Abe should apologize to victim countries whenever needed: ex-Japanese envoy

Tuesday marked the 78th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge incident, also known as the Macro Polo Bridge incident, which signaled the beginning of Japan’s full-scale invasion of China.

78 years on, divergent views of historical issues keep haunting Sino-Japanese political relations.

Uichiro Niwa, a former Japanese ambassador to China, says that the future is closely linked with the past, and that countries should look into the future while taking history as guidance.