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During the Sino-Japanese War, there was a massive massacre in Nanjing, China, where 300,000 people were killed by the Japanese.

Recently, however, Chinese society has been turned upside down as mortuary tablets and online memorial halls commemorating these genocide war criminals have been confirmed one after another in China.



Correspondent Song Wook in Beijing reports.



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is Xuanjang Temple, a temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.



Inside the temple, there are mortuary tablets with the names of the dead, etc.



However, among them, the tablets of five Japanese war criminals, including Matsui Iwane and Tani Hisao, who were the main culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, were found.



The Nanjing Massacre is an incident in which 300,000 Chinese prisoners of war and civilians were massacred by Japanese troops occupying Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.



The fact that there was a mortuary tablet commemorating war criminals at the scene of the massacre shocked Chinese society, and



[Nanjing Citizen: Needless to say, angry.

We need to strengthen patriotic education.

Is there anyone still doing this?]



The authorities, who rushed to investigate, caught a woman in her 30s who paid for the enshrining of the mortuary tablet.



She said that this woman suffered psychologically after she learned the truth about the Nanjing Massacre, and that she knew that if she enshrined the mortuary tablet, she would be freed from the pain.



[Wooaping / Engraving of the mortuary tablet: When I have nightmares, these people (war criminals) always appear.

It was as if their ghosts were engulfing me.]



Since this incident, there have been reports of remembrance of war criminals, etc.



A Chinese ancestral service platform was shut down after it was confirmed that an online memorial hall was opened to commemorate Japanese military war criminals, and it was also revealed that a food sales trademark was registered in the name of the genocide war criminal.



Japan-related festivals planned in several Chinese cities have also been canceled as criticism has spread.



The authorities replaced all the chief officers of the temple that had enshrined the mortuary tablet without proper identification, while also launching an urgent investigation into the place of religious activity.



(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, video editing: Yumira)