Responsibility for the Nanjing Massacre remains debated. General Matsui Iwane held overall command of the Japanese campaign, while Prince Yasuhiko Asaka exercised authority during the final assault on Nanjing. Historians disagree over whether explicit orders for mass killing were issued and later destroyed, but Japanese troops carried out widespread executions, rape, looting, and arson after entering the city in December 1937.
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