The people of China and the United States established a deep friendship when fighting against Japanese aggression in China 70 years ago, which should be remembered and passed on, Luo Linquan, Chinese consul general in San Francisco, said on Thursday.
After flying his kite for months, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a statement about Japanese aggression in World War II with phrases that had rarely appeared in his narratives of his country's war history.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned the "deep remorse" of previous governments for Japan's wartime aggression in a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's World War II defeat.
Blasts near the world's fourth-largest port that killed at least 50 people and injured hundreds could strike a blow to the regional economy and dent the leadership's enthusiasm to turn the area into China's next economic front line, experts said.
Chen Yumei finally received the call she had been waiting for: Her 20-year-old son had recovered consciousness after being injured during the devastating explosions that shook Tianjin late Wednesday night.
A former Japanese leader has called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to make a heartfelt apology for the nation's wartime atrocities.
Tianjin and Beijing have denied rumors that severe air pollution resulted from Wednesday's explosions in Tianjin's Binhai New Area, saying the accident has not affected the capital and that excessive harmful pollutants in Tianjin have been dispersed.
The public rolled up their sleeves to donate blood for those injured by the massive blasts in Tianjin as the country's health authorities and medical institutions geared up on Thursday to provide medical teams and supplies.
Witnesses told of their shock on Thursday following the explosions that rocked Tianjin late on Wednesday evening.
Seventeen firefighters were among the 50 people killed in the warehouse blasts in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, authorities said on Thursday.
One sentence in the Newseum in Washington has stuck in my mind since a trip last summer: When you see people run against the crowd toward the danger, they are probably firefighters, police or journalists.
More than 60 people were missing after being buried in a landslide in Shanyang county, Shaanxi province, local authorities said, and experts warned their chances of survival were getting slimmer as the rescue work continued into Wednesday night.
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