Chapter 2 A history lingers here

Yu Jie: Meditations on Sino-Japanese Relations in the Century This book is a set of interview diaries written by Yu Jie when he visited Japan with the film crew of the large-scale TV documentary "Iron and Plow: Meditations on Sino-Japanese Relations Over the Century".During his visit to Japan for more than half a month, Yu Jie visited more than ten large, medium and small cities, and interviewed members of Congress, government officials, veterans of World War II, peaceful and friendly people, university professors, lawyers, journalists and ordinary people. nearly a hundred people.It is difficult for international students and other people who have lived in Japan for many years to get in touch with Japanese society so deeply and extensively.Perhaps, it can provide some useful reference for those who are interested in Japan and Sino-Japanese relations.

Japan, a country full of beautiful cherry blossoms, is a country where daily life is highly artistic. Japan, China's neighbor with a narrow strip of water, was once the most ardent admirer and learner of Chinese culture.Some of the essence of ancient Chinese culture, such as clothing, architecture, calligraphy, Go and Zen thought, are most completely preserved in Japan. Japan, an archipelagic country on the border of East Asia, has used force to push China to the brink of national subjugation in modern times. Since the end of the nineteenth century, many of the sufferings that China has suffered are directly and indirectly related to Japan. Historian Guo Tingyi believes that: "Over the past two thousand years, China has done a lot to Japan, and it has done a lot to Japan. Over the past hundred years, Japan has reported to China very coolly, and those who have done harm to China are the only ones who are deep. Although it cannot be said that all the pain suffered by modern China came from Japan, in fact, Japan has given the most and the most. "

Japan is today the richest economic power in Asia and the third largest economic entity in the world.It is a key link that cannot be avoided in China's foreign relations and trade.However, the Yamato nation, who is also of the yellow race like us, still makes us feel strange, alienated and confused until today.It is even more difficult for us to understand the Japanese than to understand the Europeans and Americans. Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, used the term "ambiguous Japan" to describe Japan's modern civilization at the award ceremony.This is a classic generalization.In the eyes of the Chinese, Japan is very close geographically, but far away spiritually. When Chinese people observe Japan, they always seem to be confused and confused.

On September 29, 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Premier Zhou Enlai of the People's Republic of China signed the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement" in the Great Hall of the People. So far, the two countries have truly ended the long war and hostility and achieved Normalization of diplomatic relations.However, the distrust between the nationals of both sides did not disappear completely with a statement.Suspicion and suspicion, alienation and contempt are still rooted in the blood and fire war. China and Japan, one has resources, the other has technology; one is a permanent member of the United Nations, and the other is a global financial and manufacturing center.Both countries have a great need for the other, yet are suspicious of each other.More importantly, both China and Japan are the most important countries in the world today.The relationship between them is not only related to the safety of the two countries, but also involves the peace and development of the entire world.

No one likes to live forever in the pile of old papers, and no nation is willing to stagger forward with the burden of history forever.The big book of history has to keep turning a new page.Many Chinese are willing to look at the history, reality and future between China and Japan with the greatest goodwill, tolerance and understanding.However, the history of Sino-Japanese relations in modern times, the history full of gunpowder and blood, always seems to be difficult to turn over. This page of history cannot be turned over, the main reason is not in China, but in Japan. When Japanese courts rejected the lawsuits brought by Chinese war victims against the Japanese government, when Japanese ultra-nationalists built landmark buildings on the Diaoyu Islands, when Japanese historians claimed that the Nanjing Massacre was a fictional event, when Japanese military When the leftover chemical weapons took the lives of Chinese people again, and when the Japanese prime minister and government officials visited the Yasukuni Shrine, the magnanimous and kind-hearted Chinese people had no choice but to stand up and condemn in unison.We do not exaggerate hatred, but defend dignity; we do not seek revenge, but restore history.Because we have painfully discovered that the blood-stained history is so deeply connected with reality.

On August 4, 2003, the mustard gas abandoned by the Japanese invaders during World War II leaked in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, injuring forty Chinese civilians and killing one.The Japanese government lagged behind in handling this incident, and the Japanese media showed indifference, which aroused the anger and condemnation of the Chinese people. The Social Investigation Center of China Youth Daily has completed an investigation report on the impact of the "August 4th" poison gas leak on Chinese youth.The report shows that 97.9 percent of Chinese youths paid attention to the "August 4th" incident, 83.2 percent of Chinese youths had a bad impression of Japan, 82.2 percent of Chinese youth expressed that they cannot accept the so-called "consolation money" by the Japanese government.

Respondents voiced their views on… "We will certainly not have a good impression of a Japan that refuses to recognize its history." "'Consolation money' always reminds me of 'the food that comes from you,' which is unacceptable anyway." "Japan should learn from this and remove all weapons abandoned in our country as soon as possible." "Regarding the 'August 4th' incident, anyone with a conscience would feel disgusted and hated by the irresponsible attitude of the Japanese government, and would express sympathy and sadness for the victim's experience."

Since the 1990s, Sino-Japanese relations have entered a vicious cycle of "hot trade and cold politics".Since 2002, Japan has become China's largest source of imports, and China has become Japan's third largest trading partner after the United States and the European Union.In 2002, the bilateral trade volume between the two countries exceeded US$95 billion. At the same time, trade disputes frequently occurred between the two countries.On April 23, 2001, Japan announced a 200-day emergency import restriction on green onions, shiitake mushrooms and other agricultural products from mainland China.On June 22, the Chinese government implemented countermeasures, imposing 100% tariffs on automobiles, mobile phones and air conditioners originating in Japan.This extraordinary trade war has lasted for more than half a year.

Sino-Japanese relations always touch the sensitive nerves of the people of the two countries, and any clues will be magnified.The incident of movie star Zhao Wei wearing a dress with the Japanese navy flag, the incident of a listener pretending to be Japanese in Hunan Radio Station making insulting remarks, and the incident of Toyota's "dominant" off-road vehicle advertisement all caused a great uproar.In 2003, the Chinese government planned to build a maglev train from Beijing to Shanghai, using advanced Japanese technology.After the news was disclosed, Chinese folks organized a campaign to gather millions of signatures to oppose it on the Internet.On the anniversary of "September 18" in 2003, hundreds of Japanese bought sex at a hotel in Zhuhai, which aroused outrage among the Chinese people; The obscene program triggered demonstrations and protests by Northwestern University students.

It is precisely because of the rupture and distortion of history that it is difficult for China and Japan to "meet each other with a smile and forget their grievances" like France and Germany and other European countries that have been at war many times.It is precisely because of Japan's various evil behaviors in reality that the Chinese people have to maintain an instinctive defense against others. Trust is the basis for establishing harmonious and friendly relations between people; trust is also the prerequisite for establishing peaceful coexistence between countries. "A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor." China and Japan are naturally close neighbors due to their geographic location.However, after World War II

Over the past sixty years, there is still no sense of trustworthy "friends" between ordinary citizens of China and Japan.Although the "Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship" has been signed for more than 20 years, the two countries are still in a delicate "post-Cold War state", and the "hand in hand" between the two countries is still far away. China and Japan, two countries that do not trust each other in essence, how to establish a state-to-state relationship that is both competitive and cooperative, and truly coexist peacefully, on the basis of safeguarding their respective national interests, is a matter for the governments, intellectual circles and even A long and arduous task for the people.In 2002, "People's Daily" commentator Ma Licheng published an article "New Thoughts on Relations with Japan", which put forward the view of downplaying history and looking forward to the future in Sino-Japanese relations.This article was selected as one of the top ten news on Sino-Japanese relations in 2002 by the Japanese "Chinese Herald". However, the Japanese side responded in the opposite direction to the "new thinking" of Chinese scholars.The Japanese side rejected peace talks, and resolved the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands by force; the Japanese side drastically cut loans to China to hinder China's economic development.Forgiveness has not won Japan's gratitude, and goodwill has not won Japan's approval. On December 29, 2002, the Joint Staff Meeting of the Japanese Defense Agency submitted a report on "Research on Unified Operations" to the Chief of the Defense Agency Shigeru Ishiba, suggesting that the military forces of the sea, land and air be integrated, and the Self-Defense Forces be changed to regular army.In February 2003, Japanese lawmaker Shogo Nishimura advocated that Japan should possess nuclear weapons.On June 6, 2003, the Japanese Diet passed the "Response to Armed Attack Act", the "Security Conference Act" and the "Self-Defense Forces Amendment Act", namely the "Three Contingent Acts", which gave Japan the right to take military action. right.On July 5, 2003, the Japanese Defense Agency announced that Japan would revise the "Defense Outline Plan" to make overseas troop deployment permanent.On March 24, 2004, the Japan Defense Research Institute, the most important think tank of the Japanese Defense Agency, published the 2004 edition of "Overview of East Asia Strategy", arguing that it is legally feasible for Japan to actively attack the enemy's missile bases of. Those who play with fire in reality do so because they have not learned the lessons they deserve from the suffering of history.Sixty years after the end of World War II, the war that pushed humanity to the brink of destruction, how do ordinary Japanese view the war? Japan used to be a country where theocracy was united.The Yasukuni Shrine, founded in the early years of the Meiji era, has been the supreme national shrine in Japan for many years, and the country's most important sacrificial activities are held here.After Japan's defeat in 1945, under the leadership of the U.S. occupation forces, Japan carried out democratic reforms and separated church and state.The shrine has become a private and independent religious organization, but it is still regarded by most Japanese people as a symbol of Yamato's national spirit. It is an important measure for a nation to continue its history and inherit its culture by building specific buildings in specific locations to commemorate its martyrs and heroes.In the Pantheon in France and the Wellington National Cemetery in the United States, visitors can feel the precious dedication and noble personality of great men and warriors.These monuments transcend the boundaries of countries and nations, and become the common cultural heritage and spiritual conversion of mankind. However, at the Yasukuni Shrine in the center of Tokyo, we get exactly the opposite feeling. Here, the trees are shady and the pigeons are flying, creating a peaceful and serene scene.However, there is a small wooden sign hanging on each tree, on which is written the number of the Japanese army that invaded Asian countries.The exquisite reliefs on the monuments on both sides of the gate show the illustrious military achievements of the Japanese army in the Yellow Sea, Manchuria, Tianjin, the Great Wall and other places. War criminals dance with heroes, villains and martyrs fly together.Here, the spiritual tablets of more than 1,000 war criminals, including Hideki Tojo, are enshrined.These heinous executioners enjoy the worship of future generations together with the ancestors who have made various contributions to Japan's progress since the "Meiji Restoration". This picture of beauty and ugliness and good and evil is as absurd as placing the ashes of Hitler and his assistants in the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.In the thinking of many Japanese, the concept of "the dead are innocent" echoes the logic of "aggression is justified". Some people use the relativistic statement of "the characteristics of Japanese national culture and religious belief" to explain this strange phenomenon.However, the weirdness of the Yasukuni Shrine goes far beyond that. Just to the left of the main hall of the Yasukuni Shrine, there is a war memorial called "Yusukan".The so-called "traveling" is taken from the famous saying in "Encouraging Learning" by Xunzi, an ancient Chinese thinker: "A group of people must choose a hometown to live in, and a scholar must be a scholar when traveling."It means that young people should choose a good place to live and a good teacher to go out.So, what kind of historical education and spiritual edification does this magnificent "Yushukan" provide for the young generation of Japan? The exhibition carefully set up by "Yushukan" takes the history of Japan since modern times as the main line, and introduces the history of Japan's external expansion in a large number of pages, with several wars of aggression against China being the top priority.In the text and screen introduction, there is no trace of introspection on war crimes, but it is full of pride of "we have come, we have done, we have conquered".The conclusion of the exhibition is "Asian countries gained independence and liberation after the war", as if the independence and liberation of Asian countries were bestowed by Japan. In the first exhibition hall of "You Shuguan", there are several photos of war madmen on display, and on both sides are a couplet of poetry, the general meaning of which in Chinese is: "Sacrifice everything for the king and the people, and give up life to reflect the value."In the 21st century when the values ​​of democracy, freedom, human rights and fraternity are recognized by the majority of people around the world, this autocratic ideology, which smells like rotting corpses, has become a living teaching material for Japanese national education. In the weapon exhibition hall on the first floor, the most "proud" weapon used by the Japanese army in the late World War II-"human torpedo" is displayed.The torpedo is nearly 15 meters long, 1 meter in diameter, weighs 8.8 tons, and has 1,550 kilograms of explosives in its head, which is powerful enough to sink a giant warship.It only needs one soldier to drive, which means that every time one is fired, a soldier must die with it. At the end of World War II, hundreds of young Japanese soldiers aged 17 or 18 took this torpedo and set foot on the road of no return.they become japanese The veritable cannon fodder for militaristic careerists.Next to the "human torpedo", visitors can use headphones to listen to the impassioned last words when the Death Squad set off. We don't know how celebrating massacres can achieve a permanent peaceful environment, and we don't know how distorting history can create a healthy national spirit.In the audience comments of "You Shukan", some Japanese audiences wrote their thoughts—— "When I saw the suicide note, I couldn't help crying!" "After seeing these materials, I feel that the prime minister's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is not a problem anyway." "The soldiers on the front line fought bravely and sacrificed their lives to serve the country, while those in the rear tried their best to support the front line, but they still failed, which is a pity!" Among these signatories, there are both veterans who participated in the war and middle school students aged 15 or 16; both government officials and ordinary citizens.These signatures show that, as the only country in human history that knows the power of atomic bombs, after sixty years of transformation after the war, it still has not reached the level of understanding that human reason can achieve.The spirit of freedom and democracy, the meaning of equality and fraternity, and the feelings of humanitarianism are still absent in Japan. Most Chinese only know that there is a huge Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, but they don’t know that below the Yasukuni Shrine, there are “branches” of the Yasukuni Shrine everywhere in the first capital, the first, the second prefecture, and the forty-three counties in Japan’s administrative divisions. ", that is, "Guoguo Shrine". In various parts of Japan, Gokoku Shrines have a prominent position in local cultural and spiritual life, although they vary in size.The Huguo Shrine is not only a place for pure religious activities, but also undertakes the mission of distorting historical facts and instilling wrong moral concepts.On the surface, it claims not to intervene in the political life of the country, but it has become a gathering place for politicians and plutocrats with ulterior motives, and it is easy to obtain the support of political dignitaries and donations from financial groups. The Japanese national flag hangs at the entrance of the Gokoku Shrine in many places, showing its close relationship with the state power.This is clearly contrary to the principle of separation of church and state in modern democracies. A philosopher once said that history can tell us everything about the future.every bit of human progress.It is all about learning lessons from history.How do Japanese people get inspiration and enlightenment from history? In Sangen Mountain, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, countless Japanese war criminals and soldiers are buried.Every August 15th, there will be mighty crowds coming here.If the descendants of the victims came here to commemorate their ancestors and reflect on war crimes, then their activities of mourning the dead can fully be understood by those countries and people that were hurt by the Japanese army. However, the so-called "mourning" is such an ugly picture: hordes of Japanese veterans wearing the notorious Japanese military uniforms, carrying military flags, carrying sabers, and blowing bugles. Great pride in war.They refused to admit that the Japanese army had ever been defeated, arguing that it was only "the end of the war", and they were still full of hope and longing for the next war. On Sangen Mountain, there is a so-called "Seven Martyrs Temple".Who are these seven people who are considered by some Japanese citizens to be "warriors who died for the country"? Most of these names are familiar to the Chinese people: Japanese wartime prime minister Hideki Tojo, Nanjing Massacre murderers Matsui Iwane and Muto Akira, spy chief Kenji Doihara who planned to invade Northeast and North China, and implemented the "Three Alls" policy in North China Itagaki Seishiro, who participated in the "mopping up" of Shandong and was known as the "Burmese Butcher" Heutaro Kimura, and the Prime Minister Hirota Koki who launched an all-out war of aggression against China, including seven people.These seven people are also the seven Class A war criminals who were sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. In 1984, the "Temple of Seven Martyrs" was completed, which happened to be the eve of the 40th anniversary of the victory of the World People's Anti-Fascist War.The "Seven Martyrs Praise Association" that organized the construction of this temple is quite influential in Japan, and the inscription for it is "Prime Minister of War Criminals" Nobusuke Kishi. Subsequently, with the "Seven Martyrs Temple" as the center, a forest of steles for the army and navy troops who died in battle was successively built.It has become a "sacred place for the war dead in the Great East Asian War" and an important place for right-wing forces to "recall the souls" of war criminals. The monument is the frozen history, the frozen art, and the immortal memory.Steles enjoy a noble status in oriental culture. A stone stele can withstand wind and rain, and an inscription can be passed down through generations. However, these steles scattered all over Japan are scary: the devil seems to be about to drill out of Pandora's box again to harm the world.The "Oshima Monument" named after Hiroshi Oshima, a class-A war criminal who served as the Japanese ambassador to Germany during the war, commemorates the death of Emperor Hirohito and the enthronement of Emperor Akihito, the "Peace Monument", a naval monument that promotes the military exploits of the Yamato aircraft carrier... On the land of Japan, there are shrines, temples, steles and towers that beautify war everywhere, exerting a subtle influence on the people.The most representative one is the "Eight Horns and One Yu Tower". There are four ceramic figures around the tower, representing warriors, fishermen, farmers and workers respectively, symbolizing that external expansion is a cause for the participation of all people. In 1938, Miyazaki Prefecture launched a campaign to build the "Eight Horns and One Tower".The Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army ordered all front-line troops: "Take the army or division as a unit, and collect two stones for each unit. One is the headquarters of the army or division, whichever is the most valuable; the other is the front of the battlefield, which is the most meaningful." .” Of the thousand,485 stones, 228 were from China.The granite engraved with the words "Zhongzhina Zhongshan Army" was dismantled from the bow-shaped door of the Shanghai Municipal Government Building; the stone engraved with the words "Nanjing Japanese Residents' Association" was a unicorn looted from Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing relief. After Japan's defeat and surrender, the Miyazaki county government hastily removed the words "Hachiko and Ichiku", hid the portraits symbolizing warriors, and renamed the place "Peace Park". However, the "peace" did not last long.In 1965, as the Japanese economy had just started, Miyazaki Prefecture re-engraved the four characters "Eight Horns and One Universe" on the tower, and the statue of the samurai returned to its original position. "Peace Park" exists in name only. In Japanese bookstores, books written by conservative scholars and writers that deny war crimes, as well as books that exaggerate nationalism, such as "Japan is Number One", "Superpower Japan", "The Time of Japan Has Come", etc. are placed prominently.This phenomenon shows that bookstores are consciously selling such works to the public, and these works are indeed selling well.On the contrary, those works written by writers and scholars with a sense of conscience and responsibility, which truly present war crimes, are deliberately placed in the most inconspicuous corner. In 1993, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshikawa Hosokawa made a spontaneous apology, showing for the first time that Japan as a country can practice morality.However, for more than ten years since then, in the Japanese political arena, voices refusing to plead guilty and apologize have overwhelmed voices willing to plead guilty and apologize. Japan's "Peace Constitution" emphasized in the preface: "We believe that no country can only focus on its own national affairs and ignore other nations. This political and moral law is universal." However, more than half a century after the war , Japan has always shied away from taking responsibility for war crimes and ignored the sufferings of Asian countries. Now occupying the backbone of Japanese society is the mature middle class, which is called "100 million middle class" in Japanese.More than 90 percent of Japanese consider themselves middle class, alienated from politics, and supportive of both left-wing and right-wing positions.Under normal circumstances, they hope to live a peaceful and prosperous life. The middle class is a positive factor in anti-war, anti-nuclear weapons, and the expansion of conservative forces. However, in the context of economic downturn and rising unemployment, conservative thoughts can easily resonate.In recent years, Japan's peace movement has fallen into a low ebb, but conservative forces have become more and more active.Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the base camps of Japan's peace forces, but there is a Kure military base near Hiroshima, and there is also a Sasebo base near Nagasaki.In these two places that were bombed by atomic bombs, the people acquiesced in the construction of important military bases, which also shows that the Japanese people's pursuit of peace has considerable limitations. There are more than 1,000 registered right-wing groups in Japan, with a total of more than 100,000 members. However, they are distributed in important fields such as politics, business, diplomacy, academia, and education, and they influence Japanese social trends to a considerable extent. The founding of the "Liberal Historical Views Research Association", the publication and bestseller of the comic "On War", and the release of new history textbooks all represent this dangerous trend.In the civil society, racist groups colluded with the underworld to intimidate and even assassinate progressives who criticized the emperor; National flag, national anthem. In the sixty years after the war, the awareness of Japanese introspection was too weak, and the results of introspection were too small.In Japan, the falsification of history has become commonplace for some ambitious politicians, and many ordinary citizens have gradually lost their correct understanding of Japanese and Asian history; They are compulsory courses, and their national self-confidence is based on the arrogant and selfish "view of imperial history". While the governments and people of neighboring countries try to treat Japan with the utmost goodwill, Japanese politicians continue to create incidents to hurt the feelings of the people of the invaded countries.After the war, Japanese prime minister-level officials visited the Yasukuni Shrine more than 60 times. Nakasone visited more than ten times alone, and the current Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi also visited many times.When visiting the Yasukuni Shrine has become a bargaining chip for hosts and guests to gain votes and compete for popular support, it shows that the undercurrent of "conservative" and "rightist" among the Japanese people is surging.Koizumi Junichiro implemented the ambitious "New Japan" plan with a tough stance, "reformed Japan" internally, and was even more aggressive externally, striving for greater military initiative.Although militarism and legalism are unlikely to revive in Japan, Asian countries cannot turn a blind eye to Japan's aggressive posture. In Japan, rewriting history has become fashionable; in China, forgetting history has become a common "social unconsciousness".We don't have a day of national humiliation, and we don't have a set of practical laws and systems to implement the preservation, dissemination and education of history.We have forgotten the tragedy we inflicted on ourselves during the "Cultural Revolution", and we have also forgotten the deep suffering that Japan has brought to China over the past century. In the United States, there is a clear law that foreigners who have seriously infringed on the interests of the United States are not allowed to enter the United States.In China, there is no similar law to sanction those who have caused great harm to the Chinese people.Those Japanese war criminals who had killed countless Chinese people set foot on Chinese soil with their heads held high.The Japanese military officers exposed by Toshiro in his diary came to China one after another as capitalists.What they get from some Chinese people is not harsh rejection, but flattering smiles. Today, whether facing Sino-Japanese relations or facing our own social reality, what we need most is to wake up from indifference and rise from numbness. Those who love war and try to restart the war machine are only a small group of Japanese militarists who linger. The war not only shattered the mountains and rivers of the invaded country and destroyed the families of the people, but also caused great suffering to the people of the country that imposed the war.In the cartoon "Goodbye Firefly" by Japanese cartoonist Toshi Miyazaki, an ordinary Japanese family, the father was conscripted into the army and died in the Chinese battlefield, the mother was killed by a US bomb, the brother and sister depended on each other, and finally starved to death in the wilderness .This tear-jerking story shows the vast majority of Japanese people's rejection and hatred of war, as well as their love and pursuit of peace. A country that has not yet possessed sound modern rationality is a dangerous thing after it has the power to destroy other countries.Pandora's box was opened, and the Japanese army, like walking corpses, committed crimes that both humans and gods hated in Asia.Japanese commentator Michio Tsuda pointed out: "That war was a war in which every citizen was mobilized as the main body of the war, and the responsibility of the Japanese public for the war should also be held accountable." Acknowledging the war crimes committed by Japan in China, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asian countries during World War II, if we can take the initiative to compensate the victims, and if we can actively deal with various problems left over from the war, it will not only improve the understanding and understanding of Japan among neighboring countries. Trust will also help create future peace and stability in Asia. Today, as the world is becoming increasingly integrated and becoming a "global village", inter-regional economic, political and cultural cooperation has become the general trend. The expansion of the European Union and the establishment of the North American Free Trade Area have both brought shocks and inspirations to Asian countries.In Southeast Asia, as an expanding regional cooperation organization, ASEAN is playing an increasingly important role.In Northeast Asia, however, there are still suspicions and disputes among China, Japan and South Korea. In the near future, Asian countries will also move towards the road of cooperation.Among them, China and Japan, the two most important countries in Asia, should make great contributions. If China and Japan achieve cooperation, then the construction of China, Japan, and the ASEAN Free Trade Area can promote the integration process of the entire East Asia. It can even rely on the mechanism of APEC to promote the integration of the entire Asia-Pacific region.This will be a great contribution to the cause of Asia.As Firth Smith, a senior lecturer at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, said: "In the process of establishing Asian integration, the focus of Sino-Japanese and even East Asian relations is how to establish a new security concept of trust and abandon the 'Cold War mentality'. Properly handle instability in mutual relations." In the past 100 years of historical exchanges between China and Japan, we have seen the confrontation between good and evil in human nature: kindness and resentment, love and hatred, crime and punishment, strength and weakness, compromise and criticism, sincerity and betrayal, Like a colorful palette; more than 60 years ago, in the war of "conquering strength with softness" and "sorry soldiers must win", we saw the complex entanglement of the two nations of China and Japan: pride and prejudice, war and peace , reason and emotion, memory and forgetting, history and future, all merged into a mess that is difficult to untie. For all this, some people are unwilling to face it, and some people dare not face it.But there can be no lasting and firm peace without revealing the brutal truth of war; no warm sunshine of the future without traversing the dark forest of history. It may be necessary to sprinkle a handful of salt on history's wounds.It can kill bacteria and bring new life; it can reproduce yesterday and warn tomorrow.Only in this way can the people of China and Japan work together to overturn history; only in this way can the people of China and Japan march toward the future despite hardships.