The site of Japanese surrender in Jinan, Shandong province, opened on Aug 15, 2013. The Shandong Provincial Department of Culture and the cultural relics bureau of Shandong province held a ceremony for the opening.
Japanese delegates lay a wreath for Nanjing Massacre victims at the Memorial Hall of Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, Aug 15, 2013.
Thursday marked the 68th anniversary of the Japanese declaration of unconditional surrender and the victory day of both Chinese people's anti-Japanese war and the world's anti-Fascist war.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Thursday, but did not visit in person in an effort to avoid inflaming tensions with Asian neighbours.
Chongqing Economic Times revealed little-known stories about the "Flying Tigers", an American air force fleet that helped China fight Japan's invasion during World War II.
Two Japanese ministers on Thursday morning visited the notorious Yasukuni shrine, a move that will further harm mutual trust between Japan and its neighbors.
Beijing rejected a protest from Tokyo on Thursday over Chinese ships patrolling near the Diaoyu Islands, as four Chinese vessels made their longest stay in the area. Islands dispute hammers attitudes Special
Japan on Tuesday unveiled the "Izumo" warship, its largest one with 248 meters in length and 38 meters in width, and is expected to deploy the military ship in March 2015 for the Maritime Self-Defense Forces.
The US West Coast unveiled its first public memorial to World War II-era "comfort women", in Glendale, California, on Tuesday.
Chinese consulate to Nagasaki, Li Wenliang, second right, attends a memorial ceremony for 32 Chinese forced laborers who died in the 1945 atomic bomb on the city, at the Nagasaki Peace Park, July 7,2013.
Tensions escalated once again between Japan and its neighbors as China strongly protested against "provocation" by Japanese ships in the waters off the Diaoyu Islands. Japanese ships driven out of Diaoyu Islands Special: Diaoyu Islands dispute
A total of 4,000 kilograms of fish from waters around the Diaoyu Islands arrived in Shanghai and were sold out that same day.