China criticises Japan over comments doubting Nanjing massacre

Visitors lean on an exhibition stand ahead of 76th anniversary of the start of the Nanjing Massacre at the Nanjing Massacre Museum, Jiangsu province, December 12, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry has criticised remarks by a board member of Japan's state broadcaster who said a massacre carried out by Japanese troops in China's then-capital of Nanjing in 1937 did not happen.

China consistently reminds people of Japan's historical brutality, such as the Nanjing Massacre in which China says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people.