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Growing Tensions in North-east Asia

China, South Korea demand Japan face up to war past

AFP, Tokyo
China and South Korea yesterday pressed Japan to face up to its wartime past, as festering territorial disputes flared and Asia marked the anniversary of Tokyo's World War II surrender.
Both countries demanded Japan do more to atone for the brutal expansionism of the 20th century, while inTokyo cabinet ministers paid tribute to fallen Japanese, including lop war criminals, at a controversial shrine.
Beijing said the key issue was" whether Japan can really look in the mirror of history, heeding its lessons, holding hands with Asian people to face die future".
"The power is in the hands of Japan itself," it added. "We hope Japan can keep its promise to deal with and reflect on its invasion history and take concrete measures to safeguard China-Japan relations."
In Seoul, President Lee Myung-Bak, whose visit lo disputed islands last week sent relations with Tokyo into virtual freefall, said Japan had to make amends for the sexual slavery it forced on women in its former colony.
"Chain links tangled in the history of Korea-Japan relations are hampering the common march toward a better tomorrow in the Northeast Asian region, as well as bilateral ties", Lee said.
The demands came as Japanese police arrested five pro-China activists who had landed on an island claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo. Japan marked the 67th anniversary of its surrender with an official ceremony in which Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda led 6,000 people in prayer.
Their speeches used tried and tested formulae for regret, but avoided an explicit apology.
"During the war, (Japan) inflicted significant damage and pain on many countries, especially on people in Asian countries," Noda told the annual ceremony. "We deeply regret that."
But analysts say, nearly seven decades after Japan surrendered, leadership changes in Northeast Asia are fuelling territorial disputes that are themselves the legacy of a war the region never really settled.
Long-running spats that Tokyo has with Seoul and Beijing have reared their heads anew as South Korea and China ready for a shift at the top, with politicians in both nations banging nationalistic drums.
A general election is due later this year in South Korea and Beijing is readying for a once-in-a-decade power transfer when President Hu Jintao and other leaders step down from their top Communist Party posts this autumn.
Japan's own fractious and fracturing political scene is bringing a similar sentiment to the surface al home, where a weakened government is seemingly unable lo prevent things spinning out of control.
Where the fall of the Berlin Wall proved closure of sorts for Europe's post-war division, Asia is still struggling to sort out the aftermath of the conflict, said Takashi Terada, professor of international politics and Asia-Pacific studies al Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.
"Europe has more or less sorted out ihe legacy of Cold War, but it is still visible in Asia," he told AFP
"A lot of territorial disputes have remained unresolved because the region merely deferred difficult decisions."
Jia Qingguo, professor at Peking University's School of International Studies, said leadership changes in China and South Korea were exacerbating age-old fissures.