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Nanking docs may cost UNESCO funding

音声ダウンロード

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Oct. 12 the 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 Nanking Massacre to the "Memory of the World" program.

Beijing's dossier on the widespread killings of Chinese following the 1937 capture of wartime Nanking by Japan is among dozens of new additions by UNESCO. Tokyo questioned the neutrality of the U.N. body in registering them. (Kyodo)

南京登録をめぐり、ユネスコ拠出金停止を検討

菅義偉官房長官はユネスコ世界記憶遺産に「南京大虐殺」に関する文書が登録されたのを受け、政府はユネスコへの拠出金の停止や減額を検討すると述べた。

The Japan Times ST: October 23, 2015