Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A242-O63
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A242-O63
Release Date: November 6, 2006
发布日：2006年11月6日
Topic: Chinese Dissident Wei Jingsheng Advocates Larger Regional Role for Japan (AFP)
标题：中国著名持不同政见者魏京生呼吁日本在亚洲承担更大的责任（法新社）
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On October 30, 2006, a press conference was hold in the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan for Mr. Wei Jingsheng. Over 20 foreign press agencies of TV, radio, newspaper, and wire services attended it. The following is one of the reports by Agence France-Presse that was distributed to more than a dozen of other major news outlets.
Photo Link: Wei Jingsheng answers reporters’ questions at the press conference in the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2006/newsletters2006-8/JapanWJS061030foreignpress-c-4.jpg
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Chinese dissident advocates larger regional role for Japan
By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura Mon Oct 30, 11:07 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - Leading Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng called for Japan to take a more assertive role to promote human rights and regional stability, despite jitters in Asia over Tokyo's past aggression.
"Japan does not take responsibility in Asian issues such as human rights and democracy," Wei, an activist who has lived in exile in the United States since 1997, told a news conference in Tokyo.
"Japan has a lot of potential," he said. "What Japan has been doing is not matching its real status."
Japan, while a major economic partner of China, has had strained relations with Beijing, which resents Tokyo's wartime aggression.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has tried to repair relations with Asia and paid a breakthrough visit to Beijing on October 8.
The conservative premier also favors a stronger Japanese role in international security operations. Japan was forced to renounce its right to use military force after defeat in World War II.
Wei said he supported a more active Japan, saying it was key to preventing conflict between China and Taiwan.
"If Japan as a country expresses clearly that it takes responsibility for security in Asia then I think it would not be very good news to China," Wei said, but "then maybe this war might be stopped."
China considers Taiwan a breakaway territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. Chinese nationalists fled to the island in 1949 after losing the civil war to the communists.
Wei feared growing friction between China and Taiwan, saying Beijing's passage of a law last year that gave the legal grounds to invade Taiwan was "basically a declaration of war".
"This war against Taiwan would result in a war against the United States," Wei said. "And if the United States cannot get help from Japan, would it be able to stay in the war?"
However, Wei also said that the Beijing Olympics in 2008 could moderate China.
"Team members and coaches of foreign teams will be able to express their opinions clearly, and I think it will be enough to put pressure on the government," he said.
Former electrician Wei, 56, spent nearly 20 years in prison for his writings against the communist authorities. He was allowed to go into exile in 1997 after an appeal by US president Bill Clinton.
On the same day as Wei's remarks, a group of Japanese experts urged Abe to reject the idea that China is a threat, saying such a view would only leave Tokyo "isolated" in Asia.
The 78 prominent academics, business leaders, lawmakers and journalists called on the new premier to step up aid to China and expand dialogue.
"If Japan continues to regard any growing trend toward cooperation and (Asian) integration with suspicion, it must be prepared to find itself isolated from the rest of Asia," they wrote in an unofficial study presented to Abe.
"Japan is not so weak that it would be pulled in any direction a rising China might want. People harboring such suspicions or fears do not have a high enough estimation of their own country," said the group, known as the Policy Council of the Japan Forum on International Relations.
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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A242-O63
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A242-O63
Release Date: November 6, 2006
发布日：2006年11月6日
Topic: Chinese Dissident Wei Jingsheng Advocates Larger Regional Role for Japan (AFP)
标题：中国著名持不同政见者魏京生呼吁日本在亚洲承担更大的责任（法新社）
Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)
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2006年10月30日，东京的日本外国特派员协会为魏京生先生召开了记者会。二十多家国际媒体参加并采访了魏京生。以下为十多家主要媒介所登载的法新社的相关报道。
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中国著名持不同政见者呼吁日本在亚洲承担更大的责任
法新社日本东京10 月30日电讯（Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura报道）：中国持不同政见者领袖魏京生呼吁日本在促进亚洲地区稳定和促进人权中起到更大的作用，尽管亚洲对日本过去的侵略行径不能释怀。
“日本并没有对亚洲人权和民主事宜承担责任。”魏京生自1997 年以来一直居住美国，作为流亡海外的民主运动分子，他在东京记者招待会上说：“日本有很多潜力，日本所作的和她的实际位置并不相称。”
做为中国的最大经济伙伴的日本，由于中国对日本侵略的积怨，和北京政府的关系一向紧张。日本新任首相安倍晋三为了修复亚洲地区的关系，今年十月八日对北京作了划时代的访问。
该保守派的日本首相还支持日本在国际安全操作中起更多的作用。自从二战战败以来，日本被迫宣布放弃使用军事力量的权力。魏京生说他支持一个更加活跃的日本，他认为这将成为防止中国和台湾冲突的关键。
“如果日本做为一个国家，清楚地表达她在亚洲安全事务上的责任，那么我认为这对中国政府来说是个坏消息。”魏说，“那么，这有可能制止一场战争”。中国认为台湾是从中国分离出去的一部分，有朝一日要收复领土，必要时可以动武。中国的国民党自1949年在内战中被共产党打败以后逃往台湾。魏京生担心中国和台湾之间的磨擦升级，他说去年中国新通过的《反分裂法》将使用武力解决台湾问题合法化。魏京生认为，“侵略台湾的战争将成为对美国的战争，如果美国不能从日本那里得到帮助，美国如何能赢取这场战争？”不过，魏京生还说，北京2008年奥林匹克运动会是一个机会，“各国运动员及教练应当清楚地表达他们的意见，给中国政府以压力。”曾当过电工的魏京生今年 56岁，因为书写反对共产党当权者的文章，曾经在监牢里度过将近20 年。1997年在美国克林顿总统的呼吁下，他获准流亡美国。
在魏京生讲话的同一天，一个由日本各类专家组成的团体呼吁日本首相安倍抵制中国是个威胁的观念。他们认为这种观念只会让日本更加隔绝于亚洲。78位著名学者、商团领导、律师和记者请求新任首相增加对中国的援助，扩展通话渠道。“如果日本继续忽略合作的增长趋势，以及怀疑（亚洲的）整合，那么日本就必须准备在其他亚洲国家中孤立。”这些人给安倍首相呈递了一个非正式的研究报告。“日本并不如此软弱，只能让中国按照他们的意愿呼来唤去。怀着这样的疑惑和恐惧，是缺少对自己国家力量的正确估价”，这78人团体叫做“日本国际关系政策顾问论坛”。
图片连接：魏京生先生在日本外国特派员协会的记者会上答记者问：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2006/newsletters2006-8/JapanWJS061030foreignpress-c-4.jpg
（魏京生基金会译文。魏京生基金会首发。www.WeiJingSheng.org）
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