6. Japan
It is hard not to mention the Japanese genocide on the list of countries involved with genocide today and the last 100 years, mostly because it greatly affected the relations between Japan and China and caused serious political problems between these two countries which are still visible even today. During The Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the Japanese army attacked a Chinese province named Nanking (Nanjing) and murdered and massacred more than 300,000 people. Japanese government, politicians, and nationalists did not want to admit committing genocide for a long period of time mostly due to the bad memories associated with capitulation at the end of WWII. Although there are still people in Japan who claim that these atrocities were actually a regular war against China, there have been various educational programs since 1980 which inform people about this genocidal event.
