When Deng Xiaoping, late Chinese leader, visited Japan in 1978 and met Emperor Showa of Japan, he received apology from the Emperor.
At the very moment, it is said that then powerful leader of China got shocked as if he had been struck by a thunder.
Most probably, Mr. Deng did not expect at all Emperor Showa who had been in the throne even during WWII to rather offer apologies for allowing the war between Japan and China in 1930’s and 40’s.
Emperor Showa reportedly wished to visit China someday but passed away in 1989 without fulfilling his dream.
The event is very impressive even to Japanese well informed on this kind of issues. It is also said that Emperor Showa had never expressed such regret to leaders of other Asian countries including Korea in terms of tragedy of World War II. In this context, China was then treated in a very different manner by Emperor himself in 1978.
The point is that Chinese citizens seem to have neither been informed of this kind of events nor been told that Japan has provided 70 billion dollar worth economic support for China since 1972 when the two countries resumed diplomatic relations.
But, it is not China alone that has not supplied its citizens with adequate information about Japan’s contributions to peace and prosperity of the world.
Conversely, if Japan stopped such contribution, horrible things might more easily happen all over the world.
This is not a warning, for Japan has been determined to continue such contribution since the end of WWII, no matter how the world acts and reacts.
“THAT IS WHY THE LORD HAS MADE THEIR WEALTH REPULISVE TO THEM.”
(Source of Information: The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper)