Japan’s prime minister has rebuffed China’s invitation to a military parade marking the end of the second world war in a setback to relations between East Asia’s two largest economies.
“Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not attend the ceremony,” Yoshihide Suga, chief cabinet secretary, said on Monday. “The decision is based on the situation in parliament . . . and we have communicated this to the Chinese.”
The Japanese prime minister’s decision to skip the ceremony suggests that he is wary of being humiliated at a celebration of Japan’s defeat 70 years ago, outweighing the opportunity to improve neighbourly ties.
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