China names 34,282 WWII slaves to Japan

A list of the names of 34,282 Chinese people forced into labor in Japan during World War II was published by a Chinese museum on Saturday.

The complete list is available at the website of Beijing's Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

According to a museum statement, the list was complied in 1964 by a Japan-based society which collected the names of Chinese war casualties.

The museum scanned the document and made a digital version open to the public for reference. The list is being made public for the first time.

Last year, the museum issued material regarding Chinese forced laborers in Japan, including 405 archives of information about 124 forced labor camps administered by 35 Japanese enterprises.

The museum received many requests from slaves' families, who wanted to check the record and look for their relatives' names. To avoid damage to the precious record, the museum has decided not to make the hard copy available to the public.