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 | Chinese visitors view a memorial honoring the dead at Nanjing Massacre Museum in Nanjing, China, April 3, 2005. The memorial to the infamous Nanjing Massacre -- a stark, spartan structure ringed with swaying pine trees in a quiet suburb of the ancient imperial capital -- is a gruesome reminder of atrocities committed by Japanese troops during their 1937 invasion. click to open  |  | Chinese students place flowers at a memorial honouring the dead at the Nanjing Massacre Museum in Nanjing, April 3, 2005. The memorial to the infamous Nanjing Massacre -- a stark, spartan structure ringed with swaying pine trees in a quiet suburb of the ancient imperial capital -- is a gruesome reminder of atrocities committed by Japanese troops during their 1937 invasion. click to open |  | Skeletons believed to be of victims of Nanjing Massacre are exhibited on March 31, 2005 at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere exhorting visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job, only much faster. In recent weeks, organizers claim to have collected more than 24 million names on an Internet petition demanding that Japan be denied a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, claiming it has failed to apologize for wartime aggression against China. click to open |  | The shadow of a visitor is cast on carvings of foot prints of survivors of Nanjing Massacre on March 31, 2005 at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere. Gory photos and engraved stone tablets exhort visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job, only much faster. In recent weeks, organizers claim to have collected more than 24 million names on an Internet petition demanding that Japan be denied a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, claiming it has failed to apologize for wartime aggression against China. click to open |  | Visitors walk past a sculpture depicting a victim of Nanjing Massacre on March 31, 2005 at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China. At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere. Gory photos and engraved stone tablets exhort visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job, only much faster. In recent weeks, organizers claim to have collected more than 24 million names on an Internet petition demanding that Japan be denied a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, claiming it has failed to apologize for wartime aggression against China. click to open |  | Chinese students shout slogans during a rally in Nanjing, China, Monday, Jan. 24, 2000. Some 500 people staged a rally to condemn a gathering of Japanese right-wing activists Sunday in Osaka denying that the Nanjing Massacre ever took place. (Xinhua) click to open |  | About 500 people gather Monday Jan. 24, 2000 at a memorial to victims of a wartime massacre in Nanjing, China to condemn claims by former Japanese soldiers that the atrocity never happened. Students, officials and a few survivors showed up for the hourlong rally in unusually cold, snowy weather. click to open |  | A student from the No.1 Nanhu Middle School in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, holds a banner in the snow during a rally Monday January 24, 2000 in Nanjing, China. About 500 people gathered Monday at a memorial to victims of a wartime massacre in Nanjing to condemn claims by former Japanese soldiers that the atrocity never happened. (AP) click to open |
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