On September 15, Anti-Japanese Red Spear militia, not from the area but passing through Pingdingshan, fired on Japanese soldiers and later attacked the Japanese garrison in the nearby industrial city of Fushun.
The next day, in retaliation, Japanese soldiers and police, in tracking the rebels as they fled back through the villages, deemed all who were in the vicinity to be either members of the militia or their confederates, and punished them by burning homes and summarily executing, bayoneting and machine-gunning village residents.
In 1972, remains of about 800 dead compatriots were found in a mass grave 80 by 5 metres in size.
It is situated in Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County in the prefecture of Fushun, China.
[2] A group of Chinese survivors of the massacre demanded 20 million yen from the Japanese government in reparations.