Japanese Military Maps on Northeast ChinaTwenty-seven military maps drawn by the Japanese troops during their invasion in northeast China confirm once again the iron-clad fact of Japanese invasion of China during the World War II.Xun Xinwu, an 82-year-old resident in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, discovered the maps on the site of the Japanese troops command in the city after they retreated. All the railway lines, roads, and the deployment of the Chinese warships on the Songhua River were marked explicitly in both Japanese and Chinese. And most of the names of cities, mountains, and rivers in the maps were more or less the same with today's. "The maps tell almost everything about the topography and mineral resources there and show the strategy of Japanese military troops in northeast China," said Cheng Penghan, research fellow in the Northeast Memorial to Martyrs. Xun decided to turn in all the maps to the local government as he heard that Azuma Shiro, a former Japanese soldier was convicted in a Japanese court for telling the truth about the war crimes committed by Japanese troops. |
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