at something like this being etched permanently into history for all to remember. Japan blasts Chinese bid for U.N. recognition of Nanjing massacre
Japan protested to China on Wednesday after Beijing applied for the inclusion of the 1937 Nanjing massacre and the “comfort women” forced to work in wartime military brothels in a UNESCO program, the latest flare-up of tensions in relations.
China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Beijing had submitted an application to UNESCO to include the issues of the “comfort women”, many from Korea and China, who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels, as well as the 1937 mass killings in Nanjing.
Beijing said the submissions were part of a need to “remember history, cherish peace and avert similar atrocities from happening again”.
UNESCO’s Memory of the World program, launched in the 1990s, has registered dozens of projects to reflect the “documentary heritage” of different periods. Documents include Britain’s 13th century Magna Carta, the World War Two “Diary of Anne Frank” and an annotated copy of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital.”
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