A Look Back: The Anti-Japanese War

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The anti-Fascist war between the 1930s and 1940s was the first just war of a global scale in human history. It ended in the Axis' unconditional surrender in 1945, 60 years ago. Over 2 billion people in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania (exceeding four-fifths of the world population at that time) were involved in the war. People who had experienced that unheard-of calamity will never forget those days when flames of battle raged everywhere.

Allied Against Adversity

-	Agnes Smedley – A Passionate Warrior with No Compromise
-	Israel Epstein – Taking Root in Chinese Soil
-	Anna Louise Strong – a Sincere Friend of the Chinese People
-	Norman Bethune – A Great International Humanitarian
-	D K. Kotnis – Saving Lives Until the Very End
-	Hans Shippe – Yimeng Sacrifice
-	Rewi Alley – Founder of the Industrial Cooperative
-	George Hatem – The First Foreign Citizen
-	G. Kulishenko – An Amazing Hawk
-	Michael Lindsay – Telecommunications Pioneer of the Eighth Route Army
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The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders

The Memorial Hall of China's War of Resistance Against Japan

30th Anniversary of Normalization of Sino-Japanese Ties

63th Anniversary of Nanjing Massacre

Tokyo War Crimes Trials

The Nanjing military court in China formally opens hearings to try Japanese war criminals.

Starting on May 3, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried 28 Japanese first-level war criminals, some of them shown here.

General Tojo and other alledged Japanese war criminals arrive at the War Ministry Building for their arraignment.

Japanese first-level war criminals waiting for trial.

Hideki Tojo awaits sentencing at the Japanese War Crimes Trials in Tokyo, November 24, 1948

On March 10, 1947, Tani Masuo, who directed the Nanjing Massacre, was escorted to execution grounds after judgment by the Nanjing military court.