TOKYO, April 22 (Xinhua) — A Japanese civil group held a rally right here on Saturday to name on the federal government to return Chinese relics stolen by Japanese troopers throughout World War II.
The Japanese society ought to withstand and liquidate the crimes of cultural aggression throughout the Japanese warfare of aggression towards China, in response to the group.
To reckon with Japan’s obligations in its imperialist aggression and colonization signifies that the crime of looting cultural relics must also be uncovered and criticized, stated Atsushi Koketsu, emeritus professor at Yamaguchi University of Japan and likewise co-representative of the civil group which goals to advertise the return of Chinese cultural properties.
Since the institution of the civil group a yr in the past, increasingly Japanese have paid consideration to and understood the decision for returning looted cultural relics, stated Takakage Fujita, one other co-representative of the group.
The civil group will proceed to advertise the return of Chinese cultural relics plundered by Japan throughout WWII by way of varied actions, Fujita, additionally director common of a civic group devoted to upholding and creating the 1995 Murayama Statement, informed Xinhua.
At the rally, Kazuo Morimoto, consultant of a analysis affiliation of East Asian historical past and cultural property, stated that in recent times, France and different European nations have returned looted cultural relics to former colonial nations in Africa and Asia.
Noting the pattern of returning looted cultural relics around the globe, Morimoto burdened that Japan barely talked about its wartime looting and destruction of cultural relics.
It is critical for Japanese society to withstand historical past, kind out historic info along with related nations, and critically take into account the difficulty of returning looted cultural relics, he added.
The founding objective of the civil group is to encourage Japan to return Chinese cultural relics, obtain “historical reconciliation” between the 2 nations, and additional promote the event of bilateral relations.