The Nanjing Massacre was one of the most brutal genocides of the 20th century, part of Imperial Japan's overreaching mission to cleanse the Asias of "lesser" ethnic groups, including the Chinese. The total death toll is widely debated, due to widespead erasure of the event from reputable history, but multiple scholars place the death count anywhere between 40,000 to 200,000 citizens.

Despite the remarkable Chinese population in California, with over 1.5 million Chinese Americans choosing to reside and work in the Golden State, no part of the Second Sino-Japanese war is required curriculum in high school World History. As a result, many grow up without learning this major event in their ethnic history.

The atrocities committed by Imperialist Japan during World War 2 cannot be allowed to be forgotten or ignored, especially given the extent of its impact on the Asias and American-Asian relations to this day.

In a state with such a large Asian American population, the government owes its constituents their right to their own history.

This history is world history. It deserves a place in the curriculum.