New leaders will hold key to a better relationship
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August 30, 2011, Tuesday
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JAPAN, under its new leadership, should take substantial steps to promote its relations with China, and respect China's core interests.
Yoshihiko Noda's task in relation to China is clear.
Though bilateral trade has made China Japan's largest trading partner since 2009, the two powers still run into disputes from time to time, threatening peace and stability in the region. Japan has to be blamed for that.
While skirting around crimes committed while invading China from 1937 to 1945, some politicians in Japan have tried to cover up or distort that period, further fueling hostilities.
Moreover, Japan has managed its relationship with China without due respect for China's core interests and legitimate demands for development, trumpeting a "China threat" theory for ulterior motives.
To improve the relationship between the world's second and third biggest economies, Noda's Cabinet has to implement a proper policy in treating Japan's war past to soothe resentment among the Chinese public toward Japan.
No Japanese politician should visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan's past militarism that honors some 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 war criminals.
Furthermore, Japan needs to show respect for China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, especially concerning the Diaoyu islands, an integral part of China's territory.
China would like to settle differences through dialogue.
China is willing to shelve differences and explore with Japan the resources in the waters around the Diaoyu Islands, on condition Tokyo recognized China's sovereignty over the archipelago.
Japan should acknowledge China's legitimate requirement for military modernization and stop viewing China as a threat and invoking China's rise as an excuse for its own military expansion.
Yoshihiko Noda's task in relation to China is clear.
Though bilateral trade has made China Japan's largest trading partner since 2009, the two powers still run into disputes from time to time, threatening peace and stability in the region. Japan has to be blamed for that.
While skirting around crimes committed while invading China from 1937 to 1945, some politicians in Japan have tried to cover up or distort that period, further fueling hostilities.
Moreover, Japan has managed its relationship with China without due respect for China's core interests and legitimate demands for development, trumpeting a "China threat" theory for ulterior motives.
To improve the relationship between the world's second and third biggest economies, Noda's Cabinet has to implement a proper policy in treating Japan's war past to soothe resentment among the Chinese public toward Japan.
No Japanese politician should visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan's past militarism that honors some 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 war criminals.
Furthermore, Japan needs to show respect for China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, especially concerning the Diaoyu islands, an integral part of China's territory.
China would like to settle differences through dialogue.
China is willing to shelve differences and explore with Japan the resources in the waters around the Diaoyu Islands, on condition Tokyo recognized China's sovereignty over the archipelago.
Japan should acknowledge China's legitimate requirement for military modernization and stop viewing China as a threat and invoking China's rise as an excuse for its own military expansion.
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