Photo Album on Japanese Intrusion Discovered in NE ChinaA photo album on the Japanese occupation of some Chinese cities was revealed to the public by a collector in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province recently. The album has over 200 pages and includes nearly 800 pictures showing Japanese military operations in Northeast China and Shanghai.Experts said that these pictures will be of great value in the study of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Shenyang, Harbin, and Qiqihar. Notes by Japanese commanders on crucial Sino-Japanese battles during the occupation are contained in the preface. The Japanese first broke into the northeastern part of China on September 18, 1931, and then into east China's Shanghai on January 28 the following year. The album was issued by a Japanes publishing house 50 days after the establishment of the puppet Manchuria regime with Pu Yi as the emperor on March 1, 1932. The album, bought by Zhang Xuewei this year, a collector in a antique market in Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang was meant to show off the Japanese military prowess, said local historians on the anti-Japanese war. |
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