Villagers call on Japan to atone for massacre

Residents seek compensation for 1941 slaughter by Japanese army, He Na reports from Panjiayu, Hebei province.

It's not easy to reach Panjiayu, a village in the countryside around Tangshan, Hebei province. To get to the isolated village, visitors first have to take a bus ride of about an hour to the Fengrun district before taking a long-distance bus, which usually runs five times a day.

After almost three-hours on the bumpy country roads, the bus finally stops at a well-designed modern building that seems incongrous with the surroundings where grapevines dominate the landscape as far as the eye can see.