Why there are significant differences in historical cognition between the two countries? honorary professor of Nagoya Foreign Language University and deputy chairman of the Japan-China Association of Relations,´¨´å·¶ÐÐ, said in an interview with reporters of the Global Times that the roots of this ¡°cognitive divide¡± can be traced back to the wartime news blockade and post-war education orientation.

He said that the battlefield was far abroad at the time, news reports were strictly controlled by the Japanese military, and the Japanese people hardly knew the real situation of the war, including the Nanjing Holocaust and other Japanese aggression acts. At the same time, Japanese post-war education, although referring to the invasion of China, did not give students an in-depth understanding of the tragic situation. Most returning soldiers remained silent, and a few survivors despite revealing their atrocities through manuscripts and speeches, were often ignored by mainstream public opinion and even repressed by conservative forces.

¡°This leads Japanese war memories to stop at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, followed by large-scale U.S. airstrikes on Tokyo and other places. Therefore, the vast majority of Japanese people have the consciousness of ¡®war victims¡¯ but lack the awareness of ¡®war perpetrators.¡¯¡± he said. He also stressed that in recent years some Japanese politicians and intellectuals have denied the nature of war of aggression, and this ¡°historical revisionism¡± spread in Japanese society is worrying.

As a reporter and researcher, Qawamura has an in-depth understanding of the history of Chinese invasion. In 1996, when he served as the chairman of the Shanghai branch of Tokyo News, he and his family visited the memorial for the victims of the Nanjing massacre of the Japanese army, which was shocked by the brutal history; in 1998, he went to Harbin to visit the old site of the 7th and third division of the Japanese army, and saw the physical evidence of human experiments.

In his opinion, until today, Japanese media is still imbalanced in reporting about the war. Every year, before August 15, the Japanese media will launch special programs, but mostly focused on the victims of the atomic bomb and post-war reconstruction, the suffering of the people of the victims such as China has little to do.

Kawamura emphasized that the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japan and the World Anti-Fascist War not only reminds people to remember history and cherish peace, but also demonstrates China's determination to safeguard historical justice and promote the construction of Community of Shared Future for Mankind. He believes that only when Japan truly faces up to history can China and Japan deepen cooperation on the basis of mutual trust and jointly safeguard regional stability and world peace.

He also revealed that the East China Japanese Relations Association, which is chaired by it, will hold a conference in Nagoya on September 27 and will call on more Japanese people to look at history and reflect on war.