A forum on China-Japan relations, part of the activities marking the 60th anniversary of the repatriation of wartime Japanese emigrants, is held in Huludao City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on June 25, 2006. The forum was sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Liaoning provincial government. A total of 1.05 million Japanese emigrants, victims of their country's colonial expansion, were repatriated from China's port Huludao to Japan from May 7, 1946 to 1948. (Xinhua Photo)

 

    HULUDAO, Liaoning Province, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The repatriation of 1.05 million Japanese immigrants from China after World War II was marked Sunday in Huludao City, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

    Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan and former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama addressed a forum on China-Japan relations, a part of the activities marking the 60th anniversary of the repatriation.

    "The fact that Chinese and Japanese gathered here today to review history and look forward to the future shows our resolution to cherish peace, oppose war and promote friendship," Tang told an audience of nearly