World / Sensitive issues

Anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo

[2014-03-10 08:34]

Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters marched in the Japanese capital on Sunday, ahead of the third anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in 25 years.

High-level meeting with Japan 'unlikely'

[2014-03-06 02:33]

China's ambassador to Japan has dismissed the possibility of a high-level meeting between the two neighbors due to the current state of ties.

China urges Japan's sincerity for pragmatic talks

[2014-03-04 11:01]

China responded to Japan's call to set up a maritime communication mechanism by asking the country to show sincerity and hold pragmatic talks with China on related issues.

Japan, DPRK hold talks on return of Japanese remains

[2014-03-04 10:09]

Red Cross officials of Japan and the DPRK held talks in northeastern China's Shenyang City on Monday on how to collect and return the remains of Japanese who died in the country during World War II.

Abe 'shut the door': CPPCC spokesman

[2014-03-03 02:18]

Sino-Japanese dialogue will be possible only after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ends words and deeds that jeopardize bilateral relations.

Abe loses credibility with China: spokesman

[2014-03-02 16:52]

Abe's visit to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine has seriously undermined the political foundation for Sino-Japanese relations.

S.Korea urges Japan to face history with courage

[2014-03-01 17:48]

South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded Japan to impart the correct history to the growing generation.

Japan must act responsibly on 'comfort women': China

[2014-02-28 22:25]

China on Friday urged Japan to act responsibly, after a senior Japanese official announced plans to reexamine a landmark statement offering apologies for Japan's wartime sexual slavery.

China wants explanation of Japan nuclear stockpile

[2014-02-28 21:10]

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday that China still wants Japan to explain its nuclear stockpile to the world.

Chinese wartime forced laborers sue Japanese firms

[2014-02-26 17:20]

A Beijing court accepts a lawsuit demanding compensation for Chinese victims made by the Japanese to work as forced laborers during WWII.

Nanjing Massacre

[2014-02-25 18:23]

During the Japanese occupation of China, an estimated 30 million Chinese were killed. In the Rape of Nanking or Nanking Massacre, at least 369,366 people were slaughtered and 80,000 women were raped by Japanese invasion troops.

The War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in brief

[2014-02-25 18:21]

September 18, 1931 
Japanese troops provocatively destroyed a section of railway in north Shenyang and attacked the Chinese garrison at Beidaying, Shenyang, on the same night, this led to the "September 18th incident."

September 19, 1931 
In the morning, the Japanese army occupied Shenyang. Because the Kuomintang government ordered "nonresistance," the Japanese forces occupied major cities and towns in Liaoning province in few days.

September 23, 1931 
Chiang Kai-shek gave a speech in which he went so far as to order the army and the people to "take the rough with the smooth and wait for the judgment of the League of Nations."