A fierce battle is raging over UNESCO's stewardship of history.
Last week, Japan — the biggest donor to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — created an international stir by threatening to suspend or reduce its financial contributions after the body accepted what China claims are historical documents about the 1937 Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, for inscription into its Memory of the World register.
What is the Memory of the World program? And why are China and Japan battling over the details of the wartime atrocity?
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