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"After a sweeping attack [in Nanjing] by the Sukekawa Unit and the navy, dead bodies stretched for 1,000 to 1,500 meters long from Zhongzheng Road to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. About 85,000 enemies [Chinese people] were killed within three days."
—Excerpt from a report titled Witness of Nanjing Attack in the Nara Edition of Osaka Daily News on December 23, 1937, written by a special correspondent named Mitsumoto |