#China #fury at #Japanese #claim that #Nanjing #massacre #never #took #place #Board #member at #Japans #state #broadcaster #denies #infamous #wartime #slaughter of tens of thousands ever #happened Reuters theguardian, Thursday 6 February 2014 05.38 GMT Jump to comments (388) Japanese forces close in on Nanjing in 1937. China says 300,000 people were killed in the #ensuing massacre of #civilians. Japanese forces close in on Nanjing in 1937. China says 300,000 people were killed in the ensuing massacre of civilians. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Chinas #foreign #ministry has #criticized remarks by a board member of Japans state broadcaster who said a massacre carried out by Japanese troops in Chinas then-capital of Nanjing in 1937 did not happen. China #consistently reminds people of Japans #historical #brutality, such as the Nanjing massacre in which China says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people. A post-war Allied tribunal put the death toll at 142,000, but some conservative Japanese politicians and scholars deny a massacre took place. Naoki Hyakuta, a member of NHKs board of governors who is also a novelist and commentator, was quoted by Japanese media this week as saying the Nanjing Massacre did not happen. In a later follow-up on Twitter, he said it was unclear how many people had been killed in Nanjing. Chinas foreign ministry said in a statement released late on Wednesday that such remarks were a barefaced challenge to international justice and human conscience. The Nanjing massacre was a brutal crime committed by the Japanese militarists during their invasion of China, which has irrefutable proof. The international community has long ago reached a verdict about it, the ministry said. A handful of people in Japan have tried to blot out, cover up and distort that history, it said. Such behaviour is in the same line as those of some Japanese leaders who try to reverse history. The international community should be highly vigilant at this. Chinas ties with Japan have long been poisoned by what Beijing sees as Tokyos failure to atone for its occupation of parts of China before and during the second world war. Deteriorating relations between Beijing and Tokyo have been fuelled by a row over a chain of disputed islands in the East China Sea. Ships from both countries frequently shadow each other around the islets, raising fears of a clash. Ties have further worsened since Chinas creation of an air defence identification zone over the East China Sea and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abes visit to the controversial Yasukuni shrine honouring war criminals among Japans war dead. theguardian/world/2014/feb/06/china-japanese-nanjing-massacre-never-took-place?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-3%20Main%20trailblock:Network%20front%20-%20main%20trailblock:Position18
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