China marked the 89th anniversary of the start of whole-nation resistance against Japanese aggression Tuesday, with bells rung for peace and warnings sounded against Japan's gravitation toward neo-militarism.
Scholars from China and several other countries visit an exhibition on the Tokyo Trial at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Eighteen rare archival items related to David Nelson Sutton, a U.S. assistant prosecutor at the Tokyo Trial and one of the earliest international prosecutors to investigate the Nanjing Massacre, were officially donated Wednesday to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
One more survivor of the Nanjing Massacre passed away on Wednesday, reducing the number of living registered survivors to 21, the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders said.
One more survivor of the Nanjing Massacre has passed away, reducing the number of living registered survivors to 22, the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders said on Saturday.
Pan Qiaoying, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, passed away on Thursday at the age of 95, announced the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders on Friday.
3,000 doves soared into the sky amid echoes of the Bell of Peace on Saturday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, carrying both grief for the dead and a quiet call for lasting peace.
In memorial halls in east China, park spaces in California and across social media, Iris Chang, whose best-selling book "Rape of Nanking" documented one of the most barbaric atrocities in the Second World War, was remembered on the memorial day that marked the Nanjing Massacre.
"I want to witness these atrocities with my own eyes, so that I can later speak of them as an eyewitness. Such brutal crimes -- committed 10 days after the city's capture -- must not be kept silent!" he wrote on Dec. 24, 1937.
The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government held a memorial ceremony on Saturday to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.