Japan says avoid 'unfortunate history' as WWII defeat marked

September 03, 2015 20:43

Japan today urged China to not focus on "unfortunate history" but to look forward as Beijing marked the 70th anniversary of Tokyo's World War II defeat with a huge military parade.

Japan's nationalist premier Shinzo Abe and other officials are staying away from the commemorations celebrating an end to a conflict that China says costs millions of its citizens their lives during Tokyo's imperial march across Asia.

Top Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters that he had no comment on the parade itself.

But "now 70 years have passed since the end of the war, and we hope that (China) will tackle common issues shared by the global community in a forward-looking manner, instead of focusing on China's unfortunate history," he said, without elaborating.

The conflict is officially known in China as the "Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War".

Leaders of major Western countries have stayed away from the parade, though Russia's President Vladimir Putin was prominently in attendance.

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