US EditionChina Warns Against Revival of Militarism on Nanjing Massacre Anniv.
Officials condemned wartime atrocities and warned against militarism revival amid rising tensions after Japanese remarks on Taiwan, with 300,000 killed in the 1937 massacre, China says.
- On Saturday, China warned against reviving past militarism during the 88th-anniversary memorial at the Memorial Hall in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, where a minute of silence and sirens marked the event.
- After Nov. 7 remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Beijing intensified pressure on Tokyo and rising anti-Japanese sentiment was fueled by the film Dead to Rights topping China's box office this year.
- Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, condemned the Japanese militarists' war and said `over 300,000` were killed, while Japanese historians estimate `200,000` as the death toll.
- The Japanese Embassy in China warned residents to be vigilant on Saturday and avoid speaking Japanese loudly, while a senior ruling Communist Party figure attended the ceremony and Shi Taifeng said any revival of militarism is `doomed to fail`.
- With this year marking 80 years since Japan's surrender, China has held various memorial events, including the Sept. 3 military parade in Tiananmen Square.
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10:01 a.m. The sirens scream in the streets of Nankin, China. Pedestrians stop, cars and ships horn. For a minute, the city freezes and plunges back into one of the darkest chapters of contemporary history. This Saturday, the Middle Empire commemorates the massacres that were perpetrated there, from 13 December 1937, and for five weeks, by the Japanese Imperial Army. Thousands of women and children raped, civilians shot, other buried alive... Wo…
China warns against revival of militarism on Nanjing massacre anniv.
China on Saturday warned against any moves to revive past militarism during an event marking the 88th anniversary of the 1937 massacre in Nanjing committed by Japanese troops, alluding to Beijing-Tokyo tensions that have simmered since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent remarks on a Taiwan contingency.
On Saturday, 13 December, China commemorates the Nankin massacre, perpetrated by the Japanese army in 1937. A highly symbolic date, while relations between Beijing and Tokyo are once again tense, especially around questions of historical memory and the positions taken by Japanese officials. In China, this day is not only a matter of official memory: it remains deeply lived and intimately felt by the people.
Never forget: The Nanjing Massacre
Eighty-eight years ago, invading Japanese troops committed atrocities throughout the Chinese city of Nanjing. History has not remained silent – from the Provincial Archives of Jilin to the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese
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