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Potsdam Declaration is still valid today

[2015-07-27 08:54]

It is explicit about the nature of the Japan-launched war and the establishment of a "peacefully inclined government" in Tokyo.

Residents remember foreign saviors in the city of refuge

[2015-07-24 07:44]

They ran into the night as the bombs continued to fall, the rattle of machine gun fire drawing closer as they made for the last train and their last chance of escape.

Mitsubishi apology hopes rise

[2015-07-25 08:08]

Relatives of Chinese victims of forced labor are hoping to receive a formal apology and compensation from Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi Materials after an announcement by the company on Wednesday.

Mitsubishi to compensate forced Chinese laborers in WWII

[2015-07-24 21:24]

Mitsubishi Materials will apologize to forced Chinese workers during WWII and give $16,100 for each of them and their relatives.

Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei to bring 'APEC blue' back for parade

[2015-07-24 16:04]

Beijing, along with Tianjin and Hebei province, are bonding together to improve the air quality for the September military parade.

Japan's Mitsubishi to apologize, compensate Chinese laborers

[2015-07-24 09:16]

Japan's Mitsubishi Materials will offer compensation and apology to Chinese forced laborers it used during the World War II, according to Kyodo Friday.

Wartime 'comfort woman' believed to the end Japan owed her an apology

[2015-07-23 18:08]

Zhou Fengying, who had served as Japan's wartime sex slaves, believed until drawing her final breath that the Japanese owed her an apology.

Defense paper accusations against China provoke anger

[2015-07-22 07:53]

The Japanese Cabinet has triggered an angry response from its Asian neighbors after it approved an annual defense white paper, a document that in belligerent terms accuses China of raising regional tensions.

Remains of 118 Chinese war heroes return home after 70 years

[2015-07-20 09:34]

The remain of a soldier who died in the Battle of Changsha, in Central China's Hunan province during Chinese People's War against Japanese Aggression, is buried at Anxianyuan Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang province on July 19, 2015.