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FM Spokesman Reiterates China's Stand in Response to Japanese PM's RemarksJapanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said on Monday in the Japanese Diet that whether or not Japan carried out an invasion should be judged by people in the process of history, when he touched upon the essence of Japan's invasion of China.In response to Yoshiro's remarks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi at a regular press conference on Tuesday urged Japan to learn profound lessons from Japan's history of invasion. He said that China is surprised at and regrets the prime minister's wrongful remarks which blurred the essence of Japan's invasion into China and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. Sun urged Japan to strictly abide by principles set forth in the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement and the Sino-Japanese Joint Declaration, as well as a series of remarks and pledges it has solemnly made to China on the issue of history, and sincerely reflect on its invasion history, draw profound lessons from it, and earnestly safeguard relations between China and Japan. It is learnt that the director-general of Asian affairs division of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, at the direction of Yoshiro Mori, met with Chinese diplomats stationed in Japan and made clarification on Mori's remarks. He said that former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama made clear in his speech in 1995 the basic stand of the Japanese government toward the issue of history, in that Japan admits its record of invasion and show deep introspection over it. He also said that in the Joint Declaration issued by both sides during Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Japan in 1998, Japan confessed clearly its invasion into China. Mori's cabinet will not change the official stand held by the Japanese government, he stressed. Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono today also reiterated such stand by the Japanese government, in reply to a written inquiry by Chinese journalists in Tokyo. Japan will, on the basis of continuing introspection of that unfortunate history, devotes itself to the development of good Japan-China relations, he stressed.
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