Japanese soldiers using dead Chinese as targets for bayonet practice
Japanese soldiers using dead Chinese as targets for bayonet practice. During the second Sino-Japanese war, the Imperial Japanese Army would often use chinese corpses for bayonet practice. Durng the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, one of the many ways the Japanese military would murder their Chinese prisoners was by bayonet. But this was not a simple execution. Often the purpose was to give their new soldiers real life bayonet practice, and especially to remove their normal inhibitions against killing other human beings. This practice is what may be going on in this photo. For documentation on Japan's murder of near 4,000,000 Chinese during the Sino-Japanese War (which in 1941 merged into World War II), see China's Bloody Century Source: "Nanjing Massacre:" 300,000 Chinese People Killed, 20,000 Women Raped. The Japanese Army had pushed quickly through China after capturing Shanghai in November 1937. By early December, it was on the outskirts of Nanjing. The speed of the ...