Images: the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression

[TaiShang]

China's cultural products to mark World War II
By Zhang Rui
August 18, 2015

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The poster of "The Great Campaign with One Hundred Regiments." [File photo: mtime.com]
A great many cultural projects have been basically completed to commemorate the anti-fascist victory of World War II and the 70th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), China.org.cn has learned.

The war epic "The Great Campaign with One Hundred Regiments," directed by Ning Haiqiang and Zhang Yuzhong, will debut in Chinese theaters on Aug. 28, with a cast led by Tang Guoqiang, Wang Wufu, and Wu Yue and the script written by Dong Zhe, who previously wrote the Chinese revolutionary blockbusters "The Founding of A Republic" and "The Founding of a Party."

The film recreates the largest and longest battle launched by the Eighth Route Army in north China when the anti-Japanese war was stalemated in August 1940. Director Ning Haiqiang said he chose the three biggest actions during the battle to compile the film, which will ignite Chinese people's nationalism and patriotism.

"Cairo Declaration" is set for Sept. 3 release. The film will recount the events of the Cairo Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on Nov. 27, 1943 where President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Chiang Kai-shek of the then Republic of China met to discuss war plans.

The film aroused controversy and misunderstanding recently as it released a set of four posters of the world leaders, including Roosevelt, Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong but without Chiang. The filmmakers later explained they "didn't intend to show disrespect to historical facts" and other posters do show Chiang.

Nevertheless, the directors, Wen Deguang and Hu Minggang, are sure it will be a block buster. It stars Tang Guoqiang, Hu Jun, Joan Chen and Carina Lau.

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Poster of "The Waves." [Photo: Baidu]

China has a long list of anti-Japanese war and World War II themed cultural works, majorly films and TV series that
have appeared through the years. Some poor quality films and TV series were often seen as lacking artistic sincerity and lacking respect for history.

Ma Dingxin, a 99-year-old veteran in Sichuan Province, told the West China Metropolis Daily that many current TV series about anti-Japanese war are fairy tales in poor taste. "The real war is more cruel and harsh than is shown on TV," he said, "The Japanese soldiers are not the clowns as they are depicted in many TV shows, instead they were very strong indeed, so that we paid a heavy price with much sacrifice to win the war."

He Yunzhong, a historian who researches the anti-Japanese war, said the efforts to try to use history as entertainment to please young Chinese audiences are wrong. "No matter what the intentions are, only respecting and facing up to the history and the gap between us and enemies, will be the real and biggest respect we can show to the veteran heroes."

Wang Haiping, the vice director of Beijing municipal publicity department, said the city government initiated the projects since 2013 to organize and help the creation of the cultural projects with the significant theme by mobilizing the state-owned cultural enterprises and encouraging the private cultural institutes to provide high-quality cultural works, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

There are a series of films, TV series, TV shows and documentaries due to debut from the end of August, including the TV series "The Waves" which will debut in October, telling stories about how a batch of Beijing young students went to support the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and grow to be heroic Chinese soldiers.

Poster of "Tunnel Warfare." [Photo from Internet]
Three cartoons featuring Chinese people's resistance against Japanese aggression in World War II will be broadcast from Monday. All three are based on WWII war stories such as "Tunnel Warfare" about a small town using a network of tunnels to defend itself and sabotage the invaders.

Beijing art troupes will also present 26 original stage shows, including 8 operas, 8 stage dramas, 4 concerts and others such as "Mother" and "Homeland," which will be performed in Beijing through August to November. There are also 51 books being published, including documentary writings, martyr’s biographies, and academic research to record Beijing's anti-Japanese struggle in history, to be published since the late August.

About 400 pieces of newly created visual artworks commemorating the anniversary will be exhibited in the National Art Museum of China from Aug. 18 to Sept. 20, while a major history exhibition also started on Tuesday in the Museum of the War of the Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Lugouqiao area of Beijing. The National Library of China will also exhibit 1,500 pieces of diaries, manuscripts, books, photos, audio and video archive materials, old news papers and books until Sept. 20.

The 70th anniversary of the victory of the anti-Japanese aggression war and the victory of World War II will culminate in a military parade on Sept. 3 in Beijing. It will be the first time China has held a parade to commemorate the date since Sept. 3 was ratified as a day of remembrance by China's top legislature in early 2014.

 

[Keel]

Several good links to enrich the content of this excellent thread:

Japan must face up to verdict of history

Reflections on Germany and Japan after WWII: A Comparison

70th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing


The following is to give the readers another gruesome, savagely and inhuman report of the imperial japanese

"But the most spine-chilling of all Japanese atrocities was their practice of cannibalism. One of the first to level charges of cannibalism against the Japanese was Jemadar Abdul Latif of 4/9 Jat Regiment of the Indian Army, a VCO who was rescued by the Australians at Sepik Bay in 1945. He alleged that not just Indian PoWs but even locals in New Guinea were killed and eaten by the Japanese. "At the village of Suaid, a Japanese medical officer periodically visited the Indian compound and selected each time the healthiest men. These men were taken away ostensibly for carrying out duties, but they never reappeared," the Melbourne correspondent of The Times, London, cabled this version of Jemadar Latif on November 5, 1946."

Thank you @+4vsgorillas-Apebane for the above information @post 16 of the ensuing PDF link:
India invited to China's wartime parade | Page 2
Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII - The Times of India


Japan’s prickly revisionists
https://defence.pk/threads/japan’s-prickly-revisionists.391426/
Japan's prickly revisionists | The Japan Times

To bring some new additions and related topics into the fold

Taiwan Armed Forces Museum: The 8-Years War of Resistance against Japan

Agony of the 'Comfort women' still waiting for an apology after 70 years

Despite the WWII past, can China and Japan be real friends?

'Comfort Women' Denial and the Japanese Right

 

[Jlaw]

China's cultural products to mark World War II
By Zhang Rui
August 18, 2015

​

The poster of "The Great Campaign with One Hundred Regiments." [File photo: mtime.com]
A great many cultural projects have been basically completed to commemorate the anti-fascist victory of World War II and the 70th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), China.org.cn has learned.

The war epic "The Great Campaign with One Hundred Regiments," directed by Ning Haiqiang and Zhang Yuzhong, will debut in Chinese theaters on Aug. 28, with a cast led by Tang Guoqiang, Wang Wufu, and Wu Yue and the script written by Dong Zhe, who previously wrote the Chinese revolutionary blockbusters "The Founding of A Republic" and "The Founding of a Party."

The film recreates the largest and longest battle launched by the Eighth Route Army in north China when the anti-Japanese war was stalemated in August 1940. Director Ning Haiqiang said he chose the three biggest actions during the battle to compile the film, which will ignite Chinese people's nationalism and patriotism.

"Cairo Declaration" is set for Sept. 3 release. The film will recount the events of the Cairo Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on Nov. 27, 1943 where President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Chiang Kai-shek of the then Republic of China met to discuss war plans.

The film aroused controversy and misunderstanding recently as it released a set of four posters of the world leaders, including Roosevelt, Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong but without Chiang. The filmmakers later explained they "didn't intend to show disrespect to historical facts" and other posters do show Chiang.

Nevertheless, the directors, Wen Deguang and Hu Minggang, are sure it will be a block buster. It stars Tang Guoqiang, Hu Jun, Joan Chen and Carina Lau.

​

Poster of "The Waves." [Photo: Baidu]

China has a long list of anti-Japanese war and World War II themed cultural works, majorly films and TV series that
have appeared through the years. Some poor quality films and TV series were often seen as lacking artistic sincerity and lacking respect for history.

Ma Dingxin, a 99-year-old veteran in Sichuan Province, told the West China Metropolis Daily that many current TV series about anti-Japanese war are fairy tales in poor taste. "The real war is more cruel and harsh than is shown on TV," he said, "The Japanese soldiers are not the clowns as they are depicted in many TV shows, instead they were very strong indeed, so that we paid a heavy price with much sacrifice to win the war."

He Yunzhong, a historian who researches the anti-Japanese war, said the efforts to try to use history as entertainment to please young Chinese audiences are wrong. "No matter what the intentions are, only respecting and facing up to the history and the gap between us and enemies, will be the real and biggest respect we can show to the veteran heroes."

Wang Haiping, the vice director of Beijing municipal publicity department, said the city government initiated the projects since 2013 to organize and help the creation of the cultural projects with the significant theme by mobilizing the state-owned cultural enterprises and encouraging the private cultural institutes to provide high-quality cultural works, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

There are a series of films, TV series, TV shows and documentaries due to debut from the end of August, including the TV series "The Waves" which will debut in October, telling stories about how a batch of Beijing young students went to support the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and grow to be heroic Chinese soldiers.

Poster of "Tunnel Warfare." [Photo from Internet]
Three cartoons featuring Chinese people's resistance against Japanese aggression in World War II will be broadcast from Monday. All three are based on WWII war stories such as "Tunnel Warfare" about a small town using a network of tunnels to defend itself and sabotage the invaders.

Beijing art troupes will also present 26 original stage shows, including 8 operas, 8 stage dramas, 4 concerts and others such as "Mother" and "Homeland," which will be performed in Beijing through August to November. There are also 51 books being published, including documentary writings, martyr’s biographies, and academic research to record Beijing's anti-Japanese struggle in history, to be published since the late August.

About 400 pieces of newly created visual artworks commemorating the anniversary will be exhibited in the National Art Museum of China from Aug. 18 to Sept. 20, while a major history exhibition also started on Tuesday in the Museum of the War of the Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Lugouqiao area of Beijing. The National Library of China will also exhibit 1,500 pieces of diaries, manuscripts, books, photos, audio and video archive materials, old news papers and books until Sept. 20.

The 70th anniversary of the victory of the anti-Japanese aggression war and the victory of World War II will culminate in a military parade on Sept. 3 in Beijing. It will be the first time China has held a parade to commemorate the date since Sept. 3 was ratified as a day of remembrance by China's top legislature in early 2014.

The fairy tale TV series do not depict the true brutality of japs during ww2. HK tv series is probably the worse for that. The Jap atrocities are downplayed. They usually have a stupid jap character that give up his life to save some Chinese. What the **** were the director thinking? Gee maybe some Japanese will watch it and I am afraid to offend them because I'm a spineless prick.


At least the Americans portray their enemies worse in TV. Thumbs up to them for that. We must learn from the master of propaganda.

 

[Keel]

The fairy tale TV series do not depict the true brutality of japs during ww2. HK tv series is probably the worse for that. The Jap atrocities are downplayed. They usually have a stupid jap character that give up his life to save some Chinese. What the **** were the director thinking? Gee maybe some Japanese will watch it and I am afraid to offend them because I'm a spineless prick.

At least the Americans portray their enemies worse in TV. Thumbs up to them for that. We must learn from the master of propaganda.

True to the core but all the brutalities if filmed according to history should be censored. There is absolutely NO place on earth which could show the utmost gruesomeness inpublic unless inside of the jpnese right-wing quarters (if they were the actors, directors and producers when their war criminal ancestors started and perpetuated the horror until the bombs)

 

[TaiShang]

Documentary shines spotlight on China's role in World War II

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Zheng Jinnyu sheds tears while recalling the past at her home in Nongqing village, Lingshui county, Hainan province, in 2005. She was born in 1926 and passed away in 2006. She was raped by three Japanese soldiers while working in the fields when she was 16, and later forced to become a "comfort woman". [HUANG YIMING/CHINA DAILY]


Women raped during wartime in Hainan province are still awaiting an apology from Japan, even though most of them are now in their 80s.

China Daily learned that only eight of fewer than 100 survivors in the southern province are still alive.

About 200,000 women in China were forced into sexual slavery during the war. In Hainan, which was invaded and occupied by the Japanese for six years from 1939, about 10,000 were forced to become "comfort women" at around 60 comfort stations, according to Su Zhiliang, a professor at Shanghai Normal University studying the history of comfort women.

Most of them were from the local Li and Miao ethnic groups. During those six years, most of them died from the torture they received, with fewer than 100 of them surviving the war, suffering trauma both physically and mentally.

Huang Youliang, 88, is one of the eight from Hainan who are still alive. She has long had a serious rheumatic disease and cannot walk unassisted.

Since Huang has been confined to bed with her illness for many years, she is supported in her will to live by the hope of an official apology from the Japanese government.

Her nightmare can be traced to 1941, when the Japanese army occupied Lingshui Li autonomous county where she lived. Just 14 years old then, she was caught by patrolling Japanese soldiers while she was working alone on a farm one day in November.

After being raped and beaten at her home every night for nearly three months, she was taken to a local Japanese military brothel, the Liangqiao comfort station, suffering from the effects of torture.

"They (the soldiers) just came to the station and waited in line. I cannot remember how many times I was maltreated each day," Huang said.

She said she had no choice but to be submissive, or the soldiers would have killed her parents.

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Zhuo Tianmei, with her daughter-in-law, covers her face and weeps while describing her ordeal as a "comfort woman", the term for those forced into sexual slavery during wartime by Japanese soldiers, at her home in Sufeng village, Lingshui county, in 2005. Zhuo, who was born in 1926, has passed away. HUANG YIMING/CHINA DAILY


In June 1944, she finally escaped from the comfort station by lying that she had to hurry back for her father's funeral, with her family saying she had died of grief after her father's death. The family even built two graves near their home to fool the Japanese.

Huang and her family tried to lead a new life by moving to Baoting, a county more than 100 km from her home. But she feared she would be recaptured even when she moved back to her hometown after the war.

Chen Yabian, another former comfort woman from Lingshui county, suffered six miscarriages before having her only child.

She said that for many years she refused to say anything to her family about the time she spent at the comfort station from 1941 to 1943.

"I often woke up and cried in the evening," she said, tears streaming down her face. "I was always in pain, physically and mentally. Nothing could help me cure this pain."

She said her hatred of the Japanese only deepens every time she recalls these times.

Su, the Shanghai Normal University professor, said: "Many victims were no longer physically able to make a living. Some of them were also looked down on by other people, especially those who knew little about their suffering."

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Everyday life for former "comfort woman" Huang Youliang, 88(left), is limited to just a few paces in front of the door at her home in Jiama village, Lingshui county, Hainan. She has had a serious rheumatic disease for years and cannot walk unassisted. Huang is supported in her will to live by the hope of an official apology from the Japanese government. HUANG YIMING/CHINA DAILY


Huang's youngest son, Hu Yaqian, had to cope with people's "finger-pointing" at school because of his mother's experience as a comfort woman. This is still going on today, with Hu's son now a junior high school student.

In 2001, Huang, Chen and six other former comfort women in Hainan decided to speak out and file a lawsuit against the Japanese government, seeking an official apology and individual compensation.

It was the fourth lawsuit brought by Chinese former comfort women since 1995, according to Qiu Peipei, director of the Asian Studies Program at Vassar College in the United States.

Chen went to Japan three times to testify in Tokyo District Court in 2001, 2003 and 2006, but returned disappointed each time.

Five years of waiting ended in defeat when the court ruled against the plaintiffs. On Aug 30, 2006, it finally denied the women's demands.

Qiu wrote in her book Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves that the court said that an individual Chinese person had no right to sue the Japanese state.

The book was co-authored with Chinese scholars Chen Lifei and Su, the Shanghai Normal University professor.

Six of the group of eight former comfort women who filed the lawsuit 14 years ago have since died. Chen Yabian and Huang are the only two still alive.

Asked if she would make another attempt, Chen Yabian said the likelihood was slim.

"I feel that my life is fading and I am worried I can no longer bear the fatigue of a long journey. Traveling to another city in Hainan is no easy feat for me, not to mention going to Japan again," she said.

"But I will be waiting (for an apology) as long as I live."

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Former "comfort woman" Fu Meiju, 90, enjoys happy twilight years with her grandson's family at Tulong village of Chengmai county in Hainan last year. HUANG YIMING/CHINA DAILY

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Former "comfort woman" Chen Lincun, 89, stands in front of her home in Damao town, Wanning, in Hainan, with her granddaughter this year. HUANG YIMING/CHINA DAILY

Former "comfort woman" Chen Yabian, 88, shows her home grown mangoes to visitors at her home in Zuxiao village in Lingshui county in 2005. For many years she refused to say anything to her family about the time she spent at the comfort station. HUANG YIMING/CHINA DAILY

 

[TaiShang]

On September 18, 1931, Japanese soldiers blew up a section of railway in Shenyang, Liaoning province. This was considered the prelude to the Japanese invasion of China.

The event is now featured in a series of textbooks aimed at elementary and middle-school students throughout the northeastern province.



Sep. 18th incident now in Liaoning teaching materials

ENGLISH.CNTV.CN|BY ZHANG JINGYA

 

[TaiShang]

Photo released on Aug. 18, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows a picture of Japanese war criminal Fukuo Uezono. In the eighth of a series of 31 confessions from Japanese war criminals being published on the State Archives Administration website as China marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, Fukuo Uezono detailed his brutality in China between 1939 and his capture in August 1945. According to the 1954 confession, Uezono bayoneted a Chinese peasant to death during training in September 1940 in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province. Another nine Chinese civilians were also murdered by Japanese troops during the exercise, Uezono wrote. He also confessed to assisting an interpreter and other personnel in torturing two peasants in Anyi County, Shanxi, in July 1939 by hanging them, bloating them with water, beating and burning them, eventually killing both captives. Uezono arrested a peasant and gave the instruction to suffocate him to death in April 1943 in Henan Province, and he was involved in the murder of at least four more peasants at other times, according to the confession. [Photo: Xinhua]

 

[Max Pain]

Thanks buddy. I did some reading on him, and apparently his grandmother , the wife of Chiang Ching-Kuo , was a Russian (white Slav) by the name of Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva . That explains Demos' very unique facial features, a strong Caucasian formation , and well, the prominent forehead. The kid looks good, i must admit.

Chinese-Russian mixture ... a great mix, lol.


More on Demos Chiang,

Quite Good Looking.

 

[Aepsilons]

Quite Good Looking.

Yes he is, tho I think he has more of the looks of his great uncle, Chiang Wei-kuo,

 

[Max Pain]

Yes he is, tho I think he has more of the looks of his great uncle, Chiang Wei-kuo,

indeed he does resemble quite a bit,

there used to be another very good looking japanese guy back in 50's who later comitted sepuku, i forgot his name.

 

[Aepsilons]

indeed he does resemble quite a bit,

there used to be another very good looking japanese guy back in 50's who later comitted sepuku, i forgot his name.

Ah, I think I know who you're talking about. He was an artist - political activist by the name of Yukio Mishima. If my memory serves me right he committed Seppuku (ritual suicide).

Yes, he was a right wing nationalist and he was very good looking as well.

 

[LowPost]

He Fengshan, China's Schindler, saved 18,000 Austrian Jews

File photo of He Fengshan, served as the Chinese Consul General in Vienna from 1938 to 1940. [Photo exclusively provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

He Fengshan, known as the "Oskar Schindler of China," a diplomat who, while serving as the Chinese Consul General in Vienna from 1938 to 1940, saved the lives of thousands of Jews by giving them visas and helping them shelter in Shanghai as they escaped Nazi persecution during World War II.
With the Nazi takeover of Austria in March, 1938, anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews erupted in full force. Using a policy of coerced expulsion, Nazi authorities told Jews that if they showed proof of emigration, they, as well as relatives deported to Nazi concentration camps, would be allowed to leave.

Many Austrian Jews tried to emigrate, but found almost no country willing to allow them entry. Their plight was further exacerbated by the July 13, 1938 resolution of the Evian Conference, which made it evident that nearly none of the 32 participating nations was willing to accept Jewish refugees.

Having been turned down by other foreign consulates, the Jews came to the Chinese Consulate, which issued visas to Shanghai. Occupied by the Japanese in 1937, Shanghai had no passport control and thus required no documents for entry. He's intent in issuing visas to Shanghai was to provide Jewish refugees with proof of emigration so that they would be allowed to leave Austria.

By issuing visas to Shanghai as a "destination", He placed the Chinese port city on the map as a refuge of last resort for Jewish refugees, and some 18,000 European Jews escaped there in 1938 and 1939.

Nazis seized the house of China's Vienna consulate as it was Jewish property. But He secretly kept issuing visas to Jews in his own rented house.

He was born in 1901 in Yiyang, a city in Central China's Hunan province. He died in 1997 in San Francisco.

In 2000, Israel bestowed one of its highest honors - the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" - on He posthumously "for his humanitarian courage" in the rescue of Austrian Jews.

The photos are exclusively provided to chinadaily.com.cn by Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and cannot be used without permission.

@500 @Solomon2 @Rayz

 

[TaiShang]

Confession proves Japan's massacre of Chinese civilians
August 23, 2015

A written confession from a Japanese soldier from World War II, released Sunday, revealed the purge of a village in central China's Hubei Province.

The State Archives Administration (SAA) published the hand-written confession from Isamu Shirasu, who was born in 1919, joined the Japanese army in 1940 and was captured in China in August 1945.

In the document, Shirasu wrote that he and other soldiers from an army battalion were ordered to kill all residents of Baiyangsi village in Yuan'an county, central China's Hubei Province, in Dec. 25, 1943.

About 100 villagers, including children, women and the elderly, were slaughtered and more than 70 of their houses were burned down, he wrote.

Shirasu also confessed to raping a number of Chinese and Korean women and torturing civilians.

One of the most brutal cases occurred in April 1945 in Xiangyang County of Hubei. He wrote that he "raped a 12-year-old girl with the threat of bayonet, and resulted in the rupture of her vulva".

According to the confession, in May 1944, Shirasu and two other Japanese soldiers tied a Chinese civilian and submerged him in a pool upside down for about 2 minutes three times during an interrogation, killing him.

Shirasu's confession was the 13th of a series of 31 written statements by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

[Max Pain]

Ah, I think I know who you're talking about. He was an artist - political activist by the name of Yukio Mishima. If my memory serves me right he committed Seppuku (ritual suicide).

Yes, he was a right wing nationalist and he was very good looking as well.

Yes exactly, thats the guy Mishima,
I read about him and watched some documentaries.
quite a determined guy and the determination to his cause later led him to commit suicide.

he was known for his looks and surprisingly very good english for a person of that era.

 

[Keel]

Yes exactly, thats the guy Mishima,
I read about him and watched some documentaries.
quite a determined guy and the determination to his cause later led him to commit suicide.

he was known for his looks and surprisingly very good english for a person of that era.

Can you please have the decency to stop the discussion of your adoration of the above Japanese figures

As I have pointed out to another posters who were doing the same thing with more or less the same intentions earlier, please start another thread to carry on your own discussions, Okay?