The chilling black-and-white images in the archival photographs and film footage speak to the horrors of war: decapitated bodies sprawled in streets, prisoners being bayoneted by their captors, women ...

THE CHRONICLE OF humankind's cruelty is a long and sorry tale. But if it is true that even in such horror tales there are degrees of ruthlessness, then few atrocities can compare in intensity and ...

When U.S. author Iris Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking in 1997, she lifted a cloak of silence from one of the most violent events in modern history. On a bitterly cold day in December 1937, Chang ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

NAGASAKI—Masamitsu Watanabe has intensified his campaign as head of the group of citizens for correcting atomic bomb exhibits in Nagasaki. The 88-year-old and his group want displays related to the ...

"Nanking," AOL vice chairman-turned-producer Ted Leonsis' documentary about the Japanese army's 1937 massacre of civilians in China's prewar capital, will premiere today in Beijing. By Jonathan ...

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 ...

The book case in my childhood bedroom contained worlds far from my own. There was my volume of folk tales from the Childcraft encyclopedia series, along with an illustrated Bible. Sandwiched between ...

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese national flag is flown at half mast as officials preparing for a memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre victims at the Memorial Hall of ...