From AFP, via HindustanTimes.com:
Japan’s wartime past haunts its relations with its neighbours 60 years later, with Chinese protesters attacking Japanese interests and urging boycotts of its products and with passionate anti-Japanese sentiment in the two Koreas.
Japan occupied the Korean peninsula and much of China up to 1945, during which imperial troops forced thousands of women into sexual slavery and in 1937 carried out a massacre in the Chinese city of Nanjing.
At the root of the current tensions are perceptions among many Chinese and Koreans that Japan has not atoned for its wrongdoing.
Herewith some of the key statements by Japan on its past:
