In the Korea Herald, Wenran Jiang writes: Once again, protests against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s annual visit to the Yasukuni Shrine are breaking out in China as well as South Korea. Koizumi’s insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the […]
Read MoreThis article was written for China Digital Times: With the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII in Asia at hand, Japanese-Chinese relations are once again painfully tangled. Despite the massive strides made by both China and...
Read MoreFrom The Interfax China: PowerNet Technology, a Chinese online gaming firm, has developed a new online game in cooperation with the China Communist Youth League (CCYL) named “Anti-Japan War Online,” which will begin commercial operation by the end of 2005, a PowerNet official said Tuesday. “The game will allow players, especially younger players, to learn […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: More than 100 relatives of people killed in the Tiananmen massacre have called on the government to apologize as the 16th anniversary of the tragedy approaches. In an open letter by 125 relatives to President Hu Jintao, the Tiananmen Mothers group said the government’s recent accusations against Japan for failing […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Japan’s high court rejected an appeal Tuesday by 10 Chinese victims for official compensation from the Japanese government for damages caused by biological warfare in China before and during World War II. The ruling comes amid increasing tension between Japan and China, including violent anti-Japanese protests in China over Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily: Items left over from Japan’s invasion and occupation of China during World War II have been discovered recently in the capital of Guangdong Province, adding to the evidence China is using to condemn an official Japanese history textbook. According to the municipal cultural bureau, five hangars built for the invading Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom AP. via Guardian Unlimited: In the strongest stand so far against the Japanese bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, China’s premier told Japan on Tuesday to face up to its World War II aggression before aspiring to a bigger global role. It was the strongest hint yet that China might […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: Japan’s revision of its history text books did not come at an opportune moment. The revised text that justifies Japan’s aggression during the last world war has triggered angry anti-Japanese protests in mainland China and South Korea, two principal victims of Japan’s militarism 60 years ago. Early this week, Beijing’s Foreign […]
Read MoreFrom AP (via USA Today): “Despite a thriving economic partnership, political ties between Japan and China are at their lowest ebb in years. The two countries are locked in disputes over World War II history, natural gas exploration and now a bold incursion by a Chinese nuclear submarine. The troubles have blocked a meeting between […]
Read MoreThis week, Xi Jinping is visiting San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. It marks his first trip to the U.S. since April 2017, and his first meeting with Joe Biden since last year’s G20 summit in...
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