Japan prides itself on its sense of history. But the lessons of its past remain fundamentally unabsorbed.
"Improving the bilateral relationship will be my top priority. It's big challenge for me," Japan's new ambassador to China Masato Kitera said in a recent interview with Chinese media at the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry.
With an already fraught Sino-Japanese relationship, Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party's return to power commands concern.
Shinzo Abe, leader of Japan's main opposition LDP, said that relations between Japan and China is one of the most important bilateral ties for Japan.
The LDP of Japan won the election, but tension with China will continue if party chief Shinzo Abe follows his hawkish campaign rhetoric, experts said.
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Chinese and Japanese aircraft were involved in a standoff in the skies above the Diaoyu Islands on Thursday. Special: Diaoyu Islands Dispute
Sino-Japanese relations have perhaps hit the lowest point this year, coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre that falls on Dec 13.
The US should appear as a cooperator, rather than an intruder, in its return to the Asia and Pacific.
China has expressed serious concern and firm opposition to a U.S. bill that regards China's territory as under the authority of a U.S.-Japan security pact.
As ties between China and Japan plunge to their lowest in decades, an amendment passed by the US Senate to make the Diaoyu Islands covered by a US-Japan security pact will boomerang.
Japanese automakers have started to see their sales in China rebound after Japan's illegal "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands caused sales to decline sharply.
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Japan is urged not to do anything that will harm regional security and stability as right-wing forces rise in the country ahead of an election next month, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
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