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Beijing: Tokyo must back words with actions
By Hu Xiao (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-16 06:03
Choe Myong-hun, deputy military attach for the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, said people of the Korean Peninsula share the Chinese people's
feelings because "we fought side by side against a common enemy."
In Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, an exhibition of
historical documents and records held by Nanjing Museum opened to the public
yesterday morning. It will run until September 15.
Exhibits include more than 300 historical documents and 400 pictures,
depicting Chinese people's courageous deeds during the eight-year war.
Exhibits also showcase atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during their
occupation of Nanjing.
At least 300,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed by Japanese
troops in the notorious Nanjing Massacre, which started on December 13, 1937 and
lasted for a month.
In Hong Kong, a number of parades were held yesterday to mark the anniversary
of the end of the war.
Hundreds of people from the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions and
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) marched
to the Consulate-General of Japan yesterday morning, urging the country to learn
from history.
Pang Cheung-Wai, a member of the central standing committee of the DAB, said
that 60 years after the war, Japan still adopts history books that glosses over
its aggression, and its top politicians still pay homage at the Yasukuni Shrine
in Tokyo, where 14 Class-A war criminals are honoured.
The two organizations strongly requested the Japanese Government apologize
and compensate victims of the invasion.
The Hong Kong Reparation Association and some other organizations also
marched to the consulate-general later in the day.
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