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Sirens sound across China on anniversary of Japan’s invasion in 1931
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Air defense sirens sounded across China yesterday morning to observe the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese invasion.
Sirens began sounding at 9:18am and lasted for three minutes in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, where the Japanese army began its assault.
Meanwhile, cars on nine roads, 18 streets and other areas in the city stopped and drivers sounded their horns.
It was the 18th time sirens and horns sounded in the city to remind people of the national humiliation, a routine that began in 1995.
People also gathered in front of the “9.18 Historical Museum” to attend a ceremony in which a bell was struck to warn people not to forget the past and to remain vigilant in times of peace.
“I will remember today and the September 18 incident for the rest of my life,” said Sun Xiu, a university student who observed the ceremony.
“We commemorate the war anniversary in pursuit of peace,” said Wang Jianxue, deputy head of the China Association of Historians Studying Modern Chinese Historical Materials.
Similar commemorations were staged in other cities across China. Sirens sounded in 13 other cities in Liaoning and in the east China city of Hefei, an air defense drill was organized among local residents after the siren.
On September 18, 1931, Japanese troops blew up a section of the railway under its control near Shenyang, then accused Chinese troops of sabotage as a pretext for an attack. They bombarded barracks near Shenyang the same evening, beginning a large-scale armed invasion of northeast China.
The incident was followed by Japan’s full-scale invasion of China and the rest of Asia, triggering a 14-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression.
It was announced yesterday that 1,500 medals will be offered to veterans who fought the Japanese invaders.
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