China and Japan should trust each other and seek common ground while depositing differences -visiting the former Prime Minister Tanaka Koko Tanaka Tanaka Tanaka

Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, September 24th: China and Japan should trust each other and seek common ground while depositing.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Ting Feng Wuyong Li Guangzheng

On September 25, 1972, the then Prime Minister Tanaka Rongfei, then Japan, flew to Beijing, China. On the 29th, the Chinese and Japanese governments issued the "China -Japan Joint Statement". China and Japan achieved normalized diplomatic relations, and the relationship between the two parties opened a new page. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of China -Japan diplomatic relations, the daughter of Tanaka Kok Rong and former Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Tanaka Tanaka Tanaka, who was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency, recalled the normalization process of the Japanese and Chinese diplomatic relations she knew. Finding common groundwork should be the mainstream of relations between the two countries.

Tanaka Tanaka, 78, reviewed: "Father said that Japan must have a good relationship with China, but Japan has launched the war of aggression against China. Father always said that he needs to apologize for China first, and the war will only leave hatred. ","

Tanaka Masako said that since Tanaka Koko was elected as a member of the parliament for the first time, China has not left his mind. "In my father's opinion, relations with China are a fundamental issue of Japanese politics. Leaving aside China, it is impossible to talk about Japanese politics."

In July 1972, after Tanaka Kok Rong became the Prime Minister, he began to release signals to change the policy of China. From September 25th to 30th, Tanaka Koko was invited to visit China. Tanaka Masako recalled: "The weather is very good on the day of departure, many people outside the family, and the media's helicopter hovers over the sky. My son ran around in the courtyard, and his father picked him up and asked. 'Beijing in Beijing was in Which direction '. My son said,' there ". My father squeezed his face and said, 'Grandpa is going there, if you come back smoothly, let's eat together again."

In 1992, Tanaka Mako, accompanied her father to visit China again, was enthusiastically treated by the Chinese side, and the residence was also arranged in the same room where Tanaka Koko visited China in 1972. Tanaka Kok Rong was in the rehabilitation period after cerebral infarction.

Tanaka Masako said: "My father was very emotional to see all of this. He remembered very clearly and was very moved. The meticulous intention of the Chinese government, he knew very well."

In December 1993, Tanaka Kok Rong died. Tanaka Masako said that his father was not able to speak before his death, but he could still talk about it. He always believed that the normalization of Japan -China diplomatic relations was an important part of the revival of the Japanese war after the war.

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