The events of December, 1937 in Nanjing are long-standing causes of contention rooted in political differences of opinion between China and Japan. The Chinese view is unified, expressed in the _300,000 victims_ engraved on the memorial walls in Nanjing, which bluntly refers to the Chinese opinion and entity of the _Great Massacre School._ Views in Japan range from complete denial to agreement with the Chinese. The Japanese government’s position of denial fuels the diplomatic clash. The Politics of Nanjing takes a centrist position in order to reconstruct historiographically the days leading up to and following the Japanese invasion of the capital and the political aftermath in China-Japan relations.
