City suspends ties over massacre denial
By Wang Chenyan, Cang Wei and Song Wenwei | China Daily | Updated: 2012-02-23 08:07
Visitors on Wednesday pass a wall at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, on which the number of victims, 300,000, is displayed. Yang Bo / Xinhua |
BEIJING / NANJING - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura's refusal to take back his denial of the Nanjing Massacre has increased tension between the two cities, with the Chinese city declaring on Tuesday that it would suspend official contacts with its sister city in Japan.
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