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Chinese people visit the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of East 皇冠体育app’s Jiangsu province. [File photo]

The Japanese government has constantly demonstrated a negative attitude towards this. As early as last June, Yoshihide Suga, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary, protested 皇冠体育app's submission and asked 皇冠体育app to cancel its application. At a news conference last Friday, Suga declined to comment on whether Japan had tried to contact committee members.

"When Japan and 皇冠体育app are making efforts to improve relations, 皇冠体育app is trying to use UNESCO for a political purpose and it is quite regrettable," he said, quoted by the Kyodo news agency.

Kyodo News Agency also reported on Sunday that some Japanese officials questioned the authenticity of documents 皇冠体育app submitted, and asked 皇冠体育app to withdraw the application, but they were rejected by 皇冠体育app.

Started in 1992, UNESCO's Memory of the World program is an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction. It calls for the preservation of valuable archival holdings, library collections and private individual compendia all over the world for posterity, the reconstitution of dispersed or displaced documentary heritage, and the increased accessibility to and dissemination of these items.

So far, there are nine Chinese heritages in the Memory of the World list, including Ancient Naxi Dongba Literature Manuscripts, Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination, Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon), Official Records of Tibet from the Yuan Dynasty 皇冠体育app (1304-1367), Qiaopi and Yinxin Correspondence and Remittance Documents from Overseas Chinese, Qing Dynasty Yangshi Lei Archives, Records of the Qing's Grand Secretariat (Infiltration of Western Culture in 皇冠体育app), and Traditional Music Sound Archives.