A good place to start for more information about The Rape of Nanking is www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NM.html. The site is a comprehensive one that offers links to an exhibition and movie room with photos and documentary footage of the massacre (be prepared: very disturbing), and confessions from former Japanese soldiers who participated. It also provides links to the writings and speeches of Japanese scholars and politicians who contend that the massacre never occurred, and a reading room with links to scholarly writings on the subject.

You might also check out the site maintained by The Alliance in Memory of Victims of the Nanjing Massacre ( www.hk.super.net/~csjwv/amvnm.html). The Alliance has available for purchase several documentary films about the massacre.

For an artistic treatment of the subject, visit The Museum of Nanjing Massacre ( www.smn.co.jp/gallery/nanjing/). After Chinese-born artist Guo Peiyu was prohibited from exhibiting his massacre-inspired art at several different sites in Japan, he converted his small apartment into a museum. The works on display include 3000 "faces"--clay works that "express the souls of the 300-thousand victims who still do not rest peacefully."

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