According to China, Japan acquired the islands after the Qing dynasty’s defeat in the First Sino-Japanese war of 1895. It is China’s position that the islands were returned to China as islands “affiliated to” Taiwan after the end of the Second World War. The data also shows that, in addition to Japan’s belligerent past, the biggest obstacle to better relations is the territorial dispute China has with Japan over islands known in China as Diaoyu, and as Senkaku in Japan. Tellingly, a recent PEW survey found that only 12 percent of Chinese have a favorable view of Japan 53 percent of respondents say they have a very unfavorable view of Japan.
Navy ship sailing near the disputed Fiery Cross Reef. Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force scrambled fighter jets in response to a U.S. International tensions are rising over the shipping lanes and land formations in the South China Sea. “I will sternly tell them ‘no way’!” Another wrote: “I want to destroy Japan. The Imperial militants think the bitter history will be wiped with their passing,” using the Chinese slang term for the Japanese Imperial forces. Reacting to the death of a 104-year-old in the south China island province of Hainan who, in her youth, had been forced to serve the invading Japanese military as a “comfort woman,” one netizen wrote: “The witnesses are becoming fewer and fewer. A steady stream of these sentiments can be found on Chinese microblog Sina Weibo, for example. The criticisms directed at the Japanese government for failing to atone fully for its past misdeeds also engender strong anti-Japanese sentiments in Chinese society. An all-too familiar routine followed, with Beijing urging Japan to “make a clean break from militarism,” and Tokyo playing down the offerings’ significance by stressing the private nature of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s honoring Japan’s war dead. The ritual offerings made by Japanese Cabinet members and lawmakers at the Yasukuni Shrine in April once again brought Japan’s troubled wartime past back into the spotlight.
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