If Japan wants to reconcile with China over wartime history, it should look to the example set by Germany, a senior Chinese scholar of Japan studies told China Daily.
China announces a one-off allowance of $790 to be paid to the war veterans ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of the WWII.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expeced to include the words "apology" and "aggression" on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War WWII.
China needs to exercise strategic patience, wait for it to change and make its strategic intentions clear to its neighbors, in order to prepare for a Japan after Abe.
Japan's revisionists who deny the country's historical aggression should explain to the rest of the world how these Japanese soldiers came to die in those countries.
Wartime slave laborers unhappy with offer but take it because of their age
Chinese scholars warned Japan "must be locked into the 'cage' of international laws and its constitution," reacting to a series of Japan's recent breaches of its post-war security policy.
Relatives of Chinese victims of forced labor are hoping to receive a formal apology and compensation from Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi Materials after an announcement by the company on Wednesday.
Mitsubishi Materials will apologize to forced Chinese workers during WWII and give $16,100 for each of them and their relatives.
Japan's Mitsubishi Materials will offer compensation and apology to Chinese forced laborers it used during the World War II, according to Kyodo Friday.
Zhou Fengying, who had served as Japan's wartime sex slaves, believed until drawing her final breath that the Japanese owed her an apology.
China said on Wednesday that Japan's hype of China's oil and gas development in the East China Sea is not conducive to dialogue and cooperation between the two sides.
