The following account is by a Japanese woman who, in a village lodging house in Niigata, overheard a conversation between several discharged soldiers just after Japan's surrender:
"I was beginning to fall asleep when five or six men started drinking. Each bragged about his exploits in the war. They laughed coarsely about the many Chinese women they had raped, and one told about seeing how far into a woman's body his arm would go, pushing his arm all the way in up to the armpit. I kept quiet. And still they went on and on.
"'Where was that?'
"'Nanking, we had the most fun in Nanking. We could do anything we wanted and steal anything we wanted.'"
日本投降後不久，一個日本女人在新潟市某鄉村宿舍無意中聽到幾個退伍軍人交談。以下是她的記述：
「我快要入睡時，五、六個男人喝起酒來，爭相誇說戰績，談到強姦過無數中國婦女，都淫穢的笑起來。其中一人說，試過把手插進女人體內，看看可插多深，結果整條手臂插了進去，直到腋下，才不能再進。我一聲不響，他們則說個不停。
「『是在哪裏幹的？』
「『南京。我們在南京最是盡興，做什麼都可以，搶什麼都可以。』」