ling several hundred men. Yet still the Japanese boasted that they would be able to conquer all of China within three months, but little did they know that the petite city of Shanghai would take them almost nine months to defeat. All hopes of an easy capture of China held by the Japanese were crushed. It was after this battle that the Japanese really felt their hate for the Chinese and their plans became ugly and revengeful as they headed for Nanking.
             It was on the morning of December 13, 1937 that Japan, under Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, entered into China and the "forgotten holocaust" had officially begun. About 50,000 soldiers from Japan occupied China's capital, Nanking, and for six to eight weeks, many horrible events took place. It was noted in one man's diary that each Japanese soldier took "four hundred heads a day in Nanking" which was enough to leave the them exhausted at the day's end and many Japanese soldiers had to take a break midday to rest their arms. But the worse of it was the methods that the Chi
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