SOME 70 percent of young Chinese could forgive Japanese veterans who had apologized for their past crimes in China, according to a recent survey by the China Youth Daily.

The survey among 2,312 young people showed 98.9 percent of them wanted to "remember the Japanese aggression forever."

Some 99.6 percent of those surveyed were angry at the Japanese invasion, compared with 96.3 percent in a survey conducted by the newspaper nine years ago.

Some 51.2 percent of the surveyed had ancestors who experienced the Japanese invasion, down from 60.9 percent in the 1996 survey.

Some 97.9 percent of the surveyed said they could not accept the visits of Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese leaders, compared with 96.8 percent in the 1996 survey.

Meanwhile, 90.2 percent of respondents said current Anti-Japanese War memorial activities in China were not enough.

Editor: Wing