A Professor's Overview on CN/JP Relationship

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Ian Buruma, China | Japan and the Abuse of History; As the US urges restraint, Asia's two great powers play politics with the past and court a crisis. Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 65032155562000.html

(a) Excerpts in the windows of print:

"A dispute over a few tiny, uninhabited rocks could bemore dangerous than anything happening in the Middle East.

"Japan's role as a kind of cat's paw of American dominance will be the source of ever greater tensions.

(b) My comment:
(i) Ian Buruma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Buruma
(1951- ; Nationality Dutch)
(ii) The essay says, "China's humiliation at the hands of the British was deepened by the even greater humiliation of being defeated by Japan in a brutal little colonial war over Korea in 1895. This is how Japan acquired Formosa (now Taiwan), as well as other possessions in East Asia, including those Senkaku islands."

Japan did declare ownership of Senkaku islands in 1895, which, however, had nothing to do with Shimonoseki Treaty.
(iii) Bard College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_College
(founded in 1860 by John Bard; in Annandale-on-Hudson [a hamlet], New York)