The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, "Sazanami", docked in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, today - marking the first time since World War II that a Japanese warship has visited China.

The ship brings with it aid from the Japanese Defense Ministry and Self Defense Forces to help in the on-going earthquake relief effort in Sichuan.

Ara claimed that the term "Nanking Massacre" never appeared in Chinese history textbooks during the entire Mao Zedong's reign. Mao died in 1976.

To Ara, that proved Mao Zedong "knew that Nanking Massacre was a propaganda of Chiang Kai-shek."

The women are holding a banner with a message that reads “Thank you China” in three languages: Romanized Japanese (arigato), Chinese (xie xie), and English. These are members of the Japanese women’s soccer team, and the photo shows their behavior just after they were eliminated from the Women’s World Cup held in China last month.

This post from Defence Tech isn't directly about China, but you can bet that a lot of Chinese are paying attention to Japan's new piece of military hardware.

Mizushima rejects all accusations of Japanese war crimes in Asia, including the sexual enslavement of 200,000 women and the forced employment of millions of Chinese and Korean labourers.

"Koreans and Chinese want to save face by saying that we enslaved them, but their own parents sold them into prostitution and slavery. They're crying like women about what happened to them."