Showing the Glimmer of Humanity Amid the Atrocities of War

Lu Chuan has received death threats following the release of his new film about the occupation of Nanjing that offers a sympathetic treatment of a Japanese soldier.

China remembers Nanjing massacre

Dec 13 - China commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre with sirens and bells.

China marked 70 years since Japan's infamous Nanjing massacre, invoking memories of the atrocity to remind Tokyo that the wartime past remains a bitter backdrop to an improving relationship.

The six-week wave of killings by invading Japanese troops overrunning Nanjing was among the bloodiest episodes of Japan's invasion of China, taking 300,000 lives according to official Chinese accounts.

For China, how Japan remembers the "Rape of Nanking" -- as the city was then called in English -- has become a defining test of how contrite its neighbour is about its brutal occupation of much of the country from the 1930s up to 1945.

Third movie about Nanjing massacre starts shooting

"Con Air" director Simon West has started shooting a movie about the World War II-era massacre of thousands of Chinese by Japanese troops, the third feature film to coincide with the event's 70th anniversary.

China poison gas victims denied compensation

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower ruling today and denied financial compensation to a group of Chinese injured by chemical and other weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army after World War II.

Documents proving Japanese atrocities added to China's archives

The Liaoning Provincial Archives in northeast China received the donation of a substantial number of wartime documents relating to Comfort Women, the Nanjing Massacre and other brutalities committed by Japanese troops in China during WWII.