“China will welcome all national leaders to a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the foreign minister has announced, the strongest sign yet that it could invite wartime enemy Japan.”
“Officials in China were tight-lipped about whether Japanese and U.S. leaders will be invited to a parade to show off its military prowess on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.”
“Japan and China will hold their first security talks in more than four years later this month (March 19), a sign of a further thaw in relations that have been badly strained in recent years due to disputes over maritime…
“Ban Zhongyi, a Chinese journalist living in Japan, still remembers the shock he felt when he first heard the testimonies of former Chinese “comfort women” at a rally in Tokyo in 1992.”
“Japan on Wednesday lodged a protest with China over the launch of English and Japanese versions of a Chinese government website asserting Beijing’s claim to the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
“Thousand-dollar rice cookers and toilet seats that know when you enter the room. That’s what visitors to Japan from China have been buying at Laox Co., sending the Tokyo-based duty-free store chain to its first profit in 14 years and its…
“China will publish historical records of Japan’s past militarism as part of its commemoration this year of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, a senior official has said. Yu Zhengsheng, the fourth-highest ranking member of the…
“The Japanese government has tried to mislead the public by denying involvement in any acts of wartime aggression, former Russian ambassador to Japan told Xinhua in a recent interview.”
“China will hold a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two this year and invite the leaders of major countries involved in the war to attend, the foreign ministry said, events probably aimed at…
“China’s civil affairs minister will attend a United Nations-sponsored meeting on disaster risks in Japan next month, making him the first minister from Beijing to visit Japan in three years.”