300,000 Chinese To Be Memorialized

The southern city of Nanking plans to build a wall listing the names of many of the 300,000 people killed in a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops.

Authorities appealed for help from relatives of the dead in compiling the list, the official China Daily newspaper reported Wednesday.

The massacre remains a sore point between Japan and China almost 60 years after it occurred. In recent weeks, Chinese officials have urged Japan to reflect on its actions during World War II when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded and occupied vast parts of the country.