The following is from a small column of page 6 of yesterday's Nikkei newspaper.
For tension lasted Japan and China relations, the handshake of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China, it is an important milestone.
Judging from the gesture, two face-to-face was wrapped in frosty air not be more.
2 years of the pasts contact between Japan and China is minimal and situation to the brink of armed conflict was escalating.
In the talk time, it was short but as for becoming the feeling that two will talk, meeting, the world is favorable.
In the world, China is a next-best and Japan is the 3rd economic superpower.
However, Xi Jinping continued to refuse a talk with Mr. Abe after state chief installation.
It is maintaining that the Chinese government has a legal dominium about Senkaku-shoto (the Chinese name is a Diaoyu Islands) on the East China Sea.
However, Senkaku is one in Japan.
China was enraged last year by the visit to Yasukuni Shrine by Mr. Abe in December.
For the Chinese government, Mr. Abe is the leader of the revisionism who denies the military past in Japan.
There is a complaint in the Japanese side, too, as much as the mountain.
However, Mr. Abe showed the idea to want to meet Xi Jinping several times in the place of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting.
It understood the fact that the Chinese side is caught with the arrogance if it refuses this proposal.
I wish Japan and China to aim at eased tensions by this force.
Should be suitable for the international arbitration organization in the arguing concerning Senkaku-shoto and entrusting should be suitable for the national interests of both.
Japan, too, should make an effort for the solution of Yasukuni problem.
An idea is the separate enshrinement of 14 A class war criminals.
If becoming so, the Japanese can defer to 2500000 pieces of the war dead by Yasukuni without the reserve.
I want to entrust a wish for the shaking hands on the 10th to become the opportunity of the starting over again of the Japan-China relations.
It hangs over China.
It is in China that it thinks that making a Japan-China relations the high condition of the tension beforehand is convenient to do domestic turning.
If businesslike, Xi Jinping will be able to raise trust in the community more to the businesslike.
(11 date editorial)
= The UK Financial Times special contract