Japan lodged protests after China asked Unesco to recognise items relating to the Rape of Nanjing, in which tens of thousands of people died after Japanese troops invaded the southern Chinese city in December 1937. Tokyo has questioned the authenticity of Chinese archival materials related to the incident, and to an estimated 200,000 women, mainly from the Asian mainland, who were forced to work i
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