When answering questions at a regular press conference on the 17th, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that what Japan has done once again exposed that some people in Japan are accustomed to confusing right and wrong, distorting the truth, refusing to correct mistakes, knowingly committing crimes, and trying to pretend to be innocent and deceive sympathy in the international community.
“Japan’s right-wing forces are habitual offenders of concocting “pseudo-narratives.” Guo Jiakun said that they portrayed the war of aggression against Asian neighbors as “Asian liberation,” downplayed the brutal Nanjing Massacre as the “Nanjing Incident,” beautified the notorious Unit 731 as a “unit engaged in health research,” and misrepresented forced labor and “comfort women” as “voluntary actions.”
Guo Jiakun said that after the war, Japan created a "war victim narrative" but avoided talking about militarism as the source of the war disaster. It insisted on the so-called "exclusive defense" and "passive defense", but continued to relax the right of collective self-defense, relaxed arms export restrictions many times, and even attempted to revise the "Three Non-nuclear Principles".
Guo Jiakun said that Sanae Takaichi’s erroneous remarks related to Taiwan not only aroused strong public outrage among the Chinese people, but also voiced opposition and criticism in Japan and many countries. What Japan should do is to listen carefully and reflect deeply, instead of making excuses and lobbying in the international community and asking for trouble. "We urge some people in Japan to stop manipulating false narratives, face history, reflect on and correct mistakes, retract fallacies, fulfill their commitments, and give China and the international community a responsible explanation."
(CCTV reporter Zhu Ruomeng)
