Group lodges protest over Nagoya mayor's remarks

Group lodges protest over Nagoya mayor's remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Kensaku Ishikawa (L), head of the Aichi prefectural chapter of the Japan-China Friendship Association, hands a letter of protest against Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura to an official at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 24, 2012. Kawamura earlier in the week expressed doubt about the massacre of civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing in 1937.

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