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The Past and Future of Japan-China Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Shimbun Asahi  and
Yoichi Funabashi
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Ever since the October 10 news conference announcing the discovery of a small tablet in China's Tang dynasty capital of Chang'an (now Xi'an), excitement in Japan has run high. Recording the death of a Japanese student in China in 734, the tablet indicates that Jing Zhencheng posthumously received from the Chinese Emperor a high official appointment. It also contains the earliest use of the name Riben or Nippon, the Chinese and Japanese characters for Japan that have been used ever since.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 10 , October 2004 , e2
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