Ahead of summit, China urges Japan make break from 'inglorious' past

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Japan needs to make a clean break from its "inglorious" past and take on an entirely new outlook if it wants to have stable and healthy relations with China and South Korea, China's foreign minister said on Tuesday ahead of a weekend trilateral summit. Ties with Japan have long been strained by what Beijing and Seoul see as Japanese leaders' reluctance to atone for the country's wartime past. China and South Korea suffered under Japan's sometimes brutal occupation and colonial rule before Tokyo's defeat in 1945.




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