Mayor ‘should kneel and apologize’
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JAPAN’S Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura should kneel and apologize to the Chinese people for the Nanjing Massacre, a Chinese spokeswoman said yesterday.
The comment came after Kawamura downplayed the seriousness of APA, a Japanese hotel chain, placing in its rooms a book denying the massacre.
Kawamura said Japanese should go to Nanjing to kneel down and apologize if Japanese troops really slaughtered 300,000 Nanjing citizens. But he said he doubted the massacre had taken place.
China will never tolerate brazen distortions of history that hurt the Chinese people, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a news briefing.
“Whoever acts recklessly will pay the price,” she added.
“As for the comments by the mayor, I want to remind him that the Nanjing Massacre is a historical fact recognized by the international community. The mayor should deliver on what he said.”
More than 600,000 people lived in Nanjing before the Japanese slaughtered around 300,000 soldiers and civilians in December 1937.
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