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Japan halts UNESCO funding following Nanjing massacre row

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https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/14/japan-halts-unesco-funding-nanjing-massacre-row

Japan is holding back more than £34m in Unesco funding following a protest against the listing of documents related to the Nanjing massacre.

The foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, confirmed Japan had suspended this year’s contribution, totalling 4.4bn yen (£34.4m), but denied any direct link to an incident that still hangs over frosty diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Beijing.

Japan – one of Unesco’s biggest funders – warned last year that it might pull the funding after the UN cultural and scientific body agreed to Beijing’s request to register disputed Chinese documents recording the mass murder and rape committed by Japanese troops after the fall of the Chinese city of Nanjing 1937.

The documents were inscribed in the UN body’s Memory of the World list.

More damning evidence of the fall of the UN.
 
It failed the prevent on the onset of world war III.

How does a world wide Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation have anything to do with World War III?
 
How does a world wide Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation have anything to do with World War III?

It's just a better version of the League of Nations in that it prevented World War III from happening for... 60+ years (WWIII is still inevitable if we keep the UN as it is though). The League only had it in for ~20 years.
 
It's just a better version of the League of Nations in that it prevented World War III from happening for... 60+ years (WWIII is still inevitable if we keep the UN as it is though). The League only had it in for ~20 years.

The interesting thing in those 20 / 60 years is the reason for the difference.
 
It's just a better version of the League of Nations in that it prevented World War III from happening for... 60+ years (WWIII is still inevitable if we keep the UN as it is though). The League only had it in for ~20 years.

Eh? You do know we are talking about UNESCO right? You cant compare UNESCO to the league of nations.. that would be like comparing a car to an ant.. both can move, but else not much in common.
 
Eh? You do know we are talking about UNESCO right? You cant compare UNESCO to the league of nations.. that would be like comparing a car to an ant.. both can move, but else not much in common.

I didn't make that clear, I was referring to the UN seeing that as UNESCO is a branch.
 
I didn't make that clear, I was referring to the UN seeing that as UNESCO is a branch.

Yes UNESCO is a branch.. very independent branch at that. So you have a problem with a world heritage organisation that protects history and culture from racist, xenophobes and mass murders?
 
yes unesco is a branch.. Very independent branch at that. So you have a problem with a world heritage organisation that protects history and culture from racist, xenophobes and mass murders?

... To hell with culture and history!!!!
 
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