Japanese veteran Shiro Azuma's wife mourns during his funeral in Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 6, 2006. Some 200 people, including relatives and friends of Azuma, officials of the Chinese Consulate General in Osaka and representatives from Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu Province, attended the funeral. Azuma served in the Japanese army during the notorious Nanjing Massacre in 1937, and published his wartime diary to reveal the atrocities committed by Japanese troops in the holocaust.
Zhu Chengshan (2nd R Front), curator of the Memorial Hall for the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, and Sun Wenxue (2nd L Front), vice chairman of the Foreign Friendship Association of Nanjing City, attend the funeral of Shiro Azuma in Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 6, 2006.
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