China and Japan to conduct a joint study on history
Finally, some positive news about Japan’s relations with China:
China and Japan agreed Thursday to make a joint research on history, which in the past blocked advancement of bilateral relations from time to time.
The announcement was made after the meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his Japanese counterpart Aso Taro on the sideline of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) meeting.
The joint research will be conduced according to principles of three political documents signed by the two countries, including the China-Japan Joint Statement as well as with the spirit of “facing the future”, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry.
The purpose is to “deepen the objective understanding of history and increase mutual understanding.”
The joint research will cover more than 2,000-year history of bilateral exchanges, the history in modern times, including the period of Japanese invasion to China and other Asian countries, as well as the development of bilateral relations in the past 60 years since the end of the World War II.
A total of 20 scholars, with 10 from each side, will establish a committee to conduct the research. There are two groups in charge of ancient history and modern history respectively.
The study is expected to be released in 2008, assuming that the historians can find some common ground and write something together. Perhaps we’ll also see another such history-writing agreement with South Korea?
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In fact there have been some tripartite efforts in the recent past. Anyway it’s always good news.
Very good news….I’m looking forward to reading those books of Asian’s history in the future.
Hopefully, we can such agreement with Korea, too.
I think the original link is wrong. It doesn’t contain the quoted text anyway.