SHANGHAI: China's tourism authority called Tuesday for a boycott of Tokyo-based hotel group APA in an escalating row over a book by the company's CEO denying a Japanese wartime massacre took place.

Copies of the book asserting that the 1937 massacre by Japanese soldiers in the Chinese city of Nanjing did not occur have been placed in hundreds of rooms operated by the APA hotel group, angering Beijing.

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