Answer 5 No, such cases never happened. Not like present Japanese or Chinese, the citizens (settlers) or Japanese in Nanking those days didn't have any ideas about "the event" at all. Even they didn't hear of the rumor of mass killing done by Japanese army in this city before.
Many years after the war, thanks to the continual propaganda of Koumintang government, many of Japanese and Chinese came to believe as the historical fact of "the Nanking Massacre". After Japanese surrender, Koumintang government(China) advised Chinese people to indict the crimes? @done by Japanese Army in Nanking in order to report the evidence to prove "the Nanking Massacre" for Tokyo Court.
But at that time according to China, there were "only too few accusers" and "many people to deny" against Japanese cruel actions, and at last next year in January the testimony they could report was only one as "the evidence". So that China made a great effort to correct the evidences during the court and finally eleven( ... more.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.