World Opinion
Angela Merkel urges Japan to face history[Detail]
Former US ambassador to China Gary Locke paid an unexpected visit to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall on Thursday, saying "history cannot be forgotten".Locke was the 10th US ambassador to China, but the first US official of Chinese descent to hold the position. He resigned in February to join his family in the US.[Detail]
A denial of Japan's wartime atrocities by NHK executives has sparked widespread fear among international media that the public broadcaster is losing its independence and becoming the mouthpiece of Shinzo Abe's government.[Detail]
The Foreign Ministry said the international community should be alarmed by some people in Japan denying historical facts and challenging justice and human conscience .[Detail]
China on Wednesday urged the international community to be on alert for any comments which attempt to vindicate Japan's invasion history and challenge post-war world order.[Detail]
Three reporters including Mariko Oi from BBC Current Affair department came to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders on Dec 4 where they interviewed Zhu Chengshan, curator of the memorial hall, Chen Guixiang, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, and Matsuoka Tamaki, founding president of Mingxin Association of Japan.[Detail]
A major US newspaper has joined the international outcry over the historical denialism of leaders of Japan's public broadcaster NHK and asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abeto condemn these comments with "equal clarity."[Detail]
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