China-Japan Relations Need to Have Mutual Understandings.

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China-Japan relations is different from other foreign affairs. It is comparatively difficult to maintain amicable relations between them. Jin Qiu, a journalist of Chinese political Science, interpreted their unique relations in her journal: "The current state of China-Japan relations is characterized by two seemingly contradictory developments adjacent to each other: while economic and cultural relations have experienced an unprecedented and continuous improvement since the 1980s, Chinese and Japanese public perceptions of each other have been deteriorating" (1). Despite the fact that China and Japan share more than two thousand years of history and possess the similar culture, they have been failing to accept each other. This is the crucial mistake for both of China and Japan. Because, from my point of view, China-Japan relations must be in harmonious relations for their economic and cultural prosperity and simply mutual peace.

It is easy to say that they must be in a good relationships for better outcome. But, how can they restore or rebuilt their peaceful relationships? To answer this question, we need to deeply consider that what exactly made Chinese and Japanese hate each other. To conclude early, that is because of historical and cultural backgrounds they have. China and Japan not only share the friendly relations between them but also share the unpleasant history. Those history is usually quite old, however because of both Chinese and Japanese spirit, those history went to generation to generation so that they can never forget about those. So once some kind of dipute happen between them, there would be high possibility that they get into worse conflict.

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