BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) — China firmly opposes and strongly condemns Japan’s newest damaging strikes associated to Yasukuni Shrine and has lodged robust representations and protests with the Japanese aspect, a Chinese overseas ministry spokesperson mentioned right here on Tuesday.
Spokesperson Guo Jiakun made the remarks at a every day press briefing, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday despatched a ritual providing to the infamous Yasukuni Shrine, a logo of Japanese militarism and wartime aggression.
The Yasukuni Shrine is a non secular instrument and image of Japanese militarists chargeable for the struggle of aggression. It is in truth a shrine for struggle criminals, famous Guo.
Japan’s damaging strikes associated to the Yasukuni struggle shrine is in nature an try to evade struggle obligations, an affront to justice, a provocation in opposition to Japan’s struggle victims, and a problem to the result of WWII victory, mentioned Guo, including such strikes have been extensively condemned and firmly rejected by the worldwide neighborhood.
Guo mentioned Japan should do critical soul-searching. “Will it continue to let the spector of militarism spread, distort historical facts and whitewash its crimes during the war of aggression? Or will it deeply and sincerely reflect on its war crimes, foster a right view of history, and earn trust from its Asian neighbors and the international community?”
He put ahead the questions that with huge improve in army price range, the deployment of intermediate-range offensive missiles, relaxed restrictions on weapon export, proposed revision of its pacifist Constitution and the thought of abandoning the three non-nuclear rules, how can Japan profess itself as a “peace-loving country” and what’s Japan actually as much as.
What Japan must see clearly is that every one peace-loving forces for justice on the earth won’t ever enable neo-militarism to unfold and threaten regional peace, and can as an alternative make a agency response, he added.
“Amnesia of history means betrayal, and denial of responsibility spells repetition of crimes,” mentioned Guo. The worldwide neighborhood must be vigilant in opposition to Japan’s historic revisionism, stand firmly in opposition to its neo-militarist tendencies and work collectively to maintain the area and the world peaceable and steady, he added.