Harbin (China), Aug.8 (ANI): Authorities in Fangzheng County in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province have demolished a small memorial wall to Japanese immigrants, which it built last month, in an effort to appease public anger.
According to the China Daily, the Fangzheng county government built the wall, which was 6.9-meters wide and 3.8-meters high, at a cost of 500,000 Yuan.
It was set up as a memorial site for more than 5,000 Japanese immigrants who stayed and died in the county after the Japanese army surrendered in 1945.
From 1932 to 1945, the Japanese government sent more than 200,000 emigrants, including lots of ex-servicemen, to Northeast China. It planned to settle five million of its citizens in China to establish colonies after the Japanese invasion.
About 35 million Chinese were killed or wounded in the war.
The wall bore the names of 229 Japanese immigrants and was demolished on Friday night. (ANI)
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