About 160 people attended, including a group of Chinese residents in Japan calling for democratization in China, members of Amnesty International Japan and Japanese parliamentarians. Lit candles were arranged to spell out “8964,” which has come to stand for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
In 1905, Tokyo became the cradle of China’s 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty, and established the Republic of China.
