China will not say sorry to Japan

CHINA told Japan bluntly yesterday that it had nothing to apologise for after weeks of anti-Japanese protests, some violent, in cities across the country.

The Chinese are furious at a revised Japanese school textbook they say whitewashes atrocities during Japan’s 1931-’45 occupation of China and at Tokyo’s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told his visiting Japanese counterpart, Nobutaka Machimura, that China was willing to continue to develop China-Japan relations taking history as a mirror.