(Indicated are the names of ten among many shinto shrines in Tokyo designated as key shrines to protect Tokyo by Emperor Meiji in 1868. [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%8D%81%E7%A4%BE] )
Tiananmen 1989, Imperial 1992, and Senkaku 2010
The Emperor and Empress of Japan visited China in October 1992 in response to a Chinese petition for winning the imperial favor:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/j1bkk/archives/1113928.htmlHowever, The New York Times was not so pro-Japanese even in this event carried out after the Tiananmen Square oppression in 1989.
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Japan's Emperor Tells China Only of His 'Sadness' on War----------
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: October 24, 1992
BEIJING, Oct. 23 — Emperor Akihito, opening the first visit to China by a Japanese monarch, acknowledged today that Japan's wartime occupation had "inflicted great suffering on the people of China," but he stopped short of the apology demanded by a growing number of Chinese.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/world/japan-s-emperor-tells-china-only-of-his-sadness-on-war.html
The Chinese Communist Government was then alienated by the international community due to the brutality they had exerted in the Tiananmen Square, Beijing, to crush pro-democracy movement in 1989.
In order to change the tide, China worked hard to show the world that they were being supported by Japan. As evidence for Japanese friendship and favor, Chinese leaders wanted the visit by the Emperor to China, which would surely suppress criticism, Beijing thought, on the Chinese cruelty directed to democracy-seeking citizens. And, Japan accepted the request; accordingly the Emperor and Empress of Japan visited China in October 1992.
Chinese elites who attended a banquet held in Beijing to receive the Emperor all admired and respected the Emperor referring to the Japanese-Chinese War in the WWII era, since the Emperor expressed his deep compassion to the Chinese people. No Chinese elites in the hall stood up and shouted, "Please apologize more!"
But, in 18 years since this goodwill event authorized by the Japanese Government, the Chinese Communist Government has come to more and more display irreverent behavior like the ungrateful mafia against Japan where the Emperor who visited China in 1992 presides.
(The New York Times sharing an anti-Japan strategy with the Clinton Administration did not honestly report the state of feeling among Chinese elites who attended the ceremonial dinner party in Beijing.)
SECTION I: Japan Still Provides Official Aid for China
The New York Times never fails in focusing on China and helping China challenge Japan.
But, there are many, many things The New York Times does not know about China.
Till 2007, the Japanese Government has provided official development assistance (ODA) for China, which exceeds $40 billion over decades. ODA money from Japan greatly promoted China's economic growth in 1990's as I once discussed. When China's national budget was one tenth of today's scale, even a few billion dollars aid from Japan accounted for almost 10% of China's budget in a certain field of its public work, such as railroad/highway construction and airport building.
The Japanese Government still continues to provide official gratuitous financial aid and free technical support for China. In fiscal 2008, its scale was about $60 million. This amount itself is small, but China leverages status and credit accompanying this aid in its business activities with Japanese companies. A multiple effect is large.
Now, while China claims its status of quasi-No.2 economy in the world, will The New York Times donate $60 million present to China every year for further economic growth of China so as to be quasi-No.1? It is what Japan is doing, though, based on its peace-loving national policy.
But, why? It is mostly Japanese people are peace-loving people especially when dealing with Korea and China. But, then why did Japan annex Korea and send troops into China in the first half of the 20th century?
It is because those Europeans/Russians and Americans, looking like those now working in The New York Times, colonized and invaded Asia, East Asia, and the Far East in the preceding era. Yet, sea areas and islands all north of Taiwan belong to Okinawa Prefecture of Japan for 1,000 years and more while the Han Chinese have been mostly continental oriented.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12015362
SECTION II: Another Side of Japan-China Relationship
[Recap of http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/and-he-to-whom-son-will-reveal-him.html]
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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What are the Emperor and the Empress are respectfully doing nowadays?
His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress today visited a railroad museum around Tokyo, since the museum exhibits old imperial passenger carriages, etc.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/imperial/101221/imp1012211135002-n1.htm
Incidentally, December 23 is the birthday of the Emperor of Japan.
Mar 12:21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
Mar 12:22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
Mar 12:23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
Mar 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Mar 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.