Reference News Network, November 23 report. According to Japan Yahoo News, on November 23, after Japanese Prime Minister Takayoshi Kishida made erroneous remarks about Taiwan during a parliamentary hearing, Sino-Japanese relations rapidly deteriorated. Regarding this issue, former Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru expressed his views on a program on the ABEMA platform on the 23rd.
According to the report, when Ishiba Shigeru talked about Sino-Japanese relations, he said: "In 1972, then-Prime Minister Tanaka Kakue visited Beijing and Japan-China relations were normalized. Since then, every successive government has been very cautious in handling Sino-Japanese relations."
He said: "Everyone has always handled this issue with great caution. Sino-Japanese relations are so delicate, and what position the Japanese government takes is fundamental. The current government should also face the future while fully recognizing this."
He said: "Diplomacy is not about saying whatever you want. It is not simply for improving popularity."
Ishiba Shigeru also said: "We have always been taught this way." (Translated by Liu Lin)
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