title: The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
author:  Takashi Yoshida 
description: <br />"The Nanjing Massacre is now an iconic event in international history. This book adroitly summarizes how this state of affairs came to pass."--Laura Hein, Northwestern University
zlib_text: Table of Contents
   
   
  Praise
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Foreword
  Introduction
   
  PART I
   
  Chapter 1 - THE PATH TO NANKING
  Chapter 2 - SIX WEEKS OF TERROR
  THE RACE TO NANKING
  ASAKA TAKES COMMAND
  KILLING THE PRISONERS OF WAR
  THE MURDER OF CIVILIANS
  THE JAPANESE JOURNALISTS
  THE RAPE OF NANKING
  THE ARRIVAL OF MATSUI IWANE
  THE COMFORT WOMEN: THE LEGACY OF
  NANKING
  THE MOTIVES BEHIND NANKING
  Chapter 3 - THE FALL OF NANKING
  Chapter 4 - SIX WEEKS OF HORROR
  THE KILLING CONTESTS
  
  TORTURE
  THE RAPES
  THE DEATH TOLL
  Chapter 5 - THE NANKING SAFETY ZONE
  THE NAZI WHO SAVED NANKING
  THE ONLY SURGEON IN NANKING
  THE LIVING GODDESS OF NANKING
   
  PART II
   
  Chapter 6 - WHAT THE WORLD KNEW
  THE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
  THE NEWSREEL MEN
  JAPANESE DAMAGE CONTROL
  FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ON THE RAPE OF
  NANKING
  JAPANESE PROPAGANDA
  THE SAFETY ZONE LEADERS FIGHT BACK
  Chapter 7 - THE OCCUPATION OF NANKING
  Chapter 8 - JUDGMENT DAY
  THE NANKING WAR CRIMES TRIAL
  THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR
  THE FAR EAST
  Chapter 9 - THE FATE OF 