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Shortly after Japan's surrender in August 1945, a huge bonfire was built at the headquarters of Kwantung Kempeitai in Changchun, Northeast China. Hundreds of boxes of files were lost to the flames over the following days, but the unexpected arrival of Soviet soldiers prompted the Japanese to hastily bury some of them. These were unearthed by construction workers in 1953 and eventually handed over to archivists in the early 1980s. This is the third volume in a series based on the studies of these documents. It comprises 293 pages of inspection reports on correspondence sent by Japanese troops and others between January and July 1940. The Kempeitai ruled that many of the letters be censored or confiscated due to the sensitive nature of their content. Extracts from these letters are contained within the inspection reports, and give us an insight into what was happening on the ground in occupied China during that period.

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Dr Martin Ward is a translator and Associate Professor of Chinese and Japanese Translation at the University of Leeds. He is also a fellow of Advance HE, a member of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST), and foreign expert of the Translators Association of China (TAC). Martin is the Founder of the East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance (EATPA) network. He has also been published in academic journals like The Translator and he is co-editor of two edited volumes on teaching translation and interpreting and live subtitling (Routledge, 2024).

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