why did the rape of nanjing happen?

Answer 1

Its not only known as the Nanjing rape, it is mostly known by the Najing massacre, where 300000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese army. Actually the Japanese army did need to kill most of Nanjing habitants, as China is a huge country and the Japanese could not take everybody as prisoner. But in this case, they did killed civilians and the way they killed them was the reason for the atrocity of the act, they did not need to do what they have done, but Nanjing was an old capital of China (before the Ming dynasty) and was representing an important symbol in the war against China. Also, the Japanese were so much suscessful in destroying the Chinese army, that they never feel that they were fighting warriors, but fighting animals. So they got brainwashed and never care in respecting Chinese as humans... Japanese sees surrendering as a low act, and they don't respect anybody that surrenders, even the American soldiers kept prisoners were badly treated... Anyways this is a long story...

Answer 2

Rape of Nanjing, was a hoax ....
it never happened