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(Rénové Vendredi)
There are many important things between Japan and China most of G20 representatives gathering in Seoul today do not know.
There are many important things between Japan and China most of the 1.3 billion Chinese people have never been informed of.
There are so many important things between Japan and China most of Chinese Americans ans American economists have never realized.
I suspect how Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan understands those extremely important things between Japan and China.
Yet, you can confirm your knowledge now.
SECTION I: Japan Owes More to China?
I-1: At the End of WWII
As a result of the victory in the Japan-Sino War in 1895, the Empire of Japan received a huge settlement package from the Ching Dynasty.
The two main items were Taiwan and money reparations that were almost equal to the amount of three-year-term national budgets of the Empire of Japan at the time. The Empire fully used this money to build modern iron mills and other industrial facilities.
On the other hand, China and Taiwan did not request a settlement package from Japan after WWII, though China and Taiwan became a member state of the victorious allies led by the U.S.
Instead after WWII, Japan admitted, though diplomatically, the Chinese Communist Government as the sole authentic political representative of whole China. Accordingly, Japan cut the official diplomatic tie with Taiwan or the Republic of China in early 1970's.
Yet, basically, the Imperial Army did not lose war on mainland China. Generals, officers, and soldiers thought that they lost war against America but not China. Without the Pearl Harbor attack, the Imperial Army should have completely destroyed Chinese troops eventually, though it might have taken several more years. Accordingly, there have been an objection among the Japanese people to pay reparations to the Chinese Communist Government after WWII.
Besides, the Empire of Japan built wider railroad networks, many factories, and other modern infrastructures in mainland China (including Manchuria), which were all taken by the Chinese Communist Government after WWII.
In addition, the Empire of Japan had also huge assets in Taiwan, which were all taken by the Chinese Nationalist Government after WWII.
In addition, the Empire of Japan had also huge assets in the Korean Peninsula, which were all taken by South and North Koreas after WWII.
According to a theory, though the Chinese Communist Party still asserts that damages they suffered during the Japan-China War in 1930's and 1940's reaches $600 billion, what the Empire of Japan left in mainland China (including Manchuria) totaled up $567 billion and in Taiwan $101 billion.
(Conversion rules: $1 = 15 yen; Price differences: $1 in 1940 = $190 today)It is true human casualties cannot be compensated by money. But, Chinese were not so weak in 1930's and 1940's; they had strength, power, and resources to launch war against the Empire of Japan and pull the Imperial Army into the endless battles on mainland China which were virtually an extension of the great civil war between Chinese communists and nationalists. China is also responsible for the Japan-China War in 1930's and 1940's.
Therefore, Japan does not owe anything to China (including Taiwan) in terms of the Japan-China War settlement balance, to your surprise. China has to cover the rest for itself, if any, in this context.
(http://www.jas21.com/athenaeum/athenaeum40.htm
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E6%88%A6%E4%BA%89%E8%B3%A0%E5%84%9F%E3%81%A8%E6%88%A6%E5%BE%8C%E8%A3%9C%E5%84%9F#.E5.9C.A8.E5.A4.96.E8.B3.87.E7.94.A3.E3.81.AB.E3.82.88.E3.82.8B.E8.B3.A0.E5.84.9F
http://aizax.fc2-rentalserver.com/repo4/045661.html
http://ameblo.jp/sankeiouen/entry-10484745263.html
http://www.heiwakinen.jp/shiryokan/heiwa/10onketsu/O_10_313_1.pdf)
I-2: In 1980's and 1990's
Some people argue that Japan's total financial aid to China since 1970's when Japan carried out normalization of relationships with the Chinese Communist Government is just three trillion yen or so. While the Empire of Japan caused so much damage to China in the Japan-China War in 1930's and 1940's.
Some claim that Japan's aid as virtual reparations has been too little.
However, in my rough estimation, China received financial, industrial, scientific and cultural aid from the Japanese Government and Japan's private sector which was equivalent to 5% to 10% of China's national budget each year during 1990's.
Around 1990, China's GDP was just two trillion yuan or so, that is $400 billion. (Its average in 1990's is around 5.5 trillion yuan or so, that is $700 billion. On an average, one dollar was exchanged with 5 yuan before 1994 and 8.5 yuan after 1994.)
Japan's three trillion yen around 1990's is equivalent to almost $30 billion ($37 billion of today). It can be $2 billion per year, as Japan's aid was concentrated in this period.
As China received free $2 billion from Japan while its GDP was $400 billion around 1990, the Chinese Government could introduce modern technology and facilities in a larger scale. Chinese industrial development was really driven by Japanese money.
The ratio of Japan's aid to China's national budget per year is much higher.
Moreover, thousands of Japanese companies of various sizes and in various fields started to invest into and operate in China. Technologies, know-hows, and intellectual assets having been transferred to China by these Japanese companies are enormous.
Just around Shanghai today, you can see 1,110 Japanese companies and Japanese-affiliated businesses in a simple list.
http://www.explore.ne.jp/hp/
In addition, the Japanese Patent Agency estimated the damages Japanese businesses suffered in the Chinese market due to patent right infringiments could reach 9 trillion yen ($100 billion dollars) as of 2004.
(http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/world/asia/396985/)
So, humbly clculated, the effect of Japanese private sector's contribution to China can be twice or so ($4 billion per year) as much as the governmental aid ($2 billion per year) to China through 1980's and 1990's.
Then, it is estimated that during 1990's, when the average of China's GDP was around 5.5 trillion yuan or so, namely $700 billion, China received financial/industrial and public/private aide from Japan at a scale of $6 billion; the Chinese Government could introduce modern technology and facilities in a larger scale. Chinese industrial development was really driven by Japanese money.
The ratio of Japan's aid to China's national budget per year is much higher.
Though there can be some minor differences in terms of figures depending on a way of analysis, it is clear that China today owes its success to Japan.
It is not a matter of the Senkaku Islands, but the one concerning the Japan-Sino War and the Japan's aid to China in 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's what mentally sound Chinese should talk about.
Finally, let's check the trend of China's GDP, national budgets, and their ratio.
http://www.mof.go.jp/jouhou/soken/kouryu/h13/chu08.pdf
Tall bars in the above figure shows China's GDP in each year and small bars China's national budgets (unit 100 million yuan); Lines are for a ratio of a budget over GDP (in percent).
For your reference, the trend of the exchange rate between the U.S. dollars and yuan is as follows:
http://www.iti.or.jp/kikan54/54nagata.pdf
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Edgar Snow wrote that Mao Zedong said: "It was a teacher who had just returned from Japan that taught me new academic subjects imported from Europe. I liked to listen to the teacher talking about things of Japan. He also taught us English and music. One of Japanese songs he sang for us had beautiful words so that I can still recall them, though not completely. The song depicted the Battle in the Yellow Sea fought by Japanese and Russians in the Japan-Russo War. From those words I learnt beauty of the Japanese culture as well as pride and power of the Empire of Japan."
(http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/yuzan9224/40254540.html)
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) was neither a simple communist nor a terrorist with a shortsighted mind.
Yet, Chairman Mao never mentioned the Senkaku Islands when Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka met Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in Beijing in 1972.
Chairman Mao must have thought that the Ching Dynasty had never spent any gold or silver to establish its control over the Senkaku Islands as the Islands were first acknowledged by Chinese empire when the Kingdom of Okinawa had started to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty in 1404.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_e9m6PvTz4&feature=related )
Luk 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Luk 10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.