BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II , Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways.

Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ceremony on Aug. 15, the day then-Emperor Hirohito announced in a crackly radio message that the government had surrendered, while China showcases its military strength with a parade on Sept. 3, the day after the formal surrender on an American battleship in Tokyo Bay.

Japan occupied much of China before and during WWII in a devastating and brutal invasion that, by some estimates, killed 20 million people. The wartime experience still bedevils relations between the two countries today.

A museum in the Chinese city of Benxi highlights the struggles of anti-Japanese resi

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