FM spokeswoman Hua Chunying Tuesday described Japan's annual defense report as an attempt to play up the "China threat," adding that Japan's efforts to bolster its military are worrisome. 
Japan highlights China as 'security threat'
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman slammed an overview of Japan's Defense Ministry's white paper for 2013, urging the country to do more to facilitate regional peace and stability.
Since taking office as Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe has been launching frequent diplomatic blitzes targeting China.
A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry Tuesday expressed China's demand that Japan return to the track of managing and resolving disputes over the Diaoyu Islands.
The 1945 Potsdam Proclamation, a statement of terms for the unconditional surrender of Japan issued in the names of the United States, China and the United Kingdom, determined that the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out, including that China’s northeast regions, Taiwan Island, Penghu Islands and its surrounding islands, should return to China.
Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the already strained ties.
Voices of protest have risen Wednesday in Osaka against the mayor for his positive stance on the "comfort women".
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said Tuesday that it is Japan, not China, that is taking "unilateral or coercive actions" on their islands dispute.
Japanese State Minister for Administrative Reforms and Public Servant System Reforms Tomomi Inada on Sunday visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine
There will be no future for Japan's relations with its Asian neighbors if Japanese leaders regard aggression, expansion and colonial rule by the country's former militarists as "proud history and tradition," said a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.
Japan cannot expect to win the trust or respect of its neighbors when its words and actions show it lacks any contrition about its past.
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