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From: Sam Citron	6/1/2005 2:32:24 PM
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Japan-China: A Century of Conflict [WSJ] Japan-China ties are at their lowest point in decades, following anti-Japan demonstrations in China protesting Tokyo's wartime past and its bid for a permanent Security Council seat. Here's a history of the tensions between the two countries. 1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan after losing the Sino-Japanese War. Japan rules the island until the end of World War II when China's Nationalist government takes over. 1931 Japan attacks Shenyang, then known as Mukden, and establishes a puppet state in Manchuria the next year. That is followed in 1937 by a brutal all-out invasion and occupation of much of China that only ends with Japan's defeat at the end of World War II. 1937-38 The Japanese army kills as many as 300,000 civilians during the 1937-38 occupation of the Chinese city of Nanjing, according to historians. A postwar tribunal in Tokyo says 140,000 people were killed. 1945 Japanese bureaucrats and businessmen flee Manchuria as Soviet troops close in at the end of the war in the summer of 1945. 1972 China and Japan restore formal diplomatic relations, severed 23 years earlier during World War II. 1985 Chinese tempers are inflamed when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visits a shrine to Japan's war dead. 1992 Emperor Akihito becomes the first Japanese emperor to visit China and expresses his "sorrow" for the "unfortunate period in which my country inflicted great sufferings on the people of China." 1995 Japan apologizes for the suffering it caused during World War II in a landmark statement by Prime Minister Murayama. Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, the statement was Tokyo's first unambiguous apology for its wartime actions. 1996 Ryutaro Hashimoto becomes the first postwar Japanese leader to visit Shenyang, the city where Japan began its invasion of northeastern China in 1931. He apologizes for suffering caused by Japanese troops during Japanese occupation. Chinese leaders, however, say Japan has still to prove the sincerity of its apology to the Chinese people. 2001 Tokyo's school board approves the use of a history textbook criticized for glossing over Japanese wartime atrocities. The decision is the first time the book has been accepted for public schools. Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni shrine stirs protests around Asia. 2005 Anti-Japan rallies erupt in major Chinese cities over approval of the latest version of the New Japanese History book, among other issues. Talks so far have failed to ease the tension.

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