Shigeharu Morioka, a first-class soldier of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army that invaded China, used his diary to record his experiences in dozens of battles and operations in north, east, and central China during the Japanese aggression from 1937 to 1939.

One diary and three photo albums, with over 30,000 words, 26 maps of military operations and itineraries, and 306 photos, were recently published with Chinese translation by the People's Fine Arts Publishing House.

They include detailed accounts of the invasion of Nanjing and the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of a Japanese soldier, providing irrefutable evidence of Japanese militarism's violation of international conventions and its premeditated war of aggression.