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Japan and China remain divided on UNESCO′s recent decision to add documents related to the Nanjing Massacre... to its Memory of the World register.
Japan has called for the two countries to focus on the future, while China calls for an acknowledgement of the past.
Connie Kim has the full story
In a meeting with visiting China′s State Councilor Yang Jiechi in Tokyo on Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe voiced his regret about Beijing′s successful bid to have documents on the Nanjing Massacre added to UNESCO′s Memory of the World register.
According to Tokyo-based Kyodo News, Abe said the two countries should not maintain an ″excessive focus″ on the ″unfortunate past″... but work to build future-oriented bilateral relations.
Yang reportedly underscored the importance of acknowledging history in order to move forward.
Last week, UNESCO added to the register... Chinese documents on the Nanjing Massacre committed by Japan′s Imperial Army in 1937.
Included are 11 sets of files, from text to film and photographs recorded between 1937 and 1948.
The 16 photos added to the registry include graphic images of Japan′s heinous acts.
Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday the pictures show the Japanese military beheading Chinese prisoners who are on their knees... and rows of dead Chinese bodies lying in the streets.
Beijing says some 300-thousand people died in the campaign of rape and mass killing.
Relations between China and Japan remain frosty, but the two countries remain united on bilateral cooperation, which is set to be discussed at a trilateral summit that includes Korea in the coming weeks.
Connie Kim, Arirang News.