SAPPORO, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The organizer of the eighth Asian Winter Games (AWG) in Sapporo said Thursday that the APA hotel designated to host athletes during the games has started to remove controversial books from its guestrooms.
The APA Hotel & Resort Sapporo will complete the process of removing all the "information materials" from its guestrooms before the athletes check in, said Nabeshima, a staff of the organizing committee.
The eighth AWG will be held in Sapporo and Obihiro during Feb. 19-26 and to save costs, the organizing committee has chosen two local hotels as official designated hotels for the athletes, and the APA Hotel & Resort Sapporo is one of them.
However, the Japanese APA hotel chain has recently sparked fury among Chinese and South Koreans for placing history-distorting books in its guest rooms.
The books, authored by Seiji Fuji, the pen name of APA Group CEO Toshio Motoya, denied that the Nanjing Massacre and the forced recruitment of "comfort women" ever happened.
The Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) has urged the organizers of the eighth AWG to solve the "APA hotel problem" swiftly and properly.
The COC pointed out that the APA Group's behavior violates the rule 50 of the Olympic Charter, which stressed that the athletes should compete "without being drawn into political controversies," and the competition should "provide a Games environment that lets athletes compete without distractions from divisive and emotional issues outside the world of sport."
South Korea's top sports body Korean Sport and Olympic Committee (KSOC) has also demanded Japan not to accommodate its athletes taking part in the 2017 AWG in the right-wing Japanese hotel chain.
The organizing committee has made arrangement for athletes from China and South Korea to stay in the Sapporo Prince Hotel during the games at the request of top sports bodies of the two countries.
THE HAGUE JuJu Smith-Schuster Jersey , March 14 (Xinhua) -- No bird flu has been detected at nearby farms after an outbreak of low pathogenic H7N7 avian influenza in a poultry farm in the Netherlands, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Saturday.
After the bird flu was found in Barneveld, in the Dutch province of Gelderland on Thursday, a total of 17 farms in the 1 km area surrounding the poultry farm were investigated.
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) and the Central Veterinary Institute(CVI) T. J. Watt Jersey , which conducted the investigation, said there was no sign of avian influenza. The final results of the investigation will be released on Monday.
A total of 30,000 hens were culled following the outbreak of the latest bird flu.
Since 2:30 p.m.(1330 GMT) Thursday, a transport ban was enforced in an area of over 1 km around the infected farm for poultry Le'Veon Bell Jersey , eggs, poultry manure and used bedding.
In November last year, bird flu was found on several commercial poultry farms in the Netherlands. The outbreak involved the highly pathogenic H5N8 variant, after which tens of thousands of poultry were culled.
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