The first "comfort women" museum in Japan has been largely ignored by the Japanese media. Ms Ikeda Eriko, curator of the museum, stated: "The issue (of comfort women) has entered its most urgent moments."
"I am obliged to tell the truth to the Japanese youth." Twenty-seven years ago Ms Matsuoka Tamaki gave this promise face-to-face with a survivor of the Nanjing massacre when the Japanese school teacher conducted her first investigation in Nanjing.
Two hours of talking revealed the life of Sho as a victim of war and somewhat inclined to introspection. The vicissitudes of history stamped on him cast light on the cruelty of past times and the grimness of reality.
China began to renovate the former headquarters site of the notorious Japanese army unit 731 in the northeastern city of Harbin on Wednesday.
China on Tuesday published documents chronicling the Battle of Xiangxi, a 1945 confrontation in the central province of Hunan that was crucial to defending Chongqing, the wartime capital.
China on Saturday published documents chronicling a battle between Chinese and Japanese forces in 1943, involving more than 300,000 troops.
China on Sunday released the 29th installment of anti-Japanese aggression war archives -- the Battle of Hengyang, which took place in 1944 in central China's Hunan Province.
China on Friday published documents chronicling battles fought between Chinese and Japanese forces from 1943 to 1945 in northern Myanmar, then a British colony, and in Yunnan Province.
Archival material released on Thursday showed how, in May of 1942, Chinese troops thwarted Japanese invaders' attempts to encircle their base, and launched a devastating counterattack.
The 24th instalment in a series of archival releases on China's WWII engagements on Wednesday covered its battles in Myanmar, then a British colony.
Chinese archivists on Tuesday showed how China successfully used guerrilla warfare to defend a key base against Japanese invaders in the eastern Jiangsu Province in 1941.
China on Monday released archives of a large-scale, morale-boosting offensive by 105 Chinese regiments in 1940, as the country marks the 69th anniversary of the victory against Japan's aggression.