China has found new evidence of Japan's invasion of the nation during World War II.

The newly discovered proof includes six Japanese wartime pictorials discovered in east China's Shandong Province, weapons collected by a local villager in north China's Tianjin Municipality and artillery shells left by Japanese troops in northeastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Shao Baogui, the collector of the six color illustrated magazines, said that the publications preached Bushido, moral standards set in Japan's feudal era and were utilized by Japanese militarists to wage invasive wars. The pictorials also contained pictures revealing Japan's preparation for germ warfare.

In one of the photos, a Japanese soldier was sabering a Chinese,and some of his fellows stood by, taking notes and exchanging views with each other, all of them detached. Another picture showsseveral Japanese soldiers putting poison into water.

The retired teacher said that the pictorials were first kept bythe seniors of his family. "I remembered seeing them when I was only seven or eight years old," he recalled.

Wang Guoxin, a researcher on the history of the Communist Partyof China, said that the magazines were published in Tokyo from the12th to the 14th year of the Showa reign (1937-1939) and brought to China by Japanese troops.

"They are of great value in verifying Japan's invasion of China," he added.

Other evidence came from Zhang Deyin, a 75-year-old villager ofJixian County in north China's Tianjing Municipality. He presentedhis own first-hand records of Japanese troops' aggression in Chinaafter a decade of independent investigation into 78 villages occupied by Japanese invaders in Tianjin and neighboring Hebei Province.

Zhang collected large quantities of material left by Japanese troops during his investigation, including officers' swords and copper ladles as well as souvenir badges of Japan's occupation of China.

"I witnessed six countrymen slain by the Japanese invaders whenI was 13 years old. I made up my mind then to expose their atrocity to the world," he said.

China has discovered more and more remains of Japan's military equipment in recent years, constantly reminding the Chinese peopleof Japan's invasion. Sixteen more artillery shells have been foundin Wuchago Town of Arxan City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in addition to more than 300 that had been excavated previously in this area adjacent to Mogolia and Russia.

Local authorities revealed that some people were injured by accidental shell explosions.

The new evidence emerged nearly a month after a high school in Tokyo was ordered by local education authorities to adopt the so-called "New History Textbook," which was rebuked for contents fabricated to justify Japan's invasion of Asian nations.

Source: Xinhua