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China restaurant bars unapologetic Japanese
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-13 07:12
Japanese customers must apologise for their country's wartime occupation of
China before getting a seat at a restaurant in former Manchuria or find another
place to eat, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday.
No Japanese had tried to enter the restaurant in the northeastern Chinese
city of Jilin since it started the new apology policy and hung a sign that read
"Japanese people barred from entry".
"We totally welcome those Japanese customers who can correctly view history,"
the manager, surnamed Tian, was quoted as saying.
"But as for those customers who still refuse to admit to history, we want to
say we don't like them."
Staff at the Western-style restaurant were told to ask Japanese customers who
walked through the door to give their views of Japan's 1931-1945 occupation of
parts of China, including the northeast, and to turn away those who did not
apologise and share the owner's opinions, Kyodo said.
Many Chinese feel Japan has never owned up to atrocities committed during its
occupation, including the 1937 Rape of Nanjing in which Beijing says as many as
300,000 Chinese men, women and children were slaughtered by Japanese troops.
China has repeatedly asked Japan to "take history as a mirror" and
"correctly" view history to repair ties between the two countries, which this
year have sunk to their lowest point in decades.
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