Japan should again apologize to other Asian countries for its wartime behavior, according to the country's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama.
The number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan has surged recently as the cherry blossoms enter their peak period of bloom.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting at the request of the Japanese side Wednesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that Japan, with feelings of deep remorse over the past war, made a pledge to adhere to the Bandung principles, which highlights peace and cooperation.
The largest helicopter destroyer of Japan's Self-Defense Forces "Izumo" has been handed over to the Maritime SDF since Wednesday, local media reported.
Japan needs to seek reconciliation with its neighboring countries through facing up to its wartime past, just like what Germany has done, a Japanese former senior official with the country's foreign ministry said.
If Japan plans to regain trust from its neighboring countries, it needs to squarely look at its wartime history and be apart from the past.
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ruled against a group of Chongqing bombing survivors who sued the Japanese government and asked for apology and compensation.
Ai Yiying, one of the around 200 living survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, shared her memory of the incident with Japanese residents at a testimony meeting Sunday in Osaka, conveying the truth about Nanjing Massacre.
President Xi Jinping called on Japan to honor its official remorse about wartime history and embark on trust-building measures in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday.
China said on Saturday it hopes Japan can create a favorable atmosphere for an expected meeting between the two countries' leaders.
Yasushi Kudo, president of Japan's Genron NPO, a Japanese non-profit group, reads the Tokyo Consensus, a joint statement issued at the end of the 10th Beijing-Tokyo Forum, in Tokyo, Sept 29, 2014.
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