Japanese journalist focuses on wartime atrocities of Japan

Takuya Kobayashi, Beijing bureau chief of the Japanese Communist Party's official newspaper Shimbun Akahata, has paid several visits to the same Chinese county to report on a slaughter more than 70 years ago by the Japanese imperial army.

"I have been to Nan county in Hunan province," he said. "This act of Japanese aggression is little known even to the Chinese in other parts of the country and more than 30,000 people were slaughtered," Kobayashi told China Daily.

His party has consistently said that Japan should own up to its wartime aggression and admit to the atrocities it committed, and the party has also strongly objected to revisionism in Japan to better understand what Japan did.