Of all the nations that fought the second world war, Japan remains the only country whose government systematically denies the atrocities it had committed until this day. The memorial hall is less of a museum and more of a collection of stories of the war against Japanese aggression from Chinese defenders.
The hall was opened in 2015, 70 years to the day of Japan’s unconditional surrender, in the building that used to be the Chinese Daily Post, an early Chinese language newspaper in America founded in 1927. The building was later used by Asian Week magazine before the hall took over the building.
The second world war began in 1937 with the Japanese launching another offensive after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, it can be said that China and Japan were the longest-suffering combatants of the war. The US supported Chinese resistance against the Japanese, and the alliance intensified ten years later when the Japanese attacked Hawaii.
There aren’t any artifacts, but there are plenty of photographs of Sino-US cooperation. Admission is free.
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