Apart from the pro-American monopoly capitalists and militarist warlords, the broad masses of the Japanese people are our true friends. You will also feel that the Chinese people are your true friends. Friends can be true or false, but through practice, one can see clearly who is a true friend and who is a false friend.

There is an ancient Chinese saying: things of one kind come together; people are divided into groups. Japan's Kishi Nobusuke and Ikeda Hayato are good friends of American imperialism and the Chiang Kai-shek clique. The Japanese people and the Chinese people are good friends.

It is American imperialism that forces the people of our two countries, China and Japan, to unite. The people of our two countries are both subjected to the oppression of American imperialism. We have common experiences, so we unite. We must expand the scope of unity and unite all the people of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the world, except for imperialism and reactionaries of all countries, more than ninety percent of the people.

Although the road of struggle is tortuous, the future of the Japanese people is bright. The Chinese revolution has gone through countless twists and turns, victory, defeat, re-victory, re-defeat, and the final victory belongs to the people. The Japanese people have hope.

(Originally published in "Xinhua Yuebao" No. 11, 1961)