1. See "Japanese Kowtow Diplomacy toward China" by Masayuki Suzuki, et al, in The Shokun, January, 1997 issue.
2. The speech, titled "The Military Situation in Asia," was given by retired Admiral Chiaki Hayashizaki at the Asia Friendship Association’s study meeting held in Tokyo on November 11, 1998.
3. These three elements, which China wants other countries to adopt as a part of their foreign policy, are: "No" to Taiwan independence, "No" to one China / one Taiwan, and "No" to Taiwan representation in international organizations that require statehood.
4. However, the Prime Minister did issue another verbal apology.
5. See "Japan Should Not Overlook the Ambition of China as a Hegemonic Great Power" by Yoshiko Sakurai in the February 3, 1999, issue of the Japanese journal, Sapio.
6. The Japan Communist Party to this day still does not recognize or accept either the Japanese national anthem or the national flag.
7. China claims the civilian deaths caused by the Japanese military in Nanking in December 1937, through January 1938, exceeded 300,000. However, third party eyewitness accounts such as that of German businessman John Rabe and American journalist Tilman Dirdin estimate the combined military and civilian Chinese death toll at a maximum of 40,000. In a home-made example, the Tokyo High Court ruled in December, 1998, that a book created from a diary by a former Japanese soldier depicting the Nanking massacre is full of inconsistencies, goes far beyond the original diary and has no factual backing at all.
8. See, for example: The Emperor and His War Responsibility, by Noboru Kojima, Bungei Shunju Publishing Company, 1987; The Nanking Incident, by Ikuhiko Hata, Chuo Koron Publishing Company, 1986; "Evidence Refuting The "300,000 Massacre Theory": Numerical Analysis of the "Great Nanking Massacre", by Yoshiaki Itakura, Zenbo Journal, October, 1984 issue.
9. These included Seisuke Okuno, former Minister of Education, and Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan, among others.
10. These are the latest statistics issued by the Economic Section of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.
11. Japan’s economic assistance to China has been in the form of direct financial assistance to the Chinese government.
12. See Giving China A Special Treatment is Questionable, by Toshio Watanabe, in the December 27, 1998 edition of The Yomiuri Shimbun.
13. See " This is Rude, Mr. Jiang Zemin!" by Tadae Takubo, The Shokun Journal, February 1999, issue..