Japanese professor makes research about Japan's war crimes

Makoto Ueda (R), history professor of the Tokyo-based Rikkyo University, reads a typical family tree of local residents at Chongshan Village in Yiwu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug 18, 2006. On Aug. 17-20, Makoto Ueda made a research tour of war crimes committed by Japanese invading troops at Chongshan Village during World War II. He investigated into germ warfare by Japanese troops at the village in 1942 and found evidence of the crimes from a typical family tree of local villagers.

Makoto Ueda (1st R), history professor of the Tokyo-based Rikkyo University, takes pictures of a typical family tree of local residents at Chongshan Village in Yiwu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 18, 2006.

Makoto Ueda (1st R), history professor of the Tokyo-based Rikkyo University, listens to Wang Jinti (1st L), offspring of a local family who survived the germ warfare, at Chongshan Village in Yiwu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 18, 2006.

Wang Jinti, offspring of a local family who survived the germ warfare, shows his family tree at Chongshan Village in Yiwu City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 18, 2006.