Nanjing Massacre denial

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Denial of the Nanjing Massacre is a negationist claim asserting that the murder and rape of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians by Imperial Japanese forces in Nanjing is a fabrication or exaggeration. Most historians accept the findings of the Tokyo tribunal with respect to the scope and nature of the atrocities which were committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the Battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In Japan, however, there has been a debate over the extent and nature of the massacre, with some historians attempting to downplay or outright deny that the massacre took place. Experts hold differing estimations for the total death count. Some think it could be as low as 40,000, but most historians think it was somewhere between 50,000 and 300,000. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East has said there were at least 200,000 deaths. Some scholars, notably negationists in Japan, have contended that the actual death toll is far lower...

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