Jin Tao Wu has survived Japan’s invasion of China, the rise of the Communist Party and the massacres of the Cultural ...
After fighting broke out near Beijing in July 1937, Japan’s invasion of China escalated into an eight-year catastrophe that ...
The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...
As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...
This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.