大象传媒

Shinzo Abe this week became the first Japanese prime minister to make an official visit to China in seven years. His meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping came as Asia's two largest economies sought to play down disagreements that have hindered relations for decades.

But the enmity between Japan and China stretches is not a recent development. Christopher Harding, Senior Lecturer in Asian history at Edinburgh University and author of Japan Story, examines the roots of the contemporary enmity, that stretch back to the 1930s.

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