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#721268

6 August 2015

(150806) -- BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2015 () -- File germ bombs used by Japanese troops during World War II in China. Invading Japanese troops set up 60 germ warfare units involved more than 10,000 troops from 1932 to 1945 in China and victimized at least 270,000 Chinese civilians. Japanese troops, including notorious Unit 731, developed and produced germ weapons based on bacteria experiments on human bodies and used germ weapons against Chinese civilians in battles and released plague, anthracnose and glanders on Chinese mountains, forests, rivers and fields. () (zkr)

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#721269

6 August 2015

BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2015 () -- File Japanese bacteria troops in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province, in June 1942. Invading Japanese troops set up 60 germ warfare units involved more than 10,000 troops from 1932 to 1945 in China and victimized at least 270,000 Chinese civilians. Japanese troops, including notorious Unit 731, developed and produced germ weapons based on bacteria experiments on human bodies and used germ weapons against Chinese civilians in battles and released plague, anthracnose and glanders on Chinese mountains, forests, rivers and fields. () (zkr)

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#703572

24 July 2015

(150724) -- BEIJING, July 24, 2015 () -- File the Japanese soldiers visiting a military brothel in which women were forced to serve as sex slaves during World War II in China. Estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or comfort women (the euphemism used by Japanese aggressors during the WWII), for Japanese forces during World War II and most of them were tortured to death. Among the comfort women, most war survivors have been living in anonymity and have felt reluctant to refer to their miserable experiences. Some of them have died in solitude. () (zkr)

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#703573

24 July 2015

(150724) -- BEIJING, July 24, 2015 () -- File the Japanese soldiers visiting a military brothel in which women were forced to serve as sex slaves during World War II in China. Estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or comfort women (the euphemism used by Japanese aggressors during the WWII), for Japanese forces during World War II and most of them were tortured to death. Among the comfort women, most war survivors have been living in anonymity and have felt reluctant to refer to their miserable experiences. Some of them have died in solitude. () (zkr)

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#703574

24 July 2015

(150724) -- BEIJING, July 24, 2015 () -- File women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops being transported to a Japanese military camp. Estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or comfort women (the euphemism used by Japanese aggressors during the WWII), for Japanese forces during World War II and most of them were tortured to death. Among the comfort women, most war survivors have been living in anonymity and have felt reluctant to refer to their miserable experiences. Some of them have died in solitude. () (zkr)

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#703575

24 July 2015

BEIJING, July 24, 2015 () -- File Japanese soldiers trying to rape a 79-year-old Chinese woman during the Nanjing Massacre in China. Estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or comfort women (the euphemism used by Japanese aggressors during the WWII), for Japanese forces during World War II and most of them were tortured to death. Among the comfort women, most war survivors have been living in anonymity and have felt reluctant to refer to their miserable experiences. Some of them have died in solitude. () (zkr)

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#703576

24 July 2015

(150724) -- BEIJING, July 24, 2015 () -- File photo captured from a Japanese soldier shows a crying woman who had been raped by Japanese army during the Nanjing Massacre in China. Estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or comfort women (the euphemism used by Japanese aggressors during the WWII), for Japanese forces during World War II and most of them were tortured to death. Among the comfort women, most war survivors have been living in anonymity and have felt reluctant to refer to their miserable experiences. Some of them have died in solitude. () (zkr)

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#703577

24 July 2015

(150724) -- BEIJING, July 24, 2015 () -- File women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops being transported to a Japanese military camp. Estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or comfort women (the euphemism used by Japanese aggressors during the WWII), for Japanese forces during World War II and most of them were tortured to death. Among the comfort women, most war survivors have been living in anonymity and have felt reluctant to refer to their miserable experiences. Some of them have died in solitude. () (zkr)

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#627295

7 June 2015

JIANLI, June 7, 2015 () -- Relatives of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourn at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered in the drizzle to mourn the victims of the Eastern Star disaster here on Sunday, the seventh day since the ship capsized with the loss of more than 430. According to Chinese tradition, the seventh day is a key occasion to mourn the passing of the dead. (/Yu Guoqing) (zkr)

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#627296

7 June 2015

(150607) -- JIANLI, June 7, 2015 () -- A relative of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourns at the bank of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered in the drizzle to mourn the victims of the Eastern Star disaster here on Sunday, the seventh day since the ship capsized with the loss of more than 430. According to Chinese tradition, the seventh day is a key occasion to mourn the passing of the dead. (/Yu Guoqing) (zkr)

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#627297

7 June 2015

JIANLI, June 7, 2015 () -- Relatives of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourn at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered in the drizzle to mourn the victims of the Eastern Star disaster here on Sunday, the seventh day since the ship capsized with the loss of more than 430. According to Chinese tradition, the seventh day is a key occasion to mourn the passing of the dead. (/Xiao Yijiu) (zkr)

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#627298

7 June 2015

(150607) -- JIANLI, June 7, 2015 () -- Relatives of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourn at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered in the drizzle to mourn the victims of the Eastern Star disaster here on Sunday, the seventh day since the ship capsized with the loss of more than 430. According to Chinese tradition, the seventh day is a key occasion to mourn the passing of the dead. (/Xiao Yijiu) (zkr)

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#627299

7 June 2015

(150607) -- JIANLI, June 7, 2015 () -- Relatives of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourn at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered in the drizzle to mourn the victims of the Eastern Star disaster here on Sunday, the seventh day since the ship capsized with the loss of more than 430. According to Chinese tradition, the seventh day is a key occasion to mourn the passing of the dead. (/Xiao Yijiu) (zkr)

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#627300

7 June 2015

(150607) -- JIANLI, June 7, 2015 () -- A relative of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourns at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 7, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered in the drizzle to mourn the victims of the Eastern Star disaster here on Sunday, the seventh day since the ship capsized with the loss of more than 430. According to Chinese tradition, the seventh day is a key occasion to mourn the passing of the dead. (/Xiao Yijiu) (zkr)

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#625423

7 June 2015

(150606) -- JIANLI, June 6, 2015 () -- Relatives of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star mourn at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 6, 2015. The death toll from the sinking of a Chinese cruise ship on the Yangtze River during freak weather climbed to 396 on Saturday, with some 40 still unaccounted for. (/Wang Wei) (zkr)

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#625424

7 June 2015

(150606) -- JIANLI, June 6, 2015 () -- A relative of the victims of the capsized ship Eastern Star shouts towards the river during the condolence at the bank of the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, June 6, 2015. The death toll from the sinking of a Chinese cruise ship on the Yangtze River during freak weather climbed to 396 on Saturday, with some 40 still unaccounted for. (/Wang Wei) (zkr)

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