Japan has no intention of changing its policy toward China, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said Monday when asked to comment on Tokyo Gov.-elect Shintaro Ishihara's series of anti-China remarks.
"Our relationship with Taiwan is at private and practical levels between the two governments. We don't intend to change this framework and we will adhere to this policy," Nonaka told a regular news conference.
The top government spokesman also said it cannot be denied that the Imperial Japanese Army killed a large number of Chinese people in the 1937 Nanking Massacre, although he said the exact death toll cannot be confirmed.