Japan's Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki urged the Japanese government on Monday to maintain the country's 70-year-old principle of pacifism and to drop a controversial plan to build a replacement for a US air base on Okinawa.
China was the main Oriental battlefield of the World Anti-Fascist War and the Chinese people had made great contributions to winning this war, said a renowned Chinese scholar.
Chinese people are big believers in ancient wisdom. One favorite old adage - "Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future" - might explain why Asian-American communities are racing against time to preserve relics from a very special piece of history. Namely, the teamwork between China and the US during World War II and the friendship between the two nations that fought side-by-side until Japan's defeat in 1945.
Japan cannot use military strength to counter China, said director Hayao Miyazaki as he joined a chorus of protest against a change in Japan's security policy.
As China is preparing for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the world anti-fascist war, overseas experts and scholars spoke highly of the country's war against Japanese aggression more than seven decades ago.
Tuesday marks the 78th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge incident, also known as the Macro Polo Bridge incident, which signaled the beginning of Japan's full-scale invasion of China.
The series of high-profile activities to commemorate the victory in both the mainland and Taiwan show the Chinese people have learned an important lesson from the war.
Japan's recent bid to have 23 coal mines, shipyards and other industrial zones of the Meiji Reform period in the 1860s recognized as world heritage sites, was postponed in the ongoing meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Germany, due to the Republic of Korea and China opposing the bid because Japan insisted on excluding acknowledgment of the labor from China, the Korean Peninsula and other Asian countries that were forced to work at some of the sites. Comments:
Bangladeshi experts have said China's plan to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II sends a significant message to the world as China is determined to follow the path of peaceful development and defend world peace.
Japan has reached a tipping point on Abe's ill-considered political choice, which has been criticized by many righteous people in Japan.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday that the crux of China-Japan relations is whether Japan can sincerely accept and welcome China's revival and rise.
Whatever guesses the rest of the world might make about the motivations for China's military parade on Sept 3 to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's victory in the war against Japanese aggression, there is enough reason to argue that this parade is the right one on the right occasion, and that it will send the right message to the Chinese people and the world at large.