In the quiet of his modest home in North China's Tianjin municipality, 93-year-old Huang Zongde, a veteran of China's revolutionary wars, sits surrounded by mementos of a life spent in service.
A 1939 map of Japan's agricultural emigration to northeastern China, which is a national first-class cultural relic, was displayed to the public for the first time on Wednesday, the 93rd anniversary of the September 18 Incident, at the Northeast China Revolutionary Martyrs' Memorial Hall in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.
To bear history in mind is not about sinking into the mire of hatred, but about cherishing the hard-won peace, preventing such tragedies from repeating themselves.
Ahead of the anniversary of the September 18th Incident, Kuroi, along with eight other descendants of Japanese soldiers who invaded China, embarked on a five-day journey of remorse and apology.
