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Japan-China study group to take up Nanjing Massacre; uncertainty about sex slavery issue

TOKYO -— Japanese and Chinese academics in a joint history study committee on March 20 agreed to take up contentious issues such as the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and visits by Japanese premiers to Yasukuni Shrine in their future discussions, Japanese panel members said.

But the committee members, during their two-day meeting in Tokyo through March 20, failed to discuss this time whether they will deal with the issue of Japan’s forcing women to provide sex for its soldiers before and during World War II and responsibility for the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese war, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said.

About 10 experts from each side formed the Japan-China Joint History Research Committee in an effort to narrow the bilateral gaps over the interpretation of history, which has been a source of bilateral diplomatic disputes.
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