Japan's ambitions have been manifest since beginning of fourteenth century, at that time they often plundered sea, did not spare China and Korea.

From July 1894 to October 1895, Japan took away a number of strategic resources from China, such as a large number of cultural relics, books and silver.

This is only beginning, however.

What preparations did Japan make to invade China?

On eve of invasion, the Japanese sent Chinese citizens to China for exchange, study and business. After conducting secret investigations, they compiled detailed maps of major cities such as Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai.

The Forbidden City, Xuanwumen, traffic, streets of Nanjing and Shanghai - all this can be seen at a glance on map.

And they did not sit idly at home.From 1929 to 1931, Japan for first time held nationwide mobilization exercises in Kyoto and other regions, content of which was to practice transport and distribution of military supplies during air strikes.

From December to June of following year, he was forced to form a cartel. What is a cartel? This is a form of monopoly organization and is illegal. What is purpose of Japan's creation of cartels?

He wants to tighten control over national economy so that national economy can be incorporated into war economy to provide better conditions for an invasion of China.

In same year, Japan sent Ishihara Wangji and other military officers four times to Shanhaiguan, Changchun, Hailar and other Chinese cities for secret investigations, thus formulating an ideal plan for fighting in northeast.

Official invasion of China

Everything was ready, and on night of September 18, 1931, Japanese bombed Shenyang Nanman Railway.

After railroad bombing, Japan blamed Chinese side for crime and used them to bombard Northern Camp in Shenyang and launch an offensive.

From that day on, a 14-year life of anti-Japanese war, full of darkness and humiliation, began in our country.

They robbed property, raped women, set houses and fields on fire, forced monks to have sex with women, and threatened fathers to have sex with their daughters.

Those who violate order, kill!

Rebels, kill!

Beggars, kill!

They made a fascist alliance with Germany and Italy, provoked wars around world and committed crimes that everyone hates.

They used Chinese to experiment on humans.

In December 2020, Russian media Rossiya Segodnya released documentary film Japanese Secret Detachment 731 - The Origin of Biochemical Warfare.

The Russian side interviewed Japanese veterans who participated in Detachment 731. According to documentary, they mummified living people and locked them in high-temperature rooms until they were completely dehydrated and boiled;

After subject died, body was weighed again and compared again, and it was concluded that 78% of human body is water.

Famous Japanese writer Seiichi Morimura, one of five members of Japanese literary world, "Devil's Feast" also exposed atrocities committed by Unit 731 in China.

The proof of this book is that author himself interviewed Japanese veterans and personally traveled to China and Japan to conduct convincing investigations and gather evidence.

The book presents not only experiments on evaporating Chinese to dryness, but also experiments with electric shock and hot water.

People were burned alive and scalded with hot water.

Thieves' labor

They spoke wild words: "Destroy China within three months".

However, China has a large number of soldiers, a huge territory, and war continues to expand, their military reserves are used up extremely quickly, and their logistics are far behind.

As a last resort, they could forcibly recruit men over age of 15 in Japan and send them to military production and army, and women were not spared in end.

Even with full power of entire country poured into it, their military power still can't keep up with them.

They finally set their sights on China's massive population.

Therefore, In November 1942, Japan issued an official document "On Transfer of Chinese Workers to Japanese Mainland".

They secretly transferred prisoners of war, who were few, so they went to village to rob them, and all men between ages of 11 and 78 were tied up.

After robbing a large number of workers in various ways, Japanese side first transferred people to shelters in Shandong and other places.

Extremely rough environment, overcrowded sleeping rooms, stale air, meager and bad food, and all sorts of harsh conditions caused labor force to die one by one even before they arrived in Japan.

The Japanese side wrapped dead Chinese in mats and threw them out like livestock to be eaten by birds and beasts and bitten by wild dogs.

As for parents, wives and children who lived every day in anxiety and fear in anticipation of their return, even corpses could not be found.

The remaining 38,935 people survived. In order not to arouse suspicion, they were sent to Japan in batches by Japanese side by sea.

Wandering sea for seven days and nights, without food, without clothes, without fresh air to breathe, one life after another disappeared one after another.

According to statistics, a total of 564 people died during sea transportation, and after arriving in Japan, 284 people died during land transportation.

The workforce is located in more than 100 mines, factories and 35 companies.

To prevent captives from escaping, they are not paid any wages or subsidies. They have only bran, apple pomace or steamed buns to satisfy their hunger every day, and this amount is not enough to support their many years of high-intensity work.

So, over five years of enslavement, 6,000 people were tortured to death, and other part froze and died of starvation.

It can be written in Japanese documents that they all "died of disease", and their number was 6434.

They keep making coolies, in scorching sun in summer and in cold wind in winter, without end. Countless people are forced to work until last moment when they close their eyes.

They couldn't eat enough every day, and they could only secretly go to the back mountain to dig for wild vegetables when they were so hungry, so they were sentenced to death.

After years of harassment and torment, they knew it would be a dead end if they continued like this, so they decided to rise up and fight back.

In early 1945, Japanese mainland was also in a bombing crisis. During this period, they fought a desperate struggle to escape from shelter.

The Japanese side sent 20,000 people to suppress and execute them, and countless compatriots fell before them. In addition to fear, workers were more outraged. During the period when they were arrested and continued to work, they still tried to resist.

However, until Japan was defeated, Japanese side still did not free workers until more and more people rebelled again.

Concerned about international attention to this issue, Japan could only secretly send remaining 30,737 workers back to China.

They ignore crime

When I arrived, it was 38935, and when I return, there are only 30737 left. 8198 is a number, and it is flesh and blood life.

In order to prevent disclosure of their crimes by international community, Japanese side ordered all documents to be burned on eve of defeat.

Fortunately, in order to reduce number of crimes, one of employees secretly kept three copies and secretly gave them to President of Overseas China.

Thus, in 1993, at request of Overseas Chinese Association, these three materials were made public by Japanese television.

The skies are clear, and evil deeds that Japan has been hiding for decades have finally been revealed.

But until now, they are still trying to hide fact of this inhuman crime, just as they did not recognize unforgivable crimes committed on Chinese soil.