A delegation of 34 Japanese teachers and education officials visited the Memorial Hall of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in a Beijing suburb Thursday.
Ten days ago, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi went to the hall and offered a heartfelt apology and condolences to the Chinese victims of Japanese aggression.
Teachers and education officials, who bear the responsibility to educate the younger generation of Japanese, will give their students the correct perspective on the eight-year war in China, said Sato Masaaki, superintendent with the Board of Education of Aomori-Ken (Prefecture) in Japan who headed the delegation.
During their visit to China, the Japanese educators will learn more about what really happened during the war some 60 years ago and gain a deeper understanding of the damage it inflicted on the collective Chinese psyche, he added.
The delegation was invited by the China-Japan Friendship Association as part of the exchange plan put forward by the former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi in 1995. Seven education delegations from Japan have come to China since 1997, while five Chinese delegations have visited Japan.
Delegates will also visit east China's Nanjing where the Nanjing Massacre took place as well as northwest China's Xi'an and south China's Guangzhou.
(Xinhua News Agency October 19,2001)
