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Nation inaugurates memorial website for Nanjing Massacre

[2014-07-08 05:15]

China has inaugurated a national memorial website allowing visitors to honor Chinese victims of the Nanjing Massacre by virtually lighting candles, presenting flowers and planting trees.

China remembers War Against Japanese Aggression

[2014-07-07 08:31]

Zhu Baoguo, a collector, shows an album, published in 1984 in China, revealing Japan's atrocities during World War II, in Yichang city, Hubei province, on July 6.

New book published to reveal WWII Japanese atrocities

[2014-07-04 09:56]

A collection of newly-deciphered evidence about Japan's invasion of China recorded by a Japanese monthly newspaper and confidential records of the Japanese military police during World War II were released on Tuesday in Changchun, capital city of Jilin province.

China publicizes confessions by Japanese war criminals

[2014-07-03 13:50]

Confessions made by 45 Japanese war criminals tried and convicted by military tribunals in China after World War II (WWII) were published online.

Japan censured for skirting peace constitution

[2014-07-02 09:54]

Ignoring strong protests from home and abroad, the Japanese cabinet approved a resolution that would allow the country to exercise the so-called "collective self-defense right" by reinterpreting its pacifist Constitution.

Editorial: Japan opens Pandora's box

[2014-07-02 07:49]

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has effectively gutted the war-renouncing Article 9 of Japan's postwar Constitution.

Strike ends after Japanese executive apologizes for denying history

[2014-07-01 16:37]

Relevant departments are mediating a strike at a Japanese-funded electronic company in China's manufacturing hub Dongguan, Guangdong province.

Abe's Faustian flirtation with specter of war

[2014-07-01 13:25]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is leading his country down a dangerous path as his cabinet is poised to approve a so-called constitutional "reinterpretation" that essentially guts Japan's pacifist charter.

Senior Chinese, Japanese officials meet amid strained ties

[2014-06-27 21:13]

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong urges the Japanese side to face up to history and make concrete efforts to strengthen bilateral ties.

NYTimes urges Japan to abandon intention to rewrite history

[2014-06-24 15:13]

An editorial published on the website of New York Times has urged Japan not to try to rewrite its past by releasing a report on World War II sex slaves.

Tokyo's despicable denial

[2014-06-24 07:53]

Abe and his increasingly assertive cabinet should be reminded that any kind of stigmatization of the Kono Statement, which is another bald-faced denial of history, is doomed to failure.

'Comfort women' station in Nanjing to get city protection

[2014-06-23 08:00]

Asia's largest military brothel during World War II has been officially listed as a city-level heritage site in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.