Last Updated: Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 16:24 GMT 17:24 UK Japan MPs play down 1937 killings By Chris Hogg BBC News, Tokyo China claims as many as 300,000 died in the assault A group of MPs from Japan's governing party is claiming the Chinese have exaggerated the number of people killed by Japanese troops in Nanjing in 1937. China claims that during the assault on the city around 300,000 people were killed by the Japanese. In Tokyo the MPs, from the right wing of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, claimed a month-long study they organised showed 20,000 died. At the...
