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Borneo Post
6 days ago
- General
- Borneo Post
China's anti-Japanese base blooms into thriving land
This photo taken on July 9, 2025 shows peony seeds displayed at a local company's exhibition hall in Heze City, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Cui Bowen) JINAN (Aug 5): At a war memorial museum in the city of Heze, Shandong province, primary school student Xie Jiayi was rehearsing a heroic story of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression from over 80 years ago, preparing for a speech contest. When Japan's full-scale invasion began in 1937, Shandong, with its abundant resources and strategic location linking north and south, became the invaders' primary target and fell under their control. With the nation's survival at stake, the Eighth Route Army waged guerrilla warfare in rural areas, disrupting Japanese supply lines. In response, Japanese aggressors launched brutal sweeps, often paired with the 'burn all, kill all, loot all' policy. Xie's hero, Eighth Route Army member Qin Xingti, sacrificed during one such sweep in 1943. At Liugang Village, 74-year-old volunteer guide Liu Quanyi recalled the tragedy: Japanese troops herded villagers into a pit, torturing them for Eighth Route Army secrets. To save the villagers, Qin stepped forward: 'I am a Communist! I am an Eighth Route Army soldier!' 'That meant certain death in occupied territory,' Liu said. Qin was among over 35 million Chinese casualties in the war against Japanese aggression lasting from 1931 to 1945. 'My father told me this story, and I shall pass it on,' Liu added. Today, the pit where villagers were once imprisoned has been turned into a square featuring a monument to Qin and fitness facilities. Nearby, workers are constructing two-story homes. The first floor can be used for commercial purposes and the second floor for residence, villagers noted. This photo taken on July 9, 2025 shows a peony-themed decoration displayed at a local company's exhibition hall in Heze City, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Cui Bowen) 'As we develop revolutionary education tourism around war relics, the village is expected to draw more visitors and boost incomes,' said Kong Fanyu, the town's Party secretary. This is how Heze honors its past by building prosperity on soil once scarred by war. The city's transformation mirrors its iconic peonies, the symbol of wealth in Chinese culture, now blooming into a modern industry. A local company's exhibition hall displays peony-produced oil, tea and facial masks. 'We've expanded peony-based products into cosmetics, health foods, and supplements as demand for wellness grows,' said company president Li Jinghao. This photo taken on July 9, 2025 shows peony seed oil products displayed at a local company's exhibition hall in Heze City, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Cui Bowen) She added that the peony flower pastry rolled out this year has received a positive market response. Beyond peonies, Heze has been working to diversify its economy by boosting pillar industries, such as biomedicine and high-end chemicals, while laying out clusters of emerging sectors like new energy, information technology and modern services. Over the past decade, these efforts have lifted the city's gross domestic product from Shandong's bottom ranks to the mid-tier, turning wartime resilience into high-quality development vitality. – Xinhua blooms China flora memorial
Japan Today
03-08-2025
- Japan Today
Chinese movie on Japan biological warfare unit to premiere Sept 18
Photo taken in Beijing shows a digital advertisement for a Chinese movie on the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731. A Chinese movie on the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 will be screened from Sept 18, state-run media said, after its original release date last week passed without explanation. The new screening date falls on the 94th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of a railroad track near Shenyang -- an event that marked the start of the Manchurian Incident, leading to Japan's invasion of northeastern China. The Unit 731 movie, originally scheduled to premiere last Thursday, is one of war-themed works for release this year in China, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of what it calls its victory in the 1937-1945 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Millions of people online have expressed their interest in the film about the unit, which according to historians conducted biological and chemical warfare research in China during World War II. Set in China's northeastern region, the movie conveys an anti-war message and reportedly aims to "reveal the crimes" of Unit 731 through a focus on ordinary individuals. The film, which will be shown after the July 25 release of a Chinese movie themed on a massacre in Nanjing committed by Japanese troops in 1937, is feared to fan anti-Japan sentiment in the country. Last Thursday, a Japanese woman was assaulted while walking with her child at a subway station in Suzhou, near Shanghai, sustaining a non-life-threatening injury. Chinese authorities later detained a suspect allegedly involved in the incident but have not provided the details, with Chinese media not reporting on the case. On Sept. 18 last year, a 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to a Japanese school in Shenzhen, southern China. He died from the stab wounds the following day. The Unit 731 film was made with the cooperation of an exhibition hall dedicated to the unit in Harbin in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang as well as local publicity departments of the ruling Communist Party. The unit's research is believed to have included lethal experimentation and testing on humans. Prisoners of war were secretly experimented upon to develop, among other things, plague and cholera-based biological weapons, according to historians. The Japanese government says it has not found any evidence confirming that the unit conducted experiments on human subjects. In 1997, Japan's Supreme Court, in a ruling concerning state screeners' objection to a history textbook's description of the unit's actions in China, said "the view had been established within academic circles to an undeniable extent that Unit 731 had killed many Chinese people through biological experiments." © KYODO
Japan Today
03-08-2025
- Japan Today
China movie on Japan biological warfare unit to premiere Sept 18
Photo taken in Beijing shows a digital advertisement for a Chinese movie on the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731. A Chinese movie on the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 will be screened from Sept 18, state-run media said, after its original release date last week passed without explanation. The new screening date falls on the 94th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of a railroad track near Shenyang -- an event that marked the start of the Manchurian Incident, leading to Japan's invasion of northeastern China. The Unit 731 movie, originally scheduled to premiere last Thursday, is one of war-themed works for release this year in China, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of what it calls its victory in the 1937-1945 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Millions of people online have expressed their interest in the film about the unit, which according to historians conducted biological and chemical warfare research in China during World War II. Set in China's northeastern region, the movie conveys an anti-war message and reportedly aims to "reveal the crimes" of Unit 731 through a focus on ordinary individuals. The film, which will be shown after the July 25 release of a Chinese movie themed on a massacre in Nanjing committed by Japanese troops in 1937, is feared to fan anti-Japan sentiment in the country. Last Thursday, a Japanese woman was assaulted while walking with her child at a subway station in Suzhou, near Shanghai, sustaining a non-life-threatening injury. Chinese authorities later detained a suspect allegedly involved in the incident but have not provided the details, with Chinese media not reporting on the case. On Sept. 18 last year, a 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to a Japanese school in Shenzhen, southern China. He died from the stab wounds the following day. The Unit 731 film was made with the cooperation of an exhibition hall dedicated to the unit in Harbin in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang as well as local publicity departments of the ruling Communist Party. The unit's research is believed to have included lethal experimentation and testing on humans. Prisoners of war were secretly experimented upon to develop, among other things, plague and cholera-based biological weapons, according to historians. The Japanese government says it has not found any evidence confirming that the unit conducted experiments on human subjects. In 1997, Japan's Supreme Court, in a ruling concerning state screeners' objection to a history textbook's description of the unit's actions in China, said "the view had been established within academic circles to an undeniable extent that Unit 731 had killed many Chinese people through biological experiments." © KYODO
Kyodo News
03-08-2025
- Kyodo News
China movie on Japan biological warfare unit to premiere Sept. 18
BEIJING - A Chinese movie on the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 will be screened from Sept. 18, state-run media said Sunday, after its original release date last week passed without explanation. The new screening date falls on the 94th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of a railroad track near Shenyang -- an event that marked the start of the Manchurian Incident, leading to Japan's invasion of northeastern China. The Unit 731 movie, originally scheduled to premiere last Thursday, is one of war-themed works for release this year in China, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of what it calls its victory in the 1937-1945 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Millions of people online have expressed their interest in the film about the unit, which according to historians conducted biological and chemical warfare research in China during World War II. Set in China's northeastern region, the movie conveys an anti-war message and reportedly aims to "reveal the crimes" of Unit 731 through a focus on ordinary individuals. The film, which will be shown after the July 25 release of a Chinese movie themed on a massacre in Nanjing committed by Japanese troops in 1937, is feared to fan anti-Japan sentiment in the country. Last Thursday, a Japanese woman was assaulted while walking with her child at a subway station in Suzhou, near Shanghai, sustaining a non-life-threatening injury. Chinese authorities later detained a suspect allegedly involved in the incident but have not provided the details, with Chinese media not reporting on the case. On Sept. 18 last year, a 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to a Japanese school in Shenzhen, southern China. He died from the stab wounds the following day. The Unit 731 film was made with the cooperation of an exhibition hall dedicated to the unit in Harbin in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang as well as local publicity departments of the ruling Communist Party. The unit's research is believed to have included lethal experimentation and testing on humans. Prisoners of war were secretly experimented upon to develop, among other things, plague and cholera-based biological weapons, according to historians. The Japanese government says it has not found any evidence confirming that the unit conducted experiments on human subjects. In 1997, Japan's Supreme Court, in a ruling concerning state screeners' objection to a history textbook's description of the unit's actions in China, said "the view had been established within academic circles to an undeniable extent that Unit 731 had killed many Chinese people through biological experiments."
Japan Today
01-08-2025
- Politics
- Japan Today
Japanese woman injured in subway station attack in China
Photo shows the subway station thought to be where a Japanese woman was attacked in Suzhou, eastern China, on Aug. 1, 2025. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo A Japanese woman was assaulted while walking with her child at a subway station in Suzhou, eastern China, sustaining a non-life-threatening injury, the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai and sources familiar with bilateral relations said Friday. Chinese authorities detained a suspect allegedly involved in the Thursday evening incident in Suzhou, the same city in Jiangsu Province where a Japanese mother and child were injured and a Chinese woman was killed in a knife attack in June last year. The Japanese government urged China to prevent similar incidents and ensure the safety of Japanese nationals. In the latest incident, the Japanese national was struck with a hard object and was treated at a hospital, according to the Japanese consulate general. It was not immediately clear what led to the attack on Thursday. An informed source said the attack reportedly occurred after the woman and child got off the subway train and the child tried to go to the restroom. With this year marking the 80th anniversary of what China calls its victory in the 1937-1945 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing has warned citizens of rising anti-Japan sentiment. On Sept. 3, China plans to hold a military parade in the capital's Tiananmen Square to commemorate the war anniversary. The consulate general also urged Japanese expatriates in China to remain vigilant when going out, especially when accompanied by children, and to watch for suspicious individuals. A mother whose child attends a Japanese school in Suzhou said, "Parents are all shocked. I will avoid going out with my child." The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it will take effective measures to ensure the safety of foreigners. The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China said in a statement Friday that it is "extremely regrettable" that the latest incident occurred following the knife attack in Suzhou and the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen in September. A Chinese film on the massacre in Nanjing committed by Japanese troops in 1937 hit screens on July 25, with more than 28 million people viewing it in a week, according to Chinese media. The Shenzhen stabbing incident occurred on Sept. 18 last year, the 93rd anniversary of the Japanese bombing of a railroad track near Shenyang -- an event that marked the start of the Manchurian Incident, leading to Japan's invasion of northeastern China. © KYODO
