BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The international community should compel Japan to abide by the Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Declaration and jointly safeguard the post-war international order, an article carried in Tuesday's China Daily said.
The appeal was made as the Japanese government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is challenging the post-war international order by breaching the international and domestic laws, according to the article signed by Liu Jiangyong, deputy director of the Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University.
Japan embarked on the road to peaceful development after surrendering to the Allied forces in 1945, accepting the post-war international order established by the Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Declaration, the author wrote.
He quoted the Potsdam Declaration as saying, the forces that misled Japanese people into believing that they would conquer the world must be permanently eliminated and Japanese war criminals punished. And Japan is legally bound to follow the post-war international order that developed from the declaration.
In the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement signed in 1972, the Japanese government said that it "keenly feels the enormous disasters caused by its aggressive war to Chinese people and its responsibilities... (and) expresses profound self-reflections over this, he wrote.
But Japan has violated its commitments and its right-wing forces have been trying to remove the military restraints imposed on Japan by its Constitution and change the international order, according to Liu.
Liu said that the rightist political tendency has become more obvious when Abe was appointed prime minister for the second time in December 2012.
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