BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) — The Japanese right-wing forces are routine perpetrators of fabricating false narratives, Chinese overseas ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated on Wednesday.
Guo made the remarks at a daily news briefing when requested to touch upon the declare of some Japanese people who Japan is a “peace-loving” nation and that China’s accusations are “inconsistent with facts.”
“What the Japanese side said and did is yet another example of how some in Japan knowingly distort facts, refuse to correct their wrongdoings, and attempt to feign innocence for sympathy in the international community,” Guo stated. “It’s not the first time that the right-wing forces in Japan have concocted false narratives.”
The right-wing forces depicted Japan’s warfare of aggression in opposition to Asian neighbors as “the liberation of Asia,” downplayed the horrendous Nanjing Massacre as “the Nanjing incident,” whitewashed the notorious Unit 731 as a “public health research unit,” and dismissed compelled labor and “comfort women” as “voluntary acts,” Guo stated.
After the warfare, Japan has described itself as a “victim” of the warfare whereas avoiding mentioning that militarism is the supply of warfare, Guo stated.
It claims to uphold the completely defense-oriented precept and the passive protection technique, however has eased the restrictions on exercising the best to collective self-defense, stored enjoyable restrictions on arms exports, and even tried to revise its three non-nuclear ideas, he stated.
He famous that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s faulty remarks on Taiwan have been met with the Chinese folks’s indignation in addition to opposition and criticism from Japan and another international locations.
What the Japanese facet ought to do is to pay attention to those calls and do soul-searching fairly than make futile makes an attempt to steer different international locations into believing their groundless explanations, Guo stated.
“We urge some in Japan to stop spreading false narratives, face up to the history, reflect on and correct the wrongdoings, retract the erroneous remarks, honor the commitments, and act responsibly to offer China and the international community a satisfactory answer,” the spokesperson stated.