Is Japan trying to build bridges with China after Taiwan spat?
A delegation of Japanese politicians has travelled to Beijing this week in what observers say may be a bid to improve relations amid one of the worst rifts with China since the 1970s. Among those in Japan’s delegation is Gaku Hashimoto, a member of the House of Representatives and Takaichi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), alongside lawmakers from the opposition Komeito and Centrist Reform Alliance parties.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: A delegation of Japanese politicians has travelled to Beijing this week in what observers say may be a bid to improve relations amid one of the worst rifts with China since the 1970s.
- Fact 2: Baked into this diplomatic spat are longstanding grievances between the two nations, traceable to the late 19th century.
- Fact 3: Japan seized Taiwan from China in 1895 after winning the First Sino-Japanese War.
- Fact 4: It also occupied Manchuria – a historical region covering northeast China and parts of Russia – in 1931 and launched a full-scale invasion of China six years later, in a war that killed millions.
A delegation of Japanese politicians has travelled to Beijing this week in what observers say may be a bid to improve relations amid one of the worst rifts with China since the 1970s. Among those in Japan’s delegation is Gaku Hashimoto, a member of the House of Representatives and Takaichi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), alongside lawmakers from the opposition Komeito and Centrist Reform Alliance parties.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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