martyrs Sagami Lake construction joint memorial service for the implementation of the Committee

World Wide Web on July 26 reported that Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on the 25th in Lake Sagami Exchange Centre, a memorial service, during World War II memorial for the construction of Sagami Lake Reservoir and the martyrdom of China, Japan and other countries labor.

Local time 13:30,mbt walking shoes, a memorial service in the majestic atmosphere of the beginning,Larisa said, the local three primary school students lit candles, all the participants for the martyrdom of labor to stand and observe. Memorial service, the students recite the "Song of Praise Sagami Lake" and play music performances, a school teacher of Koreans in Japan of the Korean dance performances, expressing grief on the martyrdom of labor. It was a labor of all the martyrs has been presented flowers. After the memorial service, part of the boat around the reservoir was also the week, while listening to instructors explain the history of the reservoir, the reservoir side to cast flowers in tribute to the martyrs of labor.

Memorial by the "martyrs Sagami Lake construction joint memorial service for the implementation of the Committee," chaired by Japanese Minister of Justice 1000 Yejing Zi and overseas Chinese living in Japan, North Koreans, South Korea and representatives of overseas Chinese organizations attended the memorial service. Chinese Embassy in Japan sent a eulogy.

Lake Sagami Exchange Center also organized a workshop entitled "Sagami Lake Reservoir History" exhibition, through the testimony of Chinese workers exposed at the construction site living hell. 2 Chinese workers more valuable in watercolors painted, a watercolor depicting the construction site, directly confirms the testimony of the labor of the working environment, and the other depicts the North China Plain agricultural landscape watercolor is to express the thoughts of labor on the homeland.

Sagami Lake Reservoir is Japan's first multipurpose artificial lake, at 1940 to 1947 built, residents of Kanagawa Prefecture has become indispensable to drinking water reservoirs, power stations and leisure resort. For the construction of Lake Sagami Reservoir, Japan was using the 3.6 million workers. In addition to North Korea, South Korea and Japan, labor, there has been kidnapping the Japanese invaders to Japan about 300 Chinese. Extremely poor working conditions, together with the humiliation suffered inhuman, a total of 83 workers were killed at the site, 28 of them, called the Chinese workers.

Japan's insight and progressive groups set up in memory of martyrs, "the martyrs of Sagami Lake construction joint memorial service for the implementation of the Commission," from the end of July 1979 will hold a memorial service every year, this year is the 32nd.

(This article Source: Global Times - Global Network of: Blue construction)