Japan's confidential wartime files about China revealed

[FarCenter]

BEIJING, April 26 -- China on Saturday published more than 110,000 confidential Japanese documents from wartime to expose Japan's history of invasion.

The 395-volume photocopied files about wars and relations with China were issued by Japan's foreign ministry (1931-1945), the army (1872-1945) and the navy (1872-1933).

Japanese authorities destroyed most of its confidential documents on the eve of its surrender in 1945 to cover its wartime crimes. U.S. troops occupying Japan obtained the remaining ones and transferred them to the United States. The original versions were returned to Japan in 1979.

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Also published was a continuation of the literature on China's maritime border regions which proved the Diaoyu Islands have been part of China's territory since the ancient times.

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