During the Easter holidays he had taken a train from Nanking intending to see his family in North China.

在复活节假日期间，他从南京乘火车打算去北方探亲。

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John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member who ran the Siemens plant in Nanking, China, in the thirties.

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The declaration came one month after the Japanese army occupied Nanking, then the capital of China.

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Ishi-hara Shintaro is best known for being an outspoken nationalist who over the years has denied the Rape of Nanking, vilified the communist government of China, and most recently insulted Chinese and Koreans in Japan by saying sangokujin, a derogatory term for foreigners seldom heard since the early post-war years, could run riot in the wake of an earthquake.

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