Various activities have been held across China today to mark the victory in Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Hundreds of people from China and Japan hold a peace rally at the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, in Nanjing.[Photo: chinanews.com]

More than 1,000 people attended a ceremony today at a museum in northeast China's Fuxin city, where over 500,000 Chinese were forced by Japanese troops to work in local coal mines between 1936 to 1945.

Mass graves found at work sites revealed that around 70 thousand miners were killed, due to outdated equipment and terrible working conditions.

Hu Jian, curator of the museum, says many of the victims had been buried alive.

"Although we call it 'warehouse for the dead,' many did not die when abandoned there. They just lost their labor force, or part of their labor force. Then they were buried here."

In Nanjing, hundreds of people from China and Japan held a peace rally at the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.

Tamaki Matsuoka is the leader of Japanese delegation.

"We came here with a clear aim. As the Nanjing Massacre happened during Japan's aggression in China, and it's barely mentioned in our text books, and not many people in Japan know about it, we bring our people here to learn and study this part of history every August 15th, hoping to let more people know about it."

Japanese troops started the massacre in Nanjing on Dec.13, 1937, killing more than 300,000 people in approximately 40 days.