'Comfort women' still waiting for apology

Women raped during wartime in Hainan province are still awaiting an apology from Japan, even though most of them are now in their 80s.

Chinese city salutes a very British hero with a statue

Scottish missionary and Olympic gold medallist Eric Liddell died in the Weihsien Japanese internment camp in Weifang in February 1945 and is revered by many local Chinese as a hero.

Belgium's 'Chinese mother' remembered

Qian Xiulin, a Chinese woman who had moved to Belgium in 1929, was hailed as Belgium's "Chinese mother" after saving the lives of nearly 100 Belgians during Nazi Germany's occupation from May 1940.

The beginning of the end

The victory in Tengchong, Yunnan province, was anything but easy. Chinese and Japanese armies engaged more than 40 times in 127 days.

Images capture pain of 'comfort women'

'I am still alive. That's enough'

Zhang Tiliu was born in 1925. The China Expeditionary Force veteran participated in almost all the major battles in western Yunnan province, including Gaoligong Mountain, Laifeng Mountain and Tengchong.

Breaking the blockades with Allied help

The National Cemetery in Tengchong, Yunnan province, is the final resting place of 10,000 soldiers from the China Expeditionary Force and 19 United States liaison officers, who died in the relief of Tengchong.

General Liu Jian recalls story of his grandfather, Marshal Zhu De

Revealing the real life of the founding father, Liu Jian, grandson of Zhu De, says we will inherit the spiritual treasure left by Marshal Zhu.

Meeting the Flying Tigers in Xi'an

Whenever Chinese people celebrated Anti-Japanese War victory in August, Zhang Tianzhu would recall his encounter with two pilots of Flying Tigers and hoped to meet them again.

'Lost' movie Kukan brings home horror of Japanese occupation

A documentary about the 1937 invasion held its first screening recently, more than 70 years after it alerted the world about Japan’s brutality.

An 81-year-old lady and her WWII memorial hall in San Francisco

Saturday evening, on the sidewalk of a downtown street in San Francisco, when Mrs Florence Fang was a few steps away from her car, she heard a man's voice from behind: "Congratulations!"

Soviet captain helped China fight against Japanese aggression

A Soviet soldier died a martyr's death in southwestern China’s Chongqing having devoted himself to the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.