In the Jinan Incident, Japanese troops had no choice but to repel the Shina people, who were killing each other in a civil war, as they repeatedly looted and massacred the Japanese living in Jinan.
👇Here is a report from two weeks after the incident.
A Japanese man's house was looted by Chinese soldiers. When police officers rushed to the scene, they were beaten up.
When 20 Japanese soldiers rushed to the scene, they fled and returned fire.
Then, massacres of Japanese people started in other places as well.
Germany even sent arms and military advisors to Chiang Kai-shek's army on the mainland until around 1938, and proposed the massacre of the Japanese in Shanghai.
That is why there are still many photos (below) of Kuomintang soldiers wearing German helmets (above) in China.
This is the actual article about killing 100 people
(1) The article does not say that civilians were killed.
(2) The photo was taken in Changzhou.
(3) The article was written before the fall of Nanking
(4) The newspaper admitted after the war that the article was fictional.
Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang troops, who had come south to fight the Northern forces, asked the Japanese to retreat.
However, when they believed Chiang Kai-shek and retreated, leaving only a few soldiers behind, they began looting the Japanese.
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Photos of a Chinese selling vegetables, a Chinese selling dumplings, and a Japanese soldier eating peacefully.
All these are real photos of Nanking taken in Nanking on December 15, 1937.
Shinju Sato is a military photographer for the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun.
Immediately after the fall of Nanking, Kuomintang soldiers took off their uniforms and fled into Nanking City, but the Japanese military picked off the fake civilians and protected the civilians wearing the Japanese flag.
So the real photos of Nanking show these Chinese people.