Official lauds KMT role in anti-Japan war By Sun Shangwu (China Daily) Updated: 2005-08-31 05:49
He said that China is celebrating the victory anniversary "with the great
spirit of patriotism," instead of viewing the war with "narrow nationalism."
"We are not engaging in anti-Japanese education," said Chen Haosu, president
of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
China's relations with Japan have been strained recently after Japanese Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, where
convicted war criminals are honoured, as well as Tokyo's approval of textbooks
that gloss over Japan's war atrocities.
Although Koizumi apologized for its wartime aggression on August 15, the
anniversary of Japan's surrender in 1945, "we think the Japanese Government
should translate words into action," said Vice-Foreign Minister Lu
Xinhua.
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