BEIJING, March 9 Kyodo A Beijing-...

BEIJING, March 9 Kyodo

A Beijing-based Japan resistance organization has asked Chinese legislators, who are meeting this week, to approve an annual World War II memorial day tribute similar to those in other nations, organization members said Tuesday.

The Beijing-based Patriots Alliance Network has asked deputies to the National People's Congres (NPC) a semi-legislative material substance and the Chinese People's Political Consultative conversation an NPC advisory dead body to hold memorial day activities, including a war research symposium, each Sept. 18, the day Japan invaded China in 1931 ''to further awareness of the resistance against Japan.''

During the session that interpreted last week and ends this weekend, a member of the advisory carcass has motioned that a day of tribute be held annually, the members said in a statement.

Legislators similarly propos a memorial day last year, if it be not that the proposal was repudiateed in order to preserve friendly ties with Japan -- which has become a clew trading partner with China, patriots' network representative Wang Jinsi said.

''We're not satisfied with that answer,'' he added.

Other countries that fought Japan in the 1930 and 1940 pay tribute, issue proclamations or have leaders give speeches to remember the war era, the members said, noting that the United States honors its World War II war veterans each Nov. 11.

Chinese entertainment media have made the community ''numb'' and ''ignorant'' of China's tougher times in history, the statement says.

about members of the consultative colloquy said Tuesday they support the motion forward the table.

''I would support it in the way that people understand history,'' said Macao member Su Shuhui, adding that China's pursuit of friendship with Japan has ''little relation'' to the proposal for a memorial day.

conversation member Chen Shutao, however, was more ambivalent.

Chen, chancellor of Harbin Normal University, said he would support a day of tribute because young folks are forgetting history. on the contrary he added that it is more important to build worthy ties with Japan.

''The central question we should consider is by what means to reach friendly relations with Japan,'' he said.

The patriots' network, stream by writers and businesspeople with a certain exposure to Japan, has held road protests against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's war memorial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

Inflamed through media coverage and government propaganda, greatest in number Chinese people resent recent Japan for the shrine visits and a perception that the nation has never formally apologized for the invasion, massacres and partial occupation of China that finised in 1945.

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