Former Japanese Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa answers questions from media reporters at Japan's Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2013. Niwa on Monday said that anything done by politicians which could damage the efforts of building a friendly relationship between Japan and China would be considered a serious "political crime". (Xinhua/Kenichiro Seki)
According to Niwa, what's more important is to build a strategic and mutually beneficial relationship. He said countries could only cooperate when mutual benefits were shared.
The last, Niwa said, from the 55th Prime Minister of Japan Tanzan Ishibashi, who reached agreements with then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, to the 95th Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, 41 prime ministers of Japan have made endless efforts in improving the China-Japan relationship.
If anyone from either Japan or China damages the efforts over the past 41 years, it will be unacceptable, Niwa said.
"While the wise people learn from history, the foolish ones only think about their own interests. All of the people from Japan and China must become wiser people," Niwa noted.
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