Following its tour of several major cities in the United States, an
exhibit entitled "Crimes of Japan's Invasion of China" will begin a
nationwide tour of China in mid-May. The exhibit features 500
pictures and 1,000 documents on the September 18, 1931 incident
that resulted in Japanese militarists' massive invasion in
northeastern China, and later the whole country in 1937.
The exhibit allows visitors to review the historical background of
the September 18 Incident, Japan's bloody reign in northeast China,
northeastern Chinese people's resistance in the War against
Japanese Aggression, the movement of resisting Japanese invaders
for national salvation as well as the final fate of the Japanese
invaders.
It
is reported that the United States tour drew wide attention, and
photographs related to people's reactions in the US will be
included in this exhibition as well as current and earlier pictures
of some heroes of the War of Resistance against Japanese
Aggression.
A
featured document in the exhibit is a Japanese battle map that
shows Japan's schedule in the invasion of
Shenyang on September 18, 1931 as a prelude to the invasion of
three provinces of northeastern China.
Free and open to the public, the exhibition is co-organized by the
September 18 War Research Society of
Liaoning Province and the Shenyang-based Chinese Communist
Party Manchuria Provincial Committee (1927-1931) Exhibition Hall.
Yingkou City of Liaoning Province will be the first stop of this
exhibition tour. The exhibition is scheduled to continue for one
year before going on tour in the Republic of Korea and again in the
United States in 2003.
(新華社 [Xinhua News
Agency], translated by Wang Qian for china.org.cn, April 25,
2002)