Shinzo Abe's trip to Beijing is one for the history books. The first formal summit between Japanese and Chinese leaders since 2011 rekindles Asia's most vital relationship at a pivotal moment.
Yet as Prime Minister Abe plots the future with President Xi Jinping, he may sense eerie parallels with the past. Not just China's long-held preoccupations with wartime suffering, but also more recent economic events -- Japan's bubble years, and their damaging continuing fallout.
