***** Japan Threatens to Stop Funding UNESCO *****

[Huan]

Japan may stop financial contributions to UNESCO: Suga
Politics Oct. 13, 2015 - 07:00AM JST

TOKYO, Japan — Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday the Japanese government will consider stopping financial contributions to UNESCO or reducing the amount, given the U.N. body’s decision to add Chinese documents on the Nanjing Massacre to the “Memory of the World” program.

The top Japanese government spokesman made the remarks on a TV program.

UNESCO’s decision on Saturday drew an immediate protest from the Japanese government questioning whether the U.N. body was “neutral and fair” in registering them.

Beijing’s dossier on the widespread killings of Chinese citizens and soldiers following the 1937 capture of Nanjing by the Japanese military is among dozens of new additions of documentary items, also including two sets of archives from Japan.

The Japanese government lodged a protest Saturday with the Chinese Foreign Ministry via the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, saying China “should not unnecessarily use the arena of UNESCO for a political purpose,” according to Japanese officials.

The “Documents of the Nanjing Massacre” consists of court documents from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that convicted several Japanese as war criminals and a Chinese military tribunal, among others. They also include photos of the killings said to have been taken by the Imperial Japanese Army and film footage taken by an American missionary.
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Link: Japan may stop financial contributions to UNESCO: Suga ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

@Nihonjin1051 @yoshi.oda @ChineseTiger1986 @Chinese Bamboo @Chinese-Dragon

 

[EAsian]

Fair and unbiased doesn't equal to neutral.So there is no neutral and fair.

 

[bobsm]

The Japanese should respect the decision UNESCO made

By Zhu Yuan ,China Daily/Asia News Network
October 13, 2015, 12:11 am TWN

Among 47 new inscriptions, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added documents of the Nanjing Massacre to the Memory of the World Register on Friday. International recognition of the documentary heritage that testifying to the atrocities committed in the city is an important part of international efforts to preserve the collective memory of mankind and promote peace and justice.

Given the repeated denials and whitewashing of their country's past by Japanese nationalists, UNESCO's inclusion of the materials as part of the world's memory is an authoritative international refusal to condone the lies of Japanese far-rightists. From now on, any denial of the massacre is futile.

As a country that has yet to sincerely own up to its history of aggression in World War II, Japan tried to block the UNESCO move. After the UNESCO decision was made, Japan's foreign ministry said it was "extremely regrettable" and questioned the world body's neutrality and fairness, and even called for the process to be reformed.

Such comments are based on neither fact nor reason, as both the iron-clad historical facts about the massacre and UNESCO's process of nomination and inscription are beyond question.

The Japanese far-rightists can try and deny the facts all they want, but now the rest of the world has a clearer picture of what really happened in the Chinese capital at that time, when the invading Japanese army killed 300,000 civilians and unarmed combatants over the course of six weeks.

The event, often referred to as the "Rape of Nanking," was reported worldwide, witnessed by journalists from Western media including the New York Times, the Associated Press and the Chicago Daily News. No respected historians or mainstream academics in the world doubt that the massacre took place.

As to the UNESCO decision, it was made following a two-year process as part of the 2014-2015 nomination cycle during which 88 submissions from 61 countries were examined. The Japanese accusation is a desperate attempt to discredit its decision.

If Japan still deems itself as a responsible member of UNESCO, it should respect the world body's decision and use it as a mirror to correct its own perception of history.

Japan's unwarranted accusations also evidence its intention to impose its own flawed values of justice and twisted perception of history on others.

Obviously, the rest of the world should guard against such ill intentions. Including the documentary heritage submitted by China in the world's memory will play a positive role in cherishing peace and safeguarding human dignity.


The Japanese should respect the decision UNESCO made - The China Post

 

[Indika]

Stop all the contributions to UN, it no longer represents the world.

 

[Aepsilons]

Japan may stop financial contributions to UNESCO: Suga
Politics Oct. 13, 2015 - 07:00AM JST

TOKYO, Japan — Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday the Japanese government will consider stopping financial contributions to UNESCO or reducing the amount, given the U.N. body’s decision to add Chinese documents on the Nanjing Massacre to the “Memory of the World” program.

The top Japanese government spokesman made the remarks on a TV program.

UNESCO’s decision on Saturday drew an immediate protest from the Japanese government questioning whether the U.N. body was “neutral and fair” in registering them.

Beijing’s dossier on the widespread killings of Chinese citizens and soldiers following the 1937 capture of Nanjing by the Japanese military is among dozens of new additions of documentary items, also including two sets of archives from Japan.

The Japanese government lodged a protest Saturday with the Chinese Foreign Ministry via the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, saying China “should not unnecessarily use the arena of UNESCO for a political purpose,” according to Japanese officials.

The “Documents of the Nanjing Massacre” consists of court documents from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that convicted several Japanese as war criminals and a Chinese military tribunal, among others. They also include photos of the killings said to have been taken by the Imperial Japanese Army and film footage taken by an American missionary.
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Link: Japan may stop financial contributions to UNESCO: Suga ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

@Nihonjin1051 @yoshi.oda @ChineseTiger1986 @Chinese Bamboo @Chinese-Dragon

停止と断言できないあたりが実に情けない



ユネスコ拠出金を見直して、その分減税されたい。

 

[Economic superpower]

Whatever funding Japan cuts back to UNESCO, China can more than afford to fill the gap in funding to UNESCO.

Good move by UNESCO to allow the world to see the crimes committed by Japan against China.

Need to name and shame Japan until they take responsibility and apologise for their war crimes.

China's diplomatic power just embarrassed Japan.

 

[ganesh623]

G4 needs to boycott UN at the some point in future.

 

[EAsian]

G4 needs to boycott UN at the some point in future.

Why future?Why not now?Indian mentality,boast about the future,hahaha.

 

[Economic superpower]

G4 needs to boycott UN at the some point in future.

Boycott it now. Why do it in the future?

 

[Huan]

G4 needs to boycott UN at the some point in future.

Then your country will lose respect from UN member countries. The world will not go your way after that.

 

[Nike]

@Nihonjin1051 i think it is a childish response and manner from Japan Gov.

And by cutting off the UNESCO funding, Japanese will lose more of their credibility and softer image they hard to built so far

 

[kankan326]

Japan quit the League of Nations in 1932 because it deems Japan invaded China in the Manchuria Incident. Japan is playing same trick.

 

[opruh]

That's childish of japan.

 

[AndrewJin]

Pls go head, quit UNESCO,
G4, quit UN.
Pls now, don't use future tense.

 

[opruh]

Pls go head, quit UNESCO,
G4, quit UN.
Pls now, don't use future tense.

India and Japan needs to quit planet earth and migrate to pluto, they can finally be a supa powa there.