In the frigid winter of 1937, the Imperial Japanese army stormed Nanjing and carried out one of the most barbaric atrocities in its war of aggression against China – the Nanjing Massacre. More than 300,000 civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed over the span of six weeks. The scale of the massacre still casts a long shadow compounded by Japan's historical denial. In Tokyo, right-wing factions continue to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japanese militarism for enshrining convicted Cla