Hatoyama does not have a clear sense of what relying on China would really mean, or whether it is even actually desirable.
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Yoshihide Soeya, director of the Institute of East Asia Studies at Keio University in Tokyo. (New York Times)
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realteacher
Typical xenophobic response from a man who probably wears a broken cross on his arm when he's not filling his students heads with nationalistic jingoism.
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UnagiDon
realteacher may want to actually read the article from from quote was taken before criticizing others for knee jerk reactions and jingosim.
The full article is actually pretty intriguing (for those who want to think), especially this part;
The new mood of reconciliation is also evident in the novel ideas that have been floated recently to overcome the differences over wartime history that have long isolated Japan from the region.
These include a recent report in the Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, based on unidentified diplomatic sources, of a Chinese initiative for reconciliation that would include a visit by Mr. Hatoyama to Nanjing to apologize for the 1937 massacre of Chinese civilians there by invading Japanese soldiers. President Hu would then visit Hiroshima to proclaim China’s peaceful intentions.
If so, that would be big and would help Japan and China, once the nationalist nutbars on both sides vent their spleen.
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