Reconciling history of Japan, China
Twenty academics from Japan and China began meetings in Toyko yesterday to develop a report on the two nations' rivaling histories of World War Two.
The study aims to provide an 'objective' study towargs improving contentious relations between the two countries.
This year proves sensitve for it is the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre and the Marco Polo Bridge incident that led to one of the many wars between the countries.
Tensions grew this month when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made controversial remarks regarding "comfort women." Abe said there was no proof that Japan forced mostly Asian women into wartime brothels during WWII.
The scholars hope to release a report in 2008.
Source: Reuters
The study aims to provide an 'objective' study towargs improving contentious relations between the two countries.
This year proves sensitve for it is the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre and the Marco Polo Bridge incident that led to one of the many wars between the countries.
Tensions grew this month when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made controversial remarks regarding "comfort women." Abe said there was no proof that Japan forced mostly Asian women into wartime brothels during WWII.
The scholars hope to release a report in 2008.
Source: Reuters
posted by Deanna Tran at 4:42 PM
1 Comments:
I'm so glad to hear that this kind of dialogue is occurring between Japan and China. It's further needed between countries like Taiwan and Korea which Japan has also had a history of war and colonization. This development is somewhat shocking for an Asian culture that doesn't seem to work much towards reconciliation. I know that racial reconciliation in South Africa post-Apartheid era was a huge step in healing racial tensions within that country and region. I wonder if the same will be true between China and Japan with so many years already having passed since these incidents.
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