Japan was more violent and killed more people during its occupation of China than it lost in Hiroshima, said Chinese spokespersons.
The United States and China have met to discuss how they should handle North Korea after the country carried out an unsanctioned nuclear test.
China claims to have stopped its efforts to build artificial islands in the contested Spratly Islands of the South China Sea as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry beseeched China to stop the reclamation works calling them "problematic."
The Chinese government has reiterated in some of its strongest language yet that it will not back down from its controversial claims in the contested South China Sea.
