- Title: Japan hotel APA will not pull controversial book from rooms before Olympics
- Date: 2nd June 2017
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (FILE - 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF APA HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN TOKYO
- Embargoed: 16th June 2017 09:14
- Keywords: Denial Books Nanjing Massacre APA hotels China Japan
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Race Relations / Ethnic Issues,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA0026JL3VPH
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Japanese hotel group APA will not remove books that deny the Nanjing Massacre from their rooms before the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Toshi Motoya, who owns the hotel chain and authored the controversial books, said at a book publishing event in Tokyo on Friday (June 2).
Earlier this year, a furor erupted over the books, which air his revisionist views and are placed in every room of APA group's more than 400 hotels. Motoya, using the pen name Seiji Fuji, wrote that stories of the Nanjing Massacre were "Impossible." China responded by urging all tour operators to sever ties with APA and called on Chinese tourists to resist their approach.
Japan's wartime occupation of Nanjing, and the resulting massacre is a highly contentious issue between the uneasy neighbors. China says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in the city. A post-war Allied tribunal put the death toll at about half of that.
To the fury of China, some conservative Japanese politicians and academics continue to deny the massacre ever happened, or attempt to discredit its historical significance by lowering the death toll. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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