Beijing says Tokyo must ‘make the right choice’ as Japan remembers WWII

Beijing’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Tokyo to face up to its history and “make the right choice” regarding Taiwan on the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

“A series of international documents … clearly defined Japan’s war responsibilities and required Japan to return the territories it had stolen from China, including Taiwan,” Wang said on Friday on the sidelines of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Anning, in southwest China’s Yunnan province.

He added that some forces in Japan still attempted to “glorify aggression, deny it, distort history and even whitewash the war criminals of that time”.