bayoneted her ten times, four times on the back of her
neck, one wound in her arm, one on her face, four on her back, the
Japanese thought she was dead and left. She was later found by
passing-bys and sent to hospital, and finally survived. Some rape
victims, though not killed, contracted sexual transmitted diseases,
suffered all their lives.
