Athletes moved in row over hotel book
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JAPANESE organizers of this month’s Asian Winter Games have moved Chinese and South Korean athletes to different accommodation after a row over a book that claimed the Nanjing Massacre never happened, officials and Japanese media said yesterday.
The Tokyo-based APA hotel group and other hotels are due to receive some 2,300 athletes and supporters from more than 30 countries in Sapporo for the February 19-26 Games.
But APA, one of Japan’s largest hotel chains, triggered an angry backlash from China over the book by its chief executive that is placed in its rooms. It claims the 1937 massacre committed by Japanese troops was a “fabrication.”
“Considering an instruction from the Olympic Council of Asia and other factors, we have decided that the Chinese and South Korean delegations will not stay at APA hotels,” a Games official told reporters.
Japanese media said the two delegations were originally due to stay at APA hotels. Some 230 Chinese and a similar number of South Koreans are being found new accommodation.
The Chinese Olympic Committee had urged organizers to solve the issue swiftly and properly.
South Korea’s top sports body, the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee, had also demanded its athletes not be put in APA hotels.
Last week, APA said it would “temporarily” remove all items from its rooms in Sapporo except those acceptable to Games organizers.
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