Both Chinese and Japanese people have protested against the Japanese right-wing's planned gathering in Osaka on January 23 to deny the reality of the Nanjing Massacre.

The Memorial Hall to Victims of the Nanjing Massacre and the Research Institute of the Nanjing Massacre have presented letters of protests to the Osaka City government and the Osaka International Peace Center.

Historians, jurists, media professionals and students in Nanjing have also held meetings to protest against the coming Osaka gathering.

Zhu Chengshan, curator of the memorial in east China's Jiangsu Province, said that the organizer of the gathering, Noshudo Higashinaka, has always denied the Nanjing Massacre, saying in his several articles that the Nanjing incident was actually perpetrated by the Chinese army.

The truth of the Nanjing Massacre is known worldwide, and no one can deny the facts, said Kan Matsuoka, a Japanese friend who visited Nanjing recently.

Many Japanese anti-war and peace associations have also protested the upcoming gathering when they first found out about it from a report in Japan's Asahi Shimbun on December 20 last year. A website named "Peaceful Osaka" has also been opened to try to stop the gathering, said Zhu.