HONG KONG-CHINA-JAPAN-HISTORY-WWII-NANJING-WAR

Protestors burn posters depicting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Japanese wartime imperial flag outside the Japanese embassy in Hong Kong on December 13, 2017, to mark 80 years since the wartime massacre in the Chinese city of Nanjing by Japanese troops.According to China, 300,000 civilians and soldiers were killed in a frenzy of murder, torture, rape, arson and looting in the six weeks after invading Japanese troops seized Nanjing, then the capital city, on December 13, 1937. It remains a source of bad blood due to disagreement over the extent of the slaughter and periodic denials by Japanese arch-conservatives that it even took place. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)