A Brief Introduction of Sino-Japan Relationship
From Wikipedia:
People’s Republic of China–Japan relations
China and Japan have been separated by only a narrow strip of water. China has strongly influenced Japan with its writing system, architecture, culture, religion, philosophy, and law. When Western countries forced Japan to open trading in the mid-nineteenth century, Japan moved towards modernization (Meiji Reformation), viewing China as an antiquated civilization, unable to defend itself against Western forces (Opium Wars and Anglo-French Expeditions from 1840s-1860s). Japan’s long chain of invasions and war crimes in China between 1894 and 1945 as well as modern Japan’s attitude towards its past are major issues affecting current and likely, future Sino-Japanese relations.
Contents
- 1 Pre-modern Times
- 1.1 First evidences of Japan in Chinese historical records AD 0-300
- 1.2 Introduction of Chinese political system and culture AD 600-900
- 1.3 First China-Japanese battle
- 1.4 The prosperities of marine trading 600-1600
- 1.5 Japanese piracy on China’s coasts and Mongol invasions from China and Korea 1200-1600
- 1.6 Ming Dynasty’s involvement to defeat Hideyoshi’s Korean invasions of 1592-1598
- 2 Modern Times
- 3 Post-1972 Periods
- 4 Bilateral sensitive issues
- 5 References
- 6 Further reading
- 7 See also
- 8 External links
Easily can be seen, Chinese and Japanese have suffered from a long-term since hundreds of years ago. Even if we are close neighbor, people have a great deal of bias and misunderstandings all the time. However, both sides are trying their best to narrow the gap between each other. From economic cooperation to VIP visits, from policy to cultural programs, more and more interactions shows an optimistic sign between China-Japan relations. There’s even a website aiming at this issue, updating everyday. [LINK]Now, we can realize that China-Japan relations is entering a new era. Here’s the document from Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affair which tells “Two Countries Separated Only by a Narrow Strip of Water”.[LINK]As for Chinese government, they aclaimed the Bilateral Relations in 2004 that the countries need communication and coordination. All in all, it’s not too difficult to find how important the role of communication played in such a situation.
As if we specified on jounalism, there’s an agreement named “Sino-Japanese Journalist Exchange Agreement” which is a collective term for the several agreement or meeting which were to arrange a journalist exchange based on the meeting memorandum between China and Japan from one another. With the fast developing pace of the digital world, media, especially new media, plays an active part in evertything.
As far as people take methods improve the situation, it still remains problem unsolved and appears new problem, doesn’t it?
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