Japan asks athletes to avoid exposing nationality in Nanjing  

日本青奥代表团要求成员南京街头穿便服安全出行

据日本媒体报道，日本奥委会昨天在东京召开了“中国南京青奥会赛前教练会议”，针对日本青奥代表团即将赴南京参加2014青奥会的相关事宜进行了研讨，代表团团长藤原庸介特别向与会代表和教练员提出建议，要告知各自执教运动员在南京外出时不要穿着日本队队服，要注意人身安全。[查看全文]

(ECNS) – The Japanese Olympic Committee has asked its athletes participating in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to wear casual clothes outside of the event to avoid exposing their nationality, the Beijing Youth Daily reported, citing Japanese media.

The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics is scheduled to take place in China's Nanjing from August 16 to August 28. Japan will send athletes to compete in about 16 sporting events.

Yosuke Fujiwara, head of the Japanese delegation, said at a meeting in Tokyo on Sunday, that considering the tense relations between China and Japan, he hoped the delegation members, athletes in particular, would not wear jerseys bearing the word "Japan" or the Japanese flag.

Fujiwara said he also hoped the young athletes would contribute to China-Japan friendship through the games.

Nanjing is a sensitive site for China-Japan relations because of the Nanjing Massacre committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1937, causing 300,000 deaths.

The Abe government's attempts to justify Japan's military aggression, and the Diaoyu Island issue, have added further tension to bilateral relations.