Economics
Japan Hotel Faces China Backlash After Denying Nanjing Massacre
- Book by CEO of APA hotel chain says Nanjing Massacre ‘absurd’
- APA rooms vanish from China hotel sites after online video
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Japanese hotel chain APA Group faced fire from Chinese tourists after a video showed the hotel carrying literature that denies Japan’s wartime atrocities.
A book, available in the hotel chain’s rooms and written by the group’s chief executive officer, characterized as “absurd” the Chinese position that 300,000 people were killed in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. The book says the incident was “fabricated by the Chinese side and did not actually happen.”