Nation marks 73 years since Japan's surrender

NANJING - A peace assembly was held Wednesday in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II.

Representatives from countries such as China, Japan and the United States attended the event held in the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, which mourned the 300,000 people killed in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.

Japanese invaders conducted the slaughter during a six-week rampage after they captured the city, then China's capital, on Dec 13, 1937.