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Skyline of central Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
The Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, was a period of mass killing and sexual violence perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army following the seizure of Nanjing on December 13, 1937. The atrocities continued for approximately six weeks, lasting into January 1938.12