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As the world's largest ruins of a germ warfare research site, the location that hosted Unit 731 is of outstanding historical and educational value. These ruins were included on China's tentative list of world cultural heritage sites in 2012.
"It is genuinely global, because it involves every part of the globe. I want you to get away from the idea that this is a European-centered war," Overy says.
As China prepares to commemorate the victory again in September, the memory of the war remains vivid.
Eighty years ago, Charlie Stanley was just three years old when he and his parents were imprisoned in a concentration camp in Weifang City, east China's Shandong Province, during WWII.
Students place chrysanthemums on the tombstone of U.S. Flying Tiger pilot Glen Beneda in Hong'an County, central China's Hubei Province, July 28, 2025.
At a monument in memory of a group of anti-Japanese aggression martyrs in Lung Kwu Tan in the western part of Tuen Mun District of Hong Kong, 90-year-old veteran Lin Zhen stands with a cane, the medals around her neck glinting in the sunlight.
As China prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of its victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression on Sept. 3, a remote town in central China's Hubei Province is quietly staging a powerful act of remembrance.
"Overseas reporters should share more of China's wartime history," Alina said. "Many believe World War II ended in May when Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, but few know it truly concluded on September 2."
When Japanese militarists launched their full-scale invasion of China 88 years ago, the Chinese military and people initiated a whole-of-nation war effort that opened the main Eastern battlefield in the global war against fascism.
As 80th anniversary of war victory nears, memories of Japanese crimes still vivid
It has been 88 years since the outbreak of Japan's full-scale invasion of China. True history should not be concealed, let alone distorted. Remembering true history is necessary to draw lessons from it and to cherish peace.
Now a PhD student majoring in physics at the City University of Hong Kong, Shi Lingchi grew up with her grandfather and often listened to his stories about the former destroyer Zhanjiang. Setting foot on the new destroyer today, she felt a lot.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region witnessed a historic display of national pride and naval power as China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the CNS Shandong, arrived on Thursday, accompanied by a formidable escort fleet.
On his 28th birthday, Lieutenant Xie Huigui of the Chinese Navy was on board China's first domestically built aircraft carrier Shandong, bound for a five-day visit to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
This photo taken on July 2, 2025 shows the lightboxes of Liu Guixiang (L) and Xie Guiying (R) on a photo wall featuring survivors of the Nanjing Massacre at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.