During the 40 years from 1905 to 1945, alongside its military invasion of China, the Japanese government carried out immigration to Northeast China in a planned, organized and step-by-step manner, in an attempt to change the demographic structure of the area and curb the anti-Japanese activities of the people in Northeast China.
Four files released this time are concerning Japan’s suppression of the Anti-Japanese Amalgamated Army of the Northeast.
Three relevant files are released this time. After the Pacific War broke out, Japan transferred prisoners of war (POWs) of the UK, the US and other countries to Northeast China as laborers.
Here at the Jilin Provincial Archives, we have 65 general archives or nearly 100,000 volumes and files (90% of the files are written in Japanese) recording various kinds of activities during the period of Japanese aggression.
Newly deciphered Japanese wartime archives offer fresh evidence of atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the invasion of China.
Forcing women into sex slavery and setting up "comfort stations" were official actions of the invading Japanese army during World War Two in Asian countries, newly publicized wartime archives reveal.
After the World Wall II, Japan was required to return all territories it conquered in Treaty of Shimonoseki to China.
One of the greatest tragedies was the plight of conformant women, young and innocent girls forced to sex slavery in military brothels in occupied countries.
Japan assassinated China's warlord Zhang Zuolin to conquer Manchuria in 1928, faked Chinese sabotage as a pretext for military action, and forces Chinese slaver labors to grow opium,. Japan slaughtered over 300,000 Chinese in Nanjing in 1937.
Hollywood writer and director Chris D. Nebe’s 40-minute documentary which traces the history of the Diaoyu Islands premiered last month.
Hollywood writer and director Chris D. Nebe’s 40-minute documentary which traces the history of the Diaoyu Islands premiered last month.