Sino Japanese Relations Facing the Past Looking to the Future 1st Edition by Caroline Rose 0415297222 9780415297226

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ISBN 10: 0415297222 

ISBN 13: 9780415297226

Author: Caroline Rose

Over recent years, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between China and Japan, particularly as a way of understanding contemporary political, economic and security developments within the whole East Asia region. Caroline Rose presents a thorough, balanced and objective examination of both sides of the relationship. This will be of great interest to academics and policy-makers in the UK and US, as well as to professionals working in Chinese and Japanese communities.

Table of contents:

1 Reconciliation and Sino-Japanese relations
Approaches to reconciliation
The memory boom
The rush for restitution
The age of apology
Patterns of reconciliation
The two cycles of Sino-Japanese reconciliation
Chinese and Japanese future-oriented foreign policies
Civil society and Sino-Japanese reconciliation

2 Sino-Japanese reconciliation during the cold war
War crimes trials and the telling of history: justice and truth?
Japan’s ‘collective amnesia’
China’s collective amnesia?
The politics of reparations
Reparations claims in the immediate post-war period
The san francisco peace treaty
The treaty of peace between Japan and the republic of China: negotiations and resolutions
The Japan–China joint statement (1972): upholding the reparations waiver
Settling the past?

3 Uncovering the truth textbook issues and historical revisionism
The clash of histories: the widening gap between Chinese and Japanese views of history in the 1990s
History battles in Japan, and their internationalisation
The third textbook offensive
The counter-offensive
The Chinese and korean response
Towards a common understanding?
Conclusion

4 The search for justice the 1990s’ compensation movement
The international, regional and domestic settings
The korean comfort women movement: a model for China?
The origins of the Chinese compensation movement
Sino-Japanese cooperation on compensation cases
Compensation cases in the 1990s, the fight for justice
Former forced labourers
Former ‘comfort women’
Biological warfare and abandoned chemical weapons
Conclusion

5 Settling the past
The apology issue
The 1995 diet resolution and prime minister murayama’s statement
The 1998 apology issue
Commemorating the past: anniversaries, war memorials and museums
Remembering the dead: yasukuni shrine visits
Chinese response to the yasukuni shrine issue
Prime minister koizumi and the yasukuni shrine problem
War (and peace) museums in China and Japan
Conclusion

6 Conclusion towards a future-oriented relationship?
Sino-Japanese reconciliation: measuring success

Appendix 1 Chronology of Textbook Controversies and Trials
Appendix 2 Selected list of NGOs and Other Organisations Involved in History-Related Issues (Chinese, Japanese and North American)
Appendix 3 Important Statements, Treaties, Declarations and Apologies
1 Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People’s Republic of China, 29 September 1972 (excerpt)
2 Statement by Chief Cabinet Secretary Miyazawa Kiichi on history textbooks, 26 August 1982 (excerpt)
3 Statement by Chief Cabinet Secretary Kōno Yōhei on the issue of ‘comfort women’, 4 August 1993
4 Personal letter of apology to comfort women from Prime Minister Koizumi Junichirō (issued only upon acceptance of payment from Asian Women’s Fund) (excerpt)
5 Resolution to Renew the Determination for Peace on the Basis of Lessons Learned from History, June 1995 (complete)
6 Statement by Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi, issued on 15 August 1995 (excerpt)
7 Japan-PRC Joint Declaration on Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development, 26 November 1998 (excerpt)

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