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Will China's 731 film on Japan's war crimes worsen already frayed ties?

For a movie about a particularly dark chapter of China's history, 731 has been doing exceptional business. The film, released on Thursday, focuses on Japan's Unit 731, which conducted biological ...
Reuters

Chinese film on 'evil' WW2 germ warfare unit risks adding fuel to Japanese tensions

BEIJING, Sept 19 (Reuters) - "Evil Unbound", which depicts Japanese germ warfare during World War Two, set a first-day box office record among the war films released in China this year, as Beijing ...
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The Forgotten War Crimes: Japan’s Brutal War in China (1937–1945)

What began as a border clash turned into one of the most horrific wars in modern history. This video examines Japan’s ...
The Diplomat

China, Japan, and Shifting Narratives of War

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...
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China’s Anti-Japan Dramas Get a Gen Z Makeover

BEIJING—With blockbuster films featuring survival-game plotlines and microdramas clocking in at several minutes an episode, China’s latest cultural productions depicting wartime resistance against ...
The New York Times

China Rekindles Wartime Fury, Stirring Fears of Anti-Japan Hate

A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent. By Lily Kuo Reporting ...
Sixth Tone

Cultural Resistance: China’s Other War During the Japanese Invasion

From the Mukden Incident in 1931 to Japan’s surrender in 1945, China endured 14 years of war, marked by foreign occupation and fierce domestic resistance. What began with a Japanese incursion into ...
Stars and Stripes

Japan asks other countries to avoid WWII anniversary events in China, report says

TOKYO — The Japanese government is appealing to countries in Asia and Europe to skip ceremonies in China next month commemorating the end of World War II, local media reported Sunday. “Japan conveyed ...
THE WEEK

How China rewrote the history of its WWII victory

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.
Associated Press

China’s military parade is a show of strength from a country devastated in World War II

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far ...

Hegseth welcomes Japan's arms spending increase, says alliance key to deter China

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed Japan's commitment to accelerate its military buildup and defense spending ...