2. Normalization of Sino-Japanese
Relations
● 1955 Bandung Conference
○ Chinese bloc requested for the improvement of
diplomatic bonds
● PM Ikeda (1960s)
○ economic ties and Seikei Bunri Policy
○ Sekei Bunri - separation of politics and economics
○ resumption of bilateral trade
●
3. Normalization of Sino-Japanese
Relations
● PM Tanaka (72-75)
○ Beijing, September 1972
● full diplomatic relations
○ three principles of normalization:
● The PRC is the sole and legitimate government of China
● Taiwan is a province of China
● abandon diplomatic ties and 1952 peace treat with Taiwan
○ September 1974
● secured a talk regarding the Sino-Japanese peace treaty
○ August 1978
● signed the peace treaty
4. Hosokawa Administration
● First non-LDP Prime Minister to visit China,
March 1994.
● Appeal for Chinese diplomatic assistance in
restraining North Korea’s suspected nuclear
programme
● Issued an apology for Japan’s ‘war of
aggression’ in China
6. Sino-Japanese Economic Relations
● November 1972- Japan-China Economic
Association was formed.
○ worked to support increased private-level economic
interaction.
● January 1974- Japanese government
removed all restrictions on Ex-Im Bank
credit financing, and Chinese and Japanese
governments signed agreements on trade,
reducing tariff barriers by one third.
7. Long Term Trade Agreement
● Signed in 1978
● key provision of the agreement was the
supply of China's energy resources in
exchange for imports of advanced
technological goods
● addressed the growing problem of China's
trade deficit with Japan by providing
deferred payment method for China
8. 1979 - 1999
first Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)
package for China in December 1979
● geared primarily to the development of
China's steel industry
● Japan was the first country to provide
bilateral aid to the PRC
● consists of low-interest yen loans (the vast
majority of ODA), as well as technical
cooperation and grant assistance
9. ● In 1991, Japan's investments reached
US$3.39 billion and Japan stood in fourth
place among China's investors
● In August 1998, the Investment Protection
Pact was signed
○ Provides Japanese firms with same status as the
Chinese firms in China
10. Sino-Japanese Security Relations
● Sino- Japanese security dialogue was
interrupted by…
○ Japan’s concern that China should increase the
transparency of its military budget and capabilities
and cease nuclear weapon testing
○ 1989 Tiananmen square incident
○ In January 2004, China refused a Japanese proposal
for exchange visits between the Japan's Maritime
Self Defense Force and the People’s Liberation
Army Navy
●
11. Sino-Japanese Security Relations
● Territorial Issues and Maritime Security
○ Claiming of the Senkaku Islands/Diaoyu Islands
■ Chinese adoption of its 1992 Law on Territorial
Waters that reasserted its claim the Senkaku
Islands
○ Japan’s detection of the incursions into its water of
a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine
