In his furniture shop across the road from a war memorial, in a city where the bad memories are kept alive and raw, Shen Tao doesn’t mince words.
“We hate Japan,” the furniture dealer said, jabbing the air with a cigarette for emphasis. “It doesn’t really much matter what the Japanese government does. This isn’t going to change.”
Such hardened sentiments highlight the difficulties facing Japan’s newly installed prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who is coming to China Sunday saying he wants to improve ties that have been inflamed in recent years by contemporary rivalries and by unresolved issues from World War II and the Japanese invasion that preceded it. [Full Text]
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