"ESTIMATED NUMBER OF VICTIMS OF JAPANESE MASSACRE IN NANKING "

AS ASSERTED BY IRIS CHANG IN THE RAPE OF NANKING, p.102 Penguin Books

(the "remarks" and "footnotes" have been added by us)

Source

Number of victims

Remarks
Tsun-shan-tang 112,266 completely groundless
Red Swastika Society 43,071 (footnote 1) These were the corpses of combatants, not civilians except for a few caes
Shia Kwan District (sic) 26,100 groundless
Stated by Mr. Lu Su 57,400 (footnote 2) completely groundless
Stated by Messrs. Jui, Chang, and Young 7,000 groundless
Stated by Mr. Wu 2,000 groundless
Stated on the Tomb of the Unknown Victims 3,000 no corpses
Total (approximately) 260,000


1 According to the Red Swastika Society's burial records, the number of bodies buried within Nanking city limits was 1,793 out of a total of 43,071.
2 The number stated in the original source (a report prepared by the Prosecutor's Office of the Nanking District Court) is 57,418. Chang changed this to 57,400, perhaps to make it seem more credible.