Charred corpses of Nanjing civilians who were burned to death with oil by Japanese troops during the Nanjing Incident of the Sino-Japanese War. The burnt bodies were Chinese motorists who were killed or burned to death by Japanese bombing.

    The bodies of Nanjing civilians who were burned to death with oil by the Japanese military during the Nanjing Incident of the Sino-Japanese War have been charred. The burned bodies were documented by the Nationalist Government as Chinese nationals killed by Japanese bombing or Chinese motorists burned alive by the Japanese (Gu Jinliang, Picture Record of Japanese Invasion Savagery, 1938). The photos of the Nanking Incident that broke out in December 1937 were circulated.

　There is no evidence of fire around the burned bodies except for the burned-out cars. The carmen were obviously artificially incinerated, not by fire from bombing. His entire body was burned all over, and he was covered with fuel and burned while lying on the ground. Before they were burned, the bodies had already decomposed so severely that their limbs were stretched out horizontally instead of flexed, their legs were charred and crumpled, and their elbows were stretched out. For bodies that had been dead for a week, the limbs did not flex even after incineration because of the severe decomposition of muscle proteins. Burned corpses were not burned alive; they were burned after they had decomposed to the point of being unmanageable.

　On December 13, 1937, the invading Japanese forces invaded Nanjing, then the capital of China, and carried out a massacre that lasted approximately 40 days or more, in which vast numbers of Chinese soldiers and civilians were cruelly slaughtered. China has long characterized the Japanese atrocities as a genocide. In Japan, there have always been forces that deny the Nanking Massacre. As Japanese politics and society have shifted to the right, the movement to deny the Nanking Massacre has gained strength again. In December 1937, at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, when the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the city of Nanjing in the Republic of China, they killed, looted, raped, and set fire to numerous ROC prisoners of war, defeated soldiers, soldiers in uniform, and civilians over a two-month period.

　Japanese forces burned and looted everywhere they invaded, leaving Chinese cities in ruins and their former homes in ruins. Incinerated corpses, the atrocities of the Japanese military, were shown in images of their frenzied incineration and looting. The evil Japanese invaders burned various parts of China to the ground. After the bombings, the Japanese set fire again, dropping incendiary bombs of high heat and fire-inducing oil incessantly on the densely populated cities. Burning again and again, thousands of years of Chinese heritage were destroyed. Buried in the flames, the Chinese people were met with inhuman and tragic slaughter. The atrocities committed by arson are more grievous than those committed by bandits and robbers.