Talk:Battle of Nanking

Requesting a minor change to the article on the "Contest to Kill 100 People with a Sword"

The article mentions that Japanese media back then covered the Contest to Kill 100 People with a Sword which I assume is true given that there's sources to confirm this, however the way this source is referenced is misleading and claims that the media back then reported the atrocity. Japan had very strict laws on censoring it's wrong doing during the war and it doesn't make sense to say otherwise given that Japans propaganda machine during it's aggression as more effective than Germany's(which is one reason among others why political dissidence in Japan was lower than Germany and Italy). I read a translated version of the article and it falsely states(in the article since the media was basically propaganda) that the event took place during combat. In reality it was a mass execution. Can we make a minor change here since the fact that Japan has been shedding it's memory of it's atrocities during the second world war with denialists making gains(I won't be going off topic here on the complex nature over Japans refusal to apologize, but the point stands). Undeadmerc3 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:59, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

The image

There has been an slow ongoing edit war about this image for a while. I think for readers with familiarity in the historiography of Second Sino-Japanese War, the propaganda nature of this image should be apparent (as both the Chinese and the Japanese actively participated in producing photographies for their narrative). Personally I think it is fine to include this image, but the nature of the image should be indicated somewhere. One problem is that photos from the China Incident Photograph Album (where this photo was from) are not consistently propagandist, and I cannot find any sources explicitly calling out these images as propagandist, so I can see arguments for both sides. Any thoughts? Alex Shih (talk) 22:53, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I’ve added a note stating it is from a Japanese source. The album contains many similar images whose accuracy is disputed by the Nanking massacre, so it’s likely to be propaganda.FormosaKMT (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I personally think that this photograph should be removed, because it isn't directly related to the text. All the other photographs depict events that are specifically mentioned in the article text. However, there is no mention in the article text about Chinese children playing with a toy tank. Out of all the photographs, this one seems like the odd photo out.Tessa Bennet (talk) 01:45, 25 February 2019 (UTC) ...

This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Edit request

Please update the hatnote

This article is about the 1937 battle. For the 1853 battle, see Battle of Nanjing (1853). For the 1864 battle, see Third Battle of Nanking.

{{About|the 1937 battle|the 1853 battle|Battle of Nanjing (1853)|the 1864 battle|Third Battle of Nanking}}

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This article is about the 1937 battle. For other battles, see Battles of Nanking.

{{About|the 1937 battle|other battles|Battles of Nanking}}

-- 70.51.45.46 (talk) 05:07, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

 Done DBigXrayᗙ 05:46, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Most of the pictures are blatant propaganda and shameless biased towards showing Japanese in a good light

This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:04, 12 April 2024 (UTC)