# Japan-China relations
Latest news and articles about Japan-China relations
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The Weaponization of Memory: Beijing’s Global Indictment of Japan’s Wartime Legacy
Chinese media is leveraging historical evidence of Japanese atrocities against both Chinese and Australian victims to challenge Tokyo's modern diplomatic standing. By framing these events as a systemic regional failure rather than isolated incidents, Beijing seeks to complicate Japan's security partnerships and highlight perceived deficiencies in its historical atonement.
Founder of APA Hotels and Prominent Nanjing Massacre Denier, Toshio Motoya, Dies at 82
Toshio Motoya, founder and CEO of APA Hotels and a prominent funder of Japanese ultranationalism who drew global condemnation for placing books denying the Nanjing Massacre in hotel rooms, died at 82. His death raises questions about the future of the networks and institutions that promoted historical revisionism and a more militarised Japan.