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Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 143, Nanjing, Part 2.

So let's dive right back in.

The period immediately following the Nanjing massacre was overwhelmingly defined by silence surrounding what had happened.

Official Japanese publications, and by 1939 the passage of new censorship laws made all publications, functionally official, as well as military propaganda referring to Nanjing,

mentioned what had happened only in the most glowing terms. No mention was made of

rape or looting, and when violence in the city was discussed, it was in terms of heroic

Japanese soldiers smashing through armed Chinese defenders. The Japanese army actively

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