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The '''National Memorial Day''' ('''国家公祭日'''), which falls on December 13, was ratified by China's top legislature on Feb. 27, 2014 to mourn the [[Nanjing Massacre]] victims.<br />
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The massacre happened across a six-week period in late 1937. Japanese soldiers killed more than 300,000 people in the eastern Chinese city of [[Nanjing]], then the capital of the country.<br />
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Japan invaded northeast China in September 1931. Historians agree that Japan's full-scale invasion started on July 7, 1937, when a crucial access point to Beijing, [[Lugou Bridge]], was attacked by Japanese troops.<br />
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Around 35 million Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed or injured by Japanese invaders during the war against Japanese aggression (1937-1945).<br />
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