Historians Find New Crimes of Japanese Invaders in ChinaHistorians from China, Japan and Russia have recently found new evidence in the Japanese Dongning fortress in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province that Japanese invaders committed "unforgivable crimes" in China during the 1930s and early 1940s.The Dongning fortification is located at the Sino-Russian border, covering an area of 93-km wide at the front and 50-km in length. Some 130,000 Japanese soldiers once stationed there. Jin Weibai and Cheng Penghan from a memorial hall said the underground tunnels, a Japanese command center, an electricity generation center and ammunition warehouse were discovered in the fortress. Military documents were also found, said Makota Kikuchi, a researcher from a Japanese research institute who specializes in studying Japanese fortifications in northeast China. The historians chose Dongning because there are still forced labor and comfort women survivors in the area. Zhu Jinhuan, a Chinese labor survivor, said Japanese soldiers would put those Chinese labors who want to escape in sacks and threw them at hungry, ferocious dogs. Russian experts Ivan Novich and Victor Lovich said "It is ridiculous that Japanese right-wings activists are trying to deny that Japan invaded China during this period. All the evidence suggests the complete opposite." Haruichi Takenouchi, another expert from the Japanese Institute, said, the findings in the Dongning fortification told us that the Japanese committed untold atrocities. He promised not to stop his efforts in exposing that until the Japanese government formally apologizes to the Chinese people. A twenty page photo album published by the Japanese includes pictures on Japanese attacks of Nanjing, air raids over Chongqing and Xi'an, and also photos of their commanders. |
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