The organizer of the eighth Asian Winter Games (AWG) in Sapporo said Thursday that the APA hotel designated to host athletes during the games has started to remove controversial books from its guestrooms.
China International Travel Service Limited announced on Wednesday that it will end all business relations with a Japanese hotel chain which refused to remove books from its guest rooms denying the Nanjing Massacre took place.
South Korea's sports committee has asked its Japanese counterpart to take measures on books placed in guestrooms of a right-wing Japanese hotel chain that denies Japan's wartime crimes.
A Chinese tourism company based in Japan terminated its business relationship with Japanese APA Hotels after learning that the latter provided books denying the occurrence of the Nanjing Massacre. The books were written by Toshio Motoya, CEO of APA Group. The books have sparked outrage across Chinese social media, Guancha.cn reported.
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