Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida gives a speech during a seminar in Tokyo January 17, 2014. Kishida spoke about Japan's diplomacy for 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan stands by previous government statements acknowledging and apologising for its aggression in World War Two, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday as tension mounts again with China.
China's ties with Japan have long been poisoned by what Beijing considers Tokyo's failure to atone for its brutal occupation of parts of China before and during World War Two and what it sees as whitewashing of events such as the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in school textbooks.
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