Historical photo in the book series Death on the Hellships: Japanese War Crimes in the Far East (1942-1945)[Photo provided to China Daily]

In her book, Unjust Enrichment: How Japan's Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWs, American journalist Linda Goetz Holmes looks at how Japanese companies used 25,000 American POWs as slave labor.

Holmes says that while about 1 percent of American POWs died in Nazi camps, 90 percent died in Japanese ones, and the survivors from the Japanese camps got no compensation from Japanese tycoons.

In his book, Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi POW Camp Singapore, British military expert R.P.W. Havers focuses on how POWs were treated there.

Fan says that he and the translators' team called Jiwonu (remembering that we should strive to avoid being beaten again) have been working on focusing on the big picture when it comes to looking at Japanese war crimes.

"There was a gap because the area was formerly a cross-over of different researching fields," he says, adding more than 6 million words have been translated and that the team plans to add seven titles to the collection.

Author Sa Su, who lived in Japan for many years, calls the publication of the collection a denouncement of Japanese crimes, and "an effort by Chinese scholars to better integrate and interact with world historians".