Ties between China and Japan, the world's second- and
third-largest economies, have been strained by a territorial row
over a group of East China Sea islets and Chinese allegations that
Japan has not properly atoned for wartime aggression.
China consistently reminds its people of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre
in which it says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in the
then-national capital.
A post-war Allied tribunal put the death toll at 142,000, but some
conservative Japanese politicians and scholars deny a massacre took
place.
JOC Executive Board member Yosuke Fujiwara told Japan's Kyodo news
agency that they were taking precautions to ensure their athletes
were safe in Nanjing.
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"When they are outside, we want them to be aware that it might not
be totally safe," Fujiwara said.
"In the Athletes' Village we want them to wear the official Japan
tracksuit, but in the city normal clothes are fine."
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Deteriorating relations between Beijing and Tokyo have been fueled
by a row over a chain of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Ships from both countries frequently shadow each other around the
islets, raising fears of a clash.
Ties have further worsened since China's creation of an air defense
identification zone over the East China Sea and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe's visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine honoring war
criminals among Japan's war dead.
The Second Summer Youth Olympic Games take place in Nanjing from Aug.
16-28.
(Writing by Peter Rutherford; Editing by John O'Brien)
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