Japan berates China\\\'s Xi over Nanjing remarks

Tokyo on Sunday criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping for making remarks during a trip to Germany about Japan's wartime atrocities, adding that the government had lodged a protest. At a think tank forum Friday in Berlin, Xi criticised Japan's wartime atrocities, saying the Japanese military killed more than 300,000 people in Nanjing in 1937 when it occupied the Chinese city. "It is extremely unproductive that a Chinese leader makes such remarks about Japanese history in a third country," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters. He also said Japan's Foreign Ministry has lodged a protest with the Chinese government on Saturday, according to AFP.