Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Wednesday for military restraint in Asia, vowing that Japan would never again wage war, while taking a veiled swipe at China's military buildup. Sino-Japanese ties, long colored by what Beijing considers Tokyo's failure to atone for its brutal occupation of parts of China before and during World War Two, have deteriorated in the past two years over a territorial dispute, Abe's visit to a shrine that critics say glorifies Japan's wartime past and a new Chinese air-defense zone. Asia's two biggest powers each accuse the other of bellicosity. "We must … restrain military expansion in Asia, which could otherwise go unchecked," Abe told the annual Davos policy forum.
Japan PM Abe urges military restraint in Asia in swipe at China
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