When the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) regained power in December of 2012 it meant, not only the return of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but his odd beliefs on history. Abe like many of the LDP's members are historical revisionists and war crimes deniers. This is especially true of Japan's military aggressions in the 1930's and the various war crimes committed during that time and through World War II. For these men and women incidents like the Nanjing massacre, comfort women and the execution of prisoners of war by the Imperial Army just didn't happen. It's all part of a larger conspricy to undermine Japan. That these beliefs persist into the 21 century is alarming. Recently a Japanese hotel chain began placing books written by the company's president in the rooms which deny the Nanjing massacre ever took place.
About 200 protesters marched through the streets of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district on Sunday carrying banners to protest a hotel chain under fire for books its president wrote denying the Nanjing Massacre in wartime China ever happened.
Tokyo-based hotel and real estate developer APA Group is at the centre of a furore over books by its founder and president, Toshio Motoya, which contain his revisionist views on history and are placed in every room of the company’s 400-plus APA Hotels.
Motoya, using the pen name Seiji Fuji, wrote of the Nanjing Massacre that “these acts were all said to be committed by the Japanese army, but this is not true.” He also denied stories of Korean women forced to work as prostitutes in wartime military brothels, the so-called “comfort women”.
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