They ran into the night as the bombs continued to fall, the rattle of machine gun fire drawing closer as they made for the last train and their last chance of escape.
Incineration pits and traces of explosives left by Japanese invaders destroying evidence have been found at the remains of Japan's notorious Unit 731 headquarters in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
Zhou Fengying, who had served as Japan's wartime sex slaves, believed until drawing her final breath that the Japanese owed her an apology.
Activists from China and the United States co-launched a website on Wednesday highlighting Japanese atrocities during World War II.
A post-90s man has collected thousands of photos related to Japan's invasion during World War II, of which at least 2,000 have never been seen before.
Most veterans who participated in the war of resistance against Japanese aggression have passed away. But their wartime stories have been passed through generations and their spirits are etched in every Chinese heart.
The Japanese government should have deep reflections on the country's atrocities during World War II and explain why a Japanese company made an apology only to US prisoners of war.
Construction giant Mitsubishi Materials Corp became the first major Japanese company to apologize for using captured US soldiers as slave laborers during World War II, offering remorse on Sunday for "the tragic events in our past".
Saying they felt a "deep sense of ethical responsibility for a past tragedy," executives from a major Japanese corporation gave an unprecedented apology Sunday to a 94-year-old US prisoner of war for using American POWs for forced labor during World War II.
The remain of a soldier who died in the Battle of Changsha, in Central China's Hunan province during Chinese People's War against Japanese Aggression, is buried at Anxianyuan Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang province on July 19, 2015.
Japan's Mitsubishi Materials said Wednesday it will formally apologize this weekend to US war veterans who were forced to do hard labor for the company after they were captured by Japanese soldiers in WWII.
History this way passed. The Lugouqiao, adorned with hundreds of lion figurines, near the Wanping Fortress in Beijing's Fengtai district - often referred to as the Marco Polo Bridge - still stands.