As one of the biggest targets of wartime looting in centuries past, China is now positioning itself as a global pioneer in repatriating lost cultural artefacts. This article, the first in a two-part series, Xinlu Liang looks at whether a stolen 1,300-year-old Chinese stone now housed in Japan’s Imperial Palace can become a test case for a reckoning over wartime plunder.
In 1945, following Japan’s surrender to the Allies, supreme commander General Douglas MacArthur ordered the country to return…
Why China’s demand that Japan return an ancient tablet could mark a ‘historical reckoning’
