[The soldiers would murder their victims in sexually humiliating and sadistic ways, such as forcing bayonets, long sticks or bamboo, or other objects into their vaginas and assholes. The soldiers would toss the dead Chinese in mass graves, sometimes violating and executing their victims in the very ditch they intended to bury them in. The Japanese troops would often execute their victims after gang-raping them.]

[Japanese soldiers delighted in finding new and entertaining ways to torture Chinese civilians, especially women. When they found Chinese soldiers, the Japanese troops would behead them. The Japanese would rape hundreds, thousands of girls each night—If husbands or brothers intervened, they were shot. A woman and her two teenage daughters were raped, Japanese soldiers rammed a bottle and a cane into her vagina. Girls were raped to death in the refugee camps; at night the Japanese troops would come over the walls, stealing food and clothes and raping until they were satisfied. The Japanese troops would force families to commit incestuous acts; sons would be forced to rape their mothers, and fathers would be forced to rape their daughters. The bodies of raped women were often further mutilated and defiled by the sadistic Japanese invaders. Women were captured and gang-raped without mercy, the Japanese often beating or mutilating them while raping them. Women were being carried off every morning, afternoon, and evening—the whole Japanese army seemed free to do whatever it pleased. Japanese troops use their search for Chinese soldiers as an excuse to rape and pillage.]

[A comfort woman caught an STD and spread it to an officer—the soldiers punished her by taking a red-hot pipe and forcing it into her vagina, pulling it free to display a lump of burnt flesh stuck to the searing pipe. Several women tried to escape, the soldiers caught them and tortured them by tattooing their bodies, caring little if the would-be escapees survived the torture. Japanese soldiers would torment comfort women in cruel ways, such as striking matches on their vaginas, burning them with lit cigarettes, or impaling their wombs with steel poles. The comfort women would have to service Japanese soldiers, if they refused the soldiers would gag and beat them. Comfort women would be kept in prison-like brothels, behind bars, to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese troops. The Japanese soldiers would take attractive women like Lan as 'comfort women', the women would be taken to brothels and forced to work as an unpaid prostitute for the use of the Japanese army, pleasuring Japanese soldiers.]

[Huan was an ugly, lazy young man who worked as a pig farmer. Liu was a plain, ordinary looking woman. Liang was the father of Lan and Liu, an elderly man who loved his daughters dearly. Lan and Liu were sisters, Lan was the younger sister at nineteen, and Liu the older at twenty one. Lan was unmarried, but Liu was married to a pig farmer named Huan.]

[A pregnant woman resisted, so the soldiers abruptly stabbed in in the belly with a bayonet, tearing out the fetus and stabbing it before tossing it aside like trash. Japanese soldiers targeted pregnant women for murder, and their stomachs were often bayoneted, sometimes after the troops took it in turns violating them.]

[A Japanese soldier bludgeoned a boy to death with the butt of his rifle, for not removing his hat when the soldier ordered him to. When comfort women refused to work, they were executed as an example to the others; they were stripped naked and rolled across a bed of sharp nails, blood squirting everywhere like some hellish fountain, pieces of flesh left dangling from the nails. When the women resisted or seem unwilling to their rapists, they were punished with a bayonet stab or a bullet.]

[The Japanese soldiers would force Lan to become a 'comfort woman', a sex slave who was forced to work in a brothel pleasuring Japanese troops. Lan was of uncommon beauty for a common woman; she had soft, delicate features that caught the eye pleasingly, and long black hair that shimmered like woven silk. She was slender, though healthy, and she moved with an innate grace and poise that had an almost hypnotic effect, turning the heads of men wherever she went. Lan was a beautiful young Chinese woman, a civilian living in Nanjing. Lan was afraid of the invading Japanese soldiers, but she did as she was told, she knew what they did to women who disobeyed them.]