Some officials in Tokyo deny that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will start China visit on Sept 3, the day Beijing holds military parade.
The victory in Tengchong, Yunnan province, was anything but easy. Chinese and Japanese armies engaged more than 40 times in 127 days.
China was a major base for many Korean exiles who were forced to leave their homeland after Japan occupied the then undivided Korea in 1910.
Japan wants to fill the power vacuum left by the United States as it loses its hegemony and play a more assertive role in regional security.
Abe's ambiguous remarks on Friday in his speech to commemorate Japan's defeat in World War II reflect an elusive attitude toward core issues and his lack of sincere repentance for wartime crimes.
Survivors of Japanese attacks on Chongqing during World War II have finally made a little progress in their attempts to claim compensation and an apology from the government in Tokyo.
China is urging Japan to repent in concrete terms after Shinzo Abe downplays his country's aggression in long-awaited WWII statement.
After flying his kite for months, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a statement about Japanese aggression in World War II with phrases that had rarely appeared in his narratives of his country's war history.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had the opportunity to continue along the same path as his predecessor, Tomiichi Murayama, and apologize for Japan's past aggression.
China on Friday responded to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by asking Japan to sincerely apologize for its aggressive past.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned the "deep remorse" of previous governments for Japan's wartime aggression in a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's World War II defeat.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a shrine endorsing convicted war criminals will strengthen right wingers, warn official, scholars.