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Japan museum under fire for โ€˜rewriting historyโ€™ with Nanking โ€˜incidentโ€™ label

A museum in Japan is facing accusations of โ€œrewriting historyโ€ for replacing the Nanking massacre with the word โ€œincidentโ€, drawing criticism and reviving anger over the countryโ€™s wartime aggression. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, which previously resisted revisionist attempts, appeared to have capitulated to a civic groupโ€™s pressure campaign, following Thursdayโ€™s release of proposed exhibit changes by its operations council. Other amendments announced by the museum, opened in 1996, include...