Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.
TOKYO -- For China, this year's Sept. 3 was supposed to be a historic milestone, commemorating the 75th anniversary of its victory in the "war of resistance against Japanese aggression" and the "anti-fascist war."