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南京事件を目前にした１２日、東京の靖国神社では２人の中国人が事件に対する抗議行動として「南京大虐殺を忘れるな」と書かれたプラカードを掲げ、中国北東部を占領した関東軍の当時の参謀長だった東條英機の名を記した紙を燃やす事件が起きている。抗議行動を行った中国人２名は警察に拘束された。
南京大虐殺の犠牲者数はいまだに大きく割れており、論争の的になっている。ロシア科学アカデミー極東支部日本調査センターのヴァレリー・キスタノフ所長はこれについて次のように語っている。
「日本人は南京大虐殺の事実を否定していないが、犠牲者の死者数については意見があまりにも割れている。中国の科学者らは死者は３０万人だったと主張している。これに対して日本側のあげる数値は３万人以下で、中国に比べてあまりに少ない。
ただし専門家らは問題は数値にはないとみなしている。殺戮された数が３万人以下だったとしても十分に多く、その上、殺戮対象は軍部にとどまらず、女性、高齢者、子どもと一般市民もこれに含まれていたというのがその理由だ。これらの犠牲者は火をかけられ、暴行され、生き埋めにされた。そのうえ、日本兵らには薬きょうを無駄にしないよう命令が出されていたため、殺戮は主に短剣や日本刀で行われたことは知られている。このため問題は殺された人の数ではなく、その犯罪の残忍度にある。」
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This picture taken on May 20, 2012 shows visitors looking at bronze sculptures depicting victims of the Nanjing massacre at the Memorial Museum in Nanjing. The museum will mark the 75th anniversary of the massacre on December 13.
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Visiting schoolchildren look at photos on display at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing on October 10, 2015. Japan on October 10 lashed out at UNESCO's decision to inscribe documents related to the Nanjing massacre in its Memory of the World register, describing it as "extremely regrettable" and calling for the process to be reformed.
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This picture taken on June 11, 2014 shows a girl reading the files of victims killed during the Nanjing massacre in Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province. Japan lashed out at China for politicising a UN agency with a bid to register papers on its wartime sexual slavery and the Nanjing massacre in a global document trove. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo by STR / AFP)
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A survivor cries during a memorial ceremony at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders ahead of China's National Memorial Day for Nanjing massacre victims in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province on December 4, 2017. - China's National Memorial Day marks on December 13 the 80th anniversary of the 1937 Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops.
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People stand during a silent tribute to mark the annual national day of remembrance to commemorate the 81st anniversary of Nanjing massacre during a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 13, 2018.
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers participate in a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall on the annual national day of remembrance to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the massacre in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 13, 2018.
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In this Feb. 11, 2014 photo, a visitor stands near sculptures at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The Tokyo shrine and the memorial hall in Nanjing, as Nanking is now called, are physical embodiments of divergent views of history that still strain China-Japan relations, 70 years after the war. They complicate America's objective of maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific, as President Barack Obama starts a 4-country Asian tour in Japan this week. The implications are potentially serious, particularly over contested uninhabited islands called the Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.
Pigeons fly above a Chinese flag fluttered at half-mast as people attend a memorial ceremony to mark the 81th anniversary of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre on the National Memorial Day in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China December 13, 2018.
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This picture taken on May 20, 2012 shows visitors looking at bronze sculptures depicting victims of the Nanjing massacre at the Memorial Museum in Nanjing. The museum will mark the 75th anniversary of the massacre on December 13.
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Visiting schoolchildren look at photos on display at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing on October 10, 2015. Japan on October 10 lashed out at UNESCO's decision to inscribe documents related to the Nanjing massacre in its Memory of the World register, describing it as "extremely regrettable" and calling for the process to be reformed.
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This picture taken on June 11, 2014 shows a girl reading the files of victims killed during the Nanjing massacre in Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province. Japan lashed out at China for politicising a UN agency with a bid to register papers on its wartime sexual slavery and the Nanjing massacre in a global document trove. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo by STR / AFP)
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A survivor cries during a memorial ceremony at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders ahead of China's National Memorial Day for Nanjing massacre victims in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province on December 4, 2017. - China's National Memorial Day marks on December 13 the 80th anniversary of the 1937 Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops.
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People stand during a silent tribute to mark the annual national day of remembrance to commemorate the 81st anniversary of Nanjing massacre during a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 13, 2018.
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People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers participate in a memorial ceremony at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall on the annual national day of remembrance to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the massacre in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 13, 2018.
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© AP Photo / Alexander F. Yuan
In this Feb. 11, 2014 photo, a visitor stands near sculptures at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The Tokyo shrine and the memorial hall in Nanjing, as Nanking is now called, are physical embodiments of divergent views of history that still strain China-Japan relations, 70 years after the war. They complicate America's objective of maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific, as President Barack Obama starts a 4-country Asian tour in Japan this week. The implications are potentially serious, particularly over contested uninhabited islands called the Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.
Pigeons fly above a Chinese flag fluttered at half-mast as people attend a memorial ceremony to mark the 81th anniversary of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre on the National Memorial Day in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China December 13, 2018.
