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Pedestrians passing by Xingnong Department on a snowy winter day in Changchun.
Pedestrians passing b y Xingnong Depar tment on a sno wy winter da y in Changchun.

efforts made by generations after Tom Li, a graduate now study- Edited By Y ilie Lo
Edited By Yilie Lo
Sub-edited by
Alexia Leung
the war so that we can now live in ing in Singapore, recalls a myth Sub-edited by Alexia Leung
peace. I am very grateful for this,” about hearing the walking sound
he says. of Japanese army boots in the
Li Minghao, a researcher at the school corridor on the first floor at
Jilin Academy of Social Sciences, night.
points out the building was the “When I was a student of the
office of the Ministry of Agricul- school, I felt scared when I left
ture which sourced crops grown in school late, though I knew it was
China and shipped them to Japan. a myth and I actually did not hear
“This building was where the anything,” he says.
Japanese authorities announced The 21-year-old student thinks
policies that exploited the people the heritage building is a solid
in Northeast China. It was a sym- proof of a painful chapter in his-
bol of oppression,” he says. tory, and it is meaningful to turn it
into a site of education.

“Remembering history doesn’t mean we should hate
Japanese people today. We should learn from the tragedy
of war - ordinary people always suffer the most in conflict

zones.”