FILE PHOTO - Signboards featuring pictures of APA hotel chain's president Fumiko Motoya is seen at its headquarters building in Tokyo, Japan, January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon /File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese hotel chain under fire for books its president wrote denying the Nanjing Massacre in wartime China will remove them from a hotel hosting athletes at the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games, organisers said on Wednesday.
The Tokyo-based hotel and real estate developer APA Group is at the centre of a furore over books by president Toshio Motoya, which contain his revisionist views on history and are placed in every room of the company's 400-plus APA Hotels.
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