A series of memorial activities are being held on Wednesday and Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. The massacre, in which according to Chinese historians, 300,000 civilians were killed, began when the invading Japanese army reached Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on December 13, 1937, and continued for approximately six weeks.

On Wednesday evening, a candlelight ceremony was held in Nanjing. It will be followed by a gathering to mourn the victims on Thursday morning when alarms will be sounded in the city and representatives from all walks of life will read a peace manifesto.   

Canadians of Chinese and Japanese descent jointly held a round-table discussion in Vancouver on Sunday to commemorate the massacre.

The event, attended by around 70 people, was one of several such activities in Canada this week, and the participants held a candlelight vigil for the victims of the massacre after they watched part of a documentary related to the atrocity, it said.

On Wednesday, soldiers in a frontier inspection station in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region made about 1,000 paper peace cranes to memorize the victims, Legal Daily reported. 

In recent years, the media and the public have focused on slogans about the massacre, but most people lack sufficient knowledge of the massacre's history, said Wang Weixing, head of the history institute under Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences.

Xinhua - Global Times