China on Saturday observed its first National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims, and the commemorative service gained worldwide media attention.
President Xi Jinping attended China's first state ceremony on Saturday to commemorate more than 300,000 Chinese murdered by Japanese aggressors during the Nanjing Massacre 77 years ago.
In her grievance form submitted to then-Nanjing mayor Ma Chaojun during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), the 80-year-old widow recalled how Japanese soldiers cleaved her granddaughter's skull with a bayonet and killed four other family members.
The Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders exhibited 7,602 newly collected relics of the Japanese aggression on Monday morning.
The last Flying Tiger pilot in China died of lung failure at 91 at a hospital in southwest China early Wednesday.
China on Saturday published documents chronicling a battle between Chinese and Japanese forces in 1943, involving more than 300,000 troops.
Hainan province is one of China's most popular tourist destinations, but the authorities are facing a dilemma as they try to safeguard the mangrove forest.
Chongqing Economic Times revealed little-known stories about the "Flying Tigers", an American air force fleet that helped China fight Japan's invasion during World War II.