The most recent turn in the eternal tête-à-tête between China and Japan comes with China’s announcement that it ‘might’ send to the UNESCO heritage project recently disclosed documents detailing cruelties dealt by the Japanese military during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, otherwise known as the Rape of Nanking. This is a clear counter to Japan’s recent attempts to get a UNESCO listing for kamikaze pilots’ farewell letters to their families.