China marks Nanjing massacre amid tense Japan ties
- Published: 13 Dec 2012 at 14.46
- Online news: Asia
Sirens wailed in China's Nanjing city on Thursday, 75 years after Japanese troops embarked on mass killing and rape, as a modern-day territorial row between the two saw Tokyo scrambling fighter jets.
Chinese soldiers carry wreaths at a ceremony for victims to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre at the Memorial Museum in Nanjing on December 13, 2012. Sirens wailed in Nanjing, 75 years after Japanese troops embarked on mass killing and rape, as a modern-day territorial row between the two saw Tokyo scrambling fighter jets.
The two countries -- the world's second- and third-largest economies -- have extensive trade and business links, but the weight of Japan's wartime atrocities still bears heavily on their relationship.
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