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UPDATED: 09:16, January 05, 2006 |
| Massacre-exposing Japanese author mourned in China |
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A resident of Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, presents flower to the photo of Azuma Shiro, in Nanjing, Jan. 4, 2005. Azuma Shiro, a member of the Japanese troops invading China in 1937, died in Kyoto, Japan, on Jan. 3, 2006 at the age of 93. His diaries taken down in 1937 disclose the truth of the Nanjing massacre committed by Japanese invading troops. Japanese troops killed 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed troops after they occupied Nanjing in 1937.
File photo dated Feb. 29, 2000 shows Azuma Shiro (1st R) giving a speech about the Nanjing Massacre at Beijing University in Beijing, capital of China. Azuma Shiro, a member of the Japanese troops invading China in 1937, died in Kyoto, Japan, on Jan. 3, 2006 at the age of 93.
File photo dated Feb. 27, 2000 shows Azuma Shiro mourning and praying for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre at its memorial hall in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.
File photo dated Apr. 1999 shows Azuma Shiro (R) autographing during a conference marking the distribution of the Chinese version of his diary in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. Azuma Shiro, a former Japanese soldier, whose diary discloses Japan's wartime atrocities against the Chinese, died in Kyoto Jan. 3, 2006 at the age of 93.
File photo dated Aug. 14, 1997 shows Azuma Shiro gesturing during his fourth trip to further collect evidence of the Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.
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