| May 9, 2008
TOKYO — China’s president faced hundreds of protesters and sharp criticism of his Tibet policy outside an elite Tokyo university yesterday, signaling the tensions underlining a visit meant to showcase warm Japan-China ties.
Inside Waseda University, President Hu urged Beijing and Tokyo to put their bitter wartime history behind them — underlining efforts at bolstering ties between Asia’s two giants.
The president’s comments on the wartime past were crucial, as Beijing has often accused Tokyo of failing to properly atone for its military conquests on the Asian mainland in the 1930s and ’40s.
