Japan's 1937 invasion of China's former capital, Nanking, is a chapter of history that the Japanese would prefer to forget. It remains a controversial subject in Japan, where many historians and ...

“Nanking” is one of those horrifying documentaries that force an audience to look deep into the maw of inhumanity, our bottomless capacity for inflicting the cruelest possible behavior on the ...

The documentary “Nanking” begins with an unusual gambit: We see a group of actors, some of them recognizable, enter a room for what looks like a staged reading. It is: These actors will read ...

The year was 1937. The place was Nanking, then the capital of China, now called Nanjing. It would be four years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would draw the United States into World ...

Eleven years ago, San Jose author Iris Chang brought a dark moment of history to light in her bestselling book, "The Rape of Nanking," a searing account of the six-week siege of that city during ...

WITHOUT a doubt, the “Cinemax Reel Life” documentary “Nanking,” making its television debut tonight, is one of the most horrifying and startling documentaries ever presented on TV.

This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China’s ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what ...

In the early winter of 1937, Japanese troops, having conquered Shanghai, moved on to envelop Nanking, then the capital of China. After a furious aerial bombardment, they entered the city virtually ...

BEIJING -- "Nanking," AOL vice chairman-turned-producer Ted Leonsis' documentary about the Japanese army's 1937 massacre of civilians in China's pre-war capital, will premiere Tuesday in Beijing.