Japan's attitude toward the war makes a difference

Japan lost the war against the allied forces 70 years ago, but it should not lose its conscience on the question of the war 70 years later. This is what Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a Japanese reporter on Sunday at a sideline news conference of the annual session of the National People's Congress.

This reporter said that many Japanese people believe that China has long used the war Japan waged against it as a weapon to discredit the contribution Japan has made to the world peace. He asked Wang whether China should adjust its policy toward Japan.

It is true that Japan's invasion of China more than 70 years ago has long been a sticking point in China-Japan relations. But Wang recalled what a veteran Chinese diplomat once said: the more a perpetrator remembers the harm he inflicted on his victim, the more possible it is for the victim to recover from the misery that has been suffered.