A total of 89 wartime documents made public on Friday show details of atrocities Japanese troops committed in China during World War Two (WWII). The documents represent only a small portion of the nearly 100,000 wartime Japanese files retrieved underground during construction work in the early 1950s, said Yin Huai, president of the Jilin Provincial Archives in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province. Ninety percent of the files are in Japanese. (Xinhua/Lin Hong)
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CHANGCHUN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A total of 89 wartime documents made public on Friday show details of atrocities Japanese troops committed in China during World War Two (WWII).
The files, once kept by the invading Japanese army in Northeast China, are a response to Japan's right-wing politicians' denial of Japan's wartime crimes in China, experts said. Full story
