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China and Japan: earthquake diplomacy -Times Online
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An education official in Sichuan Province conceded that poor official oversight and corruption might have contributed to the collapse of numerous schools during the earthquake on May 12. (article 8)
Leaders of both China and Japan have been working to improve relations in recent months, and a Japanese search-and-rescue team has already participated in rescue efforts in Sichuan. (article 8)
The idea of Japanese military planes carrying tents and blankets to Sichuan was initially floated by Japan as another effort to boost ties between the countries. (article 8)
Japan on Friday abandoned a plan to use military aircraft to transport earthquake relief to China that had been widely seen as a powerful affirmation of warming ties between the Asian powers. (article 1)
Nobutaka Machimura said: " As there were concerns in China, Japan and China had discussions and decided to shelve the idea of Self Defence Force planes providing transport. (article 3)
The extraordinary request for help from China's historically detested foe will produce an image that few could have imagined possible two weeks ago. (article 5)
No aircraft operated by Japan's Air Self Defence Force - the name of the officially pacifist nation's five-decade-old airforce - has ever visited China, where memories of Tokyo's 1931-45 invasion and occupation still run deep. (article 2)
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Source articles
- Tokyo scraps military quake aid plan (ft.com, 05/30/2008, 411 words)
- Japan’s military joins China aid effort (ft.com, 05/28/2008, 586 words)
- War memories sink plan for Japan’s military to help China (timesonline.co.uk, 05/30/2008, 762 words)
- China embarks on quake diplomacy (ft.com, 05/29/2008, 414 words)
- Battered China asks old enemy Japan for military for help as flood threat rises (timesonline.co.uk, 05/29/2008, 939 words)
- China and Japan: earthquake diplomacy -Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 05/29/2008, 530 words)
- China Says It Will Accept Aid From Japan’s Military (nytimes.com, 05/30/2008, 268 words)
- Tough Questions for China on Schools and Japan Aid (nytimes.com, 05/30/2008, 534 words)
- Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 05/31/2008, 491 words)
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