Sirens Wail as China Remembers Japanese Invasion
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Air raid sirens wailed across China on  Saturday as the country marked the 73rd anniversary of the  start of Japan's invasion, state media said.
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With candles and prayers, songs and moments of silence, Japan on Monday mournfully marked the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that ripped through the port city of Kobe, killing nearly 6,500 people and demonstrating the vulnerability of modern metropolises to natural disasters.
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"Nanking," a U.S.-made film documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened in Beijing on Tuesday, as the two countries struggle to mend strained ties.
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Survivors and rescuers battle the devastation left by sea surges that killed more than 20,000 on Asia's shores.
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Troops fanned out across large swathes of China hit by snow storms that have killed about 50 people as Premier Wen Jiabao apologized to stranded railway passengers ahead of a major holiday.
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Bright, deafening explosions and thick  smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers  celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a  firework ban in exuberant fashion.
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A memorial reopened in Nanjing Thursday, on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of the city. Chinese officials have played down tensions with Japan over war history.
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SHENYANG, China  - They survived the Bataan Death March and the Japanese Hell Ships, they shivered in the bitter cold and staved off starvation by eating stray dogs.
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JAPAN lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday, claiming that a Chinese submarine had entered its territorial waters. Japanâs navy has been on alert since Wednesday when the submarine was first spotted off the island of Okinawa.
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Sirens will wail across more than 100  Chinese cities and cars will stop and honk their horns Saturday  to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the start of Japan's  invasion of China, state media said.
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Historians and survivors of Japan's  surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 are  using the latest online technology to preserve their memories  of the day that drew the United States into World War II.
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China's government has tempered this year's commemoration of Japan's notorious wartime massacre of civilians in the city of Nanjing, reflecting a drive to improve relations with Tokyo and avoid inflaming nationalist passions
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An American movie about Japan's mass slaughter of Chinese citizens in the World War II era will be released in China next week amid renewed friction between the country's over the atrocity's actual death toll.
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Sirens were due to wail across more than 100 Chinese cities on Saturday to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China, state media said.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.
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Readers report their experiences of the earthquakes and huge waves that have devastated parts of Asia.
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A powerful typhoon targeted China's booming eastern province of Zhejiang and the nation's financial capital, Shanghai, on Tuesday, prompting evacuation of over 1.6 million people as ships were recalled to port.