North East Asian international relations have been revolving around China and Japan. Their ties are shaky and awkward.
They are based upon many hostile factors impeded in history.
On the other hand, they had strong historical and cultural relations.
Confucius values, art, law and so on so forth bring them together.
Japanese language is only complete after learning a large number of Chinese characters; say from 2000 to 5000.
With such a strong common cultural influence, how come relations were so much hurt between them? Wars and Japanese imperial drive to colonize China were the responsible factors, inter alia.
The modernization of Japan was based upon China’s exploitation and this process continued until 1945.
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