Without Chinese people’s tolerance and help, Japan cannot achieve post-war pacifism, said the leader of the Japanese government coalition’s junior partner New Komeito party during his visit to China on Tuesday.
Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the New Komeito party, made the statement when visiting the Museum of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression after arriving in China’s capital Beijing on Tuesday morning for a four-day visit.
“We must not forget the historical truth. Without Chinese people’s tolerance and significant efforts in offering Japan help, Japan’s pacific development after the war was unable to be achieved. I hope we will continue to review this history for creating a better future and achieving common development of China and Japan. Meanwhile, based on this understanding, we will keep our words of refusing to repeat the tragedy of war,” said Yamaguchi.
The visiting Japanese delegation led by Yamaguchi viewed the exhibited photos recording the Japanese aggressors’ war atrocities they perpetrated during Japan’s aggression and watched the narrated slideshows of historical events such as the Lugou Bridge Incident, which marks the start of Japan’s aggression against China in 1937.
“(The exhibition) impressed us with the joint efforts made by Chinese people and other peoples around the world to resist the Japanese imperialists. It eventually led to the end of the war. Meanwhile, we can tell from the exhibition that leaders of China and Japan kept close communication after the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. So we hope the leaders of the two countries will continue high-level exchanges to create a better prospect for the growth of bilateral relations,” said Yamaguchi.
Ending the museum tour, Yamaguchi wrote a calligraphy in Japanese reading “bear history in mind, vow to maintain peace, create the future” to express his expectation of a better bilateral relations between China and Japan.
Yamaguchi will attend an Asian political parties’ meeting on China’s silk road initiative and meet with the head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in the following three days.
