Japanese official denies Nanjing Massacre

Chinese Internet users are in an uproar after the mayor of Nagoya told a delegation from Nanjing that he doubted Japanese soldiers had committed atrocities during their World War II occupation of the city. The southern Chinese city of Nanjing suspended contact with Japanese sister city Nagoya on Tuesday night. The historical scars left by Japan's wartime occupation remain a flashpoint in relations between the two East Asian powers. Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to the Yasukuni shrine-where Class-A war criminals are enshrined along with the war dead-and revisionist text books in Japan that gloss over the country's military adventurism in Asia have led to large, and sometimes violent, protests outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing. (Wall Street Journal)