Recently, the Northeast China’s Society for Historical Studies of Sino-Japanese Relations in Northeast China convened its 18th annual conference in Harbin. At the conference, the subject of Japanese settlements emerged as a focus of intellectual exchange. Judging from piles of evidence, many Chinese were dispossessed of their land by Japanese settlers. To make ends meet, they had to work as serfs and coolies, scholars said. Sexual slavery was another issue that provoked heated discussion. The oral account of Wen Mingjin, a former sex slave from Northeast China, was presented at the conference. It will shed new light on relevant research. The conference was co-organized by the research society and the Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences.