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JAPAN threatened to cut funding to Unesco after the heritage body added Chinese documents on a 1937 massacre to its Memory of the World archive.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said there was a “big discrepancy of views between Japan and China” on the Nanjing massacre of up to 300,000 people by Japanese troops.
“The decision reflecting a unilateral view turns the issue into a political problem,” he said.
Mr Suga claimed the decision-making process had “lacked transparency,” saying: “We were not even allowed access to the contents of the Chinese documents.”
“We are considering all measures, including suspension of our funding contributions.”
Japan contributed 3.7 billion yen (£20 million) to Unesco last year, 11 per cent of the body’s budget.
Unesco has not registered Chinese documents detailing Japan’s abuse of women as sex slaves, but has included details of Japanese prisoners held in Siberia after World War II.
