Why is China’s victory in opposition to Japan invasion value commemorating?

September 3 marks the 78th Anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

A symposium with round 200 representatives was held in Beijing to commemorate the hard-earned triumph. 

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On the identical day, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s armed forces additionally performed commemorative actions, together with remembering the martyrs and sharing tales about resistance in opposition to the Japanese invaders.

China received the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression after 14 years of arduous battle. It is the Chinese folks’s longest and largest struggle in opposition to international aggression in trendy occasions and the primary full victory in nationwide liberation. 

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China fought with two-thirds of Japan’s military, making a significant contribution to the allied victory in World War II (WWII). 

Over 35 million Chinese have been killed or injured within the drawn-out struggle, accounting for a 3rd of the whole casualties in WWII worldwide.

Japan’s invasion of China began on September 18, 1931, when its troops attacked Chinese barracks close to Shenyang, the capital metropolis of in the present day’s Liaoning Province in northeast China, a flagrant breach of the worldwide safety order shaped after World War I.

Six years later, Japanese troopers attacked Chinese forces on the Lugou Bridge in Beijing on July 7. The incident marked the start of Japan’s full-scale invasion and China’s whole-nation resistance in opposition to the invasion.

Japan introduced its unconditional give up on August 15, 1945. It formally signed its give up at a ceremony held aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. 

Japan formally indicators its give up throughout a ceremony held aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan, September 2, 1945. /Xinhua

Starting from 2014, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress set September 3 as Victory Day to spotlight the significance of China’s position within the struggle in opposition to Japan and the allied victory within the Second World War.

While the Chinese, and all peace-loving folks around the globe, have commemorated the hard-earned triumph, many Japanese, together with distinguished politicians, have continually denied the historical past of Japan’s aggression in WWII and refused to confess their final defeat.

“Some Japanese deny the Nanjing Massacre and do not understand the history of Japan’s war of aggression. They want to develop relations with China but do not change their attitude towards this history. Japan engaged in germ warfare, formed Unit 731, used poison gas and created mass graves. What they did had beyond imagination,” Satoko Oka Norimastu, director of the Peace Philosophy Center, a peace-education group in Vancouver, Canada, informed China Media Group.

The Nanjing Massacre is likely one of the most barbaric episodes of WWII. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese troops captured Nanjing, and so they slaughtered greater than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed troopers within the following six weeks.

Unit 731 was a top-secret organic and chemical warfare analysis base established in Harbin because the nerve middle for Japanese organic warfare in China and Southeast Asia throughout WWII. At least 3,000 folks have been used for human experiments by Unit 731, and Japan’s organic weapons killed greater than 300,000 folks in China.

“The Japanese people should learn more about the history. Only by knowing the history, another war can be prevented,” mentioned Satoko. 

Source: CGTN