But, with China’s leaders now aggressively demonizing Japan and pressing disputed territorial and maritime claims more assertively than ever before, the country is being thrust in a direction that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with his penchant for historical revisionism and highlighting Japan’s nationalist past, may in some ways have already favored: back to the nineteenth century.
但随着中国领导人积极妖魔化日本并以前所未有的力度主张争议领土及海洋主权，日本可能被裹挟着向宣扬历史修正主义并强调日本民族主义过去的首相安倍晋三已经在某种程度上默认的方向——回到19世纪——前进。