王浩算法 c语言,华尔街日报(1-10) 8 Nationalists in Japan Feed Asia Strife.docx

华尔街日报(1-10) 8 Nationalists in Japan Feed Asia Strife

Nationalists in Japan Feed Asia StrifeOne factor behind Japan’s mounting tensions with China and South Korea is an increasingly vocal movement arguing that Tokyo has for too long apologized for WW2 and needs to move past the events of seven decades ago.Some Japanese politicians and opinion leaders are asserting that the nation’s longstanding efforts to use economic cooperation and what they derisively refer to as peace at any price diplomacy have only made Japan look weak. The results, they say, are increasing territorial frictions that have flared up in the past several weeks, and more demands for more apologies and compensation for wartime sins.Their assertiveness itself also has added to animosities, and highlighted the gap in sentiment between Japan and its neighbors.The dispute that has raged over the past week over a chain of uninhabited East China Sea islands was fueled by Tokyo’s nationalist governor, who pushed to buy the islands after criticizing leaders for failing to stand up to China.Japanese people buying islands to protect Japanese territory, no matter how much other countries complain. Does anyone have a problem with that? He asked, when launching ahs campaign this year to take control of the territory from private owners.In August, two cabinet members visited a controversial shrine that commemorates war criminals, the first time such high-level leaders have done so since 2009. And now, nearly two decades after Tokyo apologized for the forced prostitution of South Korea women during WW2, some politicians are pushing for the withdrawal of the official contrition.A hawkish former prime minister vying for a comeback as head of the former ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has called for reconsideration of apologies Japanese leaders issued in the 1990s to soften lingering wartime tensions. He told the Sankei newspaper in an interview published August 28: being excessively considerate to neighboring nations has not brought us real friendship.The push for a