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	THE	SU