Japanese Scholar Sets Record Straight on Diaoyus

Posted by david on Oct 3, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Here’s an interview with Yabuki Susumu, Professor Emeritus of Yokohama City University, who has been a prescient commentator on Japan-China relations.  He lays the blame for the recent territorial dispute on the Noda Administration for ignoring and Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) officials for deleting from official records Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei and Premier Zhou Enlai’s decision to ‘shelve’ negotiations on the Diaoyus during their landmark talks on normalization of relations in 1972.    The Japanese MoFA also deleted PM Tanaka’s apology on Japanese aggression.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenharner/2012/10/03/interview-with-professor-yabuki-on-the-senkakudiaoyu-crisis-and-u-s-china-japan-relations/