China and Japan are making another attempt to patch up their tattered relations today.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is holding talks with the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in Beijing.
Relations between the two Asian powers have been at a 20-year low since violent anti-Japanese demonstrations across China last year.
The governments of these two Asian powers hardly talk to each other.
War legacy
Relations between China and Japan are a huge contradiction.
Japan is now the second biggest investor in China. Beijing is Tokyo's biggest trading partner. Yet the last time a Chinese leader visited Japan was eight years ago.
From China's point of view, it is all Japan's fault - it refuses to face up to its wartime history. The Japanese prime minister's visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine, which honours war dead including those who slaughtered millions of Chinese in World War II, are arrogant and provocative, China says.
From Tokyo's point of view, China is acting the bully, demanding Japan continue its grovelling apologies for events that are now nearly 70 years old.
Mr Hashimoto's visit will be welcomed by many in the region as a step towards a more rational dialogue, but there is still little sign that either of these proud nations is truly ready to start building a new relationship.
BBC News
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It's all Japan's fault 
QUOTE (Takashi @ Apr 1 2006, 03:02 AM) 
China and Japan are making another attempt to patch up their tattered relations today.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is holding talks with the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in Beijing.
Relations between the two Asian powers have been at a 20-year low since violent anti-Japanese demonstrations across China last year.
The governments of these two Asian powers hardly talk to each other.
War legacy
Relations between China and Japan are a huge contradiction.
Japan is now the second biggest investor in China. Beijing is Tokyo's biggest trading partner. Yet the last time a Chinese leader visited Japan was eight years ago.
From China's point of view, it is all Japan's fault - it refuses to face up to its wartime history. The Japanese prime minister's visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine, which honours war dead including those who slaughtered millions of Chinese in World War II, are arrogant and provocative, China says.
From Tokyo's point of view, China is acting the bully, demanding Japan continue its grovelling apologies for events that are now nearly 70 years old.
Mr Hashimoto's visit will be welcomed by many in the region as a step towards a more rational dialogue, but there is still little sign that either of these proud nations is truly ready to start building a new relationship.
BBC News
Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is holding talks with the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in Beijing.
Relations between the two Asian powers have been at a 20-year low since violent anti-Japanese demonstrations across China last year.
The governments of these two Asian powers hardly talk to each other.
War legacy
Relations between China and Japan are a huge contradiction.
Japan is now the second biggest investor in China. Beijing is Tokyo's biggest trading partner. Yet the last time a Chinese leader visited Japan was eight years ago.
From China's point of view, it is all Japan's fault - it refuses to face up to its wartime history. The Japanese prime minister's visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine, which honours war dead including those who slaughtered millions of Chinese in World War II, are arrogant and provocative, China says.
From Tokyo's point of view, China is acting the bully, demanding Japan continue its grovelling apologies for events that are now nearly 70 years old.
Mr Hashimoto's visit will be welcomed by many in the region as a step towards a more rational dialogue, but there is still little sign that either of these proud nations is truly ready to start building a new relationship.
BBC News
If Japan would just give one little apology, I'm sure that China would stop "acting the bully" and trying to make them remorse for what they did in WWII.
QUOTE (ZhengHe1421 @ Apr 1 2006, 03:17 AM)
It's all Japan's fault
It would be arrogant to say that Japan is to blame for everything.
wouldn't it be more fun if they had human sacrifices like in the old days 
QUOTE (The_Azn_Megalomaniac @ Apr 1 2006, 07:24 PM)
If Japan would just give one little apology, I'm sure that China would stop "acting the bully" and trying to make them remorse for what they did in WWII.
they've apologized plenty of times. now if only they'd stop the history distortions and stop goin to Yasukuni, then everything will be better
QUOTE (The_Azn_Megalomaniac @ Apr 2 2006, 04:24 AM)
If Japan would just give one little apology, I'm sure that China would stop "acting the bully" and trying to make them remorse for what they did in WWII.
They've apologised enough, anymore times would be pathetic.
QUOTE (Takashi @ Apr 2 2006, 12:34 AM)
They've apologised enough, anymore times would be pathetic.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that Japan has already apologised; I don't keep up with this type of things. Well, then your probably right, China is "acting the bully" as you say, and I think that they should stop.
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