The Nagoya city's department of international exchange said that more recently, in this past December, the mayor made a passing remark to another visiting group from Nanjing suggesting the mass murder never occurred.

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Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.

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