UNIT 731 ATROCITIES A DEEP WOUND THAT CAN'T BE FORGOTTEN

As 80th anniversary of war victory nears, memories of Japanese crimes still vivid

In early June, a painful episode in China's history unfolded before an audience at the Zhejiang Provincial Archives in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, as the confession of a Japanese war criminal was presented by leading researcher Wang Xuan.

Wang, president of the Zhejiang Provincial Historical Society's research association on the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and director of the Yiwu Biological Weapons Archives Research Center, read the account, which has served as strong evidence of the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare in China.

"It indicates that the area where the Japanese troops spread the bacteria was centered around Jinhua in Zhejiang," Wang said at the event.