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ODA can't make up for the invasion of China: Money, war are separate issues, envoy says in response to Machimura
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao:
Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura:
Japan Times said:Japan's official development assistance to China cannot compensate for its occupation of Chinese territory in the 1930s and 1940s, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
The two matters should be viewed separately, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a scheduled news briefing. His comment was in response to a May 26 statement by Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, who said Japan's post-World War II aid to Asian countries indicates it has repented for the war.
"I'd like to separate these two issues clearly," Liu said. "We can't eliminate the period of history when Japan caused damage and catastrophe to Asian countries just because Japan has provided aid to the relevant countries."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao:
Liu called ODA and other Japanese economic cooperation with China a "positive effort" advantageous to both countries.
Since 1980, Japan has given China 3.133 trillion yen in low-interest loans, 145 billion yen in grants and 144 billion yen worth of technical cooperation.
But Liu criticized Japanese leaders' visits to Yasukuni Shrine, a Tokyo landmark where 14 Class-A war criminals are honoured along with the nation's war dead.
"The worshipping by Japanese leaders at Yasukuni Shrine constitutes a ridiculous and wrong denial of history by Japanese officials," he said.
Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura:
Japan's ODA plan continuesMachimura told an economic gathering in Tokyo on May 26 that he hopes China and South Korea will regard Japan's "diligent" provision of ODA and its "involvement in peace activities as a peaceful nation" since the war ended 60 years ago as signs Japan has taken a hard look at its past militarism.
On Monday, Machimura labelled "outrageous" criticisms that visit Yasukuni Shrine indicate support for militarism. Chinese media slammed the statement Tuesday.
Japanese officials have complained that Chinese citizens know little about ODA or other aspects of postwar Japan.
If we look at this critical article on Germany's compensation for forced WWII slave laborers, Dark Shadows of German Industry, it is plain to see that an all-out apology for/recognition of IJA atrocities is a far superior strategy to claiming to have made sufficient monetary compensations. One estimate quotes a compensation amount that would mean each Japanese household forgetting about sending one child to college. The figures may vary, but you can imagine the magnitude. Iris Chang wrote in The Rape of Nanking, Penguin 1997, p. 12, 'Japan has doled out less than 1% of the amount that Germany has paid in war reparations to its victims.' We're talking about lots and lots of money, not some interest-bearing loans.A panel of the Liberal Democratic Party urged the government Tuesday to set a medium-term target for increasing the amount of Japan's foreign aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national product by 2015.
The panel also repeated a call on the government to have the budget for official development assistance increased in fiscal 2006 for the first time since 1999.
Panel members agreed that there was a need to boost ODA because the aid is "a main diplomatic tool" for Japan, which is seeking a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.
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