# Japan-China relations

Founder of APA Hotels and Prominent Nanjing Massacre Denier, Toshio Motoya, Dies at 82

Toshio Motoya, founder and CEO of APA Hotels and a prominent funder of Japanese ultranationalism who drew global condemnation for placing books denying the Nanjing Massacre in hotel rooms, died at 82. His death raises questions about the future of the networks and institutions that promoted historical revisionism and a more militarised Japan.