Lowering tensions between China and Japan over historical issues and maritime territorial disputes is a common wish. But how can this wish be fulfilled when Japanese politicians are trying to create confusion about history?
With Shinzo Abe at the forefront, Japanese politicians are trotting the globe on sympathy-seeking trips, peddling the image of Japan as a peace-loving country stuck in a hostile neighborhood.
Japanese Cabinet members have publicly confirmed that Tokyo will expand "territorial education" regarding disputed islands to include elementary schools.
The denial is "a barefaced challenge to the international justice and human conscience," said a spokesman of China's Foreign Ministry.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempts to rewrite history and rebuild the military are the tip of a dangerous nostalgia for an imperialist past.
China, South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea blasted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent visit to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine at a UN Security Council open debate.
The media in Japan reported on Tuesday that the Japanese education ministry will revise its teaching materials so that the Diaoyu Islands an integral part of Chinese territories, will be described as an integral part of Japan's under the name Senkaku.
As the four-day annual jamboree of ideas and opinions wound down in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday, the general verdict on the diplomatic offensive of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was it had failed.
Spats between Japan and its Asian neighbors over its imperialist history escalated again after the new chairman of NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, claimed that the Japanese imperial army's "comfort women" brothel system was "common" worldwide during World War II.
One moment, he sounded perfectly sane, alerting the world to the dangerous tensions that could potentially tear East Asia apart.
Photo taken on Jan 10, 2014 shows a report by Japanese Military Police of Kwangtung Army about the escape of forced Chinese laborers on Sep 22, 1943, in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin province.
The Japanese education ministry has made plans to incorporate Japan's claim to the Diaoyu Islands into teaching manuals for the nation's high schools, Japan's NHK national television channel reported on Jan 12.
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