Talk:Post-war Sino-Japanese relations

== Personal apologies from PMs versus an official apology from the state =

Something important I would like point out: Many people are confuse about an official state-level apology and the personal apologies by the Prime Ministers. Japan has NEVER offered an official, national-level apology to China or the Chinese people for the war crimes committed in WWII. All the apologies were PERSONAL made by Prime Ministers. None of them were an official state apology.

In Japan, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to issue an official state-level apology to China and the Chinese people for WWII. However, all the past proposals have been repeatedly voted down and rejected by the Japanese Diet (= Japanese parliament.) You can look that up yourself.

So, the fact is this: Japan has NEVER officially apologized for their war atrocities in China. I think the article is biased in favor of Japan to leave out that very important detail.

Neutrality edits
On Sunday I made a few edits to the end of this article to make it represent the views of those on the Japanese side of the feuds more fairly, as it had previously just stated what the criticisms China is making are, tilting it in favour of China, without pointing out how its opponents view them. elvenscout742 1 July 2005 22:10 (UTC)

opening sentence
the current opening sentence is atrocious... anybody got any better ideas? 81.153.177.193 22:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

There's a lot of stuff going on in April 2005, mass Chinese protests, and govt. disputes over oil claims in the East China Sea. --Madchester 16:25, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * I proposed renaming this Post-war Sino-Japanese relationship. Mandel 14:04, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * The term "Sino-Japanese" is itself a little bit ambiguous. Does it mean China-Japan relations, or PRC-Japan relations?  That is, do Taiwan-Japan relations count as part of "Sino-Japanese" or not? --Delirium 02:13, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Should be PRC-Japan relations, by the looks of the article. Mandel 08:54, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)


 * It's China-Japan relations, but it focuses on relations between the PRC and Japan for the period after 1949. &mdash; Instantnood 10:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

merging
I've un-merged Foreign relations between Japan and China & Sino-Japanese relations because the previous merge was a poor copy-&-paste job, with no consideration of the content. (Even "[edit]" was copied over ? How can the "Concluding Remarks" be in the middle of the article and above the Table of Contents ?) Need someone familiar with the topic to incorporate the materials into one article that flows properly, instead of two blocks of texts sitting one after another. -- PFHLai 14:33, 28 September 2005 (UTC)