From Guardian Unlimited:
A Chinese court has ordered two Japanese historians to pay damages of 1.6m yuan (£110,000) to a survivor of the 1937 Nanjing massacre whom they accused of fabricating her account.
Although the ruling is largely symbolic because it has no force in Japan, the defamation lawsuit opens up a new front in a row that has led to trials, demonstrations and a deterioration in relations between the countries.
The Nanjing court judged that Xia Shuqin had suffered psychological trauma and damage to her reputation from two books published in Tokyo that denied large-scale slaughter in Nanjing, despite Chinese claims that 300,000 civilians were killed by the Japanese imperial army. [Full Text]
See also Nanjing survivor gets legal win by CNN.
