Japan reiterates demand for apology over China protests, Beijing refuses

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Japan yesterday renewed a demand that China apologize and compensate for sometimes violent anti-Japanese protests as their foreign ministers tried to find a way through a series of bitter disputes.

Two weeks after the two nations' leaders held a summit in Indonesia, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said he had a "frank" meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing (???) on the neighbors' tense ties.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/08/2003253645

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1. textbooks

"But Li and Machimura clashed openly about how each side's textbooks portray the other country, a Japanese official said."

So long as both countries try to keep their citizen's ignorant of their past atrocities this situation will never be resolved.


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[dArKeR]

2. What is the difference between "country" and "citizen"?