China Mulls Holidays for Nanjing Massacre, Japan Defeat
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China is considering new national days to mark the Nanjing Massacre and Japan’s defeat in World War II, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Sept. 3 may be designated a victory day and Dec. 13 a national memorial day for victims of Nanjing, Xinhua said yesterday, citing draft decisions by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The actual number of Chinese killed in the weeks after Japanese forces captured Nanjing in 1937 is in dispute. China estimates the figure at 300,000, with some Japanese nationalists denying the massacre occurred at all.