Following the Lugou Bridge Incident in July 1937, Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China and gradually expanded the war into Southeast Asia. To sustain its military campaign, the Japanese militarist regime built the so-called "Death Railway," a strategic supply route linking Thailand and Myanmar.

More than 80 years later, a section of the railway that had remained submerged beneath a reservoir for over four decades has re-emerged, offering fresh reminders of Japan's wartime aggression in Asia.

Reporter Yang Tanli spoke with survivors, local witnesses, and an Allied veteran, who shared their memories of one of the darkest chapters of World War II.