Japanese researcher donates WWII documents on Japan's counterfeit currency crimes in HK

GUANGZHOU, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Seiya Matsuno, a Japanese researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, donated a collection of rare Japanese wartime documents to the Guangdong Provincial Archives on Tuesday, disclosing new evidence of the counterfeit currency war waged by Japanese invaders in Hong Kong during World War II.

The materials, including classified military telegrams and documents written in Japanese, provide details on how the Japanese invaders orchestrated the mass counterfeiting of the then-Nationalist government's fiat currency in Hong Kong, according to the Guangdong Provincial Archives in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province.