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China-Japan relationship is being repaired
(China Daily) 10:59, March 24, 2015

Parties send promising signals of stronger high-level interactions


China's top political adviser Yu Zhengsheng told visiting Japanese lawmakers on Monday that the China-Japan relationship "is undergoing repairs and improvement", sending a promising signal for stronger high-level interactions between the ruling parties of both sides.

Yu made the remarks in a meeting with a delegation of Japan's ruling coalition - the Liberal Democratic Party and the junior partner New Komeito party.

One of the goals of the trip is to resume a Japan-China liaison mechanism between ruling parties, Japan's Kyodo News agency said last week. The mechanism reportedly stalled in 2009 after the two parties lost the lower house election. The coalition regained power in2013.

The Communist Party of China is ready to "further enforce high-level interactions and institutionalized exchanges" with Japan's ruling coalition parties, Yu said.

Sadakazu Tanigaki, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary-general of the coalition's junior partner New Komeito party, led a three-day trip to Beijing starting on Monday.

The visit "is of great significance" as the relationship improves, Yu said, hailing theimportant role of the interaction among the ruling parties in improving and developing ties.

Historical and territorial issues sunk the relationship to a record low in 2012.

After the LDP regained control over the parliament in 2013, the two governments took their first step to ease the fray last November by reaching a four-point principled agreement that aims to repair the ties.

President Xi Jinping met briefly with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing in November.

Tanigaki and Inoue told Yu that the meeting between the top leaders last year "laid a foundation" for the improvement of the ties.

Japan expects to "resume and develop the institutionalized interactions between the rulingparties of both countries and boost the development of Japan-China ties", they said.

Tokyo is urged to "work along with China, fully honor the four-point principled agreementreached by the two governments, and cement a political basis for the China-Japanrelationship," Yu said.

Liang Yunxiang, a professor of Japan studies at Peking University, said that as the 70thanniversary of the end of World War II nears, Japan is not expected to undermine thepolitical mutual trust because of its perception over wartime history.

China and Japan are expected to expand their shared interest to contain the strains intheir relationship, and "both of them should bear in mind that their relationship matters tothe interests of the whole region", Liang said.

Positive development!

 

[TaiShang]

Positive development!

Don't trust Japanese.

You should really learn some Chinese and come to our forums, haha, my attitude can't be more mild compared to those.

Feelings are understood and mild or severe, I guess, all are justified. These are real feelings, not complaints, as has been coarsely and disrespectfully put by the above Indian member.

But, on the other hand, as has been often voiced by @Nihonjin1051 , we need not only to recognize the historical pains and seek to heal them, but also strive to move into the peace territory because a contentious China-Japan in the Asia Pacific is not to the best interests of the both historical neighbors.

There are tasks that fall on both nations; peoples and governments.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Feelings are understood and mild or severe, I guess, all are justified. These are real feelings, not complaints, as has been coarsely and disrespectfully put by the above Indian member.

But, on the other hand, as has been often voiced by @Nihonjin1051 , we need not only to recognize the historical pains and seek to heal them, but also strive to move into the peace territory because a contentious China-Japan in the Asia Pacific is not to the best interests of the both historical neighbors.

There are tasks that fall on both nations; peoples and governments.

Com'on dude! Not you are parsing the exact words that I use as well.

I know the feelings are real and heartfelt.

 

[sicsheep]

Abe will most likely attend. The Emperor will simply order him to attend. And Abe, as one who comes from Samurai background, will obey his Imperial Majesty.

If all Samurais obeys the emperor, there would be no sengkoku jidai, and no bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

[StarCraft_ZT]

Feelings are understood and mild or severe, I guess, all are justified. These are real feelings, not complaints, as has been coarsely and disrespectfully put by the above Indian member.

But, on the other hand, as has been often voiced by @Nihonjin1051 , we need not only to recognize the historical pains and seek to heal them, but also strive to move into the peace territory because a contentious China-Japan in the Asia Pacific is not to the best interests of the both historical neighbors.

There are tasks that fall on both nations; peoples and governments.

I do hope the relationship gets better, but China should be tough enough