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In another shameless attept by japan to cover up their crimes in WW2.

[Japan Says May Cut UNESCO Funds Over Nanjing Massacre Move

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Oct 13, 2015, 2:35 AM

Japan said Tuesday that it may cut funding for UNESCO after the U.N. world heritage body included documents on a World War II-era massacre by Japanese troops on a Chinese city in its Memory of the World register, a move Tokyo criticized as biased.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the government's chief spokesman, told reporters that UNESCO's decision reflected only China's views on the 1937 assault on Nanjing, when Japanese troops killed tens of thousands of civilians in the city.

Chinese and Japanese estimates vary widely as to how many people died in the massacre, viewed as one of the worst atrocities of the World War II era. Estimates on the number of deaths range from 40,000 to 300,000.

"There is a big discrepancy of views between Japan and China, and the decision reflecting a unilateral view turns the issue into a political problem," Suga said. "We are considering all measures (of protest), including suspension of our funding contributions" to UNESCO.

According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Japan contributed 3.72 billion yen (about $31 million) to UNESCO in 2014, or 10.8 percent of its budget assessed for the U.N.

UNESCO's budget for the two-year 2014-2015 period is $653 million. Japan has also set up various trust funds to support work on world and cultural heritage efforts.

Suga said Japan would also seek reform of UNESCO, which was the first U.N. organization Japan joined after World War II, in its 1951 return to the international community.

"The decision making process lacked transparency," he said. "We were not even allowed access to the contents of the Chinese documents.

"While Japan objected to the inclusion of the documents on the Nanjing Massacre, it succeeded in having some of its own candidates for the memory list included, including details on detainees held in Siberia after World War II.

Materials submitted by China for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2014 included documents about the period of the massacre, about the postwar investigation and trials of war criminals documented by the Chinese National Government's Military Tribunal in 1945-47 and 1952-56 files from China's judiciary.

UNESCO did not agree to register documents submitted by China about women forced to provide sex to Japanese Imperial Army troops during the war.]

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Who cares, China and the rest of the world could make up the difference in UNESCO funding easily.

 

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Who cares, China and the rest of the world could make up the difference in UNESCO funding easily.

The curx of the matter isn't Japan withholding UNESCO funds, but it trying to whitewash history around the world. The civilized nations, especially the US, should unite against Japan and push back, because it's one thing to lie to your own people, but quite another to lie to all mankind.

 

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In another shameless attept by japan to cover up their crimes in WW2.

[Japan Says May Cut UNESCO Funds Over Nanjing Massacre Move

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Oct 13, 2015, 2:35 AM

Japan said Tuesday that it may cut funding for UNESCO after the U.N. world heritage body included documents on a World War II-era massacre by Japanese troops on a Chinese city in its Memory of the World register, a move Tokyo criticized as biased.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the government's chief spokesman, told reporters that UNESCO's decision reflected only China's views on the 1937 assault on Nanjing, when Japanese troops killed tens of thousands of civilians in the city.

Chinese and Japanese estimates vary widely as to how many people died in the massacre, viewed as one of the worst atrocities of the World War II era. Estimates on the number of deaths range from 40,000 to 300,000.

"There is a big discrepancy of views between Japan and China, and the decision reflecting a unilateral view turns the issue into a political problem," Suga said. "We are considering all measures (of protest), including suspension of our funding contributions" to UNESCO.

According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Japan contributed 3.72 billion yen (about $31 million) to UNESCO in 2014, or 10.8 percent of its budget assessed for the U.N.

UNESCO's budget for the two-year 2014-2015 period is $653 million. Japan has also set up various trust funds to support work on world and cultural heritage efforts.

Suga said Japan would also seek reform of UNESCO, which was the first U.N. organization Japan joined after World War II, in its 1951 return to the international community.

"The decision making process lacked transparency," he said. "We were not even allowed access to the contents of the Chinese documents.

"While Japan objected to the inclusion of the documents on the Nanjing Massacre, it succeeded in having some of its own candidates for the memory list included, including details on detainees held in Siberia after World War II.

Materials submitted by China for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2014 included documents about the period of the massacre, about the postwar investigation and trials of war criminals documented by the Chinese National Government's Military Tribunal in 1945-47 and 1952-56 files from China's judiciary.

UNESCO did not agree to register documents submitted by China about women forced to provide sex to Japanese Imperial Army troops during the war.]

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And people wonder why China and South Korea and others have a hard time believing Japan is sincere with its apologies and claims of remorse about their wartime atrocities.

 

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HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese authorities urged Hong Kong on Tuesday to fully investigate the fatal beating of a mainland tourist outside a shop.


The death spurred calls in China for a boycott of travel to Hong Kong. The former British colony has been a longtime favorite destination for mainland Chinese travelers but it's also been the source of many complaints over so-called forced shopping, in which operators of deeply discounted group tours try to recoup their costs by pressuring tourists to buy merchandise at selected shops that pay them commissions.

The China National Tourism Administration urged Hong Kong authorities to protect the rights of mainland tourists.

Hong Kong police say they arrived at a shop on Monday morning and found a 54-year-old man lying unconscious outside, and that he died a day later.

Police said the man was attacked after trying to mediate a fight between two women over "shopping affairs." The women, who were arrested for fighting in a public place, are believed to be the tour leader and a fellow tourist. Local news reports said the dead man was attempting to mediate in the dispute, at a jewelry shop, when he was attacked by a group of men.

Police said two men were also arrested on suspicion of causing injury.

None of the people involved has been identified, but Chinese news reports of the mainlander's beating death in Hong Kong fueled long-held resentment between the two groups.

Chinese visitors have been the major driving force for Hong Kong's tourist industry in recent years but the explosive growth has irked residents who blame them for driving up prices.

Tensions have also been exacerbated by allegations of coarse manners and bad behavior by mainland tourists in orderly Hong Kong, such as blocking sidewalks with oversized suitcases and eating on the subway.

China introduced a tourism law in 2013 in an attempt to regulate the country's fast-growing tourism industry and protect tourists. One of its goals was to stop forced shopping though it has had little effect.

So it is ok to beat a guy who was trying to mediate a dispute to death just because some mainland tourists have bad manners? Ok then.

 

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So it is ok to beat a guy who was trying to mediate a dispute to death just because some mainland tourists have bad manners? Ok then.

Obviously it was some kind of dispute that resulted in a physical altercations , in which it has NOTHING to do with mainland tourists mannerism. I don't know why every time there's a story with Chinese mainland in Hong Kong does the article has to bring up about "tensions" into the story.

 

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Obviously it was some kind of dispute that resulted in a physical altercations , in which it has NOTHING to do with mainland tourists mannerism. I don't know why every time there's a story with Chinese mainland in Hong Kong does the article has to bring up about "tensions" into the story.

It's almost as if the writer had some sort of agenda .

 

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday condemned a top exiled Uighur leader for her "absurd" comments about Britain's lavish reception for President Xi Jinping, adding that its far western region of Xinjiang was at peace.

The red carpet Britain is rolling out this week to welcome Xi is stained with the blood of Uighurs, Tibetans and dissidents, Rebiya Kadeer, the president of the World Uyghur Congress, said in Tokyo on Monday.

China's repressive policies had turned Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, "almost into a war zone", Kadeer added.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying on Tuesday dismissed Kadeer's remarks as being "absurd and extreme", and characterized them as "ignorant speech".

"All types of people in Xinjiang live and work in peace," Hua told a daily news briefing. "There is only a small group of people that seek to destroy China's ethnic harmony and social stability. I think their actions and words should be condemned."

China says Islamist militants and separatists operate in energy-rich Xinjiang on the borders of central Asia, where violence has killed hundreds in recent years.Radio Free Asia reported that at least 50 people died last month in an attack at a Xijiang coal mine that police blamed on knife-wielding separatists, just before China marked 60 years since its founding of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

But exiles and rights groups say China has never presented convincing evidence of the existence of a cohesive militant group, and that much of the unrest can be traced back to frustration at controls over the culture and religion of the Uighur people. Beijing strongly denies such charges.

China dismisses Kadeer as an "anti-Chinese splittist". She is a former Chinese political prisoner accused of leaking state secrets in 1999. She was later allowed to leave on medical grounds and now lives in the United States.

 

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What was the medical grounds for why she was allowed to leave China?......
Was she medically deranged?

 

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It's almost as if the writer had some sort of agenda .

Very Sad.
I hope people wont think my remark is in bad taste, I think the moral of the story is not to step in between two fighting/ arguing women. I wouldnt.

 

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Very Sad.
I hope people wont think my remark is in bad taste, I think the moral of the story is not to step in between two fighting/ arguing women. I wouldnt.

The tourist who was beaten to death was beaten by a "group of men". Most likely these are triad thugs in league with one side or the other of the two arguing women and the beaten tourist either picked the side that was against the triad's interests or disrespected the triad's authority in the argument by attempting to mediate.