German newspaper slams Tokyo's efforts to gloss over wartime history

Upon Merkel's visit to Tokyo,... a German newspaper slammed Japan for trying to whitewash its past aggressions in Asia.The centrist daily... Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungr said...Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attempts... to water down Tokyo's past apologies are stifling Japan's economic recovery,... as they are blocking trade to the world's largest export market, China.It also noted... that the Abe administration's behavior serves to bring Korea and China closer together.