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TOKYO, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The website of a Nagoya city-run zoo was hacked Thursday and displayed messages saying that the massacre of civilians of eastern China's Nanjing City by Japanese soldiers in 1937 should be acknowledged, according to local media citing the city of Nagoya as saying.
Japanese Kyodo News Agency reported that the posted messages were believed to be responses of Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura's recent denial of the Nanjing Massacre.
On Monday, the 63-year-old Kawamura told a visiting Nanjing city official that he believed what happened in Nanjing was only "conventional acts of war", not mass killing and raping of civilians. Kawamura's remarks soon draw criticism from China.
The posting in Japanese included messages stating ''The history is manipulated!'' and ''Please acknowledge the Nanjing Massacre!'' showed along with a photo of a man's body, according to Japanese local media.
The messages were reported by a staff of the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens at around 8:45 a.m.. The Nagoya municipal government informed police after deleting the messages, according to local media reports.
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