Japanese monk Shunan Noritake meets a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre on Tuesday. More than 5,000 people gathered at a museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on the anniversary of the fall of the city to Japanese forces on Dec 13, 1937. In the six weeks following the city's fall more than 300,000 unarmed soldiers and civilians were killed by Japanese troops in what was then the Chinese capital. Photo by Lang Congliu / for China Daily