China's fourth highest-ranking leader, Yu Zhengsheng, said Friday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to more readily admit Tokyo's past militarism and voiced dissatisfaction with his recent remarks ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
"For China's culture, what is important is an ex post facto reflection," Yu said in a meeting with a group of lawmakers from Japan's ruling party in Beijing, one attendee said.
"If Japan does not feel sorry for having caused tremendous misfortune to other countries, we have no choice but to show concern that it may repeat the same mistakes," former Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga, who led the group, quoted him as saying.