Japanese PM Lays Wreath at War Memorial HallVisiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi laid a wreath at the Memorial Hall of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in southwest Beijing to show mourning to those Chinese people who died during the war.He is the first Japanese Prime Minister to have laid a wreath at the hall. In May 1995, the then Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama also visited the hall. The hall is located near the Lugou (Marco Polo) Bridge, where the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression started on July 7, 1937. |
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