Japan, China to Commemorate World War II Anniversary on Separate Dates

Japan remembered the victims with a serious ceremony on August 15, then Eminor Hirohito announced in a clear radio message that the government was surrendered, while China exhibited his military power on September 3 with a parade on September 3.

Japan occupied most of China before and during the Second World War in a destructive and brutal invasion that killed 20 million people, according to some estimates. Batt -time experience still lies in relations between the two countries today.

A museum in the city of Benxi in China emphasizes the struggles of anti -Japanese resistance fighters entering the stump cabins through violent winters in the northeast of the country before withdrawing to Russia.

They returned only after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and started an attack on Manchuria on August 9, 1945 – the same day the United States left Nagasaki atomic bombs – contributed to the pressure of Japan’s surrender.

Nowadays, the Chinese army that gives an alarm while trying to implement the government’s regional claims in the Pacific. When Japan talks about creating his defense to resist the threat, the militarist history gives China an improper imbic.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun last month, “Japan’s historical guilt, to think deeply, to take lessons from history to take lessons and to hide the purpose of military expansion to hide the purpose of regional tensions and use Hype on issues related to issues.” He said.

Japan’s delivery broadcast Hirohito’s previously saved delivery broadcast on August 15, 1945 was incomprehensible for many Japanese. Arcane used the language and the sound quality was weak.

Historians, the important thing was that the message came from the Emperor itself. Hirohito was accepted as a living god, and the war was made in his name. Most Japanese had never heard of their voice.

Takahisa Furukawa, Professor of Nihon University, told Associated Press in 2015, “The speech reminds me of what it should be to end the wrong war,” he said.

The current emperor, Naruhito, the grandson of Hirohito and the Prime Minister, will be published by public publisher NHK at the annual ceremony in Tokyo on August 15th.

Naruhito last year’s event, Japan’s actions during the war, he said he had deep regret. On the same day, however, three Japanese cabinet ministers visited the Temple of Yasukuni of Tokyo and criticized the temple as a symbol of militarism.

Chinese Victory Day brands surrendered on September 2, 1945 with a ceremony in American warship Missouri, Japan.

He signed the Foreign Minister, in the upper hats and queues and on behalf of the army chief Hirohito. On the other hand, the signatures were representatives of US General Douglas Macarthur and other nations fighting China and Japan.

China appointed the next day as a victory day on September 3.

Eleven years ago, the Communist Party increased how China’s anniversary marked. China’s best leaders, including President Xi Jinping, participated in a souvenir event on September 3. The renewed focal point came during a rising tension with Japan due to the contradictory interpretations of war -time history and a still ongoing regional dispute in the East China Sea.

The following year, China held a military parade on the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.

Ten years later, preparations for another major passage ceremony on the hill of missiles, tanks and hunter jets. Russian President Vladimir Putin is one of those expected to participate.