The New York Times erroneously reported in a recent editorial that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has claimed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre never happened, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday, adding the government has already lodged a protest with the paper and demanded a correction be published.
The paper's editorial in Sunday's editions, titled "Mr. Abe's Dangerous Revisionism," read that "(Abe) and other nationalists still claim that the Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops in 1937 never happened."
At a daily news briefing, Suga claimed Abe "has never made such remarks" to deny the Nanjing Massacre, and the editorial by The New York Times included "a remarkable error of fact."