Recently, a White Paper on the Sino-Japanese common history Research (periodic reports) was published. Written by both Chinese and Japanese experts, this report admitted the Nanking Massacre and determined the nature of Sino-Japanese War as an aggressive war.
The historical problem has always been a barrior blocking the two countires from developing friendly relationship.
But recently it seems that the problem might be solved. Rumors that Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama will visit Nanking, China, and the white paper this time all showed a detente in the bilateral relationship.
Do you think the historical problem will be solved one day? In what way do you think Chinese people will forvige Japanese?
How can Chinese forgive Japanese? - China Political & Defence Forum - Global Times Forum - Discuss China, Discuss the world
1) Full restitution by the Japanese government to the Chinese victims of Japanese aggression and crimes during World War II.
2) If the Chinese victims have died, the Japanese government must pay the families of those victims.
3) These restitution payments should have been made in 1945 when Japan lost their war of aggression against China. I expect the Japanese government to pay market-rate interest from 1945 to the present-day to the Chinese victims (or families of dead victims).
4) I expect the Japanese government to write a letter of apology to each Chinese victim (or families of dead victims).
5) I expect a written and televised unconditional apology by the government of Japan, its Prime Minister, and the titular head of the Japanese royal family to the Chinese victims and the Chinese nation.
I believe that these are fair and reasonable minimum conditions. Reasonable Chinese may demand that Japan build a large and permanent memorial in Tokyo to remind the Japanese not to wage another inhumane war of aggression against China and other Asian neighbors.
As soon as these conditions have been met, I will personally deliver my handwritten letter to the Japanese embassy in Boston to acknowledge my forgiveness of Japanese atrocities against Chinese victims during World War II.
The Germans have expressed remorse and paid full compensation to the Jews. Can the Japanese rise to the occasion and express sincere regret like the Germans?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_t..._Jews_of_Europe
"Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims and other victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. It also includes statues of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust at its corners. The stelae are 2.38m (7.8') long, 0.95m (3' 1.5") wide and vary in height from 0.2 m to 4.8m (8" to 15'9"). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
Building began on April 1, 2003 and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public on May 12 of the same year. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million."
